Posts Tagged ‘life’

Make way for the King & Queen (Hue, Vietnam) #Geckostails

Posted: June 19, 2012 by mkritch in Asia, Travel, Words From My Mouth
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Make way for the King and Queen, Yours truly was the royalty last evening in Hue, Vietnam while we went for a cultural dinner (Anphu Garden) with our peasants.  The evening was  great times all around.  It was a theme/dress party with cultural entertainment and food. The presentation of the food was absolutely incredible!

Our 1 day stay in Hue was action packed and our guide kept us really busy!  Everyone was beat out by the end of the night, but definitely feel like we got to share some of the cultural and excitement in this wonderful city!  Hue is definitely a hidden gem in Vietnam and shouldn’t be passed up.  The citadel and the pagoda was also great, watching the monks “in  training” pray. I definitely admire their dedication.

On a sad note, it seems that our guide may be leaving us today or tomorrow. His father is very sick and has stage 4 cancer. I believe that Geckos travel, will be arranging a new guide to come and replace him for the last week of our adventure.  If you are reading this, please say a prayer for Ngoc and that he will feel comforted and will be able to stay strong during these hard times. Life is a precious thing and too many of us take it for granted, we have to keep living each day as if it were our last.

I have put some pictures and movies below, hope you enjoy!!!

Mk

Simple things you miss when your on the road…

Posted: March 12, 2012 by mkritch in Life, Travel, Words From My Mouth
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I’ll admit it, yes I love travel and experiencing new things.  But there are simple things that you start to miss very quickly.  I miss my wife, I love coming home at night and seeing her and of course sleeping in the same bed as her. When your on the road, the bed can be cold…i usually make sure my bed as like 1000000 pillows and end up spooning those all night… maybe that too much info…lol  

I also miss talking to my parents and grandparents, I talk to my parents probably 1 to 2 times per day, just saying hi, bouncing ideas off each other, etc… I am close to them and would consider them best friends over parents and better friends than any other friends that I might have… so that may be weird but i think its cool.

I am an uncle now, so that is super cool…I want to see baby Sayaka so bad, my wife uploads pictures and I get to see them via photo-stream on my iPhone so that is really wonderful!  

Being on the road, is good but there is a lot of “Life” that is missed, I wish there was a simple way to teleport quickly, there isn’t yet, so for now. I am thankful for technologies such as Skype, FaceTime, Photo-Stream and definitely the internet in general.

What do you do in your ‘life’? Do you have a hobby or are you a hobbit?

Posted: March 4, 2012 by mkritch in Life, Words From My Mouth
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Last night while having a birthday dinner for one of my close friends, another friend asked me curiously “What are your hobbies?”  I started thinking of it, and well there are a lot of things I enjoy doing like playing sports (Squash & Golf), travel, eat, cook – I like these, but do I do anything further to learn about them or to perfect them? If not, do they still constitute as hobbies or not?

We talked and the conversation continued on more about what do you do during “Life”? I come home after work and cook some food and I usually do a little more “work”, its not that its a bad thing, because I sincerely do love and care about what I do, so it could almost be considered a hobby? – I guess not. 

Thinking more about it last night and this morning, there are a number of things I really enjoy to do, but I have not made an extra effort to specifically focus or perfect any of those hobbies.  

Thinking on a little bit of a deeper level, I do not want life to just pass by – work, eat, sleep, work, eat sleep. I should really take the time to find a good hobby that I can enjoy and share with others, probably something that is not a huge drain of financial resources might be good, as long as it is simple fun and enjoyable.

I guess a couple of the hobbies I do have is reading online and in books magazines as National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler, Monocle) about different countries, cultures and places.  Another hobby that I tried to start for myself was getting my private pilots license, but I only ever made it half way through as I was doing a lot of traveling already and have a limited amount of $$$$ to my name. :) – I think maybe in the future when things slow down a bit and I am spending more time at home, it would be very possible to continue to learn and expand that interest in flying.  

During the course of this year, I think rather than being a hobbit I am going to try and find that hobby that I really enjoy. Something that I can enjoy with friends, family and share with others at my leisure.

mk

Remembering Grandma Wiebe – Part 2 (PowerPoint)

Posted: December 22, 2011 by mkritch in Words From My Mouth
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I was talking to dad yesterday about Grandma Wiebe, he had mentioned that he still had the powerpoint which was made for her back in 2002. I wanted to put it up here, so it wouldn’t be lost :)

MK
Grandma Wiebe Powerpoint

Never forget there is Life after death and taxes

Posted: December 19, 2011 by mkritch in Life, Words From My Mouth
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What a rough weekend it has been. I arrived home from some great vacation with wife in DisneyWorld (Orlando) – I was getting ready for work on Friday morning and received a call from my Grandpa telling me that my Grandma was not doing very good and that I should want to consider going up to Kelowna to see her.  

My wife and I went up right then to see Grandma, at the hospital – it was heart breaking to see her in the state she was in.  She has suffered from Parkingsons for nearly 20 years, but now it has gotten so bad that she can’t stand on her own, move around, etc. It was only six months that we saw her last and it seemed like it was getting a little worse than usual, but didn’t think too much of it.   (as a side note, I think Parkinson’s is one of the ugliest disease ever! It is a slow and painful killer)

To see grandma go from mobile and active to not able to even feed herself or even swallow full pills was beyond heart breaking. Theres a lot of things that go through your head that you want to ask before she passes, but really now is not the time as we all know her time is very near.

I am kicking myself for not taking the time while growing up to ask more about her life, and to know things like what was the greatest world invention you have seen, what where the major milestones in your life? if you can give some advice to live by what would it be?  just all these things come up and I wanted to ask so much, but couldn’t.   

The fact is and hard to accept she will moving on to a better place very shortly where there is no more pain and no more suffering.  The thing that we hold on to and that keeps us calm and at peace is the belief that we will see her again in heaven one day.  

For my friends and people who may come across this blog, ask your friends, family and relatives things you want to know before it is too late.

Keep hope and faith and remember that there is life after death and taxes.