A friend of mine in Toronto was showing me pictures of a new swing set she got for her kids (aged 3 and 5).  My first thought was that of pure jealousy.  For me to be able to have a personal and customized swing set for my children would mean that I would have to either illegally put it in the grass at the Hong Kong Jockey Club  or some government land or purchase a piece of land (and be paying the mortgage for 5 generations to come).
These swing sets …

As parents, there are endless questions of when you should hit each milestone with your child.  From birth, you’re bombarded with “is this the right time to..”  Let’s fill in some blanks.  “…start solids?” “…try potty training?”  “…stop breastfeeding?”  The list goes on and on.  Well, one conversation that I recently had with some other mommies at Vanessa’s school is the migration date of a child from the baby tub to the adult tub.
One mother was very proud that she had migrated her children (aged 2 and 4) into the …

Wow!  Yesterday (on behalf of my company) we went to the Happy Valley Hong Kong Jockey Club Racetrack.  Let me sum up this experience in one word.  Incredible.  Even though it was a work night and I was with my colleagues, I thoroughly enjoyed myself.  It’s a consortium of good food, fine wines, great company, small talk and of course, winning (or losing) big money.   We were placed in a private box up on the 8th floor with a private full course buffet, free flowing beverages, including alcohol …

On Sunday night, my husband wanted to surprise his father with a special “Father’s Day Buffet” at the InterContinental in Hong Kong.  Easily enough, I searched for their number via google, called them up and made reservations 5 days earlier (wow, that was easy).  When the day dawned and we headed over to the InterContinental - they told me that I didn’t have reservations at the buffet.  Well, that’s a surprise!  Instead, after having clarified we were actually booked at the InterContinental Grand Stanford Hotel - we had to pay …

FINALLY!!!  After having posted about going completely “Googled” - meaning that I am now managing my contacts, calendar and email from one centralized place and I was complaining about the lack of features (or fields) in their contacts application, they’ve beefed it up!
You can now find fields such as: 

Title
Company (It’s important now that my db is getting bigger and bigger)
Birthday (This is important to me - especially with so many kids)
Messaging Contacts (With ICQ, AOL, MSN, the works, I can’t remember it all)
Website
Nickname
Photo
And many more

I’m so glad they’ve finally put …