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Rockstarism #240 – How Come You Can Read Traditional Chinese?

If there were a List somewhere of Unsolved Mysteries No One Cares About this would be right up there… My cellphone rings… Rockstar’s Putonghua Tuition Center: Mrs Lai, we wanted to check if Rockstar is learning traditional or simplified Chinese … Continue reading

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Rockstarism #236 – “I Hate Chai-nese”

**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

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You’d WANT To Be Involved…..

Another one of those posts that’s long coming… The good thing about that is since I’ve talked to so many mummies after, mummies involved shouldn’t be easily identifiable even when my girlfriends read this :)… One of Rockstar’s sometime friends … Continue reading

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Language lessons, heritage questions

My father in law often bemoans Rockstar’s lack of grasp of Hakka, and speaking not a stitch of the dialect myself, I recently came up with what I thought was a best effort at trying to facilitate some learning of … Continue reading

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