To simply put, I am a chatty person who is borderline argumentative, and my husband is a logic person who is borderline stubborn. These features are merged inevitably in our offsprings and displayed with obvious combinatorial effect ( Read more... )

( 21 hours! )

After my one and only haircut trial on William 5 years ago, I had given up on home barbering ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago I brought both boys to a store to get them soccer balls. It was a rushed trip, the only 25 minutes I could squeeze in that day between an errand and swimming lesson. After they each found a right size soccer, I quickly went through the self-checkout with a few items I picked up. With the receipt in one hand, my purse in the ( Read more... )

Matthew's teacher gives kids a Purple Card when they have extraordinary behavior. And Matthew periodically gets it. On such a day, he would say, "Guess what I get today? It starts with a P". I would, of course, be very happy, and couldn't help teasing him by saying, "A Pizza?",  "A Panda?", or other silly things, before naming the winner ( Read more... )

William and I were having a bedtime chat about ...the world."Mom Mom, do you know because of the global warming, some day Florida will not exist any more ( Read more... )

I am neither naive nor cynical.

Now we'll see how much recombinant DNA research will be affected.

For people who know me REALLY well, I am either cynical or naive. I know I can be both. And here's an example: when H1N1 started to show on news media and one of the first hear-say comments/sources said something like the genome sequence of H1N1 is a mixture sharing similarity with avian, swine and human influenza virus, guess what my first ( Read more... )

( This one is even more boring )

I went grocery shopping today (Yeah, shopping is blog-worthy here for two reasons. One, I don't do it often. Two, my life is generally boring ( Read more... )