Reading Time: 2 minutes Yoyo likes to talk a lot, and this morning she said something quite funny: daddy, you should not drink coffee or alcohol anymore, because they won’t help you grow. You should drink some milk. Then she handed her milk bottle to me. Sometimes, she likes to use some big words like “even”, “actually”, we think
Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I found out I made a dumb mistake while deleting an NSMutableArray. for(int ii=0; ii
Reading Time: < 1 minute Did not want to go in the morning (most days), did not want to leave in the afternoon (sometimes). Positives: she started to call some teachers by name, and some friends by name. She talked quite a bit in English, continuing make progress on language. Kindermusik, sit on teachers’ lap. A nice overlap for her
Reading Time: < 1 minute From a Massachusetts mother to her 13 old son. NPR Talk of the Nation has a discussion on this today. Very much applicable to myself (though not a teenager). So in summary, no TV, limited iPhone, happy parenting 
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hair cut Mommy just cut Yoyo’s hair. Mommy: wo yao kan kan wo de cheng guo. In english: I would like to see my fruits (results). Yoyo: cheng guo ke yi chi ma? (Can I eat the results Reading Also, these days she just likes to be teacher, “reading” books to us. Sometimes she
Reading Time: < 1 minute Same applies to Ruixian (my wife). Note for Ruixian I need to respect her authority as well (sometimes she lost patience when discipline our daughter). Saw this from Saturday’s Kindermusik class, Serenity was a bit hyper that day (due to chocolate lollipop?). When the teacher asked the kids to put the sand blocks back, Serenity did
Reading Time: 2 minutes My daughter has been to the Montessori Toddler program (Hope Academy in Creve Coeur) for over a year, and I think I am becoming a Montessori dad. This is a bit abstract, but I like to list a few examples about the school and teachers, and show why they are great. This is the first
Reading Time: 2 minutes I changed my job this Jan. I started working for a coal company as mobile app developer. Coal and mobile app (iPhone, iPad) do usually go together in the same sentence, I think. As coal is described as “dirty” in the media, especially by the environmentalists, the “green” people both in and outside government (think
Reading Time: < 1 minute I was involved into a car accident in the past weekend. We are all fine, so as the other party. The main thing is both cars got some damage. It’s funny when I drove the broken car on the road, I got quite a few “look back” from other drivers. And yesterday, at McDonald parking
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have not done this for a while. I have changed job again, and in the new year started a developer position very close to home, doing mobile (iOS, iPhone, iPad) development. I love what I am doing now, because I got opportunity to create an app from back end (database, web service) to front end
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