Close calls with accidents

I am on leave today, and been driving a round a lot in the morning, and had several close shaves. Was it my fault? I do not think so, maybe I was being too cautious, but i was definitely normal driver by any standards. In the morning when I was driving to Anson Road Fuji Xerox Building with my eldest boy and my wife on board. A pick up truck was zooming by in the CTE tunnels way above 80kmh on the fast lane. I know because I’m already on 80kmh in the tunnel and he zoomed past me on the right!

Later in the afternoon sending my in-laws and my granny for a ride in the car.
A close shave with a bicycle who suddenly turned out from a pavement right to the front of my car. No, I could not see him as the pavement is blocked from my view. Then at the major road, a Volkswagen GTI doing an illegal U-Turn from an outer lane dangerously in front of me, I had to brake hard. Then along Scotts Road, I was almost sandwiched between a Taxi and a Black Honda Odyssey on my right due to the taxi suddenly swerved into my lane. I had to brake hard and swerve away, else it was a definite accident there.

Thank God for his goodness and keeping us save on the road.

2009 Shanghai Gathering with Relatives

As always, the entire set is here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benedictsim/sets/72157622457621529/

Relatives that we visited in Shanghai 2nd day.

Gathering and excitedly chatting away. Talk about catching ups in minutes.

Say Cheese! The folks at the dinner gathering. Amazing!

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Samuel totally amazed by the Coke Size. That’s what we call a BIG COKE!

FIL, MIL, FIL SIS, SIS Hub

Quite a Spread.

Peking Duck. Actually just the skin.

FIL

MIL

Little Isaac Minding his own business.

My FIL Sis Hubby.

My FIL Sister.

My FIL Brother Wife.

Big spread of dishes.

My FIL one of bros.

My MIL.

My FIL.

2009 SH HK Trip through the eyes of Canon Powershot A570

Simply beautiful if you ask me. I’m not a photographer, so everything looks good to me. Now is that not a beautiful thing to be? lol!

This cam was held by my wife and Samuel. I presume some of the photos are shot by Samuel too.

The entire set of the photos can be found here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benedictsim/sets/72157622459039065/

I love accessing a web page that is a page full of photos, saves me the hassles of clicking through one by one. All I have to do is just scroll through the entire page to see the entire contents. No CLICKS!

This is at the Shanghai Train Museum. Samuel is totally excited!

Another Real Train Exhibit. These are located outdoors of course. Gosh, they are HUGE!

Samuel on a rather vintage looking “train”?

This is taken when we had lunch and an outing with Amy’s friend Maurice. He brought us to have a walk along the opposite of Shanghai Bund since the original Bund is closed for renovation for 2010 expo.

Shanghai Museum. Google for it. Huge building of artistic and whatever artifacts.

Samuel favorite Handheld throughout the trip. Nintendo DS.

Samuel and his favorite stroller. Indeed, we could not have survived without it.

ME!

The latest way to play a Nintendo DS. Sure way to get the highs.

Taken in Hong Kong along the streets of Star Walk. Similar to the Hollywood whatever Walk of Fame.

Mel and Isaac. Isaac throughout the trip had to hold onto something. A passion. A holding passion.

Quick Shot between myself and Samuel!

Amy said that clock tower is an historical artifact. I’m a tourist. Whatever you say, I tend to believe. So take a photo!

On the train to Disneyland. Getting there is easy. We took a cab to Kowloon station and took a train straight down to Sunnybay, did an change and straight to Disney.

Mel and the 2 boys outside Disney. Just heading in. Thank God for the weather. It was raining the day before, and the morning was extremely gloomy.

Closer look.

US!

Some flying UFOs. Lasted for only 1 minute the ride.

This is fun. The car. Highly recommended to go for the ride. It’s more than a minute and is up to your speed to last the whole ride. I chose to go slow so I can rest my tired legs.

Buzz Lightyear! Samuel is crazy over him, and he does not even like the toystory movie!

Cups. Spinning Cups. Samuel loved it so much that he went for more than 6 rounds.

Isaac had to enjoy the stationary cup.

Still sober before the ride. Diiiiizzy.

Isaac can do anything on this cup.

This one should be the Fantasy Land. There is a boat ride that goes through an exhibits of “Small Small World” sung in International Language. We went two rounds.

Similar to the flying UFO. Just that this is DUMBo.

Horse Rides, fake. Up and downs. 1 minute as usual.

I had to be beside Samuel. It’s the rules. Kicked my shin here.

CUPS AGAIN!!

I’m not sure if this was the beginning or the end. Is that great! No beginning or the end.

