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Category Archives: aileensml
Remember The “Shame On HSBC” Photos?
Remember the photos Kings took of the protest outside the main HSBC building in this post? So we passed by again few days ago and I snapped this from the car: Someone actually decorated the booth on the right with tinsel during … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas, few days, hsbc, Minibond demonstration, photos, shame, tinsel
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A Very Rockstar Christmas
From Rockstar’s school daily communications diary (before breaking for the hols): “Your child has created a letter to Santa this week at Kindergarten. They believe that this letter is being sent to the North Pole (where Santa lives). We are … Continue reading
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Remember the “Hong Kong Cow” in Sai Kung?
Remember this? (From this post) Apparently “she” is a “he” – and his name is Grumpy. Guess this is him in yesterday’s South China Morning Post: Yup, Grumpy’s with the Sai Kung Buffalo Watch, who are campaigning against the relocation of too … Continue reading
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Tagged bull, china morning post, cow, Grumpy, s south, Sai Kung Buffalo Watch, south china morning, south china morning post
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The Shame On HSBC Pictures
Kings happened to be passing through Central and took these pictures of the current protest where people are camped outside the main HSBC branch… I think this one is directly related to Lehman Minibonds (succinctly put, the fact they were … Continue reading
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20 Seconds Of Your Life You’re Never Getting Back Conversations – #3
Rockstar starts playing tag with a boy we meet in a shopping center after an Oral Putonghua class sometime back. Unknown Mummy: Hi, nice to meet you. Oh, you go there for Putonghua? <Shaking head gravely> Is not good, that … Continue reading
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When We Brought JD Home (Or, 5 Things To Do When You Bring a New Dog Home)
Baby JD A reader recently told me she had a new Golden Retriever and it brought back fond memories of when we got JD 8.5 years ago… So dearie, this one’s for you 🙂 On weekends, Kings and I used … Continue reading
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20 Seconds Of Your Life You’re Never Getting Back Conversations – #2
Should’ve dubbed the original one I had with PCCW marketing callers thus as well… So then this makes #2… Me: Hi, I’m calling about the order we placed an hour ago and just received – Pizza Hut Lady: Wait a … Continue reading
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Tagged baby animals, black olives, bolognaise, colleague, cute baby, elevators, glance, lt, madam, marketing, neurons, nina, pasta, phone number, pineapple, pizza hut, surprises
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Happy Hallowe-eeen…!
Rockstar was curious about the big night event our apartment development, well the clubhouse really, holds (which is free, pretty sure there are always lotsa crashers, they have to add extra shuttle buses and all to the swanky clubhouse)… We … Continue reading
The Best Neighbors In Sai Wan Ho
Yesterday we lunched with our old neighbors from 3 years ago when we all used to live in Sai Wan Ho. We’d all just moved into the (then) new development – us from Pok Fu Lam, them from Sydney, Australia, … Continue reading
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Tagged aussie, belchers, cellphones, chinese restaurant, cooking pots, delia school of canada, employment tax, foodcourt, fry cook, hk, house husband, korean friends, mild curiosity, obsession, pocket money, rockstar, rush hours, sai wan, sydney australia, tax rates
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Rockstar In Da ICC (International Commerce Center)
The Rockstar and I’ve been recce-ing ICC on and off for weeks leading up to when Kings starts his new job here, but obviously I couldn’t mention it cos then there are gonna be at least a couple eagle-eyed … Continue reading
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