Alex is at the questioning stage since weeks ago. Everytime he gets into the car, as soon as he’s straped in, he asks “where are we going?” “are we going home?” He asks “where are we going now?” almost every 2 minutes. I think we should expect “Are we there yet?” soon.
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We’re back on Sunday night. Ashlyn came to the airport with my cousins to pick us up. For some reasons, she acted shy and embarrassed when we talked to her. By the time we got home, 11 something, Alex was already sound asleep.
Monday morning, as soon as Alex woke up, I asked him where did Mama go, and here is the conversation:
Mama: Alex, Mama 去左邊呀? Alex, where did Mama go?
Alex: 英國 England (in a very confirmed, definite tone)
Mama: ??!!
Mama: Alex, Mama 去左邊呀? Alex, where did Mama go?
Alex: 你係唔係去左英國呀? Did you go to England?
Mama: ??!! 你點知呀? How did you know?
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Just arrived at home from the airport. Will update with pix from London & Paris soon. For now, need to catch some ZZZzzzZZZzzzzzzzZzZZZ
Took the kids to their first summer recreation class yesterday — The Little Panda Class, a playgroup done in Chinese. There’re about 15 kids all together.
At the beginning of the class, Ashlyn and Alex were not too interested, and they looked confused. I think it’s because of the language. Everybody else knew the songs very well, and it’s very obvious that we’re the new comers. As the class progress, and teacher Jill took out more props, Ashlyn and Alex got involved a bit, especially when some wooden sticks (like drum sticks) and musical instruments were distributed to the kids.
We were given a CD and a lyric book, so last night, we were teaching Ashlyn & Alex to say words in Chinese. Not sure if they totally understood the meaning, or if they were just imitating the pronunciation, they sounded pretty good.
I was solo with the kids yesterday. I will try to take video and pictures next time.
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Found this from a Yahoo Blogger. Interesting.
白羊座： 衝動第一名，做事後悔第一，火氣大第一，大膽第一，敢愛敢恨第一名。
金牛座： 穩重第一名，節檢第一名，貪財第一名，可靠第一名，吃苦耐勞第一名。
雙子座： 八卦第一名，聰慧第一名，Crazy第一名，幽默第一名，多話第一名。
巨蟹座： 體貼第一名，愛吃第一名，愛家第一名，孝順第一名，多愁善感第一名。
獅子座： 自信第一名，愛現第一名，要面子第一名，品味第一名，風度第一名。
處女座： 細心第一名，挑剃第一名，愛乾淨第一，小題大做第一，吃醋第一名。
天秤座： 愛美第一名，猶豫第一名，懶惰第一名，善辯第一名，公正第一名。
天蝎座： 痴情第一名，扮酷第一名，魅力第一名，冷冰冰第一名，理智第一名。
射手座： 貪玩第一名，糊塗第一名，可愛第一，勇于嘗試第一，心無城府第一名。
摩羯座： 嚴肅第一名，鎮定第一名，忍耐第一名，認真第一名，保守第一名。
水瓶座： 好奇第一名，好學第一名，創意第一名，另類第一名，創造力第一名。
雙魚座： 心軟第一名，敏感第一名，多疑第一，愛作夢第一，胡思亂想第一名。
Here is the 2nd part of the TAG (the final part). This one will be shorter.
This time, we gonna start with his Chinese name, cux it will be very simple and short. One Sunday morning when I was still carrying Ashlyn (after we have decided on Ashlyn’s Chinese name), when I woke up, a boy’s Chinese name popped up in my head, out of no where–Hay Leun–曦麟. I immediately told Johnson about it and presented to the in laws. The question was which character we should use? For some reason, the one with most most strokes stuck in my mind. The meaning of this character is large male deer. Needless to say, everyone’s reaction was “WOW, so many strokes, your son will hate you, more so than Ashlyn! Don’t even think about sending him to Chinese school.”
We didn’t settle on the Chinese name yet. Remember, my rule for Chinese name and middle name? So I searched online, found Halen, and FYI, it is an unisex name. Good, sounded close enough, but I modified the spelling a little by adding “y” to make it HAYLEN, to ensure people won’t pronouce the name as HELEN. Now, we settled on the Chinese name and middle name for our son.
With the first name selection, we had a difficult time. I thought, Ashlyn’s initial is AHH, maybe the 2nd baby should have initial OHH and EHH, and it just happened 2 of my favorite names begin with O and E were Oscar and Ethan. Banned by Johnson, he didn’t like either of them. Back to square 1. He liked Alex all along, he tried to convience me. I told him if we couldn’t pick one that both of us agree on, we would use Alex. Silly me, he could’ve said no to any names until I give up and give in and agree on Alex. I couldn’t come up with another name period, so I tried to convience myself by saying the full name over and over again to myself. Surprising, not bad. I liked it.
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