{"id":7888,"date":"2010-02-22T22:42:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:46:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:46:18","slug":"a-pleasant-weekday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/02\/22\/a-pleasant-weekday-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"A pleasant weekday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_6644-jinju\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/blog2010hannahDSC_6644jinju.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_6644-jinju\" width=\"300\" height=\"452\" align=\"right\" \/> Just when I was marvelling at Yang&#8217;s dad for having his ex-students paying him visits year after year during the Chinese New Year season, I got one tonight too.<\/p>\n<p>Name is Jinju. I taught her biology and was also her choir teacher almost 10 years ago. She&#8217;s now doing her final year for her TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) degree in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>I was glad to learn that she was offered a scholarship and a job placement as a Chinese physician once she has completed her programme. She belongs to the first batch of TCM degree holders in Singapore. How cool is that? :D<\/p>\n<p>Jinju bought lotsa Chinese kiddy books and wall charts for Hannah! Now mommy has no excuse not to read to Hannah in Chinese. Oh ya, there were also kiddy socks&#8230;will keep them until it&#8217;s time for Hannah to wear shoes to go &#8216;gai gai&#8217;. :)<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks, Jinju, for your presence and love tonight. :)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I was marvelling at Yang&#8217;s dad for having his ex-students paying him visits year after year during the Chinese New Year season, I got one tonight too. Name is Jinju. I taught her biology and was also her<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/02\/22\/a-pleasant-weekday-evening\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  A pleasant weekday evening<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-7888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","tag-chinese-new-year","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}