Fish for sales

Oct.22 1993 (Friday)
Around 11:30 one of the S4S machine has trouble and stopped.
We producing Guatambu 象牙木 S4S





Oct.23 1993 (Sat)  5th Saturday

We went to Ciudad del Este. Went straight to a Chinese Restaurant for the buffee style lunch.
We know where to eat now.



Oct.24, 1993 (Sun.) Lucy and husband Angelo came with their car to bring us to the church nearby. We arrived at 8:10Am. The church service already started at 8:00AM.

After church we visited Lucy’s home and had lunch.

The husband wanted to serve beer, but I asked for juice. Angelo made fresh Pineapple juice for us.

We finished eating lunch at around 12:00.After eating,  the brother of Angelo came with the car to send us home.

Late afternoon we took a walk to the pond again. The water plant I planted has only one left.

A long line of dark big ants each carrying a small portion of leave marching back into their holes.



Oct.25, 1993 (Monday)

Month ending. Shirley started busy with stock counting again. She finished work at around 6:30 P.M.







Oct.27, 1993 (Wednesday)

After work, workers of Macosur enjoy playing volleyball


Oct.28, 1993 (Thursday) We stroll going straight from Caballeros house. While standing on the way the guard saw us and he let us sit in front of their house. I sat down also in the seesaw that he has made.

Oct, 29, 1993 (Friday) I wasn't able to finished the inventory .I go home again late because of the inventory. On Sunday I will continue again (inventory)



Oct.30 1993 (Saturday) 6th Saturday

Bought a few items of capentry tools.

We went to the Confiteria Sweet (restaurant) to eat ice cream. For lunch they do not have rice or noodles so we order sandwich and hamburger.




Oct.31 1993 (Sunday)  A Sunny day. Silvina invited us to visit her house today. We took 2 buses to Villa hijazi, the road where Silvinas house is.


Silvina is a single parent with 2 young daughters living in a wooden house just few kilometers from Macosur factory.

Silvina served us lunch of  beef, el pan, machorka and  cabbage salad. After lunch Silvina suggest to watch football match at KM41 and off we went with her car leaving the two young girls at home.

Km41 is a Japanese town.

On the way back I saw a sign by the road side say “Fish for sale”. I baught 3 kilos of Tropical fish and gave 1 to Silvina.

My first hair cut in Paraguay

Oct.10,1993 (Sunday)

Late afternoon 4:30PM I took a walk on country road together with Shirley and Paul.

I just love the farms along the mud with sheep, cows, and also sugar cane plants.

Our last stop was an empty ground where two teams of country forks playing football. And amount the crowd a few young men recognize us. They are workers in Macosur factory.

Oct.16, 1993(Saturday) 4th Saturday in Paraguay

The 3 sisters (Taiwanese) invited us to a Chinese restaurant for lunch.

Bought electric hair cutter for 43,200 Guarani.

7:30PM  My turn to invite the group for dinner this time. For a change Quintana suggested a Japanese restaurant.

So Paul, Quintana and wife, and two of us has a Japanese dinner

Some one suggested ice cream for desert but this restaurant does not have.

Mrs. Quintana suggested an Ice Cream shop near by. In that ice cream shop there is a small play ground for children and we ate outside because fresh air.

The serving of ice cream is very big. We each select 2 flavored in one cone.

Oct, 17, 1993 (Sunday)

Many caterpillars under the molar tree. The colors are black, white and yellow.

We visited the pond together with the 2 dogs.

Whitey and blackey jumped into pond and enjoyed a swim.

The hair cutter we bought is put into first use today. Shirley cut my hair. Her first time of cutting hair too.

At around 5:30 in the afternoon Ya Chin, the father, the mother and the cousin came here to visit us.

Oct.19, 1993 (Tuesday)

Paul is leaving the factory today for going back to Taiwan. Mr. Ole Hinrichs came to pick him to Assunsion.

Weekends in Paraguay

Oct.02 1993(SATURDAY) 2nd Weekend in Paraguay

Its Saturday again. This is our 2^nd Saturday in Paraguay.  The factory is a 5 days week working system.

Last weekend we went down to Ciudad del Este city for the first time with colleagues in company car.

This weekend, that is Today, Shirley and I decided to venture ourselves by public bus to the city.

There is no shortage of public transport as Macosur factory is just beside the highway, a highway linking the capital city Asuncion with Ciudad del Este. Each day we see vehicle from container carriers to buses and taxi passing by our quarter.

We walk and walk around the city until we reached the restaurant of Japanese for lunch.

We return home by bus around 5:00P.M.

7:30 P.M Paul announce he will give everyone a dinner so off we went to the city again.

In the group of 9 in 2 cars are Mr.  & Mrs. Quintana, Mr. & Mrs. Caballero, Raul (the technician) and a visitor of Mr. Quintana.

Oct.03, 1993 (SUNDAY) This afternoon both of us went to the lake with the 2 dogs.  I carefully put the water plants I bought yesterday into the pond with the hope the plants will grow and multiply.

Oct 09,1993 (Saturday) 3^rd Saturday in Paraguay.

I need a post office box for mails. The main thing to do this weekend to Ciudad del Este is to obtain a Post Office box.

Previous week we already enquired the direction to the post office.  But unsure the exact location, we took a taxi and conviently located the post office.

Shirley already has  6 letters to mail Hong Kong and Philippines postages cost 2990 guarani.

Renting a post box is easy.  Almost immediately the Post Master gave me a post box  51500 Guaranies.

At around 2:00 we bought silver heart with our name from a street craftman. The craft cost 3,000 but we gave him 5,000.

We stroll and stroll the city and by 3:00PM we happen to entered a Taiwanese mini supermarkets where I make acquentent with the middle age owner.

To day we came to the city  also with hope of  stumple upon the shop of the 3 sisters we met in the flight. When we first met 3 weeks ago they only told that parent has a shop in this city but left behind no address and telephone.

Now since this supermarket owner also from Taiwan he might happen to know the who and who from Taiwan. and enquire where he know about any one has 3 daughter arrived recently and shown him the piece of paper with the 3 names.

To my great surprise, he knows them and simutenousely picked up the phone and start talking :

 “………. Your friends are in my shops now……… you come over now……..”

Shirley wanted to buy a pencil case and a stool from their shop.

The mother gave them as gift to Shirley.

We waited for  30 minutes for a bus to return home.