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Yosemite Pics

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Some photos from last weekend's trip to Yosemite! Half Dome with some really cool cloud action: Woodpecker hittin' the road: I particularly like how this one came out: Sequoias were ginormous: View of Yosemite Falls from Glacier Point: Yingwen and her new hat:

Yosemite Trip

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

I am overdue for posting anything about our Yosemite trip, especially so because we have just returned a month later from our trip to Disneyland. It was good to do two back-to-back vacations this year. I feel we're getting back into the swing of having fun. Which reminds me: I ...

Transformations

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Tonight we blew off a bunch of fireworks and gave out tons of hong bao to our cousins. There were about a dozen little kids running around with sparklers and pockets full of red envelopes as the rest of us drank tea and attempted to blow our fingers off. This ...

Tainan Trip on HSR

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Yesterday morning we saw the Premier of Taiwan and potential 2008 candidate Su Tseng-chang (≤) at the gorgeous new Tsoying HSR train station. He was walking around with an entourage of reporters and cameramen handing out hong bao. Yingwen ran up and got an envelope and got to exchange greetings ...

Taoyuan Airport Impromptu Baroque Tai Chi Ballet

Friday, February 16th, 2007

It is around 7 AM and daylight is just breaking out over the Taoyuan airport in Taiwan on Chinese New Year's Eve after a long flight from SFO, and I'm sitting waiting for a connecting flight to Kaohsiung and I've been studying advanced SQL techniques. I turn on my iPod ...