Bathing babies

I have just bathed the two boys (I still call them my babies even they are no longer crawling on the floor).  We have a domestic helper but the boys always want me to take care of them.  When they are in the bath tub, they talk to me, they imagine they are in a ship, they ask me how come ships floats, bubbles come out from an empty bottle.....


And I also enjoy every moment with them, even though they drive me crazy always.

A shrimp is laying eggs in our fish tank!

Summer days are busy days

Summer has arrived Hong Kong more than a month.  It reminded me the trips to Sabah when I walked out the street a few days ago.  Is Hong Kong getting hotter and hotter, or am I aging and cannot handle extreme weather as easy as 10 years ago?  Who knows.


The boys has started summer holiday since July.  Same as other parents, we arrange many activities for them.  Lucas starts learning piano.  I read kids books and play with them when I don't need to work. 


Sometimes I wonder, how come it seems that letting your kids idle at home is a sin in Hong Kong?  It seems parents have such compulsive behavior, to let kids to learn and explore in every waking moment.


That's why, I would be glad to let them have some 'kid' time, to be laid back on the couch and have marathon TV watching.  Life is actually long and they shouldn't have intensive training in the early years.  


Or, you can say this is just an excuse of a lazy mom. =P

Working days

Have had a challenging job at the mid of this month, I accept to take the job in the very last minute.  Thanks god both agency and client like me and praise my performance a lot.  What an extraordinary experience!


Am waiting for the briefing session of my new project.  Cross my fingers!

有工開

自從做了全職媽媽和自由工作者,當接到新工作就很興奮,跟以前當在職媽媽的心態很不同!

在家照顧BB有時也會有點力不從心,但整體也是愉快和有滿足感的!

有新工作了,是寫report,賺到的錢要買一部coffee maker給謝菲!!

Somewhere over the rainbow

A beautiful rainbow appeared across the sky last evening.  When I see in the picture I had taken, I found there were double rainbows!!!  A faint bigger rainbow was at the top of the smaller one, which I could not seen by my naked eyes or I just omitted it.  It is really a rare view in Hong Kong.  As I remember, it was my first time to witness such wonderful rainbows in my life.


I brought the boys to rush downstairs when I spotted the rainbow, the boys were exciting.  We stared at it until it faded away.  


While we were walking back home, I was holding Linus, he rested his head on my shoulder and said 'I miss rainbow!!'

我最憎「親子」

老實說,我不太清楚「親子」一詞的意思°我初時以為它是「親親孩子」的簡稱,但當這詞在不同地方鋪更蓋地出現後,我覺得:

它可以是一種地理狀態,只要爸媽與子女在同一個地方上出現便可叫做親子,如「親子唱遊班」,「親子遊學團」,「親子興趣班」等等°

理論上,你跟阿仔阿女吃午餐可叫做「親子午餐」, 如果你們是住在同一屋詹下,這間屋可說成「親子屋」.....


它可以是一種商業活動°「親子」配合一個名詞後,便能成為無限商機°對不起,我舉得例子又是 「親子唱遊班」,「親子遊學團」,「親子興趣班」等等°

我覺得「親子outward bound 」或「親子獨立生活能力訓練營」等課程會有很大的market,有沒有人想投資我這個concept?

經過多個公私營機構大力提倡下,「親子」變成家長無形的壓力°家長必須每天抽十五至二十分鐘去做的功課,假期必須安排的活動°為了滿足各界要求家長的「親子」期望,他們不得不參與我之前所說的那些商業活動,怕若做得不夠會被三姑六婆指責「都唔知點做人父母」。不過對於三姑六婆,世界上除了她/他們本人,其他人都不會做人父母°

它跟共聚天倫不一樣°後者是一指家人待在一起,享受著相互溝通後產生的愉快精神狀態°前者比較煞有介事,或多或少帶著一點目的°例如「親子唱遊班」是為了刺激幼兒的智力發展,加強家長與子女的親密關係,提高EQ,贏於起跑線,讀書勝人一籌,他日名成利就云云°

不過,當你爸媽叫你回家吃飯,他們感該不會說:「阿仔,今晚返嚟食飯,等你從透過與家人接觸學習人與人相處之道,繼而讓你在職場上變得面面俱圓,事業發展更得心應手!」是嗎?

還有,「親子」是單向的,顧名思義,父母要親孩子,至於孩子是否想被「親」,或他們會否「親」父母,那不是重點°

這就是兩者的分別°

其實社會上真的有些學校或機構有心地籌辦大人與小孩一齊參與的活動,讓他們好好享受天倫之樂°只可惜該詞被用得太濫,太行貨,聽起來就像botox一樣假°