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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Weekend Menu # 25: More soup to slurp

If I am not careful, this blog is going to be a food blog. *wink* Well, everyone eat, and staying in Malaysia, we cannot help but having a lot of food choices to eat from.

Been to Number 6 Kopitiam in Jalan Song for late breakfast with hubby. We always go to Number 6 Kopitiam in the evening for its claypot dishes. I enjoy its claypot stewed pork leg, hubby always like its curry lamb or stewed lamb and the kids like to eat its fish maw with needle mushroom and meat ball soup. We seldom go there for breakfast.

Supposed to eat Mee Sapi (Beef Noodle) but ended up we tried Lo Mien. The Beef Noodle stall is no where to be found. Guess it has moved out from there. Our Lo Mien is served with sliced duck meats and soy sauce boiled egg. RM6.00 per plate and our verdict?? So so. The duck meats still have that smelly taste and the noodle tasted like KL wanton noodle. We would not go back for its Lo Mien. *sad*

On the lazy afternoon after we moved some more boxes to new house, I boiled chicken soup. Yes! I am cooking more soups. This time, it is Chicken with Red Dates and Ginseng Roots soup.

As usual, throw everything into slow cooker, let it cook for 2 hours. Very nutritious soup, as ginseng is known for cooling effect and red dates for blood circulation and digestion benefits.

Happy weekend! And today is the last day of March. Tomorrow is another new day, new month. Sigh! Time really flies fast and first 3 months of 2012 has gone!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Don't you wish for this?

(Pic taken during Korea trip back in 2010)

I don't know about you, but I wish that I am in a cold, snowy place now! Yes! Away from this crazy hot spell.

The other night my girl was looking through our Korea trip photo album. Yeap, she is thinking about the trip and telling her brother this and that. She said she loves the snow and cooling temperature, not the weather now which is hot and sweaty. She also asked me when would be our next family trip. She has been talking about going to Hong Kong Disneyland. Boy! Just when I wish that she does not have a super good memory, she can remember this stuff well. Especially when it is involve holiday and funs, she sure can remember them well.

Well, told her that maybe not so soon since we are going to be busy with moving to new house middle of the year and settling down. But if time and budget permit, maybe we can have a trip to Singapore. No Disneyland, Universal Studio also can! At least I do not need to worry about accommodation since I can put up a "tent" in my cousin's apartment in Singapore. *wink*

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

On a hot day like this

Thank you for all the wonderful wishes on the demise of my hubby's cousin. She was finally laid down to rest in Nirvana, Bau this morning. Hubby did not attend as he flew to KL on Sunday afternoon for training and only back tomorrow evening.

So it has been me and the kids for past 2 nights. My parents have been helpful in keeping them handful at their place. Usually the kids do not like to follow their maternal grandparents, so it was a good chance to know they enjoyed themselves over there. Of course with some gadgets, games and tv to entertain them.

It has been extremely warm for the past week and at night even with the air-con switched on till morning, we can still feel the heat. And it has been a routine for the kids to their daily night bath before sleep.

Today I cooked Green Beans and Barley with Red Dates soup as it is another hot day. Need something to cool myself down. Hot! Hot! Hot!

Monday, March 26, 2012

RIP cousin

Hubby's cousin who was in her early 20s passed away yesterday in Sarawak General Hospital. She was fighting against tongue cancer and admitted to hospital end of January for operation and since then has been under going chemotherapy. But she eventually grew weak and lost her fight to cancer yesterday morning. But we knew that she had found peace and comfort in the end.

RIP to cousin Mei Yun!

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Weekend Menu #24: My favourite soup

I have been addicted to soups since I met my husband 10 years ago. Being a Foochow, he grows up drinking tonic and health soups. So whether I want or not, I learnt to take soups and end up, I am loving them. However I still not acquire to Patin soup (black soup) because I still cannot stand the smell and taste. I will fall sick immediately after taking this Pa Tin soup.

I mostly cook chicken soup because #1 I love eating chicken; #2 easier to prepare than pork.

And one of my favourite chicken soups is this mushroom chicken soup.

I will usually buy the thigh and drumstick parts as hubby and myself love to eat those parts. Most of the times I will get the butcher to remove the skin and chop into smaller pieces so save my times in the kitchen.

Just add in chicken meats, sliced shiitake mushroom, sliced gingers and few garlic bulbs into boiling water and cook for about 2 hours, you will have a great chicken soup to enjoy with your bowl of rice.

If hubby, he will just scoop his rice into the bowl of soup and enjoy in front of tv. *wink*

So, what is your favourite soup??

Friday, March 23, 2012

Movie weekend

Yes! It is Friday again. And I have a wonderful afternoon with hubby today. He was on leave for a day, so we went shopping, eating and dating. Feel young again *wink* The only thing that we did not do is going for a movie. We used to do it often when we were dating, but when we have kids we seldom go to cinemas and prefer to buy DVD and watch at home instead.

Hubby bought a lot of DVDs couple nights ago and we have not get down to watching them. The latest movies in the cinema, you named it, he got it. Of course not original lah. Who buy original DVDs all the times, you tell me.

So, it is going to be a movie weekend. Am so looking forward to a relaxing weekend again.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Bring back nostalgia

Brought my mum for breakfast this morning and after breakfast I had a rest at her place since it was still early to open my shop.

Suddenly my mum came to me and told me she found my secondary school report book while doing some spring cleaning last week! What? OMG! It was about 18 years ago I left my secondary school. Holding and reading through my report book brought back many bittersweet memories. I did miss my school days. And I jokingly asked my mum, "What about my primary school report book?" Lol!

Hubby has agreed for me to bring my old organ to new house. Since no one is playing and it has been collecting dusts for many years since I stopped playing when I was in my twenty, it would be good to move it to new house. Maybe I can practise my skill again. And my mum asked me why I enrolled little girl in piano lesson, not organ. Well, little girl choose piano, so I never thought of changing her mind. My old organ needs some tuning. This organ costs around RM3000 that time. Wonder how much it is worth now??

Well, I managed to dig some old organ music books and papers out this morning. I got most of my books, may need to find those loose papers some other day. Luckily everything is still in good condition. Hope I still remember how to play my organ. It has been 15 years since I stopped playing.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Nothing more important than...

Just when I thought of giving it up, suddenly it feels like God is giving me an answer to my problem. Would it be wise for me to continue and give it a try? Or probably I have not try hard enough?

The idea of giving it up is very appealing. First of all I would no need to be stress thinking about targets. And will have a day off and enjoying with my family without any worries. But there is the anxiety.

The worry of money will be there, at the back of my mind. Please, some one tell me that money is not important. Yes, some things are more important than money, but money is a mean of getting things through.

Kids sure are expensive nowadays. Think about it for a second. From birth, their clothing, milk, disposable diapers, and stuff are very pricey now. Just the other day, my pregnant girl friend told me on having problem finding cheaper and yet good quality clothing for her new baby. if not the arrival of my nephew last year, I would have passed some baby stuff to my girl friend. Then when kids grow up, you have to pay for the school fee. And if any extra activities like music, arts etc, those classes not cheap either.

Every day we are struggling with bills and debts. House loan, car loan, credit cards, household bills etc. So if no money, then how are we going to settle all those stuff? Hmm.

