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Kennedy School Year 1 Trip To Kadoorie Farm And Botanic Gardens

Posted on March 11, 2013 by admin

The first time I heard of Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Gardens was when local ex colleagues were incredulous I hadn’t heard of it before. According to them, “every” local school kid will make this trip at some point or other, … Continue reading →

Posted in School For Rockstar | Tagged animals and plants, art centers, bad weather, botanic gardens, bright sunlight, Cantonese, city kids, class 3, concrete jungle, fight club, local school, mini bus, music art, narrow streets, parent volunteers, quiet games, school kid, school staff, school tuition, straight game | 2 Comments

Another Weekend Rockstars Encounter

Posted on March 10, 2013 by admin

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Because I’m not above child labor. Heck, I’m just hoping for a couple extra minutes in bed before Her Highness declares Enough Is … Continue reading →

Posted in Babycare Bootcamp, Rockstar Shopping, Rockstar Shots | Tagged 15 minutes, alphabet animals, alphabets, child labor, desk, fool proof, highness, little bit, little space, loft bed, monkey, saturday night, she spies, stickers, wawa, white walls | 4 Comments

The Friday Of Not Quite As It Would Seem

Posted on March 8, 2013 by admin

Batpug. 1) Scroll down the link for 13 Animals Who Are Secretly Batman. – – Though Batpug, Yodapug, Evil Joker Cat aren’t that new… 2) This one’s my real favorite but I didn’t have a good pic: 163 million monthly unique … Continue reading →

Posted in The TGIF Posts | Tagged captions, excess blood, eyed fish, first choice, forex currency, gandalf, god of gamblers, humors, medical tools, million times, multiple choice, power rangers, rockstar, sanguinity, second choice, taxi driver, trout fishing in america, unique visitors, weather channel, world domination | 2 Comments

Rockstarism #250 – Sometimes, Mums Aren’t Very Smart

Posted on March 6, 2013 by admin

#250 Oh, the things us Mums must put up with… So we’re currently dabbling in the world education games, and once, early on in a practice session, we actually came up against one of Rockstar’s friends. Now, we know this kid … Continue reading →

Posted in aileensml | Tagged education games, exit the game, knock out, laptop, lt, math, offspring, paying attention, practice session, rockstar, school bus, shrugs, world education | 6 Comments

Rockstar’s First 3-Way Conference

Posted on March 5, 2013 by admin

So as mentioned earlier this is a Parent-Teacher Conference where the child is involved, and it’s our first time… Kings cancelled a meeting to make this conference – fortunately, because that we could see there were a lot more families … Continue reading →

Posted in School For Rockstar | Tagged board games, bookmarked, caption, classmates, computer work, dad, diary essay, educational games, game, lt, math areas, numbers games, parent teacher conference, parents, rockstar, schoolwork, sheepish, teacher present, timer | 2 Comments

Sunday Afternoon With The Rockstars

Posted on March 3, 2013 by admin

Sometimes in life we are faced with hard choices… Do I write the lengthy, soul-searching angsty post about some imagined slight or crappy childhood incident, or do I post a bunch of cute kiddie pics. This is hard. Yeah actually … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstar Shots | Tagged btw, business trip, good nap, hard choices, hope springs eternal, kiddie pics, last thursday, parent teacher conference, rockstars, sunday afternoon, t shirt, weekend business, wheeee | 5 Comments

Friday Facts And Fiction

Posted on March 1, 2013 by admin

1) Wanna find out how they did it? Read Raccoon Photo’s comments in Flickr. – – – 2) 10 Best/Worst Reality TV Fashion Challenges. (Pic from tieba.baidu.com) – – 3) My favorite this week: “After four and a half intense … Continue reading →

Posted in The TGIF Posts | Tagged amazing things, andrew mason, apology, baidu, college money, corn husk, darwin, dis, grocery store, head pic, lance armstrong, michael moynihan, project runway, proportions, raccoon, reality tv, second chance, spiderman 2, tieba, uk physicists | 2 Comments

Rockstarism #251 – We Do Times Since We Want To Do Crimes

Posted on February 28, 2013 by admin

#251 Me: One of your friends told me you got benched in PE. What was that about? Rockstar: I don’t remember. Me: I know you do. Come on, tell me, what did you do? Rockstar: I was talking to (classmate). … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstarisms | Tagged analogy, burglars, classmate, crimes, germany, london, lt, policemen, sheepish, shrugs, snort, wh | 5 Comments

Living And Dying By The Breast Pump

Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin

Several days ago, having checked on the kids in the living room and given the helper feeding instructions for the baby, I went into the bedroom with my breastpump. About 10 minutes later, a little thump on the floor, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Babycare Bootcamp | Tagged baby cries, breastpump, buckles, fear, feeding chair, few minutes, god, hell, jailbreak, living room, long time, point of contact, retrospect, rice cereal, seatbelt, thump | 2 Comments

50 kg

Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin

It’s after CNY, umpteen Penang goodies later, and then I remembered I forgot to keep up the weight updates. Remember posts like Not Quite The Biggest Loser? And this: Pre baby weight: 53kg Pregnancy weight: 73.1kg When I first got … Continue reading →

Posted in aileensml, Rockstar Thoughts | Tagged baby weight, biggest loser, bouts, butter cookies, cny, coughs colds, couple weeks, culprit, dark chocolate, eating habit, goodies, growth spurts, metabolic rate, pastry, penang, rockstar, rundown, soft drinks, umpteen, whole time | 6 Comments