2009-Oct-05-13-SH-HK Trip Summary

All Praise and Glory to God for the journey mercies, good weather, safety, and taking care of us throughout the trip. My wife fell seriously ill on arriving at HK. Looks like she ate something bad. Terrible tummy ache, diarrhea, fever and all. Nontheless, thank God it’s not cough, cold, throat infection, etc. Those tends to be airborne and would have been more contagious. She sprained her back too. Otherwise everyone else are good and well.

I snapped 1346 pictures, 4.75GB, all taken with Lumix LX3. Did not want to lug my Nikon D80 and the 18-200mm lens with the big SB-600 flash for the whole day. Carrying the DSLR full day will surely guarantee myself a back or somewhere ache.

9 day trip. 4 day in Shanghai, 5 day in HK. Mon Oct 5 to Tue Oct 13.
Actually, I will subtract 3 days from the 9 as those are the flight days.
Ie
Oct 05 1st Day is flight from SG to HK to CN
Oct 08 4th Day is flight from CN to HK
Oct 13 Last day flight from HK to SG

A total of 5 adults and 2 kids. My in-laws, wifey, myself and Mel, our good
helper. Mel played a very crucial role in taking care of our youngest Isaac
throughout the trip. Tiring no doubt, but she certainly treated Isaac as her
own son like.
Alore.

No special itenary. Objective of the trip was to visit relatives, friends in
Shanghai and HK. We had been traveling regularly to HK, but this is our 1st
Family Trip to Shanghai.
TRIP CHRONO

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D1 Oct 05 Mon (SG-HK-CN)
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Early morning set off to HK, transit to Shanghai. Met Lucy, MIL old time
friend for dinner.

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D2 Oct 06 Tue (CN)
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Morning Train Museum. Met Amy’s friend Maurice and family for lunch. Went to
opposite “The Bund” together. The Bund was closed for renovation for 2010
Expo. Then to the “Super Big Brand Mall” or something like that to visit
Toys R Us. Hung out at Coffee Bean. Met up with FIL family for dinner.

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D3 Oct 07 Wed (CN)
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Visited Shanghai Museum, Yu Yuan, Meet up with my Shanghai Colleagues.

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D4 Oct 08 Thu (CN-HK)
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Last day in Shanghai. Left for HK. Amy sick. Visit doc. 700+ HKD Dmg. Dinner
at Ronald’s Parents place.

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D5 Oct 09 Fri (HK)
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Visited Toys r Us at the shopping mall near the ferry terminal. Qing Qing’s
fetched us (me and Samuel) to her place. Took a bus back.

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D6 Oct 10 Sat (HK)
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Visit Space Museum. Lunch with Amy parents friends. Went to Tsuen Wan to
visit the “New Town Mall”, rather old to me. This place was I think
recommended by Qing Qing, which she also did not know if that was the
correct place. Gashapon Galore.

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D7 Oct 11 Sun (HK)
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Walked along “Star Walk” towards the Ferry Terminal again. Nice view of HK
from Kowloon side. Hazy though.
Lunch at Hotel’s Restaurant. Thereafter back to room and rest.
1630h headed over to Ronald’s home to visit the newborn baby and mummy. Qing
Qing fetched us there.
Dinner altogether nearby Ronald’s lovely home.

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D8 Oct 12 Mon (HK)
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Disneyland. Dinner with Ronald Parents at a nearby our Hotel Restaurant.

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D9 Oct 13 Tue (HK-SG)
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Final Lunch with the folks at a nearby hotel.

1245h – Pickup from Hotel.
1630h – Take off for SG

Lodging
Shanghai – Charms Hotel
HK – kimberly Hotel.

Family Gathering in Hong Kong

Just returned from our Family Trip to Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Took several photos at our family gatherings in Hong Kong.

2009-Oct-05-13

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Samuel and “Jie Jie” as Amy affectionately calls.

Isaac, Samuel and Nicholas. Nicholas is coming to 2 years old as of current post.
But he is very intelligent, active and bold. He as the uncanny ability to get anything
off my 2 boys hand.

Gathering with my MIL friends.

Ooooh… Nicholas pouting.

Gathering of the hand held kits fans.

Group Photo outside a restaurant.

Last Day in HK with Qing Qing coming over to visit. We had lunch together.

SPAW July 1

There are what most people call it a APAD. A Photo a Day. How about SPAW? Several Photos a week? haha!

I wonder

I wonder what happens if i paste the Flickr code here in iPhone?

Samuel Photofunia

Family Printout Albums

Started a new activity at home. That is to print photos on double sided matte photo paper, It is fun!! Everyday about 4 pages. I think in several days, I can send them all for bindings and we have a nice little photo album of myriad myriad sizes.

Little Isaac

Pictures of my little Isaac taken through my Nokia e71. I will not say they are the best, but they are just good enough.

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