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2006-01-02: Joyful and Successful New Year 2006
From Peter
I wish you the best of luck, good health and lots of success in 2006!
We had an eventful year. In March we went to Cancun for a few days, a vacation
trip sponsored by Wind River. In August we had full house with relatives visiting
from Hong Kong. They came to the wedding of Vinny and Ken Lam in San Francisco.
Shona was very busy in August and September helping organize the
Moon Festival of the Silicon Valley.
At times her cell phone rang every few minutes; she was in charge of the booth.
Besides my family, I spend time on the free software project
TWiki, which keeps me pretty busy.
Last year I had
14 speaker engagements.
Upcoming presentations on the wiki technology are at the
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
in Boston, Toronto and probably San Francisco.
In June I quit my job at Wind River to work on a
book on wikis for the workplace.
In November, co-author Dan Woods and I started a new
company called StructuredWikis LLC to provide consulting and training services
to companies using wikis. I am currently working at home for a client in New York.
We live a healthy life, thanks to the excellent cuisine of Shona. Overall I am in
good health; however, in November I went to the Stanford University Hospital to
fix my heart. Last year I had two cases of
SVT, a very
fast heart beat caused by an electric short circuit in the heart. The doctors did a
Cardiac Ablation
procedure to prevent future short curcuits. All went well; thanks god I am living in
the 21st century.
I wish to meet you again soon in person, either in Europe, Asia, or at our home in sunny
California. You can send me also an instant message (AOL IM: PeterThoeny, Yahoo IM:
pgthoeny@yahoo.com, MSN IM: PeterThoeny@hotmail.com).
From Shona
Happy 2006! I am so happy to meet some friends who have same hobbies, i.e play
Mahjong, like to eat, hiking,
picnic etc...... Life is going on with fun....
From Ladina Renata HoiWing (10 years)
Happy New Year! Some field trips that I went to in 2005 were terrific.
Age of Sail was a really
great field trip where I got to go on a historic ship in San Francisco. The
ship's name is The Balclutha. I hope to go there again.
This year, I am going to go to another field trip that is in the Saratoga
mountains. Fifth graders are going to a science camp called Walden West. This
trip is in January.
I don't really have anything else to say. Once again, Happy New Year!
From Alexis Jonas HoiChun (almost 9 years)
Hi I'm Alexis. Last year was a wonderful year but now IT IS A NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last year in school it was fun to make new friends, but every new year you must make new friends.
I hope you people enjoy this year.
Photos from 2005
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8th birthday of Alexis (2005-01-24)
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Elizabeth Harris and 'Meatball' with sombrero, Cancun, Mexico (2005-03-11)
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Shona at the white beach, Cancun (2005-03-12)
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Alexis and Ladina at the sand castle competition, Cancun (2005-03-12)
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Shona and Ladina descending the pyramid of Kukulcán, in Chichén Itzá, Mexico (2005-03-13)
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Dinner at Japanese restaurant in Cancun (2005-03-13)
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Peter and Elena Victorica, now living in Cancun, Mexico (2005-03-14)
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Dan & Ariela Kikinis at Sharon's Bat Mitzvah,
in Cupertino, CA (2005-03-26)
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Alexis having fun at Bat Mitzvah (2005-03-26)
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Ladina and Michelle Xu at Easter egg hunt, organized
by Peninsula Swiss Club, Sunnyvale, CA (2005-03-27)
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Alexis blowing bubbles at Easter egg hunt, Sunnyvale, CA (2005-03-27)
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Alexis with his K'nex space shuttle, at home (2005-04-03)
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Dancers at a festival in Cupertino, Ladina in center (2005-05-07)
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Ladina dancing with fan, Cupertino, CA (photo by Oleg Kolosov) (2005-05-07)
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Sergei Pushnof with Leeza, Sunnyvale, CA (2005-05-08)
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Ladina's birthday (2005-05-18)
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Alexis showing his works at open house of Meyerholz Elementary School (2005-05-19)
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Anna Black-Hogins & Ladina, Alexis & Rion Black-Hogins sharing coats,
Saratoga, CA (2005-05-19)
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Peter and Heidi Goetschi representing Switzerland at International Day of
Meyerholz School (2005-05-26)
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Haruka Uda posing in front of our home (2005-05-29)
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Ladina and Shona at the Conservatory in San Francisco (2005-05-30)
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Titan arum, a gigantic stinking 'corpse flower' at Conservatory,
San Francisco (2005-05-30)
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Joe Mallon and Pauline Cheung of Wind River at Peter's farewell lunch, Oakland, CA (2005-07-27)
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Alphorn secrets, at 1st of August celebration, Atherton, CA (2005-07-30)
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Popo from Hong Kong, Shona Alexis, Maria Tam, Ladina, Peter at Golden Gate bridge (2005-08-13)
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Aunty Rebecca Che gives red pocket money to Shona, the day before the wedding of
Vinny Che and Ken Lam (2005-08-13)
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Ceremony with tea, appreciating the parents, at wedding of Vinny Che & Ken Lam,
with Aunty Rebecca and Uncle Raymond Che (2005-08-14)
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Cheers at wedding party: Aunty Rebecca, Howard Che, Vinny, Ken (2005-08-14)
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Peter, Ladina, Shona, Alexis, Popo at Lone Cypress on 17 Miles Drive,
near Monterey, CA (2005-08-16)
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On the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, near California/Nevada border (2005-08-19)
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Jimmy Li, Alexis, Eric Eckert, Brenda Li, Ryan Eckert and Ladina learn how to operate
a steam locomotive, in Sacramento, CA (2005-09-10)
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Oguro Inaka Ojii-san, Haruka Matsudo, Minoru Matsudo, Matsudo Ojii-san and Peter at
Pier 39 in San Francisco (2005-09-14)
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Hiroaki Matsudo trying hats at Pier 39 (2005-09-14)
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Hiroaki Matsudo sliding down a sand dune, near Monterey, CA (2005-09-15)
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Haruka Matsudo feeding a ground squirrel, on 17 Miles Drive near Monterey, CA (2005-09-15)
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We build a moon cake mountain for the Moon Festival; Alexis is painting the structure (2005-09-13)
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Finished moon cake mountain at Moon Festival of Silicon Valley (2005-09-17)
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Dinner at Joy Luck Place, Cupertino: Minoru, Haruka, Alexis, Hirokai Matsudo, Ladina, Peter, Shona;
Matsudo Obah-san, Matsudo Ojii-san, Inaka Obah-san, Inaka Ojii-san (2005-09-17)
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Alexis flying a Cessna 172, over San Jose, CA (2005-09-24)
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Peter, Crawford Currie and Colas Nahaboo of TWiki.org at WikiSym, San Diego, CA (2005-10-16)
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Dan Woods in Manhatten, New York (2005-11-30)
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Martin and Karen Eckert at our home, San Jose, CA (2005-12-10)
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Brian and Sina So, on the way to Lake Tahoe, in Sacramento, CA (2005-12-21)
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Thoeny family at Lake Tahoe, CA (2005-12-23)
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Kitty Lui from Hong Kong playing cards in hotel, Lake Tahoe, CA (2005-12-22)
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The Thoeny family, in Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA (2005-12-26)
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Kitty Lui and Peter at Coit Tower, San Francisco (2005-12-27)
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Kids playing Mahjong at Sina's home, Cupertino, CA (2005-12-29)
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