A relative asked me before. Which one is important to you? Career or family? I said "Both". I never a homemaker type. I want to be successful in both aspects, may it be career and family. And a career without family is meaningless in life. So it is matter of how you manage your career and family. But in the end if you ask me to choose, I would rather lose career than my family.

Every days I would be going home looking tired with haggard eyes. Some day I will ask myself "Is it worth it?" But one thing will always cheer me up. One thing that will make me think that it is all worth doing. My family! My children! Yes, they make me keep trying hard and never lose hopes. And God has shown me a way to do it. God really listen to our prayers. Thank you very much for answering them.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Weekend Menu # 23: Long Beans Pancake

It was a lazy weekend for us. We woke up late yesterday, around 8am. The night before we watched "The Flowers of War" starring Christian Bale and Ni Ni till way past midnight! Very nice movie and I sticked to the screen for 2 hours plus. I never like watching war movie, but this historical movie is very touching. I think I cried more than twice watching it. A lot of blood and guns involved. *wink*

On Sunday we had our late breakfast before heading to Sunday Mass at 10.30am. After the one hour service, we went to our usual weekend grocery shopping. Don't feel like eating rice for lunch so I suggested that I made some pancakes. The night before my sister told me she is making long beans pancakes, so I also want to follow her.

It has been a while since I made this long beans pancakes. My dad loves this pancakes and can eat many pieces of it.

So I made the pancakes for our lunch.

Ingredients: Long beans, wheat flour, dried prawns, water, salt and light soy sauce

Just mix everything into a batter. Nice batter; not too much flour and not too watery. You can add beaten eggs and chopped spring onions into the batter, but I did not.

Add a bit of oil into wok. Ladle some of the batter into heated wok. When the bottom has turned brown, turn to other side and using spatula, flatten the pancake. Fry till it is brown. Dip the pancake in light soy sauce.

Simple pancake for the family and for my picky boy, he ate quite a lot of it. He was too full that he did not eat any rice for dinner. Lol! After our simple lunch, we took our afternoon nap. Then me and hubby watched "Ah Beng The Movie" which was very hilarious. Then we sent some of our packed boxes of stuff to our new house. We move a bit by bit, so when it is time to move in, we would not a ton of boxes to deal with!

Long time we did not have a DVD marathon. Suppose to watch another movie "The Woman In Black" starring Daniel Radcliffe last night, but I was too tired. And some more school re-opens today so need to get up to prepare for little girl. Maybe tonight........if I am not tired. *wink*

Sunday, March 18, 2012

This week gratitude

1. I am grateful that nothing bad happened this week. Other than I damaged my car in an accident on Tuesday, I am grateful that no one was hurt. Everything can be changed and repaired, but not LIFE!

2. I am grateful to my current staff who has been working for me for a year now! They are really helpful in the shop.

3. I am grateful that school is re-open tomorrow. It means my little girl is coming back from her holiday today. Really miss her when she is not around.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Friday night

Oh, yes! It is Friday. And not any usual Friday for me. An ex-colleague came back from Singapore and we are going to meet up tonight. It has been ages since we meet up.

So it is going to be a great night to chill out with my girl friends.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Our 2nd therapist session

Together with hubby, I brought Baby Jay to the therapist last Friday afternoon. It was a relief to hear from the Mdm Sue that she did not find any autism problem in Baby Jay. If you missed out on our first session, you can read here.

During our 2nd session, Mdm Sue had a briefing with hubby since he missed out on the 1st session. After the first sesion, we tried out the following method with Baby Jay:

1. When he threw tantrum, hubby put him in one corner. It took quite a while as Baby Jay was relunctant to stay still. But eventually he cooled down. After few minutes, we praised him for been good boy. And when we went out and he threw tantrum, we totally ignored him. Eventually he stopped because he learnt that he would not get his way.

2. Playing in taking turns. Taking turns in eating his favourite food. Taking turns in clearing the toys after playing. While doing it, we said "Mummy's turn! Jay's turn! Mummy's turn! Jay's turn" and so on until we finished. This exercise is to let him know that we take turns in our daily life may it be in action or in conversation. When we talk, he listens. When he talks, we listen. Now Baby Jay is used to taking turns that when I stopped half-way when it was my turn, he will urge me to continue.

3. We are talking in sentences, instead of one or two words. He starts to copy and learn more words now.

4. Reciprocate. One night, I tried to coax Baby Jay to drink water. But he was so eager to wear his new watch. So I told him to drink water first, then I put his watch for him. But he did not want and resist. So after 3 times of telling him the same instruction, I gave up and instead put his watch for him first. Then when I handed his water bottle, he drank without resistance. So, if it does not work one way, it will work the other way. Because he listened to the instructions (maybe not "drink water" and "put on watch" in that order) but both actions will need to be executed.

Mdm Sue's advices during the 2nd session are as follow:

1. Involve Baby Jay in a social environment. Maybe group him with few friends with children about his age. He will learn to communicate and socialise with other kids. For now, he is lacked of social skill with children of his age.

2. Place him in nursery so he can mingle with other children and build his social skill, sharing and confidence level.

3. To stop him from drinking soft drink and taking MSG as both found to cause kids to be aggressive and hyper-active.

4. Be consistent. Both parents have to agree on one unacceptable behaviour of Baby Jay that need to be curb. Both of us agreed that Baby Jay should not hit or push other kids when they want to play his toys. So both of us need to be consistent in telling and reminding him in that aspects. And if he does something wrong, the punishment has to be consistent too. So he would know that if he did wrong and been punished by daddy, he would not get any help or pity from mummy because mummy also agreed with daddy.

5. Sharing. With everyone around, we have a sharing of food, such as biscuits. Daddy starts first. "Daddy is going to share my favourite biscuits to mummy (break the biscuit and give to mummy), daddy is sharing with jie-jie (break the biscuit and give to little girl) and daddy is sharing with Baby Jay (break and give to Baby Jay)". Then mummy's turn and so forth. This is to show him what is sharing and it is alright to share with other people.

Our next session would be end of May. *wink*

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Poor baby

This is the result of following a car at near distance! Sigh! But sometimes we cannot be too careful.

My parents have been advising me to be extra careful on the road this year. Not a very smooth driving for those born in the Year of Snake, they read the Chinese Horoscope. Now I wonder whether this is true or just my bad luck.

This morning I bumped into someone's car from behind and while my front turned out bad (as the picture shown), the other car (a Proton Wira) is still much attached. Just the back bumper came off at the right side and a scratch on it. It happened in the 3rd Mile's traffic light. And while we started to move, suddenly a car came out from the junction and the front car brake so harshly. And I could not react fast enough. At least we both agreed on one thing! We blamed the other driver for shooting out when we are moving.

Sigh! Another hole in my pocket. Twice "hit" incident this year. First one, I accidentally moved forward and hit my aunt's car, instead of reversing. Cost me RM90 last month. Wonder how much it costs this round. Definitely couple of hundreds. *sob sob sob*

Monday, March 12, 2012

Weekend Menu #22: My comfort food

Just when you don't know what to cook and eat and are under the weather, porridge or congee is the solution. Porridge or congee does not need much introduction in this part of the world as every Asian know and have their own version of this classic comfort food.

Chicken porridge is probably the most favourite among all and next is pork porridge.

