Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

Times wrote about perks lawyers are receiving nowadays - to attract the best and brightest talents, many firms are offering more than salary - pet insurance, on site child care, emergency nanny service, concierge services .. some even have happiness committee . beer and sandwich won’t do, instead they get their dinner, on a silver tray [...]

CNN reports on China proposes holiday changes, wrote that ‘the government has set three weeks a year as national holidays.’ and ‘some experts argue, the government should stop ordering people when to take a break and instead mandate a paid-vacation system, as many other countries have.’  Micromanage aside, it should have mentioned that those three weeks are [...]

Not the MS game, it’s the foliage .. .. After lunch we went to hike in the neighborhood and having good time identifying the maple trees - me learning about those lovely trees.  I know maple as lumber, but have no idea what the tree is actually look like, even I live among them.  Shame [...]

We had a hot pot dinner for Thanksgiving.  Kids were disappointed.  I would have cooked a big bird should the baking part of my oven works.  Thanks god I found out before hand.  The broil part works just fine.  They must think I broke the bake thing to avoid the turkey, :))  跳进黄河也洗不清了 .. Hope all of [...]