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 …
Son is Spiderman bouncing off the walls, literally!
My Kid Is Bouncing Off The Wall as Spiderman (Literally) My wife is spoiling our kids! Mike’s Blog 213 Seriously, during my trip to China, I picked up a Taobao delivery that was a real spiderman suit – from head to toe! Miles kept asking in Wechat messages while I was on the road if I had picked up the …
My Daddy Saturday Night
My Normal Saturday night Just a quick post – this is my life now. Saturday night on the sofa w/ the wife and kids watching Spiderman. My daughter was so scared of Dr Octopus – and my wife was able to snap this photo of her coming to daddy when Dr Octopus was running wild in the movie. I also …
My Son Is a Budding Artist
My son is an artist (family of artists) Uncle Bill has really been enjoying the photos lately in various social media channels (I’m not as active there – but my wife has figured out Facebook now that she’s outside of China, heh…) Here’s a photo he drew over the weekend. I have to admit – it was his idea to …
Happy Father’s Day, Receiving & Giving The Best
Happy Fathers Day – Kids Getting Older It is five years now of being a father, and maybe the first year I can really feel the benefits of it. My son Miles made this amazing piece of art for me: Now as a father of a 5 and 3 year old – I’m both a giver and a receiver on …
Priorities: Back In Time For Son’s Birthday
Back in Thailand for My Son’s Birthday Number 5 Oh, to be an “American dad” in Asia. Family in Thailand, doing work and business development in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Does seem like the right position overall. Come to China for focused (and intense) business meetings that have been planned well in advanced from Thailand. Fly in, meeting, meeting, …
Grabbing a Few Little Physical Memories
Grabbing a Few Little Physical Memories Walking on the beach we just want to grab something. Kids want to “take this, keep that”. Humans, why do we want to horde and grab things? I did grab some things while walking along the beach as well. My kids asked me why, and I plan to throw the shell back before I …
Took Kids To The Beach (Amazing Vibes)
Wow, the feeling you get when your kids put their water in the ocean. I have taken them to the beach before (I remember when I visited my family in Florida we all got in the water) – but maybe they are old enough to appreciate it now. The ocean, something about the sheer size of the ocean and the …
Reminder Of Family Bonding, In Southeast Asia
The Family Bonding In Southeast Asia Definitely more “cowboys and indians” style here in Southeast Asia compared to the last few years in Shenzhen. Actually it is mind-blowing to think how fast Shenzhen, China developed from seeing things like this photo featured today into a police state where nothing like this seems even possible anymore. I took the photo in …