My recipe : Chicken wings porridge

Serve: 3 - 4

Duration of cooking: 2 hours

Generous amount of preserved salted cabbages (tung choy); 6 chicken wings, cut into half; a teaspoon (or more) of sesame oil; pinch of salt; 3 slices of ginger; 1 cup of rice; 4 cups of water; a dash of light soy sauce; a dash of pepper

1. Wash and soak the rice for 30mins (the least) so it will soften. Wash the cut chicken wings.
2. You can marinate your chicken wings with soy sauce, but I did not.
3. Throw the rice, chicken wings, sliced ginger, sesame oil and water into slow cooker. Cook in high temperature. Stir occasionally.
4. Once water is reduced, turn to low temperature. Add salt, soy sauce, pepper and preserved cabbage to taste. Preserved cabbage is already salty, so be careful with adding too much salt.

5. Cook for few more minutes, and stir well. Turn off the slow cooker and serve while it is warm.

6. Enjoy with your condiment!

Sunday, March 11, 2012

I am grateful....

Time zoomed with extreme speed. It does not wait for anyone. It just feel like yesterday when I watched "Three Musketeers" with hubby till midnight. I rarely watch DVDs, but a good movie is not to be missed! With a blink of eye, it is Sunday today!

So I would like to express my gratitude for the week ....

1. I am grateful that I am alive today and able to attend to your words in church this morning with my family.

2. I am grateful to my MIL who volunteered to help me to take care of my two hyper-active kids in the evenings for couple of days. And thank you for the nice and warm dinners at home, mum!

3. I am grateful that little girl and I have recovered from our sickness.

4. I am grateful that hubby installed WhatsApp into my Blackberry and now communication with friends is better and free of charge!

5. I am grateful that little girl has finished her first semester of school and she is doing fine in school. And I am grateful that Baby Jay is progressing well and is growing up handsomely and healthy.

6. I am grateful for the decisions we have made this week. With God's blessing, everything is on track now.

7. I am grateful for the mistakes that I have made this week because I learn and grow from mistakes.

8. I am grateful for yesterday, today and tomorrow!!

9.I am grateful to all the blogger friends and readers who take their valuable times to read my posts and make comments.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Plant in the pot

First of all, Happy International Women Day to all great women out there! :) This morning I went to a breakfast with my 2 girl friends. It is a good way to celebrate the Women Day; just being with great women. Felt like I did a lot of things this morning, i.e. sending kids out, pay girl's school fees, go to bank, fighting the traffic jam and had breakfast. But it is a good day! And this afternoon I am going to treat myself to a facial! Everything for this special day! *wink*

The other day my girl is asking me on flowers to be planted in new house. Yes! Because we do not have any grass or soil, so we opt for potted plants. So my girl asked me what flowers to buy or plant.

I used to have a pot of daisy few years back that I placed on the balcony but because been neglected by hubby while I were on 2 weeks travelling, it died. So my girl has been pestering me to buy some flower seeds to plant in the pot.

So I make it a "must" list to get some potted plants (some would be planted by ourselves) in our new house. With everything going, we should be moving in by middle of the year. *wink* Look forward to decorating and furnishing our new house. And besides cooking in my to-do list, I shall add "gardening" as my new hobby. Never have green fingers, but it will never stop me from trying out gardening. *wink*

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Someone, quick! Take them away from me.

I think I need a doctor! Or probably I need to rest more. Have been feeling dizzy for many days. And had sore throat and keep sneezing since yesterday morning. *sniff* Maybe have been taking too much of my favourite snack lately. Lol! Or you can say, it is a good excuse to dig into those yummy snack when ever I want to.

Cannot blame me fully because I got myself a super yummy chocolate bar! Yum yum! Some more it is not local made, but from Germany. They do taste different. Creamier and tastier, of course!

Alas, don't think too much about the diet. Everyone complained that I have grown skinny. Probably that is the cause of concern itself. For time being, I just enjoy my favourite snack whenever I want to. Provided my sore throat does not turn worse! Sigh!

Monday, March 5, 2012

Weekend Menu #21: Shark-y dish

Don't worry I am not going into shark fin!! My hubby is into the anti-shark finning campaign where as I am neutral. However I do agree that the way those people slaughtered the fish and threw into the seas are cruel. And some more it is proven that shark fin does not contain the traditionally believed high level of nutrition. So, why I need to take shark fin now?? I will avoid eating shark fin soup at all cost now.

But this is a very tasty and simple dish that I like. Shark fish in salted soy paste. Small sharks are easily to get in the wet market. I cook the fish in soy paste and a lot of ginger slices, to get rid of the fishy smell.

So, which one would you prefer to eat?? The shark meat or the shark fin???

Friday, March 2, 2012

A special child

In my previous post, I mentioned that my younger child went to a therapist yesterday afternoon. Our first session with the therapist, Mdm Sue from U.K. She is a trained Montessori Nursery teacher and the only licensed Brain Gym consultant and Instructor in Kuching (or Sarawak??). Some more she is a mother of 4 "special" children. And I noticed that she went to the same university as me; although I did not go to the main campus in U.K! *wink*

Okay, back to our first session. It was an interaction session, as a lot of Q&A. She was trying to understand Baby Jay more. If you are wondering why we brought him there in first place; first reason, there is a concern that Baby Jay may have autism or dyslexia just like few cousins and nephews of hubby. It seems to run in his family. And secondly, Baby Jay is still slow in speech.

During the 2 hours there, Mdm Sue observed Baby Jay's interaction with other children, and his communication with me. After few minutes warming up, Baby Jay went to play by himself and wander away to the playroom.

And Mdm Sue confirmed that usually boys are at risk of developing autism and dyslexia. And the statistic is that out of 10 boys, 8 are likely to have autism or dyslexia problems or some sort of learning difficulties. And most of the times, parents are in denial of their children having such problems and end up, too late to seek help, resulting in their children having social, learning, confidence or personality problems in later stage of life. And yes, I noticed mostly boys at her centre, ranging from baby to teenager.

So after 2 hours of surveying Baby Jay and talking to me, Mdm Sue concluded that Baby Jay has a speech delay for his age (2 years and 6 months old) and behaviour problem. For time being, there is no sign of autism shown (a sign of relief!).

Her analysis as follow:

1. Baby Jay only talk in one word or two, which is pretty slow for his age. And Mdm Sue said it could be because of lack of vocabulary. Maybe he did not have much vocabulary to develop his speech. So when he has lack of vocabulary, he cannot express well, so that is why he tends to throw tantrum. For Baby Jay, he needs to hear the same word (e.i. water) about 800-1000 times until he can form a sentence out of the word. For example, "Baby Jay, do you want to drink water? Oh, you want me to pour the water into your bottle? Which bottle would you like me to pour the water in? Do you want a cold or hot water?" Hmm, and this reminded me of hubby's uncle. When he went to pick his 2 sons (eldest being an autism boy), the uncle will recite the multiplication table to his kids in the car. End up the younger boy picked up the multiplication better and the eldest is studying for his professor in U.K.

2. Baby Jay is to learn to share. Sharing is important part of communication. Baby Jay must learn to share his stuff with others. During the session, Baby Jay is seemed pushing other kids away when other kids take toys (which belong to the therapy centre) away and some pushing around was observed. Mdm Sue said it is normal behaviour for young children, but Baby Jay is to learn to share his stuff with other kids. So, she told me to bring his favourite toy and his sister's favourite stuff and exchange them. Bring each kid to different room and leave them behind for few minutes. After that, bring both kids out from their individual rooms and exchange back the favourite stuff. This is to show that it is alright to share and play other children's stuff as at the end of the day, your stuff will be handed back to you.

