My Dad Is Amazing – Record 100 Gallon Blood Donor Since as young as I can remember, my dad has been donating blood. I remember going with him, getting a lollipop, and talking to the nurses at the various blood centers. Not sure how it got started, but he was giving blood consistently. Maybe every week or so, I would …
Forgot When Thanksgiving Is…
Isn’t Thanksgiving the Third Thursday of November? One of the things about living overseas / in Asia is you forget certain holidays. Thanksgiving is one of them. That is purely a USA holiday. Christmas on the other hand has been embraced all around the world, Thanksgiving is purely for Americans to be thankful for what they have. So much that …
The Wife Is Back [all is ok now]
So the wife is back. Throwing rocks at the balcony window at 1am – felt like a school kid in love . But no, it was because she gave her house key to the teaching assistant who was helping us with the kids. (Took quite a few rocks to wake me up) But I head downstairs at 1am to open …
Daddy Time With Kids
Daddy & Kids Weekend Time Having a good time with the kids while the wife is in Nepal! She says it – and it is true – when she isn’t here it forces me to spend more time with the kids. Don’t get me wrong – I love my kids – but the amount of time and attention it takes …
Home Alone with the kids (wife in Nepal)
I’m Home Alone With The Kids (My Wife Went To Nepal For a Week) Just when I was getting back and resting up in Chiang Mai, about a week later my amazing wife Wendy heads off to Nepal for her yearly meditation retreat. I support it, I believe it is great for her personal development (and she’d do it anyway). …
Family, Death, and Cross-Cultures
Preparing For A Death in the Family What should we do when a family member dies? It is one of the most guaranteed things – people will die. Although there are entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley working on transferring our brains to new bodies – for now, people will die. It is also a cultural difference. So as I mentioned last …
Ice World Visit in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Enjoying Ice World With The Kids Before Business Trip Again Wife is out of town (family matters in China) and I have the weekend with the kids. They have been begging to go to Ice World – and we made it happen this Saturday. Basically the mall has been losing electricity with the amount of power this new exhibition has …
Family and Health – The Saying: Health Is Wealth
Family and Health – The Saying: Health Is Wealth My father in law has been down in Thailand close to a month, and unfortunately dealing with a couple health issues. Hearing the family Wechat group buzzing with ideas on medicine, hospitals, and other ideas – that is what it is all about – health. So many of us – myself …
What Is Your Personality? (plus my test results)
Reviewing My Personality Test – Good For Team Building As the partners at Alpha Rock Capital get to know one another, Alex suggested we all take a personality test. Chatting in the Slack channel, various people suggested different tests, but Alex said these 2 are the main ones we should take: yea that is one version, ideally I would like …
Back Home in Thailand
Back in Thailand, Family Reunited! That was quite a long two week China trip. Seriously – when you become a parent – days feel like weeks. The kids grow up too fast, so want to try to spend as much time with them as possible. But they have a good life. A great mother. Good environment, decent school, and now …
Grandpa is Back in Thailand!
My kids’s Grandpa is back in Thailand My Father in Law Is back in Thailand! He arrived while I was on this China trip and is helping out for a few months while Wendy and I are buried with work and overload for the upcoming Cross border Summit. We will both be heading there to Guangzhou, China while grandpa helps …
My Son Is Deep into Meditation
My Son Diving Into The World of Buddhism While on the road in China, my wife keeps me up to date on what the kids are up to in Wechat. Photos, videos, reports of their teacher’s status reports, the whole nine. Over the weekend I saw a ton of photos in the “Family Wechat group” with mainly the Chinese side …
Remembering My Late Grandparents and Aunt
Remembering My Late Grandparents and Aunt What do you do when you get a birthday reminder for someone who has since passed away? The older I get, the more and more birthday popups hit my calendar of people who have left this Earth.. I haven’t been deleting them. I have been remembering them. Maybe this is how they continue to …
Kids Back To School (what its all about these days)
My Kindergarten Kids – Maggie and Miles Growing Up Life is seriously flying by. Both the kids are now in proper studies. Their English is 10x when it was this time last year – moving over from Shenzhen, China overpaying and getting less quality. Hope my kids learn from this. Don’t just settle. Don’t just stay where you are because …
Back in Relaxing Chiang Mai (for now, at least)
Back in relaxing Chiang Mai. Going through Hong Kong airport now feels like a war zone in a way. Water barricades up everywhere, security, police, student volunteers explaining to passengers you need to show your boarding pass in order to enter the airport. Sad, such an organized and top class part of the world is under such huge pressure. I …