College student drives a Bumblebee Camaro!

by Kit September 16, 2011 Blog

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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Halloween in China

by Kit September 15, 2011 Blog

I’ll never forget the first year I celebrated Halloween in China It’s really strange because it’s not a public holiday, which is the same for Christmas. Yup, both are normal working days. However, the Chinese society is making quite an effort to learn more about world cultures and somehow, Halloween is becoming more popular. In [...]

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A nice and neat bookcase

by Kit September 15, 2011 Books

Recently, a friend who had moved into a new office e-mailed me some photos of her spanking new place. I immediately fell in love with the bookcase cum filing cabinet! Don’t you think it looks great? We have so many reference books, story books, children’s picture books, files, folders, photo albums and my father’s old [...]

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Watching “The Three Idiots”

by Kit September 15, 2011 Movies

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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Burger King or hàn bǎo wáng (汉堡 王) in China

by Kit September 13, 2011 Learn Chinese

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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Chinese breakfast: 油条 (yóu tiáo) with dòu jiāng (豆浆) or dough stick with soy bean milk

by Kit September 11, 2011 Learn Chinese

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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