3. Baby Jay is slow in learning. He is not dumb, just slow according to Mdm Sue. He can talk just in singular, and he understands what we are talking about. Mdm Sue can see that Baby Jay is not afraid of people, otherwise he would not be running around from one room to another and experiment with new toys and games. He even know how to differentiate colours. Because Baby Jay suddenly came to us with a bunch of red balls. There were so many coloured balls in a basket, but he only picked red balls. And he arranged them in one line. This, Mdm Sue said he is better compared to some kids of his age as he can differentiate colours and arrange things in one line.

4. Mdm Sue advised me not to discourage him from learning. For instance when he brought the 1st red ball to me, he said "orange" to me. My first instinct was correcting him. "No, this is not orange, but it is a red ball". There is no right or wrong, but Mdm Sue said this will discourage him from expresssing himself. I should instead said "Yes, it does look like an orange, because orange is round. But this is a red ball." Does this sound better?? Mdm Sue said there is a reason for Baby Jay to say "orange" in first place, because he can associate orange with shape. So, do not correct him, but indirectly encourage him to learn more.

5. Communication with other kids. Mdm Sue will help me search for a nursery that accept Baby Jay for one or 2 hours a day. This is to encourage him to mingle around with kids of his age. Probably because lack of communication with other kids, he tends to be aggressive towards other kids.

6. Sign of aggressiveness. Baby Jay tends to have a habit of staring or glaring at people from corner of his eyes. And he has that fierce expression too. And he tends to scratch or bite people whenever he throws tantrum. Mdm Sue advised me when ever he throws tantrum, seperate him from other kids or adults and get rid of "harmful" materials. Baby Jay has to learn to deal with his tantrum and accept that agrresion does not learn to rewards etc.

7. Patience is the key to deal with slow learner and aggressive kids. Mdm Sue advised me not to hit or scream at Baby Jay when he did something wrong or cry for something. Instead leave him to cry or throw tantrum by himself. He will stop eventually. After few minutes gone, then I can approach him and praise him for being a good boy. But do not make it into a habit, because he would associate "cry/throw tantrum, then be quiet, then got praise or reward". Or, bring him to another room or a chair where to leave him behind. After few times, he would know that when ever he is naughty he will be confined to a room or chair. No hitting or shouting, because children learn from adult. It means that if daddy or mummy can hit or shout at me, it is alright for me to hit or shout at others. So, positive psychology intervention is important. This I would learn in the next session.

So, thank god that I brought him to the therapist. I learnt that my boy needs some special needs and attentions from me. Hubby and myself also have to learn to handle him in different manners. In my mind, Baby Jay is my "boss', but I must change this mindset and let him know that I am his "boss". *wink* More to come after my 2nd session which is next Friday.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Child therapist

It has never occur to me that I need to bring my child to consult a child therapist. But today I did it.

I bought my boy to see one. I did not know of any child therapist existence in Kuching until this afternoon. And to my surprise, there are many children out there that need special needs and treatments. It was an eye opener to me. I learnt a lot today from the therapist and it definitely helps me in taking care of my hyper-active children.

It has been a two-hours session and very educational for me. Little did I know what I taught my children will make them into who they are. Today is the first session and my next session will be in a week time. Will share more about what I have learnt today another day. It has been a tiring day for us.


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Monday, June 22, 2009

i'm almost through my busy time of year. in fact, i'm so close with being done with halloween and christmas '09 i can taste it. and when i say i can taste it, what i mean is that i'm currently eating candy samples from what will be my next packaging project... nostalgia candy. i'm surrounded by all my most favorite candies from my childhood.
don't worry, i'll list it out one by one.
i'm talking about pixie sticks, pop rocks, ring pops, cry babies, fire balls, candy necklaces and fun dip and something called "zotz".
i'm telling you, this totally makes up for the taj mahal themed gum drop label i had to make.

the other day, one of the little, candy packaging balls-of-angst came into my office to brag about the class he'll be taking during his first semester of college.
"history of rock and roll".
now i know and you know that this class is not going to be what he thinks it's going to be (coughcougheasyAcough) (coughcoughand talking about elvis(no seriously. that's what he told me he thinks it will be(i brought up led zepplin and he stared at me blankly))cough).
this was the moment my new project (read: "new mix cd" (read: "rock 101: know it, don't blow it")) was born.
not that i'm in any way a true audiophile. and not that he'll care. but i'm having an incredibly great time making this cd and i highly recommend you make one of your own.

Monday, June 15, 2009

man, the weirdest thing happened last night.
i was hanging a clock on my bathroom wall when i slipped, fell and hit my head. when i came to i saw this...

i only wish i knew what it meant.

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

some lesser known rules of human nature...

1. my friends and i will never be able to finish a plate of baked goods because nobody wants to be the person who takes the last piece. we will however break the last piece in infinite halves.
this is a real life example of zeno's dichotomy paradox.

2. in any given dvd commentary the word "genius" will be used 32 times.

3. a person's moderation, patience, and (let's face it) basic decency diminishes sharply the moment they stop communicating with someone face-to-face, ergo an otherwise normal person has a high chance of being mean and crazy via phone. here, i've graphed it out...

my first job was as a telemarketer and i wanted to quit after the first fifteen minutes.
but i didn't.
i quit after 4 hours.
which is why i have this sympathy for the telemarketers of the world. i have no problem sitting through their speech and required three attempts, and usually when i do they are so filled with relief they start making small talk. today, after i updated our company address info for one of our free magazine subscription!s i had the following conversation...

telemarketer: what is your name?
me: kat
telemarketer: and what is your job title?
me: designer
telemarketer: really? i want to be a designer. i'm trying so hard.
me: right on. keep trying cuz it's totally worth it.
telemarketer: what city are you in?
me: salt lake city
telemarketer: would it surprise you to know that i am calling you from india?
me: no.
telemarketer: really?
me: really. what city?
telemarketer: new delhi
me: awesome.
telemarketer: yes, i am trying to be a designer but i was rejected from the local school-[life story]-free lance work.
me: ...[awestruck]... dude... that's rough.
telemarketer: have a nice day!

4. people always suck in their stomach the moment right before they walk in front of a mirror or large glass window.

ya, i'm totally making this up as i go along. additions?

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

to: the month of may

the other day i went to chevron for a diet coke and my chevron boyfriend was all, "i haven't seen you for a while." and i was all, "ya, i know." and then he was all "where have you been?" and i was all, "i don't know... busy?"

so there you go, month of may. i've been busy.
disinterested, non caffeinated, and busy.

supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting...
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How to make a small business Facebook page that rocks

How to make a small business Facebook page that rocks

There can be immense pressure for small businesses to be on social media, but it’s easy to get disheartened with the sheer number of channels out there.

Three good rules to follow are:

  • Only focus on the most popular social media channels
  • Pick only the channels that best support your business goals
  • Choose only a number of channels that you can consistently keep updated

Now, with those rules in mind, we’ll look at Facebook.

People are on Facebook to engage with family and friends primarily, but it is still a good social media channel for businesses.

Small businesses should play to their strengths which are being more personal and accessible than larger companies – especially as you will have only a fraction of the marketing budget.

