2003-01-07: Happy and Successfull New Year 2003
From Shona
g o o d h e a l t h a n d a h a p p y n e w y e a r !
From Peter
I wish you all a happy, joyful, healthy, and successful 2003!
Our 2002 was a roller coaster with ups and downs. The family is doing well. Ladina is now in second grade, she loves to read books, she makes very nice artwork (we send our kids to art school once a week) and she likes to dance. Alexis is in Kindergarden, he is now a nice naughty boy. When he laughs in his high pitched tone, anyone around can't help but laugh. I like to call our kids "the monsters".
At home I am busy with TWiki as an open source software and as a business. In 2002 I had 27,400 mainly TWiki related e-mail, or 77 e-mail per day in average. At the open source web site
TWiki.org we have 12,000 pages, 4,820 registered users, and have had 22,500 software downloads to date. TWiki as a business is developing very slow. We incorporated TWikiNet in spring and are still preparing the business. We could not secure any funding, it is very tough now for Internet related businesses. Because of that we refocused our business to create a web hosting site for secure collaboration using TWiki. We set up the hosting web site with our own little funding, it is currently in Beta testing. My business partner Chako Ando quit in fall because she could no longer work without income. So, it's currently on the slow lane.
Work at
Wind River is
interesting, and very busy with increasing responsibility. We had a third round of layoffs in spring. And this month we will have yet another one, scaling down from 1500 employees to 1000.
I hope to see you some day in California, Switzerland, Hong Kong or Japan! Or your home town?
From Ladina Renata HoiWing (7 1/2 years)
I went on a trip. My family and another family went to Las Vegas. I had fun! We saw shows. My favorite show was the magic show. The magic show was by Rick Thomas. He made a girl turn into a tiger.
From Alexis Jonas HoiChun (almost 6 years)
Happy New Year to everybody. I like to do mouse traps and games. I don't want to say anything else.
Photos from 2002
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Alexis in a the Joy Luck Place restaurant for a New Years party. (2002-01-01)
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Peter visits Francisco Gonzalez & Katie in
San Diego while on a business trip (2002-02-08)
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We visit Heidi and Nick Goetschi in their weekend
home in the Sonora mountains(2002-02-19)
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Ladina made this artwork for Heidi and Nick. (2002-02-20)
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Yohann Benedic, a student from France stayed with us
until he found a room in Berkeley, CA. (2002-03-10)
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Walter Gyger and Peter at the top of the Mission Peak,
overlooking the Silicon Valley. (2002-03-24)
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Kids prepare for the Chinese dance performance.
Ladina is second in back, Haruka Uda in front left. (2002-04-14)
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Dinner in the woods. Shona and the kids bring us food. A group lead by
Walter Gyger hikes over the mountains to the Pacific Ocean for three
days. (2002-05-25)
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Martin Klaus takes Peter for paragliding on the Mission Peak. (2002-06-07)
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Shooting straight up with the digital camera. (2002-06-07)
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Heidi Goetschi plays the Schwyzer Örgeli at the Semi-Annual General Meeting
of the Peninsula Swiss Club, surrounded by Haruka Uda, Alvin Choy,
Charly Sun, Alexis, Ladina and Ryan Choy. (2002-06-09)
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Beth Qualia (aka Baker) from Texas came to visit us. We had fun parties in
Zürich many many years ago! (2002-06-19)
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Shona and Ladina at home, exhausted after the Chinese dance
performance. (2002-06-22)
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Ladina on winding Highway 1 along the Pacific, on the way from San Jose
to San Diego. (2002-06-29)
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At the beach in Morro Bay, volcanic Morro Rock in the background. (2002-06-30)
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At the San Diego Zoo. (2002-07-02)
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Ladina and Alexis with performers after the show in the
San Diego Zoo. (2002-07-02)
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Ladina and Alexis with deers. (2002-07-06)
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Alexis likes to take his toys apart. (2002-07-19)
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First of August celebration, at a PSC event. (2002-07-27)
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Ladina on her first school day of second grade, with Miss Gradia. (2002-08-22)
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Ladina on a steel cable of the Golden Gate Bridge. (2002-09-14)
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Ching Bays, Praxis, Alexis and Shona walking over the Golden
Gate Bridge. (2002-09-14)
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Alexis, Praxis and Ladina on our car with
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Thynn Thynn Hlaing came to visit us from Japan, with friend Coco. (2002-10-06)
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Masahiro Uda-san, Rie-san, Haruka, and us in the in Natural Bridges
State Beach Park, watching Monarch Butterflies. (2002-10-13)
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Ladina flying a kite in the Candlestick Park near San Francisco. (2002-10-20)
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Alexis at the Santa Claus party. (2002-12=07)
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Ladina and Haruka at the Santa Claus party. (2002-12-07)
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Peter, Ladina and Haruka at a salt lake in the Death Valley. (2002-12-22)
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Raymond and Rebecca Che in our old van in Las Vegas. (2002-12-24)
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Ladina was painting a fire spitting dragon on Alexis'
face with the Caran D'Ache pencils she got from
Nani in Switzerland. (2002-12-30)
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New years eve party at our home, the kids eat first -- picnic on the floor. (2002-12-31)
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New years eve with Yutaka Ito-san and Naoko-san, Uda-san and Rie-san. (2002-12-31)
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