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Archive for May, 2007

Peninsula

Monday, 28 May 2007 16:27 PM

Last Friday we attended a friend’s wedding in the Peninsula hotel.

It was a great evening, with a beautiful view over the Hong Kong skyline. But unfortunately the pictures from my phone do not do justice to reality…

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Ready for flight

Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:05 PM

It’s a beautiful day in hongkong and pollution levels are low. So we have a good view and can fortunately see some of the mountains in the distance.
We’re flying to Cebu for a long weekend. Attending a wedding on saturday and then back home sunday.
Now I’m waiting for the cx2920 to start boarding.
O and i’m upgraded so sitting in the pointy end :)

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shortlived toys

Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:12 PM

It’s totally cool what kind of remote controlled (RC) toys you can buy now for a couple of dollars. It’ll fly, drive, hover etc.

When I was a boy I remember remote controlled toys were out of reach for most kids, as it was “expensive stuff”.

So one of the joys of having a son I thought was to be able to buy all kinds of remote controlled toys for him, and then play with them myself.

Well I will have to rethink this a little, or be a little more patient as Matthijs has been able to kill two RC toys already, both within 36 hours after we bought them…

First was a remote controlled little helicopter, which created a lot of excitement, but unfortunately also tight gripping kiddie hands, and as such the helicopter’s life was shortlived… At the end it just flapped its wings while moving about the room completely out of control (which Matthijs enjoyed even more than when it was new).

The other toy was a remote control car. I figured as it was a metal one that looked quite sturdy it would live a little longer in the house. Wrong - when I came home the next day after purchase Matthijs had demolished both the remote controller unit and the car was “played to pieces”.

Okay - back to pushcars for a while, we’ll try this again in a year (or two?).

Our little 19 months old toy basher:

19 month old toy basher

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