1. Fill in your business information

You should fill in all the information you can, including business name, address, opening hours (if applicable), website and phone number, so your customers can find out more about you.

2. Use your logo as the profile picture

Use your business logo as the ‘profile picture’, ideally cropped to 180x180px, to represent your company. This avoids the image blurring or being cut off by the page template.

3. Use a high quality image as the cover photo

Use a high quality image of your premises, a product, or a professionally branded image as the cover photo, cropped to 851x315px.

Remember, the image will resize on different device sizes (mobile, tablet and desktop) so use a versatile image.

4. Respond to comments

If someone comments on your posts or page, make sure you respond with a personal reply. People love interacting with businesses so don’t be scared! If someone complains, don’t deal with it in public – just apologise and ask them to direct message you.

5. Add a call-to-action button

Facebook has a feature called a ‘call-to-action’ button which means you can provide text and a link to direct customers to perform an action.

Facebook has provided various options that enable you to ask customers to do things like sign up to your website, buy products, or call your business.

6. Post a mixture of content

No one wants to follow a page that’s just pushing products at them. People follow social media pages to stay involved with a brand and interact with your business in a way that is ongoing.

Focus on building relationships with your customers through social media by posting interesting articles (related to your niche!), asking for feedback, giving away exclusive offers, or maybe even sharing a wonderful customer service story.

Keep your Facebook posts relevant to your business, make sure your page is always up-to-date and post regularly.

Nothing screams ‘unprofessional’ more quickly than languishing social media pages, because it makes you look like you’re not really doing business properly.

Even if you’re busy, you must keep your Facebook page updated and professional-looking.

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On June 27, the Nicaraguan cordoba registered a slight appreciation in the parallel exchange market, two weeks after a 100% official devaluation. In exchange houses, the dollar was selling for 25,750 cordobas instead of the marked price of 26,25...

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A Mid 19th Century Child's dress

I have been going thru my treasure boxes trying to pick some of my favorite early print gowns for a new vingette....and I just am having a horrible time trying to decide 'who' will be on display! Early prints are my absolute FAVORITES!! I just got this little dress~ isn't it darling??? I have my fair share of whites, so I'm always excited to add some color to the collection. This dress is printed on a thick wool blend, in little boteh, or paisley designs on a gorgeous blue ground.
Is full of wonderful details, and has lots of surprises to share! Its all hand stitched, and looking at the outer fabric one would think the wearer would come from quite a wealthy family. Indeed I'm sure they did....but as we look further, one realizes just how precious any textiles were in early America (above photo detail of the gauging& piping at the waist)
The long sleeves are set off by wonderful blue ribbon & china button rosettes, with a single band of blue ribbon at the elbow, and a double band of this really great woven ribbon at the cuffs. They actually 'are' the cuffs! These fit very well with the color of the gown, and would have been a very easy way to lengthen the sleeves as the child grew. They are original, sewn in the same thread as the rest of the gown.
Here is a closer view of the little ribbon rosette I mentioned earlier~ red & white china buttons sewn with blue threads~ quite patriotic!!
And looking inside....SURPRISE! This is the inside of the waistband as shown in the second picture. The gauging has been fulled out with a narrow strip of this awsome indigo resist print~ there's little shamrocks, dots and double rings
This photo is the inside of the back shoulder~ you can see the back opening has been faced with a glazed blue polished cotton, still quite crisp, the hand hammered brass eyes, and the bodice lining~ a white homespun. If you look a little closer, the sleeves are also lined in the glazed blue cotton, but the shoulders have been lined in a very finely woven blue & brown homespun plaid.
The hem is faced in a coarse weave heavy linen with raw pinked top edge. Who would think this little dress would have sooo much going on? And I wonder if there is another little dress or husswife or pocket out there in the world some where....that has bits of this blue print in its own lining???

Barbara said...

Well, I can see YOU in this dress when you were little. You always did like Paisleys! Too bad our garments don't have the workmanship these days that they did "way back when". I just can't see the things that are being made now lasting as long as this little dress did, especially if they are worn as much as our ancestors wore their things. Did your new "models" arrive?? Can't wait to see them.
LY, Mom

......Thimblefolk.......Barb McNamara said...

Oh Rachael, it's wonderful. Wish I lived closer so I could visit and see all your treasures.

How's that little Pippin doing?


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The Tower was originally a Douglas stronghold probably built around 1581. In 1681 it was acquired by Sir George Lockhart. It would have been built in response to an Act of Parliament of 1535 directing those with land to the value of £100 to construct a tower, thirty feet square, to protect himself and the local population from Border raiders.

In 1837 the building had become semi-ruinous and in 1861 it was restored by Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart under the supervision of Dr. D.R. Rankin of Carluke.

It again came into a state of disrepair with a leaking roof and the flagstone beginning to fall in but in 1998 it was agreed to lease it to a building preservation trust who restored it sympathetically and with much attention to detail. The building has now returned to the family and it is available for holiday accommodation together with the Bothy. It sleeps up to eight people.


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Wikileaks' Assange: Defying Common Sense

February 4, 2011 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - While there may be highly dedicated, honest, and upright people involved with Wikileaks, and certainly amongst many who believe in it, so would there be in any plot where the vast majority of the people involved are managed through careful compartmentalization and disinformation.

The corporate owned media releasing the Wikileaks publicly - do so with a great amount of spin, distortion, careful timing, and irresponsible representations. They are overtly and continuously abusing the cables in a self-serving manner. One must wonder why Assange, seeking transparency and to balance an equation he claims as unjust, has "partnered" as he calls it, with the very ones who have done the unbalancing and obfuscating of transparency all along.

During a 60 Minutes interview (sponsored by telecom giant AT&T) Assange was described as distrusting of the mainstream media. One of his stated goals was to release information for others to decide the meaning.

So through his new-found partnership, he is insuring that the very media establishment he distrusts decides the meaning of his released information as it filters out to the public.

"Deciding the meaning for themselves" generally involves ambiguous, diplomatic cables that refer to unsubstantiated conversations or facts, often with redacted names, released specifically into the hands of demagogues and rabble-rousers to play "ad-lib" with and trigger various aspects of agendas pursued by Wall Street and Washington.

The Tunisian leak appears nothing more than a collection of otherwise unsubstantiated hearsay and gossip backed by the mainstream media's meticulous grooming of Julian Assange's credibility and the "threat" he poses to corrupt individuals. While Assange describes the joy he feels watching corrupt bankers "squirm," he seems to have no aversion toward working with the mainstream media, whose lies and misrepresentations have facilitated a decade of war, over a million dead, and millions more maimed and displaced.

Julian Assange has seemingly out-lived any use he may have had for people interested in the truth and protecting people from corruption through his self-defeating partnership with the mainstream media. The Egyptian uprising is being reported as a result of the success protesters had in Tunisia - success Assange claims a role in.

Closer to the truth, protest leader Mohamed ElBaradei and the mainstream press, through the explicit backing of US think-tanks like the Council on Foreign Relations and International Crisis Group, had been building up and fomenting unrest since as early as February 2010. The same could be said in Jordan and Yemen with the Tunisian Wikileaks and uprising being only the rhetorical trigger for this premeditated geopolitical re-ordering.

Ironically, Julian Assange affords us the best advice to deal with this new mechanism of manipulation he is lending the spin-doctors of the mainstream press. He insists that it is up to the people to decide whether or not to pass on information and donations to his organization.

