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Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Overheard exchange

Sebastian: “Fiona, this is how you belch . . .Urrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.”

Fiona giggles, and follows it with a not-so-convincing “Urrrrrrrrrrrrgh“

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Genius

Couple of days ago, out of the blue, he tilts his head and asks me,

“Mama, do you know why birds fly south in the wintertime?”

“Why?”

“Because it’s too far to walk!”

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Our 4.5 yr old loves to read. Although the above is from a riddles book, I’m pretty sure he just told his first real joke with a real punch line!

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Cannot resist

Mom says when I was a baby, I was a very good sleeper. She would have to wake me up to feed me (why couldn’t I have gotten one of those babies???). Fortunately I was a chubby one so no one was really worried about me sleeping 90% of the day away. I was a whopping 8.3 lb baby when I was born. I think that’s pretty big for a Chinese.

From junior high and up, I slept in whenever allowed. Especially in college. A few times I’d stay up until the wee hours and wake up only find the dining halls have been closed for lunch. After that, I’d get a sack lunch the night before so I could sleep in and still have food. Clever girl.

We all know what happens to sleep when you have a baby. After the 2nd baby, you can pretty much take sleep out of the dictionary, because it’s not going to happen.

For the last several months, I’ve only managed to go to bed before midnight a handful of times, only to wake up again before the sun rises when the two little ones wake at 5:30~6:00a.m.

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I came across this gem.

I can’t help but share it with all of my night owl friends, sleepy-eyed bloggers who stay up so you can read just one more blog, and tired mommies who sit there without nary a thought in mind after putting the kids to bed and thankful for a few quiet hours before tending to the fun, loving but demanding children at the crack of dawn. Hope you have a good night sleep tonight!

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

What were you thinking?

I couldn’t resist passing this along.

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Monday, January 14th, 2008

Captcha the moment

Most of the time, I can read the little squiggle squishy slanted sideway stupid words that’s required to be typed out, just so the Internet knows I’m a real person instead of some bot.

But come on! Some of them are just plain hard to read, and hence it takes several tries because I CAN’T READ WHAT THE DAMN THING SAYS.

Earlier tonight, I was requested to type in something again on some screen, maybe it was passw0rd verification or a comment section. I can’t remember what site it was. This time I laughed and smirked a little.

The words on the screen?

men silly

p.s. This isn’t necessarily about Blogger. It’s for all sites that requires captcha.

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Not your toastmaster type

BoxofBeans is an Asian American currently living in Hong Kong.

She just wrote a post depicting how tactless Asians can be during conversations.

Go over there and read it.

Now, don’t you agree that’s just a bit too much information to share? With a stranger? And a MALE stranger at that…?

Next he’s going to want to diagnose all of BoxofBean’s “issues” when really, he’s just eager to show the world his own problems.

At least the sandwiches and drinks were superb.

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

What’s a canna, you ask

“You stand up for what you believe in, even if it gets in the way of what other people think. You are proud of yourself and your accomplishments and you enjoy letting people know that.”

Take this quiz, find out what flower are you.

Those of you who know me well, knows how true that last part is: and you enjoy letting people know that.

Even the Internet and the Computer says I’m a bragger. Oi.

Monday, January 7th, 2008

I guarantee you’ll laugh until you pee

I’m not feeling very clever on this Monday morning. So I present you Jenni over at Just Chicken Feed who wrote an absolutely riot of a post about The Difference Between One and Four

Go on, it’s really funny.

If you don’t wet your pants while reading it, then you aren’t reading it correctly.

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Random things for a Saturday night

Nablopomo 2007 - I loved it. I’m overwhelmed with the 6 thousand plus blogs that I have not had time to wade through. Heck, I haven’t even made it around to everyone in my “friend” list yet - SORRY! When the holiday season is over, I’ll likely be able to go around and check out more blogs. Whee!

Broadband provider - The price is going up. By about 55%. I’ll have to look around and see what else is out there. Any ideas?!

Blogger - You suck. Now I can’t do a direct link to my own blog when commenting on any of the Blogger blogs. I have to do a roundabout thing, indirect linking, blah blah blah. Can you fix it please? Yes you’re still better than some out there, who REFUSES to let you comment if you’re not signed up or registered with them. But comparing with the bad ones does not necessarily make you better. It’s like lesser of the two evils… Ugh.

