jiveturtle

Love this photo of Amelie. Being six years old, I have started to find that she has a knack to make people smile and tries to cheer people up. Grateful to have such a daughter who could bring a smile to my face, even on my darkest days.

Another weekend, another walk around the city for some light exercise and to take my mind of recent things. Today is a visit to an old favourite haunt of Sogo department store (the old one). Give that the new one is more spacious and, well, more new, I was surprised the old Sogo still had a lot of people walking around. With the onset of Chinese New Year coming around the corner, Sogo decided to display these rather cute statues of rabbits. Yes, you sharp ones will have worked out that the coming Chinese New Year will be the year of the Rabbit! Lets hope its a good start to the rabbit year. With recent events happening to me, I can only hope for the best.

Not sure what to say.  All I can feel in my heart is hurt, disappointment with a touch of anger and a lot of frustration.  Perhaps I should not write on here what happened today, but I need to let it out some way or another... Today, I found out my worth, as it seems, it is not a lot. Yes, I had been away sick for many days, which is one of the reasons I can comprehend.  But for me, given those issues, I feel I have done my best and given it my all in every possible way.  In many ways, I feel I had exchange my health for something which at the end was worthless.  After today's event, it seems to be not worthwhile and somehow, made a fool of me and my hard work which I put in. Yes, numbers are important, but whatever happened to the acknowledgement of the things that happened to me and hours which I worked tirelessly?  I guess because that cannot be measured, then I am at a lost. So, the question is, did I put in all my time, health and effort for nothing?  It seems that way.

Just a quick message to wish my mum a very happy birthday! In case you're wondering, the Chinese characters in the pictures is my mum's name!

Shopping at our local Wellcome supermarket and came across this rather king-sized can of Heineken beer! Very tempted indeed!

Amelie here holding some honey cake. Its a rather delicious sponge cake which is soaked in honey, and for me, is very nice indeed. Usually, its customary in Taiwan to give these as gifts to friends, family and co-workers when you baby has reached their first month after birth to celebrate the baby's first milestone in life.

Took this sneaky shot of Amelie sleeping, in what looks like the sleeping Buddha statues in Thailand. Well, here's our very own living sleeping little Buddha of Taiwan!

Nice pose (for once) from Amelie at S.Y.S Memorial park, overlooking Taipei 101. Seems like some kind of market is going on in the background. We tend to have these every now and then, like the farmer's market back in UK. Though, I must admit, I never bought anything from them!

As usual, we went out for a stroll around the city for the first day of the new year. Not much to see as usual, but its nice to walk around and get some kind of exercise. Saw many things, like a patriotic labradour, Snoopy and the usual razzle and dazzle city lights at night! Wish you all a very happy new year for 2011!! More photos here .