Mingqun Lin's Weblog

It's being cold this month, but my sons find their ways to burn out extra energies in the cold winter: Biking in the garage after dinner. Sounds odds, right? Sometimes we'll have to empty out the spaces for them, and they do enjoy it very much. They like bumping into each other, bumping on the walls or other stuffs, and circling around inside. In the past years, we used to bring them to the playground inside a big shopping mall. However, winter is also the flu season so that it is not wise to be with group of kids in a closed environment.
Happy Chinese New Year, Everyone!

I just saw a very interesting flash animation, and believe it worths sharing here. The title is "I don't wanna say I'm a chicken" (我不想说我是鸡). It's very cute and funny, based on the current situation of Bird Flu in China. Enjoy!

Happy New Year, folks! This update was slightly delayed since I caught a cold for almost a week.
Here are some pictures from last Christmas holiday. We had a party at home, and they stayed home for whole 3 days just playing trains.
Trains are the best toys for my sons. Or we can say they're the only toys my sons like. They might play with other toys like cars, trucks, but none of them can catch their attention long enough. Trains toys are different, they will play with them again and again, and again. Up to now, we got trains from Brio's wooden series, Thomas and Friend's series, and some bigger ones. When they browse Targets or KB Toys, the only section they look for is trains. When we're in the libraries, the places they're looking for are train books, train videos. They also like silly Teletubbies, but that's just a little part of their fun. We always try to divert their interestss to something else, but not very successful until recently, they start to enjoy Dora's Explorer videos and books.

Recently, I have reorganized the frontpage from 3 panels to 2 panels for simplified views. Also, javascript balloon tips were added to the Address Book and Guest Book links. Move your cursor to the link to find out how. Let me know if you have any suggestions/comments.

This winter seems pretty cold. We're almost frozen while waiting in the line for the Black Friday sale. Our heating bill almost doubled amid the record-high natural gas price. We got the first "bigger" snow storm here last Friday. Not really big though, only around 8 inches of snow. Today, it's snowing again with freezing rain, the worst weather in winter.
Nevertheless, boys enjoy playing in the snow, running their favorite Thomas trains on it. Eric likes sliding on the snow sled down the hill close to our home. Rick seems still too young to enjoy the speed of snow sleding, but he said that he will like it when he is as big as his elder brother. Actually, he said this already last year :)
Happy Holidays!