While honest people avoiding Wikileaks will not prevent intelligence outfits from supplying his volunteers with "leaks" or funding, it will ensure that real, honest to God, whistle-blowers and support go somewhere more reputable inside the very real, and very effective alternative news media. After all, it was the exponential growth and effect of the alternative media that spurred White House "Information Czar" Cass Sunstein to blueprint the creation of a Wikileaks-like operation in the first place.


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Members of the OOIDA Board of Directors, executive officers, D.C. office and others assembled Oct. 21-25 at OOIDA headquarters in Grain Valley, Mo., and spent four days conducting Association business and producing a substantial work agenda for 2016.

The full board of 22 directors from all over the U.S. and Canada approved the Association's strategies for legislative issues, legal actions and significant regulatory participation.

Board members approved minutes from the previous meeting and heard the finance and business report from OOIDA President and CEO Jim Johnston and Chief Operating Officer Rod Nofziger.

Government affairs. The overview on federal matters was presented by Executive Vice President Todd Spencer and Director of Government Affairs Laura O'Neill-Kaumo with assistance from Ben Siegrist of the Association's government affairs staff. They updated the board on regulatory affairs and legislative matters.

The six-year House highway bill was a big topic. OOIDA's D.C. office has worked furiously on Capitol Hill for the bill to include critical requirements members support and to keep language out that would open the door to rulemakings the Association opposes. O'Neill-Kaumo provided a rundown of what was in and what was out of the fast-moving bill. Managing Editor Jami Jones has an update on this legislation at press time, Page 24.

Regulatory affairs. Director of Regulatory Affairs Scott Grenerth updated board members on the regulatory plan developed by the Association in an effort to promote a true safety-minded agenda in D.C. while countering overbearing regs that do little to improve highway safety and that simply drive up the cost of business. The big-ticket issues were EPA-NHTSA's greenhouse gas phase 2; electronic logging devices, insurance minimums; and entry-level driver training.

Earlier this year, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration launched a negotiated rulemaking. As part of that process the Entry-Level Driver Training Committee, composed of dozens of industry stakeholders, was tasked with hammering out the framework for a driver training regulation. Grenerth was in D.C. as part of the committee, along with Board Member Bryan Spoon of Grandy, N.C., representing Spoon Trucking. Grenerth called the work of the Entry-Level Driver Training Committee "a huge effort." The proposed rulemaking is projected to publish in December 2015.

Spoon said he thought the positive results that were reached at the meetings provided the foundation for a minimum standard.

"Is it 2,000 hours? No. But at least we got enough to effectively shut down CDL mills. I'd say overall it was successful."

Spoon said he'd like to see more negotiated rulemakings.

"Frankly, it worked," said Grenerth.

Lawsuit update. OOIDA's Litigation Counsel Paul Cullen Sr. and Paul Cullen Jr. reported on the Association's litigation activities, including details on the successful conclusions of OOIDA's lawsuits against Comerica Bank, C.R. England and Swift Transportation. The attorneys detailed a status report on several other active cases, including the proceedings in OOIDA's court battle with the California Air Resources Board over the Truck and Bus rule. LL


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A Famine of Truth

One of my favorite authors is the late sage and intellectual Malcolm Muggeridge. Born at the dawn of the twentieth century, Muggeridge was, at various stages of his life, an atheist, a Marxist, a womanizer, a Member of Parliament, a journalist, a spy, a staunch anti-communist, and a Christian apologist. While he is best remembered by his fellow Britons for his television documentaries and an unmistakable lilt, Muggeridge deserves to be remembered for a much more significant reason.

Seduced by the communist promise of earthly bliss, Muggeridge and his pregnant wife moved to Moscow in 1932. The rumors that Stalinist Russia was anything but a “workers’ paradise” did not dampen their spirits in the least. Shaking the dust of London and the West off of their shoes, they were full of high ideals and naïve optimism upon arrival in the U.S.S.R.

Muggeridge, working as a correspondent for the prestigious British daily The Manchester Guardian, quickly earned a name for himself among the Moscow bosses as a supporter of the regime. His reports were rapturous tributes to the wonders of Soviet government, economics, agriculture, and arts.

Yet even as he wrote of a communist utopia, Muggeridge was beginning to have doubts; doubts about the veracity of the information the Soviet government spoon-fed the foreign press and which it, in turn, passed on to an undiscriminating Western public, and doubts about the very nature of man. Foreign journalists working in Stalin’s Russia operated according to the strict dictates of the government—interviews were scripted, travel was restricted, and reports were censored. All the while, the secret police eavesdropped on their conversations, read their mail, noted their associations, and followed their every move. Any journalist who was deemed to be subversive faced, at the very least, harassment and immediate deportation. Consequently, many newsmen, preferring a comfortable existence to disgrace and unemployment, sacrificed journalistic integrity in favor of an amicable agreement with the regime. According to these rules, journalists would post to their Western editors news items that cast the U.S.S.R. in a favorable light. In return, the Soviet government would allow them to remain in the country to live a comfortable existence, supplying their guests with such creature comforts as caviar, vodka, and mistresses.

Muggeridge was quick to sample any delights offered and, initially, he willingly passed along Soviet propaganda, not the least because he was ideologically predisposed to believe it. Nevertheless, the signs of terror and human degradation steadily gnawed at his conscience. Even the seemingly omnipresent KGB could not hide all of the starving people or quell all of the stories of genocide. Some rumors had it that in the countryside, where no foreigner was permitted without advance application and escort, millions had died.

Risking both his career and his life, Muggeridge ignored travel restrictions, escaped his KGB handlers, and headed for Ukraine, where conditions were said to be worst of all. What he found there horrified him. Whole villages, whose grain had been seized by the government, were left to starve and cannibalize one another. Those who resisted were liquidated or deported to one of the innumerable camps that dotted the vast Siberian landscape.

Jarred from his moral and intellectual slumber, Muggeridge quickly abandoned his communist views and began writing an exposé on the government-induced famine. The articles were smuggled out of the country through intermediaries to be published in The Manchester Guardian. Following Muggeridge’s example, Gareth Jones, another British journalist, outlined his observations of the famine in The London Times. Together, their stories caused an international firestorm of debate. Most regarded the reports as scurrilous and unjustified. The Soviet leadership denied the stories while the journalistic establishment denounced Muggeridge and Jones as liars. Among the denouncers was Walter Duranty, the famed correspondent of The New York Times who assured his readers that people in Ukraine were merely “hungry.”

Muggeridge even drew fire from playwright George Bernard Shaw. The previous year, Shaw had accepted a high profile invitation from Josef Stalin to tour the Soviet Union. A man of strong socialist sympathies, Shaw was lavished with attention and praise during his visit. His tour was carefully orchestrated to include only what authorities wanted him to see. Still, evidence of a Stalinist terror was so widespread that the reality of Soviet policy could not be hidden entirely. But Shaw simply ignored the suffering, returned to Britain and dismissed reports of widespread famine as malicious lies. Moreover, the atheistic Shaw (bizarrely) declared Stalin’s Russia to be an example of “what would happen if [Christ] lived now.”

