The Middle Income Trap

December 23, 2011

I had been reading up on a certain government’s plan to increase the income per capita of the said country in a certain number of years. Hmm… Do you think we’ll achieve that goal? I don’t know. I’ve been away for far too long to be able to draw any conclusions. One thing’s for sure, [...]

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Kids’ Step Stools

December 23, 2011

Both my kids love to help me in the kitchen. I don’t mind having them around IF it was a bigger kitchen because the current one is really tiny! I wish that I had my old kitchen or even my Mum’s old kitchen because both places were bright, spacious and airy. I didn’t have to [...]

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Interior decoration 101

December 23, 2011

A few nights ago, Hubby and I were talking about the fixer-uppers we’d need for apartment. We laughed about the various “interior decoration” projects we’d started but have not yet finished: a) paint the front door a dark brown – one side is beige while one side is white b) paint the living room and [...]

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Pesticide-free vegetables?

December 23, 2011

I buy my fresh vegetables and fresh fruits from a farmers’ market. As far as I know, most of them are farmers who own their own vegetable farms. I used to think that the smallholder farmers’ who display their fresh produce on small mats are more “organic” than the big-time farmers because these small-time farmers [...]

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Dressed for Success

December 23, 2011

Recently, I assigned my young students a business presentation and instructed them to dress up in their Sunday best. Except for a few part-time models, most of the guys are in t-shirts, plaid shirts and jeans while the girls are in either cute t-shirts, short shorts and skirts and wedges, high heels or now boots, [...]

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Presents for the Hubby

December 23, 2011

Unlike women and kids, I find it quite challenging shopping for birthday and Christmas presents for the Hubby. I know that he would REALLY love to have an iPad but since I can’t afford to buy that for him, I had to think something more affordable. This year, I got him a gym membership for [...]

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A chocolate birthday cake

December 23, 2011

Recently, we celebrated two birthdays at our home and we’ll be celebrating another soon Every year we celebrate birthdays in China, we end up ordering a chocolate birthday cake from the same bakery simply because it’s the only one that tastes like chocolate cake with not too much cream. We don’t really like a lot [...]

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Piano or violin?

December 15, 2011

We live near a music school which constantly puts on recitals to seduce parents who harbour fantasies of raising little Mozarts whenever their kid starts plonking on piano keys. I am afraid that I am one of those suckers!!! I can’t quite recall how I got sucked into paying for piano lessons (RMB80/hour) for the [...]

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