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,
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
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
Today marks the 3rd time Hannah volunteered to scrub the bathtub she used for showering. I actually had to curb her enthusiasm by reducing the frequency she does the scrubbing! Otherwise she would want to scrub it every night! Not
The Panasonic 25mm f1.4 I picked up a month ago is the fastest lens I’ve got in my micro-four-thirds line-up. Having seen the kind of bokeh our Ang Mo bud’s f1.4 lens can produce on a full-frame DSLR, and I’d
Hannah and I had such a great time doing a 2 hour leisure exploration of our neighborhood last weekend we went for it again last evening, this time round with Mommy coming along. Ling’s feeling all of five months pregnant
Bad dreams I’ve been having bad dreams lately. They were not just those upsetting kind of dreams but lucid ones. My mind was fully awake during the dreaming and I had control over my own character in the dreams. I
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