Reading Time: < 1 minute We took a 2 weeks China trip and came back last Monday evening. A bit exhausted, and at the end of the trip, our daughter got sick, she said she got tummy ache, and needed to go to restroom (lavatory) every 10 min. The fun part of being parents. Some more serious thoughts 1) My

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 Serenity started preschool a week ago, on Friday. When she started toddler program, since I need to go to work early in the morning, I have not been able to drop her off or pick her up much for first semester. Since I joined my current employer, I got more flexibility, and I got to

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens (link here) Manual focus point: make sure eye is the focal point (link here Exposure: add some if background is too bright (snow) ISO: 100 is the common value, add more if we need more (gan guang du) in the case of low light Reference: cheat sheet 

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 08-Dec-2020) Things I learned today (or tomorrow am 🙂 One team can have at most two distribution certs In Xcode sign in as agent without the (mail.com or gmail.com after @) because it appears my apple id is just the id without all the @ + dot com stuff. That alone cost me probably

Reading Time: < 1 minute I heard this story from NPR a while back, I meant to share it with my daughter’s teacher, did not do it as the New Town incident happened on that day. This is again discussed this morning at Hope Montessori morning presentation. I gave it some thought on this topic from time to time. I think

Reading Time: < 1 minute A lot of good points. We congrats/celebrate with kids (did something, e.g., potty training), we don’t “reward” them (Sarah). The “grit” (persistence) is very important, recent research found American kids are more tend to give up (Susie). Also, toddlers (community) do not have watch, the teachers give toddlers plenty of time to make mistakes and

Reading Time: < 1 minute Did not get much sleep last night, as I had to go to airport to pick up my in-laws at 2 am. This morning, after drop off my daughter and I was trying to change lane to get to Panera Bread, the car behind me was not happy, and honked. I honked in revenge. Not