Monthly Archives: April 2013

These Are The Kinds Of Readers I Have (Or, What Happened To Dandelion)

Ok, actually I have more than one person (besides Kings) who reads this blog, but considering nearly everyone is silent or just emails (someday I hope to return favors to the brave few who dare to comment openly) because they … Continue reading

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The Rockstar And A Snake

Rockstar attended a friend’s birthday party yesterday, and this was the first “intimate” party (as in, 10-ish kids in someone’s home) we’ve been to with a reptile-and-other-creepy-crawlie show. (“Other creepie-crawlie” because they had a big hairy orange spider, newts, leopard … Continue reading

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Friday on Entertainment

1) The idealistic belief in the existence of good people whatever the setting, be it in the Oval or a fictitious black ops military unit where the inconvenience of reality is flouted in favor of a storyline just never loses its … Continue reading

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“My Mother, My Hero” By Hui Wei

Random crime in my home country has always frightened me, as it does my Malaysian friends who live here in Hong Kong. (I have a girlfriend who tells me she goes nuts when her son, growing up here, goes back … Continue reading

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Almost Time To Stop Pumping

At some point it abruptly occurred to me I wouldn’t be breastfeeding (well, pumping my milk out) for like, forever. At 10 months 3 weeks, Her Highness is big on solid food (very determined to mash things with her gums … Continue reading

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Rockstarism #256 – Another Rockstar Doodle

Emerging from settling the baby for her second nap of the day, I find Rockstar just home from school on the sofa with his magna doodle. This is what was on it: Rockstar’s back on his solar system kick, because … Continue reading

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The Unexpected Abandon Of Playing With One’s Food

More cute (as in, in my esteemed opinion) baby pictures I shall exploit in lieu of actually writing anything – Whee! For real though, we found a great new use for the veggie garnish that comes with your burger or … Continue reading

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Friday Fun, Food and Facebook

  1) 11 things you need to stop doing on Facebook. – – – 2) Weird beauty treatments and products. Think snake massages in Israel. Scroll down, because the top article is something about <sheepish> “tittooing,” the new beauty craze of tattoo-ing … Continue reading

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And So It Begins…

After all the cutesie baby pictures, and the aww sibling and dog relationships, and the snarky comments…….. There is a sometime idea that this blog is a communication for the kids to read someday when they decide to understand what … Continue reading

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Rockstarism #255 – It’s Like, You Need Money For Everything In The World

#250 recently…… Rockstar: Mum. I met these 2 girls after school. They asked me if I wanted some sweets and I said “yes”. Then they said I had to give them a dollar for 5 sweets. I didn’t have any … Continue reading

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