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Sydney Through The Eyes Of A Rockstar – Final Day and Rockstarisms #146, #147 & #148

Posted on August 23, 2011 by admin

#146 When I make a fuss about my swollen fingers (because while I’m trying to take a pic of some ducks Kings was feeding from the car as we left Thredbo Rockstar winds the automatic window back up (because the … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstarisms, Traveling With Rockstar | Tagged bacon, brunch, darling harbor, feed ducks, flight booking, food scraps, fountains, gull like, gumption, hands and knees, little girl, mid air, purple flower, Putonghua, quay, raindrops, rockstar, scrambled eggs, statues, swollen fingers | Leave a comment

Sydney Through The Eyes Of A Rockstar – The Ones (Not Quite) Left Behind In Thredbo and Four Points Sheraton

Posted on August 22, 2011 by admin

An English girl with mildly punky dyed red hair tells me she’s 24 and has just finished college; she intends to do this (travel while working cafes – food and staff quarters are paid for) for the next 4-5 years, … Continue reading →

Posted in Traveling With Rockstar | Tagged bench, cafes, dorky, english girl, few minutes, good time, lifestyle, money, nap, opportunity cost, red hair, relative youth, rich kid, rich kids, rockstar, ski lesson, souvenir store, staff quarters | 7 Comments

Sydney Through The Eyes Of A Rockstar – Glenbrook and Blue Mountains National Park

Posted on August 11, 2011 by admin

Seasoned Travelers (note Rockstar’s expression. Yes, really) Exchanging Small Talk Over Breakfast In Some Cafe In Glenbrook We drive out to Blue Mountains National Park for the day, about an hour out we stop for brunch at Glenbrook before heading … Continue reading →

Posted in Traveling With Rockstar | Tagged blue mountains, blue mountains national park, breakfast cafe, brochure, brunch, deep in thought, gas station, glenbrook, hk, locals, mountains national park, national parks in australia, nuts, playground, rest of my life, rockstar, sai kung, strange conversations, three sisters, three times | 4 Comments

Deep in DSquared Men’s Snowboots

Posted on August 2, 2011 by admin

Trumped-up excuse for a blog post because I wanted to put cute pictures of Rockstar up, he’d been messing with my snowboots most of last night… Above: my child and my new men’s snowboots (60% off at Joyce Warehouse!!). Since … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstar Shopping, Rockstar Shots | Tagged ah lian, boots, first language, hols, hometowns, interview season, lake tahoe, men in my life, new men, resort vacation, rockstar, sneakers, snowboots | 11 Comments

Hong Kong Bullies In Playtown

Posted on July 12, 2011 by admin

Rockstar’s been recovering from an ear infection, so we’ve been letting him sleep on his own schedule – which meant not waking in time for summer camp today… Then in the afternoon, a trip to his favorite Wellcome (car-shaped shopping … Continue reading →

Posted in aileensml, Rockstar Thoughts | Tagged air guns, ballistics, bloody hell, breads, buns, Cantonese, ear infection, excursion, fish tanks, foam balls, footstool, glare, misbehavior, rockstar, shaven head, shopping center, speaking english, summer camp, tap on my shoulder, upper deck | 4 Comments

Tropical Storm Haima’s T3 in Hong Kong

Posted on June 22, 2011 by admin

Strong Wind Signal No. 3 has been “in force” all day (as at press time) so Kindergarten is closed, no school for Rockstar (in other words Let’s All Swing From The Ceiling Lights And Drive Our Mums Crazy Day)… I … Continue reading →

Posted in aileensml | Tagged apology, bus stop, ceiling lights, cellphone, chiropractor, club house, clubhouse, crazy day, glass doors, indoor play, play area, playing pool, press time, priceless pic, raincoats, respite, rockstar, strong wind, tropical storm, waiting for the rain, walk in the rain | 3 Comments

Rockstarism #127 (And Happy Father’s Day)

Posted on June 18, 2011 by admin

Fathers’ Day Morning pic before church… A father’s gotta do what a father’s gotta do… After church what Kings really wanted to do was marathon-sleep… Ah well, he gets to pick what he really wants to do today right… So … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstarisms, Talking To Rockstar | Tagged abc music, amp, basketball game, good times, great memories, green lantern, greeting card, holidays, job, marathon, music time, musical instruments, parenting, rockstar, sleep, strong dislike, wan chai | 5 Comments

Out Father’s Day Shopping. Or, A Little Niceness Can Go A Long Way.

Posted on June 16, 2011 by admin

The problem with “surprises” is that they are surprising. And given Kings and I have a basic distrust for each other’s tastes (Yes. I know. We also married each other. By all means enjoy yourselves) we don’t often surprise … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstar Shopping, Rockstar Thoughts | Tagged book store, cuffs, cyber cafe, distrust, embroidery, gift choices, hugo boss, hugo boss ties, limited edition, loose threads, omega, paul smith, prada, red roses, rockstar, shopping experience, spoils, time ie, windsor, wristwatch | 2 Comments

Rockstarism #126

Posted on June 15, 2011 by admin

#126 Rockstar: Mum. What do you think of Waybuloo and Numberjacks? Me: <Thinking I don’t really want Rockstar to watch a bunch of cbeebies tv programs, so lemme try psyching him out> Well… I like Numberjacks, but I find Waybuloo … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstarisms, Talking To Rockstar | Tagged babies, lt, meh, rockstar, tv programs | 2 Comments

Rockstarisms #123, 124 & 125

Posted on June 11, 2011 by admin

When he wants to be good… Rockstar practicing feeding himself with chopsticks… #123 Rockstar: Mum. We can go to the bookstore after my nap. Me: You mean the bookstore you didn’t want to go to because you were sulking? Rockstar: … Continue reading →

Posted in Rockstarisms | Tagged bookstore, chopsticks, elephants, giraffe, hasn, iphone, nap, rockstar, weird animal, zebras | 3 Comments