430 Reunion Committee's Activities on 4/30

(The set up of 18 tables at East Gate of Far Eastern. We need 15 tables.)

Today’s meeting was planned on Mar. 9, when the first 7 members, Catherine, Salina, Iris, Peter, Charles, Dick and Andrew, met at Sherwood, and Andrew was recommended to do the email correspondence and collections of photos for the reunion, since I was the youngest and retired person.

 

In the past 52 days, so many things have happened. Now we have 120 colleagues registered for reunion (plus another 24 due from HongKong). We expect the dinner party will have about 180 attendants, and tour 120. Also, we set up the Linmark Family Blog on April 04, with more than 5260 visitors, 274 photos, 98 articles posted. More alumni are sharing their photos, events, and messages with us. I earnestly hope more will share things on our Blog, and the Linmark Family will  grow bigger and closer as time goes on.

 

Originally, Salina offered to treat 6 of us at Far Eastern’s coffee shop since she had 3 tickets with 50% discount. However, since Stephen Cheung volunteered to come from Hong Kong to help, and Ronny Liu and wife had traveled here from States, and Salina also invited Barbara and Rei-Lin Chen from N.Y. , and I also invited Sophia Lai(淑娟), Richard Chen (義凱), and Marty Lin(武雄) and Yvon Chen (月雲) to join. So, we all felt it’s proper to use Mr. Jen’s fund for today’s activities.

 

For today’s meetings, Iris spent much time to go through her old albums and scanned them into disk for me. She also brought the old photos to share with us. Yvon also scanned her photos and brought to me. Patty also found lots of photos, and will scan them for me shortly. And Peter Kuo agreed to my request to send me photos of his paintings to be posted on our Blog. Peter showed us his paintings in his Ipad and will donate his most beautiful seashore painting viewed from Qiu Fen(九份) for lottery on 9/24 party. Stephen gave us some good advice for activity planning , control of progress and gave us his record DVD of 2010 reunion in Hong Kong for our reference.

 

After the breakfast, we moved on to Charles big and nice apartment at Guan Du. We enjoyed delicious fruits, cakes, nuts, tea prepared by Helen, Charles wife. And we sang songs loudly and heartedly. Peter, Stephen and Charles are great singers. Especially, Peter and Stephen, they are just like professional singers. Sometimes we sang together, or one after another for one song. Peter initiated “My Way”, then Andrew followed, and then Stephen finished it. It was lots of fun and enjoyment.  Dana also sang “夢陀鈴”, but the man’s key was too high for her, and Charles joined to sing together.

 

Then, at Charles’ recommendation, we took MRT to “小酌之家” in a small lane near 錦洲公園, and enjoyed a delicious dinner. There were 17 people joined the dinner, including Martin Lin, who is a vegetarian and sincere Buddhism. We had to ask for one extra dish of vegetable for him. The total expense is even NT$2500 cheaper than our breakfast for 13 people.

 

I brought 4x3 +2=14 of Mr. Jen’s books to Salina, Rei-lin, Stephen, Patty and Peter at Far Eastern, and after the dinner, Dana, Iris, Barbara, Yvon, Ronny and wife, and Martin came to my home to take their desired books. Total 40 books were sent out today. Everybody was so happy and grateful to Mr. Jen for hosting today’s activities and giving them his precious books. They can’t wait to read Mr. Jen’s books.

 

Now it’s my share to review all the photos, edit them if necessary, and post them to our Blog, so everyone can share and enjoy.

 

Attached are the table set up for 18 tables at East Gate of Far Eastern, but we only need 15 tables (12 persons a table, since we don’t eat much), and can remove 3 tables for singing/dancing activities on the evening. Also, attached is the planned itinerary for 9/25 tour.

This letter will be posted to our Blog today, and photos will be collected from Yvon, Iris and Ronny later to post on our Blog. 

傳藝中心、冬山河、林美步道、蘭陽博物館知性之旅

出發日期：2011年9月25日 （星期日）07:30集合

時 間	行                程                內                容
07:30 09:00 11:00 12:00 13:30 15:00 16:00	台北－雪隧－傳統藝術中心－冬山河－林美步道－蘭陽博物館－東北角海岸－台北 集合出發出發囉！國道五號(雪山隧道)風光 【傳統藝術中心】 【冬山河風景區】 享用宜蘭特色風味午餐 【林美步道】 【蘭陽博物館】 經北部濱海公路，沿途欣賞東北角海岸風光，返回台北。
宜蘭傳藝中心： 園區的展示系統分為動態和靜態展示，動態展示以市街聚落區以及水岸的露天舞台、田園景觀區等之技藝展演活動為主，靜態展示則以『展示館』的傳統工藝美術與『戲劇館文物陳列室』的音樂戲曲相關文物之展示為核心；國立傳統藝術中心裡的大漁翁餐廳以及小吃坊都提供了多樣的宜蘭傳統美食，街坊中，還有數十家的工藝店家林立，像是古早電影院、木屐館、戲偶館、陶藝館、玻璃館等。   冬山河風景區： 親水公園「親近水、擁有綠」是親水公園規劃的主題。計畫的主題是充份利用冬山河水域的特性，將其開發成一個「水與綠」結合的開放空間，以「水」本身規劃成不同的利用方式，而達 到觀光、休閒、遊憩與教育的不同目的。在陸地與水接觸的地方，多半都設計成階狀平台，層層沒入水中，或將陸地以斜坡狀伸入水中，讓人與水能更親近，喚回人類親水的天性，重建人與水之間的自然倫理。   林美石盤步道： 林美石磐步道以呈現低海拔森林生態系及「四稜砂岩」石磐景觀為主，步道平緩，路線不長，蕨類整類豐富多樣，沿途還有溪流瀑布等景緻，吸引不少遊客前來踏青。本步道是沿著得子口溪的溪谷而建，沿途大小瀑布頗多，最上層的是石磐瀑布，步道全長約1.7公里 ，呈圓形環狀，全程約80~120分鐘可以走完。   蘭陽博物館： 蘭陽博物館的建築是一大特色，建築團隊是由知名的建築是姚仁喜所領軍，概念取自宜蘭北關常見的單面山，雖然相當具有現代感，但又能與四周的地理環境融為一體，周遭沒有什麼可以作為比例尺的建築物，直到越走越近，才實際感受的巨大建築矗立眼前的壯觀。主要的展覽是三個樓層的常設展，介紹宜蘭的生態、地理、人文、歷史等等，入口在三樓，因此互相連接的空橋、電梯，又在挑高的大廳形成線條穿越的趣味，另外還有特展空間、影片劇場等等。

Have a nice day !  

 

Andrew Wang