Jun 18 2008
The gap year is popular in the UK, but only a very handful kids would do it in the US. Not sure mine would opt for this path.
Few weeks ago, Pumpkin asked if she could go to a tutor summer school for bio and math. I was ashamed: shouldn’t we the parents pushing our kid for [...]
Jun 03 2008
Pumpkin’s lacrosse team finally won their first match. She scored 1 and Sharon the Ace doubled it - way to go girls!
May 29 2008
Tonight is her school dinner dance night (the gas is at $4.51). We went to shopping couple of weeks ago, she found a cute dress that fits her perfectly, simply pretty. My little girl is a young lady now. It’s pretty lame to say that time flies, but it is. As if it’s still yesterday when she [...]
May 28 2008
King likes history. He asked me what history course should he take in his sophomore year, World or European. I teased him, how about Chinese history? He replied, “Mom, there isn’t one.” I know, I know. Our school language department has expanded to inlcude Chinese in the middle school, but history curriculum hasn’t changed. Asia is [...]
May 23 2008
Last Tue was Pumpkin’s Spring concert. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #3 was one of three pieces they played. OMG .. was great! In support of all the kids that night, I stayed till the end - Pumpkin’s orchestra was the second of the night.
Lacrosse season is on, she’s scored almost every game abut her [...]
May 05 2008
Our school’s web provides many info that used to reach us va snail mails or phone calls, now in a timely manner. Sounds great, but do we parents need to know all of those, and have they implemented those in a timely manner?
Many years ago, I was more involved with school and the community, joined few committees. One of [...]
May 02 2008
The schools in our area are really nice in terms they don’t indicate winners nor labeling losers. I learned this at the nursery. During my first parent-teacher meeting, I naturally asked how my child was doing in the class. The female teacher looked tensed and informed me she didn’t know [ya right, [...]
Apr 29 2008
Surprisingly I met a group of girls from Maryland at the Massanutten in Virginia. This resort at Shenandoah Valley is neither known for golfers nor tennis players. It used to have a 9-hole short course now expanded into 18 holes and an 18-hole. The short course was much nicer before the expansion, now inter-linked with roads. Golfers have to [...]
Apr 04 2008
I don’t like to run, so have no idea as what they’re talking about, but swimming gets me high, no any other sport could or would, tennis doesn’t even come close, so I know what they’re talking about. The feeling after a swimming is that you can take on the www, whole wide world, !!
Yesterday I [...]
Mar 25 2008
J came to play cards this past Sunday. I haven’t seen her for a good few years. Last time was at a ski resort, we had hot pot and well, played cards in the evenings. She just got divorced then, and the older son (now sophomore in college) lives with dad and she took the [...]
Feb 27 2008
Pumpkin is going to see the Wicked with her school mates in May and will have lunch at Mars 2112. Sounds so stale. We saw it last year. And Mars 2112? We’ve been going there since they were toddlers and stopped going, since well, they are out grew it. Can’t school come up with something [...]
Feb 24 2008
Tanglewood 1997
Peter Newton (1926-2008), a Brit, the founder of this vineyard had just passed away. He’s credited with putting the vocabulary of Merlot and Chardonnay into ordinary Americans who otherwise only knew wine as red and white. We falling in love with Sterling’s Chardonnay at the Lexon when we attended the BSO at Tanglewood that summer [...]
Jan 24 2008
Wow, the Tsonga dude played an amazing match, dumped Nadal to reach the final in straight sets: 6:2, 6:3, 6:2. Before this Aussie Open, I’ve never heard of him. At the first glance, he reminded me of boxer Ali. Pumpkin is watching a lot, first time I’ve seen her so into watch tennis, omg, :). Tsonga [...]
Dec 28 2007
his Shipyard courts
Pumpkin’s mini session with Walker Sahag and Andy Sklarin at the VDM was pretty good, claiming that they got her serve on track. Ok cool. The intensity is pretty heavy, Walker with a weathered face yelled loud and clear at the beginning and at the end. Pumpkin grouped with a little girl, they both worked [...]
Nov 24 2007
One thing I don’t understand, why the manufacturers have to stitch the labels in the back of the garment .. the neck? It hurts. Especially when the morons use the hard/big materials on children’s. What are they thinking?? Can’t it be relocated to the end or side of the garment? Or it’s the US regulation? Do [...]
Nov 19 2007
There are many brands of plastic eyes, Acuvue is one of them. And within Acuvue, there are few different types. Each box has 6 lenses of same prescription. So if the right eye has different prescription, then two boxes are needed. Learning time, :). I went to shopping and spotted a sign for Acuvue, selling [...]