Now that we’re back on our “Movie Night” routine, we picked another Indian movie to watch – this time about a poor Maths teacher, Mr. Duggal and his family, a housewife, a daughter (a college student) and a son (a high school student). Life is hard for the Duggals because their father is an honest [...]
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With Christmas around the corner, I’m shopping around for a new gadget because I’m getting a special Christmas present Honestly, I’m not as excited about the iPad as I am about the Amazon Kindle. You know how book crazy I am, right? Let’s check out all these cool gadgets: 1. Kindle Touch Of all the [...]
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October 1 is China’s National Day or 国庆节 (guó qìng jié). The whole of China will be out on holiday from tomorrow until next Friday!!! I had a bit of trouble getting home today because the buses were PACKED, the streets were CROWDED and the roads were JAMMED. Boy, was it a long trek home… [...]
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Because my son is such a Transformers fan, I am familiar with Shia Lebouef “Sam”, Megan Fox “Michaela” and his Camaro a.ka. “Bumbleebee”. However, seeing “Bumblee” being driven by a young college student just blows me off of my feet! Honestly. I actually stopped in my tracks. My eyes blinked as the beautiful sports car [...]
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Since the kids monopolize the TV with their children’s songs and children’s shows, I have enforced a rule where Saturday and Sunday nights are “movie nights” a.k.a. “Mummy’s show” or “Papa’s show”. The kids watch less TV during the weekends, we get to watch some of our shows and they keep themselves occupied doing other [...]
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Once in a while, I need to get myself a hamburger fix and that’s when I head for Burger King or hàn bǎo wáng (汉堡 王), which literally means “hambuger king”. Remember to say this to the taxi driver instead of “Burger King! Burger King, don’t you know Bur-ger King?” Among the various fast food [...]
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I love a hot breakfast but it’s usually not convenient for me to buy zhōu (粥) or xī fàn (稀饭) also known as congee, gruel or porridge in the English-speaking world because I’m always in a rush nowadays. For a while, I packed sandwiches to work because I’m so hungry by the time I reach [...]
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I just can’t get over the lovely tunes from “Hannah Montana: The Movie”. Besides “The Climb”, I also love this guitar piece and I think I’ll be looking out for Rascall Flatt’s album too. Did you know that I love country music too? “Butterfly Fly Away” is a special song from the movie because it’s [...]
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