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Tag Archives: rockstar
Things You Can’t Say To Even Your Closest Mum Friends #1
True friends are honest with one another. Yeah right. It’s just really hard to swing when it comes to parenting or kids, unless you are an absolute master of Dale Carnegie. Even then it’s more likely you open your well-meaning … Continue reading
What do you say on Valentine’s Day when your child does this?
This Valentine’s was a new one… Lifesaver In Leather Box in front of DVD player… Fine, melodramatic, but these made my day, you’ll see why soon… Rockstar and I often tape things to Kings’ desk so he’ll see treasured art … Continue reading
Posted in Talking To Rockstar
Tagged 6 years, animal prints, art and craft, awkwardness, celebrations, chatroom, cute animal, dear readers, flashing lights, half the time, hermes, hitch a ride, lifesaver, navy, order flowers, receipt, rockstar, silk, ties, valentine s day
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Rockstarism #189 – Volunteering In School Rockstarism
So with morning sickness easing, I finally made it back to volunteering during free-play time in Rockstar’s Kindy. The Rockstar is pleased, and tells both our driver and helper that there is a schedule change since I’ll be in school … Continue reading
Posted in Rockstarisms, School For Rockstar
Tagged butterflies, caterpillars, coming home, free play, game face, K2, kay, lt, lunch, makeup, morning sickness, mums, pickup time, play time, rockstar, sandwich, schedule change
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The Rockstar And The Tipping Point
“It’s a book about change. In particular, it’s a book that presents a new way of understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does.” – Malcolm Gladwell, on his book The Tipping Point: How … Continue reading
Posted in Rockstar Thoughts
Tagged bernhard goetz, burglary, case 2, circumstance, darley, gospel of luke, malcolm gladwell, mid 90s, misconception, pee, psychologists, rockstar, rudolph giuliani, story of the good samaritan, subway graffiti, tipping point, transit police, tunnel vision, vigilante, william bratton
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SEA Mummies’ CNY 2012 Har Mee/ Yee Sang Party
When a party turns out amazing (ie everyone enjoys themselves without being drunk to the eyeballs or evicted or arrested) it’s like What Are The Odds? Get the party started! I am naturally in awe of people who throw parties. … Continue reading
Posted in aileensml, Rockstar Shots, Traveling With Rockstar
Tagged awe, brave souls, building management, drama series, empty stomach, eyeballs, guest contributor, har, Har Mee, heap, irrational fear, macam, malaysia and singapore, Malaysian mummies, natural habitat, new girlfriend, party favors, pei, rare opportunity, rockstar, Rojak, Singaporean Mummies, traditional sauces, yummy mummies
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Rockstarism #188 – Rap Music Rockstarisms
With Black Eyed Peas’ Someday playing in the background, Rockstar looks up from his Lego… Rockstar: Weird song, Mum. Weird. I like weird. Me: Because you are -? Rockstar: Weird. <Turns back to Lego> ——————————————————- Then I recently settled on … Continue reading
Posted in Rockstarisms, Talking To Rockstar
Tagged 4th of july, black eyed peas, comprehension, darling sun, dj jazzy jeff, fake accent, figure of speech, fireworks, greatest hits, lego, map of the world, omg, rap music, red nosed reindeer, rockstar, rudolph the red nosed reindeer, syllable word, weird song, whack, will smith
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Still More Of Rockstar’s Favorite Things
Map Of The World Playmat And Jigsaw Loooove this thing from Metkids Store. I picked it up for Rockstar to unload his two drawers of matchbox cars/ trains/ planes/ construction vehicles and what not on, to encourage role play. Safari … Continue reading
Posted in Rockstar Shopping, Rockstar Shots
Tagged antartica, construction vehicles, drawers, expeditions, funny faces, haatyai, HK Wetlands TV, HK Wetlands TV simulation game, iphone, iPod Touch, kangaroos, map of the world, matchbox cars, planes construction, playmat, rockstar, role play, rubber ball, singapore zoo, Stanley Market, tennis balls, trali
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Out Of The Blue, A Telephone Call
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
Posted in aileensml
Tagged 3 years, address book, alps, bubble tea, Cantonese, curious thing, developmental milestone, dog lover, dog names, dog owners, excess energy, family outings, hk, human names, inlaws, ish, legged animals, rockstar, school admissions, teahouse
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Rockstarism #187 – Chinese Zodiac Animals
#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
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
Posted in Rockstar Thoughts
Tagged best effort, Cantonese, chinese dialects, chinese language, desirable trait, dialect, dummies, dummy, grandparents, grasp, haha, hok, inlaws, literacy, mummy friends, personal tutor, picture books, pronunciation, Putonghua, rockstar
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