Monthly Archives: May 2011

Second Mother’s Day Gift

It’s Mother’s Day and the hub is on business trip (spent his last morning on Friday hanging out with Rockstar because it’s especially weird for him to miss Rockstar Quality Time on weekends) so he did something he doesn’t usually … Continue reading

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Tiffany Mum, Tiger Mum, Hippie Mum, Just Mum: Which Mum Are You?

The New York Times ran a story mid-March about a Manhattan mum who was suing her daughter’s USD 19,000 a year preschool for failing to adequately prepare her child for an IQ test required for private elementary school admission. The suit … Continue reading

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It’s What You Make Of It

  Rockstar: Mum. Are you helping me out in school today? Me: <satisfactorily> Yes. (First day of school after the Easter hols, who knew I really did have a volunteer session coming up and could say that. Rockstar asks quite … Continue reading

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Crazy Like A Fox; starring President Obama and Donald Trump

Dear Rockstar, This isn’t really a blog post. Mum’s just putting down a bunch of videos about the first African American President of The United States, and another guy who’s rich and funny… Though he may not have intended to … Continue reading

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The “Crazy Guy” on the Peak

At the halfway point on one of the hiking trails up at the Peak, a middle-aged bespectacled guy sings Jackie Cheung songs into his tape recorder. I don’t even remember anymore when I first started seeing him there, he’s as … Continue reading

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Dear Rockstar, There was a Royal Wedding

Dear Rockstar, Mum hasn’t written to you in awhile (partly because she’s still trying to get used to acknowledging you no longer refer to her as “Mummy” which she misses, you’re growing so fast), but then Prince William and Kate Middleton got … Continue reading

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