Month: February 2016

Project Knit 2015

Sometime back in September 2014, Esther, thenĀ 11 years old, asked to learn how to knit. Since I have no idea how to do so, I asked her to go check out YouTube tutorials and within a few weeks, she had mastered it and was even teaching her siblings how to do it! Then she went […] Read more…

Another low key Chinese New Year 2016

Yet another low key Chinese New Year

There was no spring cleaning, no buying of new clothes and shoes, or of bed linen and towels… We almost never open our house up and we almost never do the endless rounds of visiting of friends’ and relatives’ homes that are common to most Chinese families…. We must be the most boring and un-Chinese family around.  Read more…