Sunny Ray

8/19/16

Yellowstone national park trip.

8/9/16

Tony's gateway ceramics class accomplishments

7/25/16

A great season in SR basketball summer league, go Gladiators!

7/5/16

Gamble House and Stanford Dish.

Far Western 2016 trip, practice in JCC Palo Alto

San Diego Science Fair

2/4/16

A remarkable DQ

Ray was DQed at 50 breaststroke in last weekend swim meet. He did one and half dolphin kicks. After he found out, I was a little surprised he didn't care it that much. He even joked that he would do it again at 200IM. Nowadays, Mr. Tight started loosing up a little bit. This is something notable.

1/19/16

2016 SI-swimming All Star team against Sirrena Neveda All Star team duel meet. Ray handled an undesired 500 yard event, his first individual event, as it was assigned by coach for the need of the team. And Ray got a first place with decent margin at 50 free on the second day. Ray also made a great contribution to 200 IM relay B-team. Ray improved his 100 fly leg by thress seconds over his PR and B-team bested A-team by 6 seconds! All the kids from various clubs competed each other in SI meets. Now they are a team and friends against another team. This was a great team experience. This was not about achieving personal records, but about helping team win more points and the competitions!

11/11/15

Mount Laguana fall hiking

Mount Laguana fall hiking.

Ray is 10 year old now

11/2/13

Ray's B-party!

Ray wanted a birthday party, so mom made it happen. Dad was scared to death, as he almost missed his flight the day before for attending Ray's party. Mom had another mission so she had to leave before the party ended. It was a pretty scary relay but we made it!

10/31/13

Tony's violin

Ray's violin moved up to 1/2 size. Tony's violin need to move to a real 1/8 size from his paper box. A big step.
"Tony, do you want to get a new violin?" mom asked.
"How much does it cost?" Tony asked.
"180 dollars," mom said.
"That is OK. Get it." Tony replied calmly with a little thinking.

This surprised mom, as Tony even didn't show much emotion on such an "expensive" thing. The other day mom asked Tony why he thought 160 dollars was OK for a violin.
Tony replied, "Because I can afford it."
He meant the money he saved in his little piggy bag. He is not kidding. He is having about $200 saved so far.

10/4/13

Tony's bed

Mom bought a new bed for Tony and sold Tony's old bed for 60 dollars.
"Where is my bed?" Tony found his bed was gone.
"I sold it", mom replied.
"How much did you sell it?", Tony asked.
"60".
"Can I have 30 dollars? It is my bed", Tony asked.
Before mom replied, Ray talked to Tony, "If mom give the money, can you give 15 to me?"
Mom cannot hold her laugh.
It is like an old Chinese saying, JIAN MIAN FEN YI BAN.

10/1/13

Something remarkable

Mom dropped Tony and Ray at the entrance of Butler music school. She needed to find parking so Ray and Tony walked to the classroom themselves. When mom came over after parking, Tony was playing violin while Ray was teaching on the hall way.
Actually Tony asked to play Ray's violin as Tony's 'violin' is still a violin shaped box. And Ray not only let Tony play, but also helped him to press the right string to make the sound better. Love Tony's curiosity and motivation and Ray's kindness. It is just such a sweet scene!