Sadly, it was Duranty and Shaw who won the battle for public opinion. The wicked prospered further still in the years that followed. Duranty was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his (deliberately false) reporting on the famine and Shaw, who had already been honored with a Nobel Prize for Literature, would go on to receive an Academy Award for Pygmalion. Meanwhile, Muggeridge became a journalistic pariah while Gareth Jones was murdered under mysterious circumstances during a fact-finding mission. As far as these events are concerned, one might justly say that Muggeridge’s only earthly consolation was George Orwell’s lampooning of Shaw as the buffoonish Mr. Whymper in his classic critique of communism, Animal Farm.

But there is a spiritual dimension to the story.

When we consider the question of why these men offered such different interpretations of the same events, we uncover an interesting fact: our assumptions about the nature of man matter . Shaw believed the majority of humanity to be basically good, but just as some are born with physical defects, some, too, are born with moral imperfections. Secure in this conviction, Shaw judged it the task of society to identify and eradicate those few elements that were flawed. He saw no need for prisons or rehabilitation programs. If a man is bad, he is bad and must be eliminated. “It’s not a question of to kill or not to kill,” said Shaw. “It’s a question of killing the right people.”

By contrast, Muggeridge arrived at an opposite conclusion. Once of Shaw’s ideological persuasion, he left his native Britain to find paradise, but instead found only greater evidence of man’s penchant for evil. He witnessed a government’s willful and systematic annihilation of its people, and it changed him. No longer did he nurse illusions of heaven on earth. On the contrary, he was cynical and hopeless.
Then one Sunday while still in Ukraine, he made the uncharacteristic decision to attend a church service. The place was packed with people from every walk of life. Muggeridge was moved:

Never before or since have I participated in such worship. The sense conveyed of turning to God in great affliction was overpowering…. In their minds, I knew, as in mine, was a picture of those desolate abandoned villages, of the hunger and the hopelessness, of the cattle trucks being loaded with humans in the dawn light. Where were they to turn for help? … Every human agency was found wanting. So only God remained, and to God they turned with a passion, a dedication, a humility, impossible to convey.

Muggeridge turned to God, too. Experience had shown him, as Solzhenitsyn put it, that “The line between good and evil runs through every human heart”; an encounter with Christ offered transformation through God’s grace.

Just as Shaw’s erroneous belief in the fundamental goodness of man had, paradoxically, bred in him a cruel and pitiless regard for human misery, Muggeridge’s discovery that man is morally bankrupt without God, produced compassion. And that compassion, once stirred, led him to find and make known to the world the work of an obscure woman in Calcutta: Mother Teresa.

Over seventy years later, history has shown that Muggeridge was unquestionably right about the famine, yet he was never publicly vindicated. Duranty and Shaw, however, continue to enjoy a posthumous celebrity. As recently as 2003, the Pulitzer board rejected requests to revoke Duranty’s Prize. Shaw’s popularity as an English playwright ranks only behind Shakespeare. And Muggeridge, with hope rekindled, became one of the twentieth century’s most articulate voices in defense of the Christian faith, placing him alongside other notables like Chesterton and Lewis.

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Friday, March 3, 2017

Hey, Look, Trump Invented Hate!!!

I know this might be a few months old, but according to the New York Times, President Trump invented hate and hate crimes.
From the failing and vile NY Lying Times:

This Week in Hate highlights hate crimes and harassment around the country since the election of President Trump
Wait, you mean there was no hate crimes during the Obama administration, like the riots, killing of police officers, etc?
The writer, some illiterate named Anna Wood is the writer of these articles and looking at her sorry twitter page, she is just another lefty crazy person who is extremely biased against President Trump.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

My Guess The wedding Is Off?

From the Stevens Point, WI, Journal:   A 35-year-old Plover man who told a detective he was selling methamphetamine to save money for his wedding was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison.
Pao Xiong was charged after police searched his home Aug. 25, 2016, and found more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, along with more than $24,000 in cash, according to a criminal complaint.
Xiong admitted he had been selling methamphetamine for about four or five months and told a detective he was saving money for a wedding he was planning in Laos, the complaint says. A detective investigating the case estimated Xiong likely sold at least 20 ounces — more than a pound — of methamphetamine in Plover and the surrounding area....
Portage County Assistant District Attorney Cass Cousins said Xiong was financially motivated to commit the crime, which Cousins described as “profiting from the addiction of others.”
David Casey, Xiong’s attorney, said Xiong doesn’t have a significant criminal record and was extremely cooperative with police after he was arrested.
“When he gets out he wants to get a job and work hard and never be in trouble again,” Casey said.
My guess the wedding is off but who knows, maybe the future Mrs. Xiong likes his entrepreneurial spirit.

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Monday, June 30, 2008

Preparing for VBS

A week from today we are startingour week of VBS, better known here as Escuelita. That means that we have to begin preparing. Escuelita can bring in over a couple hundred kids from the community and is a huge event. Thankfully, we have some extra room this year in the school which will help to hold all the kids. So, today we began some of the preparations. We filled in 400 invitations to hand out to the people in Ixtlan, we will go around on Saturday and again on Sunday to hand those out. We also cut out some "Pigs" that are a craft that go along with one of the stories. We have to get a lot of that stuff done for the younger kids so they don't hurt themselves or take up three days just trying to cut out and fold a little box.

Here Grant and Lupita work on filling out invitations. They are still working on their first 100. Concentration was perhaps sporadic at best for a while there. I was cuttng out and folding the pigs with Albaro.

Albaro was ready for something a little more exciting after we finished the pigs. Turns out it was raining out so vollyball wasn't such a great idea.

Here is the pile of pigs that Albaro and I made. It isn't as impressive as it seems it should have been, but there are 50 little pigs there, I think.

Albaro decided that we needed some music while we filled out the rest of the invitations. I am pretty sure he just didn't want to fill out the invitations. He sat at that piano and messed around for quite a while. If you are wondering, he doesn't play the piano and wasn't terrible proud to be playing either which made for an interesting and unique experience.

We have a lot more to get ready for, but we did get a good chunk of work done today. That was nice. Escuelita will be here before we know it, but it will be a really great week. Tiring, I am sure, but great.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Futbol (not americano)

So, Saturdays here are soccer days. At about 11:00 in the morning someone heads off in the van and picks up a bunch of rowdy boys about 11-12 and under. We had a good 8-10 in the van and then picked up about that many more back in Ixtlan. So we end up with at least 15-20 boys in this little barn to play soccer.

Now, I just want to make sure this picture has been created correctly for you. There are 4 American young men, to be polite, and a bunch of Mexican kids running around. That is enough to make people think that we are crazy, but then we start playing soccer with them? Soccer is like the unamerican sport. Sure it is played in the US, but what do we really know about the sport? We have to convince our soccer stars to move in from other countries. So, these crazy Americans want to play soccer with a bunch of Mexican kids.

Who, I ask, do you think the experts here are?

I hope you didn't say the Americans. Needless to say, it was a lot of fun. The kids behave really well. They are good enough that we can really have fun. They are also good enough that the goal is the post for the basketball hoop. (I will say it isn't any whimpy basketball post. Made of concrete, etc. but still much smaller than an actual goal. And these kids are good.

So if you want some good exercise, come down on a Saturday, these kids will put you through the works.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

The first week

Well, one week ago today I left home and came down here to Ixtlan. I really didn't know entirely what I was in for. A lot has happened in a week. I have a lot to learn about Ixtlan, about the people, about Spanish, about God. I think the same would be true no matter where I would go. We often feel we know so much, when in reality, we don't know a thing. We are just on the edge of knowledge. Every time we go a little further we just realize how much bigger everything is than what we thought.

