Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
During our paktology days – that’s ‘dating’ for our Ang Mo friend – Ling would often muse aloud about finding some nice coffee joint and stoning (i.e. vegetating) around a couple of beverages. Problem was that I wasn’t a coffee
This is probably the final segment on my gleamings from the book ‘Nurture Shock’ by PO Bronson & Ashley Merryman. A disclaimer here first – I’m no linguist and definitely not anywhere close to being regarded as a language expert.
I was remarking to Ling that our girl is really growing quick, and maybe just a tad too quick! Here’s a recent ‘toilet conversation’ between Mommy and Hannah just before her bed-time. H: Mommy, why are you wearing this pajamas?
We had a rather eventul last week, starting off when our girl accidentally left behind her Pluto – yep the orange plush toy you see in many pictures here on our blog – at a toy store in Compass Point,
Our April-month visit to the construction site of our new upcoming home at The Minton condo, and also an opportunity to bring out the recently acquired Olympus 75-300mm II for a spin. This is a pretty low-price consumer lens that
Hannah had been coughing a little for a week now (and incidentally also spreading it to Daddy), but this mild illness took a turn for the worse on Tuesday. At her nanny’s, she vomited after two mouthfuls of lunch, and
It was the Panasonic Lumix 14mm f2.5 lens’ turn this weekend to receive some tender loving attention! The spread of pictures here were taken at several outings and events, which was a little more varied than the usual things we
When it comes to noodles, there are just too many types that I don’t think I’ll ever get round to trying all of them in my lifetime. My dad used to ta-bao (do take-away) ee-fu noodles or yee mee for
The March school holidays have begun. I was able to take a couple days off work at the start of the stretch and spend time with our girl (“I’m 60 days away to four years old!”). All but the last
If there’s one thing that Chinese-teacher parents can help that many other parents can’t, it’s in helping think of Chinese names for new-borns! Can’t believe that it’s been almost exactly four years ago when we had this same exercise for
Another month and our thirteen visit to the site of the on-going construction of our new home @ The Minton condo. From the looks of progress, it seems now extremely unlikely that the place will be ready for residents to
It has been a long time since I tried any new recipes at home. I bought a simple Chinese cuisine cookbook some time back and finally inspiration led me to try out one of the dishes over the last weekend.
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