Category Archives: Rockstar Thoughts

MCing The Asia Bankers Club 2014 Feng Shui Talk

And yet the most interesting thing was…………. Epiphanies and cheat notes alert. Our new friends were leaving Hong Kong – thought they’d already gone, and was so happy when they came up to me at the end of the night. … Continue reading

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A South Horizon Christmas Story

Now we know why Santa shops here…… Bumps to Babes’ Christmas catchphrase is “Where Santa shops.” Rockstar knows most Santas aren’t real but I got to tell him the Christmas spirit and well, good hearted people certainly are. There was even … Continue reading

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A Midwife Crisis, The Kennedy Year 2 Christmas Show A-La Rockstar

Said Wendy, John and Michael, “We can fly!” And then there was Sheep Envy… Rockstar and Friends had long concluded the sheep had the best song. (But Rockstar felt swords still trumped songs. And well they all get to sing … Continue reading

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Of Christmas Learning And Parenting Opportunities

**Updated 10am the following morning, at bottom… So the Santa’s Postbox in Rockstar’s school is up, and him being a year 2 and all, the holiday card traffic was markedly heavier than the previous year. Before anyone screams tree carnage, … Continue reading

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Bumblebee Goes To School For Story Book Day

**Updated on 4 Dec 2013 Obviously, I just wanted to get as much mileage as I could out of Rockstar’s hard-to-find-ordered-ages-in-advance-off-Amazon.com Bumblebee Plasma Cannon (which is actually Bumblebee’s fist) we got for Halloween. You’re supposed to go as a book … Continue reading

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Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Brother, Dragon Miss

Decided to put up a pic of how they end up drawing on each others’ faces. Or, more accurately, how Little Miss ends up drawing on everyone’s faces (because Rockstar doesn’t do it to her at all). Rockstar occasionally comes … Continue reading

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Yet Another 30-seconds-of-my-life-I’m-not-getting-back Conversation

Rockstar and I enter the lift after taekwondo one day… Local mum: (In Cantonese, eyeing Rockstars taekwondo tunic sans belt) What belt is he? Me: (In English and Cantonese) Yellow. Local mum’s son: (In English) Huh! I’m green-blue already! Local … Continue reading

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Rockstar Bungee Run (Or, Where There’s A Will, There’s A Way)

We uh, crashed a private event yesterday. I promise we didn’t hog anything, it was just the one turn on this bungee run because earlier in the day we’d been by when they were setting up and Rockstar was practically … Continue reading

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A Lesson In Sharing Blu-Tack

Blu-tack, to Rockstar and Friends, is an incredibly prized commodity in class. It’s a lesson in Your Kid’s Friends’ Opinions. (Also, there are Youtubes. This one’s Blu-tack Adventure:) I kind of listened with half an ear when Rockstar occasionally came … Continue reading

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A Tale of Two Dinners

Exhibit A (2 hard boiled eggs, broccoli, rice, carrots, fish), consumed at 4.30am after a recent school field trip, because Rockstar fell asleep before he could eat his usual massive dinner (albeit still after putting away an after-school “snack” that … Continue reading

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