Homeschool Shanghai

Hmmm… the hosting provider suspended the site because I had activated an mp3 player downloaded from the WordPress website and they have problem with the script. I only knew about it when my email bounced and I couldn’t get on my page. My husband had to contact the service provider in the US and get [...]

I have a link to this person’s blog on my list of links on the sidebar. May I say to readers (who are believers in the Lord) that the writer is an atheist. However, he has his analysis close or right on the nail when it comes to financial and global stuffs, of course, exclude [...]

Everything is back to normal today. Paul has been working hard for his coming piano exam. He has one problem though, his fingers are not long enough to stretch across an octave of the minor key. He manages well enough for major keys. Hopefully the examiners would be lenient this round. He manages to speed [...]

What Paul most feared happened this morning. The caterpillar had climbed out of the bowl and was squashed to death at the attempt to go out of the room. We checked evreyone’s slippers but found nothing. The poor fellow was near the door as a pile of black liquid and squashed flesh. It must have [...]

The television has been turned on since the morning. I’ve been keeping myself updated on the progress of rescue operation of Sichuan. I must say that the people of China and the government have worked so well and quick together to facilitate the rescue operation. The death toll climbed to more than 20,000 last night, [...]

I didn’t know that there was an earthquake until the news report came out today while I was watching TV. I found out from some friends in BSF that some of them were evacuated from their apartments, especially those staying in higher floors. Many of them felt the ground shook. Being on the ground floor, [...]

Not every Chinese speaks very accurate Mandarin – taking the Beijing Mandarin as a plump line. I do consider myself falling short of that standard too, as I speak with an accent closer to the Taiwanese Chinese, and no, it’s not the Mandarin that Chen Shuibian 陈水扁 uses. Over here in China, not only that [...]

Paul is 8 years old today! It seems like yesterday when I brought him from the hospital, and now he’s so big already. Looking at his lanky figure and large feet (his feet is just one centimetre smaller than mine), it really makes me feel old. I do miss the time I carried him out [...]

Reading Matthew 26 and seeing the current global economic status really makes me rather uneasy. How long will the fiat-money system last us, before it’s collapsed? I’ve been reading on “How to Survive the Crisis and Prosper In the Process” by Darryl Robert Schoon. Although having precious metal would be good in times of crisis, [...]

It’s holiday here in Shanghai. It used to be a week, but with the adjustment from the government made to ease human traffic over festive seasons and remembering other festivals like Qing Ming and Rice Dumpling Festival, Labour Day holiday is now a three-day affair. SALT and SAINTS still follow the one-week-holiday structure because we [...]