Scrunchies - You know, the thing that Carrie so despises on one of the episodes in Sex in the City? I use them, and I like them.

#####.com - I randomly came across a website the other day, which I cannot link here because of me being a business owner and need to maintain a certain level of professionalism etc yadda yadda, but I NEARLY DIED LAUGHING when I saw the URL!!! I’ll probably be able to share it if you asked privately. OMG I still can’t believe it. It’s REALLY bad, and it’s really silly..

Coming soon - I’m typing up a post about vacationing, tropics, spelunking, and jungles (where we had our brief honeymoon, with Hubby’s sister and a friend tagging along…). I thought honeymoons are supposed to be the married couple only, apparently I was wrong…

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Quotes Tuesday

This post is all about our son Seb, who is a couple of months short of 4.5 years old.

Last week when I made oatmeal for breakfast, he protested and said, “Mama, I don’t want to eat oatmeal. It looks like poop.”

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A song for your enjoyment. Sung to the tunes of… I have no idea what the official song title is. He was eating apples at the time, and started being silly:

“Apple apple what do you see?
I see a booboo* looking at me.
Booboo booboo what do you see?
I see a poopie** looking at me.
Poopie poopie what do you see?
I see a deedoo* looking at me.
Deedoo deedoo what do you see?
I see a peep looking at me.”

I’m not sure if he knows the actual meaning of peep, or if that’s just a coincidental word that he thinks rhymes. He LOVES rhyming; they have been doing a lot of that at preschool.

Speaking of rhyming… we were in the van (yes I have a van, and I love driving it), when he blurted out “truck… duck… muck… puck…” Luckily he didn’t say the F word.

* He likes to make up silly, funny, nonsense words. Oh may you always find humor in life and be happy.
** The boy is obsessed with potty mouth words, and thinks these types of words are absolutely hilarious. I suppose it is normal for his age?!

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Quotes Tuesday

Yesterday:

“Mama, I made a turkey at school! My turkey says gobble gobble!” — 26 month old Fiona, proudly showing me her creation immediately upon arriving home from preschool.

Today:

“We’re going to the grocery store. Who wants to go?” is met with silence.
“We’re going to buy a turkey!” I said with a tone of excitement.
“For meeeeeeee?” Fiona grinned and asked.

I hope she’s as enthused when the turkey is actually cooked and ready to be eaten, coz guess who’s the picky eater around here.

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Simplicity. Or stupid. Or too tired.

It was from a fwd thing (so I don’t know who to credit it to). I usually delete them after I read them, even if they say things like “if you don’t do THIS exactly as it states here you will die of excruciating death.” But this one was so funny that I wanted to share it with you.

Enjoy.

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

One of our autumn traditions

It was the year after Seb was born that we started this tradition. Here are some glimpses of this years Apple Orchard / Pumpkin Patch visit.

Enjoying the apples freshly picked from the tree.

Big brother pulling little sister on the wagon.

“My turn to pull you” she says, “Ughh……”

“Let me help you” he says, and proceeds to put one leg out and guiding the wagon forward.

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

The things that babes say

OMG I nearly missed the deadline.

From our 4 yr old:

“I love Baba. Do you know why?”

“Why?”

“Because he gives me cookies.”

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Updated: That was not funny. I’m obviously sleep deprived. I posted today already, before I went to bed this morning. This would be my 2nd post of the day.

But what our son said WAS funny.

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Culture shock

Yesterday I “met” someone living in China. His post here was absolutely hilarious!

I’ll wait while you go read it.

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If I were still living there, I’d probably do that with training our kids too, especially if I lived in the countryside or smaller city. That’s just what people do over there and have been for the last several thousand years. Besides, diapers are very expensive! Not to mention water (plumbed) is still not readily available in many places.

On the other hand, I absolutely agree that it’s very gross (cover your eyes for TMI) even though I was raised that way myself.

This makes me think of the various cultural differences that exists between the two countries. I’m going to think on this longer and attempt to entertain you in the process (or gross you out).