Monthly Archives: December 2011

Beijing Again

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This week I have been in Beijing on a business trip again. As usual Beijing was grey and smoggy. This time it was also cold, -8 degrees some days. So the river I follow to get to the office in the morning was frozen, but that is an improvement from the greenish and smelly water that usually tries to flow in it.



While away on business trip there is not much you can do. Most of the day you are busy at the office. Once you get off in the evening there is not really any time available to do anything interesting, besides having dinner with friends and go to the gym at the hotel. So that is basically what I did this week too. I went to the gym twice. And had dinner with friends twice.



Then it was time to do the best part of being on a business trip… Coming home 🙂 Though this time I went directly home to have a 3 hours teleconf meeting 🙁

Volunteer Dinner

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A work colleague from Chie’s office and her kids have joined forces with us in Ishihara-san’s network of volunteers. Today we delivered packages for the Project “Christmas” to Ishihara-san. Once we were done we continued to Yasaka for dinner together.



At Yasaka we had tori-yaki until we could eat no more, and then we had ice cream from Baskin-Robin. It was all very yummy.

Between eating we had a chance to talk with the kids – around 10 (boy) and 6 (girl) years old. They are such nice kids – once they heard Chie was doing volunteer work after the earthquake and tsunami they also wanted to help in some way. So they started collecting money at their school and bought cookies for the kids in Kobuchihama and Fukukiura. They also donated their old bike, first bringing it up to their bathroom to clean it by themselves.

It was a very nice time. At 9 pm Shio-chan was getting tired so we decided the dinner was at and we all went home.

Project “Christmas”

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The last 2 weeks we have been busy supporting Project “Christmas”. This is Ishihara-san’s latest support to Kobuchihama and Fukukiura. The goal is that everyone in the network in Kobuchihama and Fukukiura should get at least 1 Christmas gift.



You can find details at the Tohoku Donation pages.

It’s a Miracle

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I got this link from Ara-san’s Facebook page. Monique van der Vorst has been paralyzed from the waist since she was 13. In the Beijing Paralympics she won 2 silver medals in hand cycling. Last year she was in a hand cycling accident and while recovering at a hospital her feet started to tingle. Now she can walk again and have been signed to a professional cycling team with the goal to compete in the Rio Olympics 2016.

Tokyo Tower & Full Moon

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It was a beautiful evening with a full moon. I shot this photo from the balcony then run it through some image processing…But just a little 😉