Life

What will your friends say about you at your 60th birthday? About 2 weeks ago, I attended a friends 60th birthday party. Below is the video of my friends 60th. Years ago, I read a book by John Maxwell on leadership. The book talked about developing good habits to become the person you wanted to become. John suggested that it would take time, 5 years or more, before you would begin to see some fruit from your habits. Five years may not be long enough to see a tremendous change, but if you start young by your 60th birthday your…

Is it okay to speed? How fast is too fast? Different people have different answers to these questions. Some will say drive the speed limit and no faster. There are also those out there who drive below the speed limit. Where ever you stand, remember to be safe. Recently, I was driving on Hiram highway road. It’s a two lane road that winds back and forth. I was approaching Sai Kung. The time was around 9:30 at night. Because it was night there weren’t as many cars on the road. If it had been during the day, I doubt it…

Hard to believe the summer holiday is over. I had 2 and a half weeks. Most of the teachers at my school didn't get that long. They were and most likely still are busy preparing for the new school year. For the time being, we will be going back to half day classes with the students. Teachers will be required to put in full days at school. So we are transitioning again. There is a lot of uncertainty. In honor of this transition, I decided to take an entirely new hike with a beach swim at TaiTan. Hong Kong summers…

It was an ordinary Sunday with the motorcycle club, but today would be different. I always enjoy the conversations that I get to have with the guys in the bike club. Actually, there is one girl in the group that I am aware of anyway, but she didn’t come today. We had really nice weather. There were a lot of police out, but I didn't think anything of it. It was just a normal ride. I had some issues with my GoPro, so I wasn’t able to get all of the footage from the ride. At one of our rest…

View Post Last summer, on June 15th, I bought a Honda CB400 motorcycle. I call it CB for short. CB has become like an escape for me. It is a lot of fun to drive. It takes me a lot of places. I don't think I would have ever spent extra money to make the bike sound louder and more cool, but I am glad one of the previous owners did. A lot of people consider me a quiet person. I stand out in crowd because I am tall and I have blond hair, but I don't usually try to…

A little over a month ago, I was on the bus going to school. Behind me sat two middle school-aged girls, one with a book in her hand listening and the other talking about a boy that liked her. Here's the story of the drama between 2 girls on a bus. The girl sharing the story shared her story in a dramatic fashion. She talked quickly and it seemed every other sentence started with the word “like.” She went on to say how she was traumatized. Then it came to the part where the boy said he wanted to be…

There is so much that could be said about the importance of play. Adults miss something when they haven't had enough play in their childhood. They can become too regimented almost like machines. No one wants to become this way, but life, relationships, and work can have a way of hardening us. We have to be tough to make it in the real world. Right? I think like Christopher Robin (from the movie Christopher Robin) sometimes we need to defeat our own heffalumps. Stay young make time to play Heffalump Christopher Defeats the Heffalump I love the section of Christopher…

It seems that where every you go, whatever you do, or whoever you talk with COVID19 is everywhere. In fact, lots of people are not going anywhere, they are just staying at home. These are desperate times. Lots of people are out of work. They can’t afford even afford the basics they need for everyday life. People are stressed. For the last several weeks now I have been making power points, worksheets and some videos for my Creative Arts class on Film Appreciation. I have enjoyed making lessons for Inside Out and can see a lot of parallels between it…

School picnics are fun. I am glad that I can still say this. I actually had no point of reference for them before teaching here in Hong Kong. Still I imagine that they are not fun for everyone. I was recently talking with a friend who said that she does not like BBQ - barbecue. She prefers to have food made for her and served to her without all the waiting time that typically accompany BBQ. Given that school picnics are about 100 percent centred around BBQ, I am guessing she doesn't care for them. Anyway it's a good thing…