Anyway, you probably don't want to listen to me wax philosophic. Blehh... get that taste out of your mouth and on to something different.

What have I done in the past week you may be wondering. What does a person do in Ixtlan?

We have a Bible study or Chruch or something every evening down here. That means that I have done a lot of that. I have gotten a lot of practice listening to Spanish that way. The Bible studies are done with groups or couples in the community. It is a great way to get out and get to know people a little better.

I have made a couple of trips to Zamora already. Zamora is were we go for and "Walmart runs" we might need to go to, although here they would be called "Aurrera runs". "Walmart" here seems to be a lot like walking into a Sam's Club. I don't think I will have a problem with not having the things that I need. Zamora is about 30 minutes away. It is a pretty nice city with some pretty good food.

I have had a lot of time to plan for the English classes as well. I am realizing that I have a lot of things to learn about English and about teaching English to people who don't know the language. It is a pretty daunting task, but I am excited about the possibilities that it will open up. I need to work a lot more on the different parts of the class, but it is making some slow progress.

A last thought:
Spencer said it pretty good the other day he said that the reason he came down to Ixtlan was because he heard there was this lady that cooked up really great food down here. Mom, don't worry. Jan will never let us starve, although I may eat too much. And there is always the taco stand down the road.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Jodi reminded me of something in a comment on Rambling. I got to see her last weekend. I think she just about squeezed me to death but I managed to step the side and make it more of a side hug than a front on hug which I think saved me.

OK, I may be being a little bit facetious. It was great to see her and she seems to be doing alright. She didn't really try to hug me to death I don't thinks, but it was pretty....intense, some people might say. She has definitely gotten better with the whole speaking Spanish thing, which is great.

We did also get a chance to talk to Mom, Dad, Holly and Micah all at the same time on Skype. Mom and Dad were in Morris. and so we all talked together. It felt kinda like we spent the evening with them. A short, very strange evening, but an evening none the less.

Here is picture of Jodi and I as proof.

She is panning on coming again next weekend. We'll see.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Bienvenidos a Ixtlan

Here I am. Sitting in the guest house wondering where to begin. There is so much to say and yet how can you say it all. How can you fit your life into weird little letters. I don't know so I guess I won't try too hard.

The weekend is past. It was a great weekend. We had both baptisms and communion. It was a great chance to see the church, to get to know the people who attend, and to pick up where I left of last summer when I visited. Of course, I discovered that I don't really know Spanish. I have some studying to do there, but thankfully the people here are patient and willing to listen to bad English and still be able to carry on a conversation. It is slowly coming back and I am glad to have the support that I have.

Time fills up here with studying and learning the language and Bible studies and picking people up and droppong people off. I haven't had a chance to sit down and discuss what is going to happen with the English classes yet. There are a lot of things to figure out first. Once we have things nailed down a little bit more, I will be able to do some planning.

Mike and Deb Lehman are leaving today so things will be a little different. We won't have anyone cooking us breakfast anymore. Prayers that they are able to return home safely.

Here are some more pictures. These were taken from the second floor of the guest house. Not real interesting, but part of what I see every day.

Coming soon: Lalo, our tagalong little brother.


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Joe Custer is Director of the law school's Judge Ben C. Green Law Library, and he teaches Advanced Legal Research and Electronic Discovery. His scholarship has primarily been in the areas of legal research, administration and issues pertaining to historical social justice.

Custer joined Case Western Reserve in 2015 after serving five years as Director of the Vince C. Immel Law Library and as a faculty member at the University of Saint Louis School of Law. He began his career in higher education as a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Kansas School of Law, where he worked for 15 years.

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Last Weekend @ Riley’s:
The St. Patrick’s Day Shows

March 25th, 2017

Pittsburgh’s still the best place to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. That’s according to Niche.com, which places the Burg ahead of Boston (the city that held its first St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 1737) and Chicago (where they dye the Chicago River green in the saint’s honor). Pittsburgh’s Parade Day traditions might be younger than Boston’s, and our rivers might not ever go green, but Pittsburgh is still the best place to be for mid-March celebrations … and the place to be in Pittsburgh (at least for my money) is Riley’s Pour House.

This post is a follow-up to Parade Day @ Riley’s: Just the Beginning, which I managed to post between a couple of marathon gigs on Parade Day Weekend. I intended to be as timely with this post, but the St. Pat’s performance schedule proved to be even more demanding than the one on Parade Day. We played ten hours over two days, dividing our time between the pub stage and the tent. Now, after a week, I’m finally ready to do some blogging.

The St. Pat’s weekend got rolling on a snowy Friday afternoon, but the weather didn’t deter the crowd. By evening, the party was in high gear as piper John Walsh (above) did his traditional march through the pub.

Meanwhile, out in the tent, hundreds were dancing and singing along with Mike Gallagher and his son John (right). Bandmate Lauren Moore and I arrived at the end of their set, in time to hear their rousing rendition of “A Nation Once Again.”

We took the stage at 5:00, and before long the place was at capacity. At once point, I had to pause and snap a picture (left). I can’t prove it, but I sense it was the best party this side of Dublin.

At 8:00, Mark Guiser took over the pavilion stage while bassist Duane Davis joined me for two more sets inside the pub. Then, the next night, we did it all again.

I’ve been playing March shows like this for years. They’re fun but demanding, and over time I’ve learned a thing or two about pacing the sets so as not to run out of steam. But this year I decided it was time to purchase some new gear to ease the strain of back-to-back performances. I offer the following as a bit of musician shoptalk. FYI.

First, I opted to play some of these shows with a Martin 000×1 rather than my usual full-size Guild. I love my all-wood dreadnought, but the Martin — with its smaller design and laminated back and sides — makes standing and playing a lot easier, especially during the final sets. Second, I fashioned a mic-hat that provided more freedom on stage. It might seem like a small thing, but the wider range of movement seemed to keep me limber as the night wore on. That’s the mic-hat (and the new Martin) on the right. The microphone, a Shure WH20XLR, comes with a wire head brace that looked like it might get uncomfortable fast.

The hat seemed like a good way to provide padding while keeping the thing in place. Headgear for a 21st-century scop. What do you think? Maybe I should market these.

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Kathleen's research interests broadly encompass the neural correlates of language. More specifically, she is interested in sentence comprehension, and how this process might function in the brain. Kathleen is currently working on an aphasia treatment study using fMRI and behavioral measures to better understand the neural processes that may be implicated in language impairment and subsequent language recovery after stroke. She is also working with perfusion imaging, a method that measures blood flow to the brain, which may be reduced and/or slowed in individuals with aphasia. Additionally, she is interested in neuroimaging methodological issues that can occur with special populations, such as brain-damaged stoke patients. Her ultimate goals are to help elucidate the neural underpinnings of language comprehension in unimpaired individuals, as well as those struggling with a language disorder.

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Monday, July 11, 2011

Weekly Recipes #60

Sweet & Sour Chicken Skewers

Fingerling Potato-Leek Hash with Swiss Chard and Eggs

Stir-fried Rice Noodles with beef and Spinach

Burger of the Week:
Burgers with Blue Cheese and Sherry Vidalia Onions

Grilled Corn on the cob with Jalapeno Butter

Summer rerun:
Watermelon Tomato Soup

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