12/9 (Sat. )
*AM9:00 - go to the house in sunflower community. --- balustrade and backyard wall are ready.
* AM9:40 - to find a Secret BASE II on south shore area of the creek tou-qian-xi
* AM10:30 - a tutorial beginning to Mr. Xie Guo Zhong at the downtown of Hsin Chu City with missionary. His age is close to my father.
* AM11:30 - buy 3 bags of Potato Crisp and go visit Bro. Xie Shang Qing(He is 81 years old already) but not meet after I called his name loudly outside his house for sevral times.
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* PM1:30 - attend the Exhibition of Overseas Studying held in NCTU. Listening to the speech from professors who gave the talks on their studying experience in Japan. The professor quote it as his ending: "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a Moveable Feast " --- Ernest Hemingway, Moveable Feast, 1964.
海明威在寫給友人的信中說，「如果你夠幸運，在年輕時待過巴黎，那麼它將永遠跟隨著你，因為巴黎是一席流動的饗宴。」 王俊秀教授以此話來引喻留學生活是一場帶得走的饗宴.
http://www.chenhen.com/html/lit/feast/feast-second.htm
* PM2:00 - attend the Art Gallery of NCTU that is just beside the Exhibition.
* PM2: 30 - together with my family members in the Exhibition. A staff there loves our kids so much, she smiled and played with them.
* PM3:00 - a brief introduction of studying in the Netherlands. The speaker is so conversational and with a good sense of humor. Listening to his speech made us happy.
* PM4:30 - walk home
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* PM7:20 - walk to NCTU again with wife and two little kids for a speech by Ah Ken in the main auditorium. Ah Ken talked on his experience of studying in Vancouver and New York. Have you ever heard the famous young guy Ah Ken before? I just knew him tens of minutes before his speech. However, I think the young actor's talk is interesting.
12/10 (Sun. )
*AM9:40 - go with family members to visit Bro. Xie Shang Qing but not meet again.
* AM10:20 - go with family members to Secret BASE II for the first time. We tent there, play there and see the the high speed trains operate come-and-go trially on the nearby railway bridge for the purpose of the formal operation next month. On the opposite shore of the creek, several teams of basketball games were held there. Children were rather happy to stay and play in the tent while the strong winter wind from the north almost blows our tent down.
* AM11:50 - go to the house which is under construction in the new sunflower community. I didn't get off car this time.
* AM12:10 - back to home and have the fastest clothing and lunch with the 3 elder kids while the youngest one has fallen asleep in his baby car seat. Wife takes care of him and stays with him in the car.
* AM12:50 - driving out again for the church meeting. Don't forget that I need to pick up a church member at his home while I promised him one day before when he called to ask me. After arriving there at PM1:10, I called him and knocked the door from outside. His grandmother came out and told me that he has asked his grandfather take him to the church and his grandfather come back already.
* PM14:05 - wife gave a speech and testimony on Tithing at the church sacrament meeting. It's good to hear it from her. She mentioned that we visited the 3 chapels in Malaysia one year ago and how I taught children about Tithing.
* PM17:00 - wife allowed our 3 elder kids to go home earlier by hitching a ride from a church member for they are so eager to watch evening cartoon at home after the church meetings, while I have another meeting then and wife would like to watch the special annual Christmas fireside meeting which is sattlite-broadcasted from Utah and held at PM18:00. I went home earlier that day because that I feel not at ease about the 3 kids at home alone without parents.
* PM21:00 - the only daugther asked me to sleep with her once more. ....
