Category: Everyday Thots

Zibin and I were talking to his mom on Skype earlier. ********* ZB Mom: (to ZB) “你的脸比较少肉了.” ZB: “是啦, 你的脸最多肉的吗.” ZB Mom: (to me) “这个孩子很坏．　牙尖嘴利．” ZB: “是谁养的？子（养）不教父之过 leh.” ZB Mom: “父在外面!” ZB: “那是财政部长．” ZB Mom: “Aiyah, 你脸真的瘦了.” ZB: “你眼睛小啦．　所以看我的脸瘦．　我眼睛大所以看你的脸胖．　谁叫你生我的眼睛这么大．” ZB Mom: *to me* “Eh, 子彬生下来的时候很丑的 leh.” ZB: *eyes widen in indignation* ZB Mom: (goes on […]

It’s been an extremely busy week leading up to GSCOPE. And now it’s come and gone, after a year of on-and-off preparations, leaving me to muse at how transient time is. During the week, and especially during the two days of the conference, an entire gamut of thoughts and feelings went through me. The stakes […]

Suddenly, in the space of just 2 days, a ton of new things have descended upon me to do. And maybe there really is no reason for me to get stressed (yet), but for some reason, I am super jumpy today. And I don’t know why, but I keep having this image of Ivy, the […]

For the last three and a half weeks, OPL1204 has been hosting 舒阳 (a.k.a Sherry) whose youthful, sunny presence added a welcome dimension to our abode. Melissa was delighted to have company for watching TV reality shows (esp ANTM). Wanting and I have someone new to disturb (one night, WT sat down to talk to […]

There’s something that very few people up to now know about me. Sometimes, when I’m alone at home, I dance. I’m not a skillful dancer, and I’m definitely an untrained one. But when I’m in one of those dancing moods, I dance with abandon and glee! I jump, I twirl, I pirouette… I do anything […]

There’s something that never fails to frustrate and nonplus me. Why, after a correspondence in which I have clearly signed off as “Ann,” do people reply and address me as “Anne?” And why do some people do it repeatedly after knowing me for a long time? Today I received yet another such e-mail, and Anne […]

I didn’t realize how tired I was until Yoga class this evening. For the first half of class, the teacher was covering basic movements and postures on the back. Every once in a while, I’d suddenly realize that I wasn’t doing anything, except lying there. And that although I could hear the instructor’s voice going […]

I accomplished quite a lot of work today. So did my mom. *grin* While I began work on the paper I will be presenting at the GSCOPE conference, pots and faucets in the kitchen were silently polished to a shine. Clean dishes and cutlery kept mysteriously disappearing into cabinets throughout the day. The laundry room […]

This is my program’s latest advertisment post-card. I thought it’s pretty cool. *grin* For those unfamiliar with the philosophical reference, Socrates was described as a gadfly. I’m too tired and short of time now to give a more detailed elaboration, so you can check out wikipedia’s explanation of the term here. Seriously though, one doesn’t […]