Lately, I’ve been sleeping REALLY well.  It’s probably the best sleep I’ve had since being pregnant with baby #1 back in September of 2006.  Yes,  that’s almost 4 years of unmanageable, poor sleep.  Can you believe it?  Although I don’t sleep in anymore (nothing past 7:00 AM), my nights are still crash sleep and I feel pretty rested afterward.  So how did I do it?  Read on my sleepy friend, read on!
The sleeping place is what it is.  A place to sleep.
I don’t have computers, television or anything distracting in …

Poor Victoria. She really wants to go swimming with her older sister, but because she’s still too young, she has to watch on the sidelines. Swim class is completely different from free play.  While Vanessa is now on her  3rd series of swimming classes that she’s doing at Stanford Swim School.  She’s much improved to the point where she can:

submerge for around 3+ seconds
dive to retrieve rings or toys on the pool bottom
swim forward with a flutter board and kick

It’s amazing how fast they learn and once they overcome the …

Here’s my interpretation of Chinese New Year’s - it’s probably a skewed version of various truths because honestly, depending on who you ask, some answers vary.
So I’m Canadian, why am I giving red pockets?
I sometimes use the double standard that I’m a Canadian who just happens to look Chinese, but I think it did get to a point where me living in HK and having kids have changed how people view me as a Canadian.  Most colleagues are locals and so they don’t really buy that bullshit.  Plus, my husband’s …

My mother-in-law bought this $5 HKD orange for me from the wet mart.   It’s bigger than a fuji apple (which wasn’t small) and smelled really sweet.  It actually tasted AMAZING - so I wanted to share this find with you.  Not sure where the orange hails from (China no doubt), but it’s not everyday you come across something like this.

I’ve been taking some preventation measures since discovering the frequency in which mold grows on EVERYTHING in Hong Kong - (you can read my previous article on “How to remove mold or mildew from HONG KONG walls?”) especially where I live on the island.  Just want to share with you so you can take them too and hopefully reduce the growth rate of mold.  I recently opened a box of wallets I don’t often used, only to find that 4 out of 5 of our wallets were moldy.  Needless to …

HAHA - my husband found this cool application that creates a “Fish’s Eye” point of view when you take it with a camera. 
You can find the application here: http://www.appsafari.com/fun/7123/fisheye/

Now that I’m working again, my focus in clothes shopping is mainly work clothes and because of my repetitive nature, I tend to buy the basics (in different colours and shapes) - but there’s a general theme to my purchases.  REPETITIVE USE.  This means, I can re-wear probably the same clothing at least once a week with minimal notice that I’m wearing the same thing! LOL.  This is usually achieveable with “black” items and because black is one of the brand colours of my organization, I can sure get away …