Weekender

1) Formerly from Penang and my senior in Secondary School (been awhile, correct me if I’m wrong please dear 🙂 Webs Of Significance’s Photo Essay: Loving Hong Kong On China’s National Day.

pic from WEBS’ blog

She goes where I can only dream of around HK, with a photoblog and lifestyle she once explained to me was quite different from mine (she doesn’t have kids) – us with the young, fidgety kids (fine, one is fidgety, Rockstar would require I clarify), we’ve been staying well away from this latest and relying on accounts like hers and the news.

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2) The Heartwarming Story Of 5 Year Old Iris Who Is Autistic, And Her Therapy Cat

Iris and Thula

(Oh yeah she is a talented little artist too)

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3) Distractify’s It’s Tough Being A Dad:

Oops

He got better.

Then he had a backslide.

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4) 10 Space Empires That Make Economic Sense.

And umm, transportation 😀 I hadn’t read Neptune’s Brood though, but Rockstar liked this pic because of the ship

Conversations loosely related to (and rather inspired by) Rockstar’s learning units in school about communities and public spaces <sheepish>…….Not really re aliens or anything (not sure if these books have those)… The general idea being more about how in the distant future the world gets overpopulated and so people look for alternative places of accommodation, food sources……. and yes how different planets produce different supplies, trade between them and yes, infrastructure to transport food about…. Since if you are replicating alternative places of accommodation and how to grow food you kinda have to think about what human life needs to sustain it etc…. (And of course how to get over the little problem of how to transport food around different planets as well as around our one planet – tunnels under the sea, trains, roads, wormholes :D)

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5) White Mum Sues Sperm Bank For Her Birthing Of Black Baby By Mistake. I think the general consensus was she and her partner chose sperm donor #380 (who happened to be white) and her egg was erroneously fertilized by sperm donor #330 (who happened to be black) and so she definitely has a case suing for “wrongful birth and breach of warranty.”

Where the argument began to go off the rails was when she mentions anxiety over raising a mixed-race child because she lives in a place where they are intolerant to black people and btw she’s gay and Whoa, Whoa Stop Talking.

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6) This is a 425 square foot Manhattan micro-loft that’s somehow made it here because in another life without kids this would’ve been my dream home. (Trippy perspective thing for me as someone who used to love and love tiny places because Wow Priorities.)

After

Layout

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7) Miss Skit this week is Have Crepe Will Eat Plate:

Dis is art.

Good Weekend

ps: Been a bit late posting because I have a couple meatier writes about lessons/ parenting coming up, and I ended up not being able to finish anything satisfactorily yet, so then I went back to rush this out first…