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Our year 2009 in
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Gallery
2008
This year we visited
England again during the summer. Here's a few pictures of what we did.
2007
3 Nov: Two
days early we celebrated Esther's birthday with dinner at Coffee or Tea then
(the important part) cake at Katie's Dessert.
(Click below then choose "View as slideshow")
24 Mar: The
office space is almost ready to move in, we are now carrying boxes across
and building shelving to put them on.
12 Mar: Had a nice lunch with Peter and Maureen who were making a
flying visit through HK on the first leg of a round the world trip. It
was great to see them again and catch up, though sad that this included
learning about deaths in the family we didn't know about.
We didn't take a camera so there isn't a snapshot of the meeting, but
Maureen had one so when she returns I hope she can send a copy.
3 Mar: A rare day of bright weather in the spring, and it was warm
enough to go to the beach!
Cold drizzle has resumed now but it was good while it lasted.
1 Mar: We have taken over a flat near to ours to be office space and
storage, so that we can free up a room where we live for Edward to be his
bed room, as well as have a proper working environment that is separate from
"home". The place is close, cheap and big enough -- but quite damp.
All the walls were seriously moldy (as in large black patches) so we've had
it scraped and repainted.
Here it is full of builders materials.
3 Feb: Time
flies huh, Edward is 1 year old. To celebrate his birthday we had a
dinner with Barbara and Corin's families at Morocco's and afterwards went to
Katie's dessert for cake.
A rare picture with the family all together.
2006
August 23:
Perhaps due to the heavy rains these pink flowers in our back courtyard are
prettier than they have ever been. A very strangely they have a very
faint yet distinct perfume -- of Chocolate!
August 18: Christopher is 9, we went to Macau with Esther.
June 22:
Edward
9May : Tree planting school outing:
14 Apr:
Babies change so fast, Edward is just two and a half months now but is
growing fast.
20 Feb:
Edward is doing well so here are a few more pictures -- who does he look
like more, Winnie or Raymond.. Or Christopher? Mostly he looks likes
Edward!
Collecting Lai See -- very important skill for children!
With Esther and Winnie
With Raymond
1 Feb: Here
comes Edward! He was born on 1 Feb at 9:12pm weighed 7.5lb. He
seems to be an easy going baby, no big fuss.
June 25: It's
Holly's Birthday again. Yes, she gets two
per year -- just like Winnie and the Queen so she's in good company.
May 24: It's Holly's
birthday so we took her to lunch and bought her some flowers.
27 Mar - 6 Apr: Went to
Phuket in Thailand, got a great deal as nobody wants to go for fear of the
Tsunami -- but actually everything is back to normal mostly and what they
need is the tourist business back on track. Had a great time lounging
about in the pools -- didn't do very much. Sailed a hobi-cat for
the first time:
Raymond and Christopher in the lagoon -- and great sunsets every night
12 Feb 2005: We definitely
need to walk off those fat caused by the fatty food we eat during Chinese
New Year so off we went to
Lantau with other families from Cheung Chau.
9 Feb 2005: First
day of Chinese New Year
in auntie Mora's place.
23 Jan 2005: Christopher's
first public Piano performance -- at a show organized by his piano school:
[video]
14 Jan 2005: Put up
scans of some of the historical pictures
of the Lowe family, with my grandmother and grandfather in them.
12 Jan 2005: It's year 3
and year 4's Sports Day in
Kennedy School. It's so difficult to get a good close-up coz they
all run too fast!
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Dec 2004: Merry Christmas! And it has become a joke that Raymond
would wear the same shirt every year!
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Dec 2004: Winter solstice dinner with Esther, uncle Ming's family and my
mum who often avoids the camera.
20 Nov 2004: Added a page
of pics about the wildlife we see in Nam She
Tong.
23 Jan 2004:
It's the second day of Chinese New Year. We arranged to have
dim sum lunch in Tai Koo Place
before we visited auntie Mora.
Then we went to Grand
Hyatt to have tea.
21 Dec 2003:
Merry Christmas!!!
Does it look familiar? That's right! Ray is wearing the same
shirt as last year (as seen at the bottom of this page) :-)
19 Dec 2003:
Winter solstice dinner at East Lake Restaurant in Causeway Bay.
29 Nov 2003: Do
you know what's inside this jackfruit seed pod?
Answer is: another jackfruit seed pod with another new leaf in which there
is another jackfruit seed pod with another new leaf......
1 Nov 2003: Cheung Chau
Halloween party.
23 Oct 2003: We went to Ocean Park for it's the long mid
term break of school. It's not surprising to see all the kids from
different international schools. We even met Mr. Neal the P.E.
teacher.
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7 Oct 2003: School trip to
Sam Tung Uk in Tsuen Wan
28 Sept 2003:
The Yuens family visited Cheung Chau.
Duncan and Judy still look the same. Krista and Kyle have grown
enormously. Maureen, do give us a call next time when you visit
Cheung Chau. Hannah, we hope you enjoy HK. It's so so good to
see you all. Hope to see you all again ... maybe before Duncan and
Judy turn into grannies?!
Special thanks to Kyle for the model gecko and also building the castle
with Christopher. Otherwise I would have to do it and it will never be
as good. :-)
27 Sept 2003: Special congratulations to our Dr. Barker! We
had a drink in Esther's place then dinner at Warwick hotel.
15 Aug - 2 Sept 2003: It's
Christopher's first long trip (12 hours) and also his first time to U.K.
(after he learnt about all the English stuff in school). We escaped
the 35C heat wave and we were cold by the end of the journey.
Here are some bits and pieces of our
journey.
21 - 26 Jul 2003: Raymond went to
Singapore for business and everybody went along, including Esther.
That explains why Raymond was not in most of the pictures. :-(
Christopher was really fed up with shops, and more shops.
Mid July 2003: Raymond had a business trip to
the U.S.
He stayed for more than a week so he popped into New York during weekend.
Been there, done that, got Christopher 2 t-shirts.
17 May 2003: Luckily it's a
bit cloudy so it's not too hot. We went to Tung Wan Tsai (東灣仔)
or Coral Beach which is at the north end of Cheung Chau.
7 ~ 12 Apr 2003: Despite
the scary SARS, we went to Bali and stayed in
Grand Hyatt in Nusa Dua. It's a very good deal.
 3rd Jan 2003: Bit late as
always but Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
:-)
Year 2002 - We seem to dine in 'East
Lake' a lot this year whenever there are visitors - Noel's brother,
Lindsay's friend and Kirsty and Steph.
Earlier
Joe and Ian visited; we put up a
site just for them. |
