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Seems we haven’t told about Christmas. Jan and Bernie spent the time with us. Good for them and us as this was our first Christmas without ‘the baby’. We went to Midnight mass at midnight, it was beautiful. Lots of people of course, lovely choir, they had been practicing for ages. Dave hired a car…
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Bombardier New Year Bash
We got dressed up for the Company new year’s bash, this year.The theme of my group was Thai traditional (obviously).How do you like it?
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Happy New Year
Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve.Looks like we had a good time, eh?This was taken at the NYE bash we went to in the ballroom of the hotel we stayed in, in Chiang Rai – the capital of the northern most province here in Thailand. We stayed up there for 6 days. It was…
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New Radio Show Starting
My boyfriend is starting his own radio show at Waterloo University’s campus radio station today. The format is two hours, the first dedicated to electronic music, and the second dedicated to indie rock bands. He’ll be bringing the very best of electronic and indie bands from Toronto, Canada and around the world to your ears…
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One Final Post to Ring Out the Year
I just wanted to post to say Merry Christmas (although a bit late – I’ve been busy!) and Happy New Year! I had a lovely Christmas weekend, a crazy final week of 2005, and am about to embark upon a New Year’s dinner to celebrate the beginning of 2006. Love to you all!
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I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Can’t believe it.69 /20 degrees when I went onto the balcony yesterday AM for breakfast.The pool was 75 on Sunday, with an air temperature of 74. No doubt we will be breaking the ice on the pool on Christmas day.So – let it snow, let it snow, let it snow . . We’ve had our…
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Hanoi tales – finally compleated 29th Jan
The w/e of the 10th of December we went to Ha Noi in Viet Nam. It was a holiday w/e here in Thailand and this time we had our visas ready! We stayed in the Hilton and although the sun didn’t shine it also didn’t rain. All the Ha Noien’s were dressed for a cold…
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Hanoi
Last w/e we were in Hanoi.Yet another interesting place.Once again, the thing that springs first to mind are all of the motorbikes and cyles / cyclos (tricycle taxi’s with a single (almost double – but not for us) seat in front). Hanoi press talks about traffic jams, but they really mean bike jams, as the…
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Life in Toronto
I can’t tell if anyone other than my parents is reading this blog anymore. Anybody out there? Hellloooo? Hehe 🙂 I wasn’t going to do this until I redesigned the site, but I’ve added the link to my portfolio and weblog to the right of this entry, as part of my supplemental links. I post…
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Pattaya
We have just been away for a w/e retreat in Pattaya, from our Church here in BKK.There is a big organization in Pattaya, looking after orphans, and street kids, as well as others (see this web site http://www.fr-ray.org/en100100.php).Pattaya is sin city Thailand. Started by American GI’s during the Vietnam thing as the #1 place for…