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What are you willing to do for US$5?

Posted on April 22, 2011 by admin

One night, surfing about like he usually does because he likes to not be asleep in the middle of the night when it’s quiet (since he can sleep in any condition, but not be alone with his thoughts then), Kings … Continue reading →

Posted in aileensml | Tagged fiverr, fiverr.com, gigs, photo, Singapore | 6 Comments

Mother’s Day Ad For Sing Yin At W Hotel in Kowloon

Posted on April 20, 2011 by admin

So I got called to do a Mother’s Day ad for Sing Yin Cantonese Dining at W Hotel in Kowloon (one of the things I signed up sometime back but rarely get to show up for around hanging with Rockstar … Continue reading →

Posted in aileensml | Tagged animal cruelty, background music, Cantonese, chandelier, chinese publication, elevator music, flea bites, frederic fekkai, haircuts, honeymoon budget, hotel guests, hotel in kowloon, hotel restaurant, last minute accommodation, original place, singapore wedding, spca, w hotel, w store, wedding dinner | 3 Comments

Appointment with Pain

Posted on April 18, 2011 by admin

Pass this sign in Central on the way to Melbourne Plaza… Wonder what’s up? In every mum’s life I believe will come a time when your back hurts from toting about your growing child. Even if you have a relatively … Continue reading →

Posted in aileensml | Tagged chiropractor, forceps, long long time, medical diagnostics, medicine, melbourne plaza, microchip, nerve problem, nerves, odds and ends, party favors, push ups, quot, ray place, rockstar, staircase, taekwondo, ups, wigs, x ray, x rays | 4 Comments

Death education for Hong Kong high school students

Posted on April 17, 2011 by admin

About a day after I posted, embedding was disabled, to view the video on Youtube click here The Death Class: A high school in Hong Kong is offering this, there is an additional hope of stemming an increase in … Continue reading →

Posted in aileensml | Tagged amp, Cantonese, death education, high school students, hong kong public libraries, impermanence, nbsp, permanence, teen suicides | 4 Comments

Pyjama Party

Posted on April 16, 2011 by admin

Last day before the long Easter hols was Pyjama Day at school… That’s Rockstar busting a move on our bed in what he wore to school that day (pants from bestdressedkids.com, top from Mothercare) to a remix of Itsy Bitsy Spider … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstar Shots | Tagged accompaniment, bedtime stories, bunny slippers, developmental milestones, esf, fluffy slippers, grandmother, hols, Itsy Bitsy Spider, jazz country, little girls, mothercare, music lessons, nightwear, nuclear radiation, priceless pic, pyjama party, pyjamas, school buses, school staff, supercool, Volunteering, waiting room, youtube | 2 Comments

Tale of Two Videos – Hong Kong State of Mind (aka SAR of Mind) & the MTR Song

Posted on April 14, 2011 by admin

**Updated on 19 April 2011: After this was posted a friend later told me guy who wrote song in Video #2 is a friend of hers, the very talented Steven James, dj at rthk Radio 3 Video#1 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEk2CoyJV9E] Lyrics: … Continue reading →

Posted in aileensml | Tagged bettin, bubble tea, cheap beer, chinese new year, chung king mansion, concrete jungle, donald tsang, ebeneezer, finance hub, guai, high fives, hong kong, jockey club, jollibee, merrill lynch, mtr, red cab, roast duck, shopping malls, star ferry, swine flu, victoria park | 2 Comments

Wordless Wednesday: Wheels

Posted on April 13, 2011 by admin

In case you didn’t get that, he broke the plastic strap attaching his skates to his shoes from deliberately flinging himself about when he was holding my hand, picking himself up, then doing it all over again… So then we … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstar Shots | Tagged chiropractor, priceless pic, Rockstarisms, shoes, Skateboard, skates, wheels | 3 Comments

Notes on Learning to Read – How To Help Your Child by ESF Kindergarten (Part 2)

Posted on April 12, 2011 by admin

List of stuff you can do to help your child learn to read: 1) Lots of pre-reading experiences. Listening to stories repeatedly, rhymes, songs. 2) Point out text in the environment. Exit signs, billboards. 3) Cover the rest of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstarisms, School For Rockstar, Talking To Rockstar | Tagged alter ego, billboards, child time, comprehension, education, encyclopedias, esf, exit signs, gestation periods, hamster, hamsters, last word, learning to read, nouns, personal experiences, play games, reading experiences, reading materials, rockstar, Rockstarisms, room 8, stapler, story books, verbs | 10 Comments

Notes on Learning to Read – How To Help Your Child by ESF Kindergarten (Part 1)

Posted on April 11, 2011 by admin

When I first mentioned this, a local friend was, “Well, my (now 15 year old) son also had this in the neighborhood local school, what.” So when the 20-something page handout was emailed to all the parents, I wasn’t the … Continue reading →

Posted in School For Rockstar | Tagged caucasian, comprehension, dad, esf, freak, games, grocery list, hk island, homework, iphone, jot, kindergarten, learning, learning to read, local school, magnets, neighborhood, next level, notepad, notes, page handout, parents, research papers, suggestion | Leave a comment

The Hong Kong Celebrity Tutor – Richard Eng

Posted on April 9, 2011 by admin

This is not really new, CNN ran a story at the end of 2009… but then Kings recently got to know two fresh grads who had attended these classes at high school level (separately, yet both gave us very similar … Continue reading →

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