Author: Tony Tam
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How To Talk About Death To Your Children (2006)
Cate has been watching Cinderella and other Disney movies which mention the subject of death of a family member. So she has been mentioning that subject to me. Does everyone die? Kids who are 5 years old don’t die for a long long time right? What does it mean to die? Dad, when are you…
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Tear Jerker Japanese TV Show: Story Of Ah Xing
阿 信的故事 This is a story of a young girl in Eastern Japan during the years of WWII. Her family were poverished farmers who could not farm enough to feed their children. Both sister were ‘sold’ to others in order to send money back. She was eventually sold for one year as an indenture servant…
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Ultimate Brompton Folding Bike
This Friday my new Brompton folding bike arrived from the UK via a NY dealer. Here are the specs 6 speeds 21 lbs foldable in 10 secs bright yellow headlight, custom fit pump, marathon tires, mirror, custom attached bag I took it for a ride in Golden Gate park against a road bike and I…
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What Makes A Great Engineering Team
The best team I ever worked in was the Electronic Services Group in SGI from 1995 to 1999. We built X11 Motif tools installed on every IRIX OS machine to search and apply patches automatically, log support calls over the internet, get hardware configurations and send back registration information. The tools were build on ontop…
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What Motivates You At Work?
I am motivated by fear. Fear of failure, fear of not knowing, fear of dissapointing those around me. How about you?
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Dance performance this Sunday
I have been taking Kate to her dance lessons ever since she was 2 1/2. When she first started, she refused to participate and we spend nearly 2 months just sitting and watching. How time has flown. She was in a dance performance 2 years before and she frozed on stage. She skipped last year’s…
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Flowers From Frontyard
I don’t know what this flower is call, but I started with 2 strands of it 5 summers ago and now it’s replicating itself. It has one of most attention grabing brightness. I dug up a bunch to my parents and some friends last year, it’s amazing to see this flower bloom year after year.
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Make Your Dreams And Wishes Come True
Kate came up with the phrase for a birthday card for her friend Pauline
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Name That Princesses
Kate did a wonderful drawing and I forget which princess was which. Snow White, Cinderella?? , Auora? Jasmine (jumping out of a bottle), Sleeping Beauty, Ariel