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Weekend Confession – Walk Between Life and Death

December 15, 2008 By Terence Chang 14 Comments

Just yesterday, I almost lost my dear wife while hiking in the Superstition Mountain, AZ. I am no kidding. I felt that we were walking on the thin line between life and death. It’s matter of seconds. I am so glad that my wife is back and we really really appreciate those who have helped her get through the tough time.

The above photo was taken a few moment before my wife collapsed. It was about 5:00PM and it’s getting darker and cold. I was on my way down to the parking lot, because she and her girl friend are so tired after 6 hour hiking under the cold weather. I was tired too, but I can still walk fast. We thought it would be a good idea for me to hike down to the parking lot and drive our car to the nearest campground to meet my wife and her girl friend.

The trail seems much longer in the dark. So I decided to walk alone!

Weekend Confession – Enjoy life by giving out and taking in

December 7, 2008 By Terence Chang Leave a Comment

This is one of the very nice restored antique car photo I took this morning at the 25th annual Toys for Tot’s event at Wickenburg, Arizona. It was a cloudy and cool day to hang out with car fans. I have to admit that I am not a big antique car fan, but my wife and I had good time to take photos of them with my digital camera.

Hiking at Lost Dutchman Trail – Life is good!

December 6, 2008 By Terence Chang 12 Comments

It’s never a better time to hike in the mountain in Phoenix. Arizona. Winter is the best season for me try out some cool trail. My wife and love hiking. We’ve work so hard from Monday to Friday. We deserve some time to relax and do some real exercise. As a self-starter Internet Entrepreneur, I always believe that we should work hard and play hard.

After reading Justin Wright’s The Peralta Trail post, who recently have a great post on Darren’s Problogger about 5 Valuable Lessons You Can Learn From Blogging. I think it’s good idea to share my real life experience on my blog.

The is not the first time we hike at Lost Dutchman Trail. You can find more information about the Lost Dutchman Trail at Arizona State Park web site.

We got up pretty early at 7:00AM and arrival at the trail head at about 8:00AM. The sun was behind the mountain. It was a very beautiful cool day to start with. That’s the beauty to hike in Arizona in Winter.

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Out of blue surprise! My happiness project is finally paying off!

June 9, 2008 By Terence Chang 11 Comments

Many of my readers probably don’t realize that I started a happiness project a while back in early 2008. The happiness project was created to bring more joy to the world by sharing the happiness and great smiles from all over the world. Although there are many copycat blogs trying to copy my idea, they are not doing as much as I am to bring the joy to the world.

Every smiles photos on the happiest blog are either with creative common license or with permission from the original photographer. I put my personal touch into every single smile post. To make this project moving forward, I social with many friends and strangers. It’s not just a smile blog with copy and pastes. I have put a lot of energy to the blog. It’s finally paying off.

This happy news totally make me a big happy day. The happiest blog in the world is now featured on the happiest news on earth.

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Extremely make over – ready for a new decade on my journey

May 17, 2008 By Terence Chang 10 Comments

This is a photo of my house before re-paint.

In the past few days while my wife is away to Hong Kong. I decided to pick up the phone and call the painters. My wife and I have thought about to re-paint our 10 years old house for almost a year. We are unable to decide the colors for our house. My lazy ass told me that I should have my wife to make decision on the colors, so she won’t have excuses to complaints.

So I am the man now. We are not the first few houses in my community to re-paint the house. However, we are the last few houses to re-paint the house. I decide to give it my best shot and pick the colors that we both like. At the end, it turns out very good. You can see the following photo for my newly painted house. Now, we can live with that nice color for another 10 years before be the man again. The funny things are that my house has the darkest based color, which turns out very good. It looks like the newest house in the whole community. The other house using lighter base color looks old and faded out. I bet my wife will love the new colors.

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Weekend Confession – Enjoy life with pretty models

April 5, 2008 By Terence Chang 8 Comments

This is my third weekend confession blog posts in a roll. Many of you probably don’t know that I love travel and photography. In the past few weeks, I have written many posts about “Work Hard and Play Hard” as lifestyle entrepreneur. I was also thinking how I can become more social available, so more people will know my name.

I was listed on Problogger as one of his Twitter followers. It allows me to communicate with more bloggers on the Internet. You can read my post about “Twitter – The powerful social networking tool – Are you following me?”

What about my offline social availability?

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Weekend Confession – We are families

March 31, 2008 By Terence Chang 7 Comments

Blog Post Header Image - Hanging Out with Famalies

If you were reading my blog for sometimes, you probably already read my previous weekend confession post. My wife and I were working too hard in the past few years. We decided to take out life to the next level and slow down our paces. We would like to enjoy our life a little bit.

We decided to go back to the same place – Fountain Hills, Arizona and have some great time enjoying the sunny afternoon. We pack our camping chair, some water bottles and drove up to the hill. It was amazing that how many people are hanging out together around the lake and have great time.

We are families!

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Weekend Confession – A cloudless day to hang out with my darling

March 23, 2008 By Terence Chang 6 Comments

Image Source: Fountain Hill, AZ by Me

I bet you are wondering where this place is. It’s the world second largest fountain. The Gateway Geyser in East St. Louis, IL is now the world’s tallest fountain, at 630 ft, since December 2005. Here is little information about the fountain.

Fountain Hills, Arizona – World’s Second Tallest Fountain (560 ft)
The work being done to the World’s Tallest Fountain is complete and the fountain is again spouting on the hour, every hour, during daylight hours. When the fountain is active, the column of water can be seen for miles. The park surrounding the fountain is still partially closed due to on-going facility upgrades at this time but the open section is an excellent area to congregate with family and friends and, as an added bonus, if the winds are blowing your way you get a very nice, refreshing mist from the fountain.

What is my weekend confession?

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