Eclipse
I went back to the hospital on Sunday night.
It happened after the news that my wife's erhu teacher had a clot that shut down blood flow to his brain, almost like a fast-acting half eclipse of the brain. The clot couldn't be cleared. My wife and I were secretly hoping that we could talk briefly with her teacher. Of course, she couldn't, because he wouldn't, and he didn't. Her teacher didn't wake up.
My wife
It happened after the news that my wife's erhu teacher had a clot that shut down blood flow to his brain, almost like a fast-acting half eclipse of the brain. The clot couldn't be cleared. My wife and I were secretly hoping that we could talk briefly with her teacher. Of course, she couldn't, because he wouldn't, and he didn't. Her teacher didn't wake up.
My wife
Billy
Are you so sure that children's picture books are childish?
If you don't, be assured that Anthony Browne's books will be both entertaining and enlightening to readers of all ages. But don't just take it from me. See for yourself. Thumb through his books.
As for the latest story reading with my three-year-old daughter, I was fascinated by Anthony Browne's book Silly Billy . I won't waste much time on telling you how silly this little boy
If you don't, be assured that Anthony Browne's books will be both entertaining and enlightening to readers of all ages. But don't just take it from me. See for yourself. Thumb through his books.
As for the latest story reading with my three-year-old daughter, I was fascinated by Anthony Browne's book Silly Billy . I won't waste much time on telling you how silly this little boy
Fog
It's extraordinary how kids learn themselves the rightness or wrongness of language.
No dictionary or grammar textbook there, and no blind rote learning. Yet children catch the essence of how languages should work. Obviously they make up new words like mouses , but not mice.
No sentence is too trivial or too boring if we spend time to expand the words with kids. I took a day off yesterday to join my daughter's school outing to Kadoorie Farm. The weather was so-so. "Look. Daddy
No dictionary or grammar textbook there, and no blind rote learning. Yet children catch the essence of how languages should work. Obviously they make up new words like mouses , but not mice.
No sentence is too trivial or too boring if we spend time to expand the words with kids. I took a day off yesterday to join my daughter's school outing to Kadoorie Farm. The weather was so-so. "Look. Daddy
Cell phone
It's late in the afternoon. On my way home, I was reading a book about wordplay on a minibus. But I couldn't concentrate.
I wasn't tired. And yet it took me quite some time to finish a page. I felt an explosion inside my head, as if my brain lost the way underneath a mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Ahhhh, there was too much noise around. That, it hardly needs saying, was the noise of passenger's use
I wasn't tired. And yet it took me quite some time to finish a page. I felt an explosion inside my head, as if my brain lost the way underneath a mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Ahhhh, there was too much noise around. That, it hardly needs saying, was the noise of passenger's use
Mistake
It's late morning at the guesthouse in Chiang Mai, where we were having breakfast. That's when I'd stopped in the middle of the mealtime and gone for a few photographs.
"Daddy, you'd be away without telling us." My daughter looked at me like a teacher.
"I - I didn't know," I stuttered.
"You should have told us, and we didn't realize you'd been away so long."
"I didn'
"Daddy, you'd be away without telling us." My daughter looked at me like a teacher.
"I - I didn't know," I stuttered.
"You should have told us, and we didn't realize you'd been away so long."
"I didn'
Chiang Mai
One of the liveliest things about travel is how unpredictably each day unfolds itself. And I suppose my daughter has somehow learnt the random happenstance of every overseas trip.
This time, we went to Thailand and stayed in a large, quiet house in Chiang Mai, a perfect respite from the noise and hustle of Bangkok. I slept in the luxury of air-conditioned room, and woke up to the singsong of birds. As a guesthouse, it's an alluring experience for us: there's a leafy courtyard
This time, we went to Thailand and stayed in a large, quiet house in Chiang Mai, a perfect respite from the noise and hustle of Bangkok. I slept in the luxury of air-conditioned room, and woke up to the singsong of birds. As a guesthouse, it's an alluring experience for us: there's a leafy courtyard
Pakistan
I didn't have time to read the Time 's 2012 Person of the Year until I brought the issue on my Thailand trip.
It's hard to imagine that the shortlisted one is even more admirable than the champion. Yet, that might be the reason the editor made President Obama on the silver border cover, and at the same time added another cover depicting Malala Yousafzai inside the magazine. The fact that a 15-year-old Pakistani girl can stay just behind Obama means quite
It's hard to imagine that the shortlisted one is even more admirable than the champion. Yet, that might be the reason the editor made President Obama on the silver border cover, and at the same time added another cover depicting Malala Yousafzai inside the magazine. The fact that a 15-year-old Pakistani girl can stay just behind Obama means quite
Control
I recounted the story of rainbow in my blog two days ago, after attending Louise Porter's conference on children's learning style.
That was the first time I heard about the term internal locus of control . The concept, in some ways, isn't difficult to understand. If we believe that outside forces such as the rainbow (or luck) determine our mood or destiny, we are said to have an external locus of control. Stated otherwise, we can possess an internal locus of control by staying
That was the first time I heard about the term internal locus of control . The concept, in some ways, isn't difficult to understand. If we believe that outside forces such as the rainbow (or luck) determine our mood or destiny, we are said to have an external locus of control. Stated otherwise, we can possess an internal locus of control by staying
Rain
A problem I share with with my daughter is a tendency to get obsessed with the weather. That's an unintended effect of being a huge fan of photography, and it can be hard to get rid of.
There are days when I feel like I'm drowning in a whole week of rainy weather. Very well, before we take out the rain coats, the weather can change quickly, and in what seems like minutes, the sky can be clear with new colours, leaving many oohs and aahs for
There are days when I feel like I'm drowning in a whole week of rainy weather. Very well, before we take out the rain coats, the weather can change quickly, and in what seems like minutes, the sky can be clear with new colours, leaving many oohs and aahs for
Worm
When most people think of school, they think of homework. But that word homework means different things for my daughter's kindergarten than it does for many of us.
It's hard to imagine that my daughter's homework is to raise a darkling beetle.
Last week, I borrowed a book How Not to Be Eaten written by an entomologist, but haven't had time to read. When I went home tonight, my daughter could not wait to tell me the great news, "Dad, come
It's hard to imagine that my daughter's homework is to raise a darkling beetle.
Last week, I borrowed a book How Not to Be Eaten written by an entomologist, but haven't had time to read. When I went home tonight, my daughter could not wait to tell me the great news, "Dad, come