Season's Greeting

Dear Family and Friends,

Happy Chinese New Year - Kung Hei Fat Choi! Wish you and your family many good fortune in the year of the pig.

Irene and Dominic
Feb 2007

Nepal trip
Since our last sharing in Dec, we went to Nepal for a 12-day trip during Christmas and it was eye-opening. We had a great time visiting Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Pokhara, Chitwan and Nargarkot. Seeing the mountains, temples, people as well as many wild animals. Click for our Nepal photo albums

When we reflect on the trip, we realised once again how city people like us are so wasteful, people in poorer countries treasure the limited resource available to them. In our next issue, we want to talk about what we can do to "Consume less, waste less, recycle more"

We hosted a Travel talk on "Beyond Lhasa, a journey from Tibet to Nepal" ...more

We had a family trip to Taipei, visited Taipei 101 - The tallest building in the world, incidentally I also visited the Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur - the 2nd tallest building.

What is Irene up to?
Since coming back from Nepal, Irene has been organizing two art exhibitions

• Wutz Reality by Yolanda Yeung 楊宇靈 more
• A Sentimental Journey: Art works by John Li Kam Wah 李錦華 more

What is Dominic up to?
Working on several projects and organizing hiking and fun activities as always!

• Business trip in London and Oxford in Jan. Met up with many old friends in UK
• Another business trip Kuala Lumpur in Feb
• Jointly organized a wine tasting event with the French Alumni Association ... more
• Hiking: Lady Clementi's Ride, nice short hike with 18 leglessbird friends more

Click photos to view the album

Into thin air by Jon Krakauer
While we were travelling in Nepal and admiring the magnificent mountains, it reminds me of this book that I read years ago. It recounts the 1996 tragic events on the mount Everest...Read more

Le Papillon (The butterfly)
Director: Philippe Muyl (French 2002)
My rating: 4

Story:
Julien is a retired old man whose hobby is butterfly (Le Papillon) with his own butterfly room and plenty of samples. Elsa is a 9 year old girl with her single mother who has to work all the time and cannot spend much time with her daughter. They just moved to the same building where Julien lives. When Elsa overheard about Jilien's trip to search for the beautiful and rare butterfly called "Isabella", she secretly hides in his car and wants to follow him..Read more

Prompt Le Meridien (Western in Cyberport): We had the sea food buffet (on the weekend) and had plenty of french snails, oysters, lobsters, crabs, shrimps, mussels, fish, sushi etc. Yum Yum!!!! Read more

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