All,
Attached is news (and some photo's and video's) from the HK Turner household. Its been a pretty big week all round.
1. We've moved house. Our new address is now 17A, Government Quarters, 122 Pokfulam Rd, Pokfulam, HK. Phone numbers, and other details stay the same. Jules pretty much managed this on Monday / Tuesday.
2. On Monday, one of my largest projects of the year went live (i.e. we now use a new computer system to trade on the stock exchange in Hong Kong). Quite an achievement actually, but couldn't have been more poorly timed.
3. On Wednesday, I flew to Manila (again). I met with some people in Manila on Thursday then flew to Bacolod (where one of ICM's main operations is). On Friday I visited a new training centre we have built to help provide people with a livelihood in a place called Don Salvador Benidicto (DSB for short) - can't tell there was an occupation by the Spanish for 400 years can we. This was amazing (I've got some photos).
4. I arrived back to Hong Kong this morning, and spent about an hour with Jack teaching him how to ride a bike - which he's now pretty much got the hang of. This new place has a much better area for that, and is much more conducive to him riding around.
5. In the afternoon, Cleo and Jack went in the swimming carnivale at the cricket club. It was their first competitive event. Cleo had to swim across the pool. I've got some great piccies (below). She came second. We were amazed as she was pretty much the smallest in her race. Jack came second in his freestyle race, then won his breastroke race (video included below), then he and I won the "father son" relay. A great day.
6. Tomorrow I head out for Japan. Has Josh left yet? I figured we'd overlap for time, but will struggle to meet up (lack of mobile phone coverage in Japan for his team I suspect will make it next to useless to try).
Anyway, enough gab. Here's the piccies and video as promise.
Here's Cleo - she was amazing. A couple of piccies required.
Here she is ready to race. You can see she is the smallest kid there (in the middle in the red swimmers if you hadn't picked her)
Classic dive / horsey. Made a good splash. The eventual winner got a much better start (as did many of the other girls), but Cleo was too quick in the water for most.
Here she is nearing the finish line.
Touch the wall - pipped at the post.
Now for Jack. Here's a video of him winning the 25 metres breastroke. He starts ahead, but the kid next to him has better stroke and catches him (you can see that in the top corner of the video at about half way). Jack fights him off, and wins by a nose. Great race (can tell one Dad who was quite excited).
Here she is ready to race. You can see she is the smallest kid there (in the middle in the red swimmers if you hadn't picked her)
Classic dive / horsey. Made a good splash. The eventual winner got a much better start (as did many of the other girls), but Cleo was too quick in the water for most.
Here she is nearing the finish line.
Touch the wall - pipped at the post.
Now for Jack. Here's a video of him winning the 25 metres breastroke. He starts ahead, but the kid next to him has better stroke and catches him (you can see that in the top corner of the video at about half way). Jack fights him off, and wins by a nose. Great race (can tell one Dad who was quite excited).
