Monthly Archives: January 2012

Out Of The Blue, A Telephone Call

Posted on January 30, 2012 by admin

Sitting in Saint’s Alps teahouse, a taiwanese bubble tea and noodle chain restaurant, waiting for Rockstar to work excess energy off in Playtown chaperoned by Kings and my inlaws, my phone rings. I don’t recognize the number, and after staring … Continue reading →

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Rockstarism #187 – Chinese Zodiac Animals

Posted on January 29, 2012 by admin

#187 Rockstar: Mum. Is today still the year of the dragon? Me: Yes. Rockstar: What about tomorrow? Me: It’s going to be the year of the dragon til the next CNY… Did you learn about the animals in the Chinese … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstarisms, Talking To Rockstar | Tagged chinese zodiac animals, classmate, cny, dragon, lt, ox, pig year, pigs, rockstar, year of the dragon | 4 Comments

Language lessons, heritage questions

Posted on January 27, 2012 by admin

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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ESF Kindergarten Trip To Watch We’re Going On A Bear Hunt At The HK Academy Of Performing Arts Drama Theater

Posted on January 26, 2012 by admin

Rockstar also happened to bring this home from the school library months ago On Rockstar’s last day of school before the CNY hols, I brought my parents along on his school trip to watch the theater production of the best-selling … Continue reading →

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Rockstarism #186 – Various Rockstarisms With The Grandparents

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin

#186 Grandparents: Hello, Mr Lai. Are you Mr Lai? Rockstar: No, that’s my dad. He has a bad memory. He always asks me the difference between turtles and tortoises. I told him many, many times! —————— Rockstar: Grandpop. Your name … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstar Shots, Rockstarisms | Tagged bad memory, bugs, creepy crawlies, dad, difference between turtles and tortoises, grandparents, lt, mr lai, narbles, rockstar, tattoos, tortoises, turtles, turtles and tortoises, weird songs | 3 Comments

I See Lai See (But Not Yee Sang)

Posted on January 24, 2012 by admin

There are 2 rather obvious (to me) differences between spending CNY in HK vs in Malaysia. One being that when you eat out on festive days like Reunion Dinner (and btw lotsa restaurants are likely to be open because it’s … Continue reading →

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Reunion Dinner At The China Club

Posted on January 22, 2012 by admin

The China Club. In case you missed the little lift in the corner bringing you up. Yeah quite exclusive. We thought in honor of our being in HK this year for CNY (rare occurrence), we should try to form our … Continue reading →

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A Lion Goes To School On CNY Dress Up Day

Posted on January 19, 2012 by admin

**Update: One of the comments wasn’t showing as intended in the comments field, so the commentator requested I delete it… However she had included a link to her blog with a picture of a unicorn (because I wasn’t sure if … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas To Me

Posted on January 18, 2012 by admin

My Christmas pressie to myself arrived in the mail several days ago. Horribly late, or ridiculously early? The answer is late. I didn’t want to rush buying myself something for the sake of it being in time as a Xmas … Continue reading →

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Lord Archer’s Lessons

Posted on January 16, 2012 by admin

Rough account re Lord Archer ok….. This is an e.g. of some of the ra-ra things I used to say in market commentary to RMs and ex-colleagues on a gloomy cold Monday like today… In 1974 (now) best-selling English author … Continue reading →

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