Monthly Archives: November 2012

Rockstarism #236 – “I Hate Chai-nese”

Posted on November 15, 2012 by admin

**Updated as at 18 Nov 2012** #236 Before he leaves for Putonghua class after school… Rockstar: Mum. I hate Chai-nese. Me: The subject, or your (tuition) class? Rockstar: <thinks for mom> The subject. I hate it, it’s so……. hard to learn. (probably … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstarisms, Talking To Rockstar | Tagged Cantonese, chinese class, english rockstars, expression, good job, last time, little miss twins, lt, mom, new friends, personal tutor, Putonghua class, speaking english, twin girls | 16 Comments

Rockstar Visits His School Growing Garden…

Posted on November 14, 2012 by admin

Was lucky enough to be around on a day when Rockstar’s class had part of their lesson about plants and growing things in the school garden plot (which I would otherwise have never known existed – I remember local ex … Continue reading →

Posted in School For Rockstar | Tagged botanical gardens, carrot, classmates, colleagues, faint scent, fennel, flowers and fruit, garden plot, green nature, greens, haha, mint, nature education, orderly fashion, oxygen, papayas, photosynthesis, poison ivy, soil, sting | 2 Comments

The Thing About Friends Prologue (Or, Something About Love)

Posted on November 12, 2012 by admin

So as mentioned to Mun, I’d left out one bit (because it made the original telling long and waffly) in the original narration. That bit was that when Rockstar first came home from school disappointed at missing his friend’s delight … Continue reading →

Posted in Talking To Rockstar | Tagged birthday gift, blog, brain, candy, emotional blackmail, job, narration, parenting, raw nerve, sayang, tiger | 3 Comments

Ms Rockstar’s First Mugshot

Posted on November 12, 2012 by admin

Ms Rockstar had a 4 hour nap Sunday morning… Puts her in a better mood for a car ride so we jumped at the chance and went to get passport/ ID photos done… Much easier than ID photograph-ing Original Rockstar, … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstar Shots | Tagged background color, car ride, cellphone, color time, ing, matter of minutes, mugshot, nap, nbsp, passport id, personality, petit bateau, photo shop, photograph, rockstar, smile, suits, sunday morning, th ink, wit | 3 Comments

Fruit Dissection

Posted on November 11, 2012 by admin

From Rockstar’s school’s weekly email to support the kids’ learning about plant life… “…We would like the children to bring in their favourite fruit to school to show the class on Monday. Please could the fruit be brought in to … Continue reading →

Posted in aileensml, School For Rockstar | Tagged carpet, dissection, durian, email, mangoes, mangosteen, meat cleaver, papayas, parang, scaly skin, seeds, snake, strawberries | 4 Comments

Friday More Years

Posted on November 9, 2012 by admin

(A reference to President Obama’s official Tweet, simply, “Four More Years”…) 1) A small but glorious world. Microscopic images. Things that make you go AAAWWWWWWWW-Yuck. 2) Here’s another – food photographed with an electron microscope. More things that make you … Continue reading →

Posted in The TGIF Posts | Tagged baby spiders, captain kirk, child welfare services, crap, dis, electron microscope, four more years, geeks, human presence, insignia, meaning of paradox, microscopic images, nasa, obama, obscure thing, offspring, pop tarts, raisin, star trek, temperature changes | 2 Comments

Rockstarism #235 – Post US Election Day 2012

Posted on November 8, 2012 by admin

#235 Few days ago… Me: It’s Election Day in America today. Remember the Presidential Debates? Today the American people choose who they want to be the next president. Rockstar: Yay! (Can’t imagine why. I suppose he means ‘cos it’s exciting, … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstarisms | Tagged bad news, cnbc, dogbook, dow, election day, heterochromia, hsi, lack of confidence, lt, onomatopoiea, presidential debates, stock market, stock markets, yay | 3 Comments

The Thing About Friends

Posted on November 7, 2012 by admin

Awhile ago, it was Rockstar’s favorite friend’s birthday. (Btw I have no say in how he picks ’em – that I can tell they are always boys with a car obsession – for awhile he near worshipped a little Spanish … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstar Thoughts, Talking To Rockstar | Tagged black hole, bullying, cantonese music, car engines, classmates, cupcakes, documentaries, drone, facts about the solar system, google, lightning mcqueen, mums, music class, predilection, rockstar, schoolmate, spanish boy, spark plugs, text messages, worshipped, young baby | 6 Comments

Rockstarism #234 – Suze Orman And The Artjam

Posted on November 6, 2012 by admin

#234 Watching Suze Orman on CNBC Sunday morning… Rockstar: What are they saying?? Me: She’s renting her home out to people who keep trashing it. ie she’s lending her new house to people who break windows and stuff and she … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstarisms | Tagged breaking things, cnbc, lt, money, rockstar, sunday morning, suze orman | 3 Comments

The Weekend In Pictures

Posted on November 4, 2012 by admin

Friday night: Rockstar’s school’s big Halloween bash organized by the PTA. Extremely elaborate costumes galore (but these were taken in the last hour+ when lotsa kids have already shed parts of their costumes in favor of running about, and early … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstar Shots, School For Rockstar, Talking To Rockstar | Tagged 3am, baby blues, baby carriage, back of a cab, car rides, cool parties, costumes galore, dog lover, early birds, elaborate costumes, fake blood, halloween bash, iron man, kindy, pta, rockstar, school uniform, t rex, time baby, wig | 3 Comments