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  • Old computers at Dallas Children’s Museum

    We went to Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, for my son’s spring break. My brother’s family just moved there recently. With everybody being new to the area, I didn’t know which place to visit for some fun. Naturally, I started looking for Children’s museums. Some web search revealed there is a place called Dallas…

  • All books were sent out

    I decided to gave away the extra copies of my book. In the US, I sent 2 copies to Ohio, one each to Florida and Texas. Overseas, I sent 2 copies to India, and one copy to Australia. I had tea/coffee with a reader in the Chicago area and hand-delivered a copy to her. In…

  • My son’s Chinese exceeded my expectations

    During our trip to Dallas for spring break, I was pleasantly surprised that my first grader’s Chinese is better than I expected. My son was in a Japanese immersion Montessori school for pre-school (3-4) and kindergarten (5). We put him in the Japanese immersion program because Japanese is as close to Chinese as I could…

  • Random thoughts and observations on 20060405

    1. I am disappointed that we couldn’t go back to China this year. I had hoped that I could bring Benjamin and Maria there for the first time, and have some quality time with my family; 2. After work, on my way to the train station today, there were kids giving out fortune cookies to…

  • Spring Break 2006

    It’s Spring Break for my first-grader. He is having this week off. So tomorrow I will bring him to Dallas, Texas to see my brother’s family and my nieces. We will stay there for a few days and fly back to Chicago on Saturday. The season change is subtle and gradual, with even a few…