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Qube slide in Macau

Qube is an entertainment area for your kids while you hit the gambling floor. They have slides, computers, foosball, and over hyped kids. Please note the blue vertical drop slide on the left. There is even a taller one not pictured! Note a 2 year old is too small to even do the three bump …

Sunday in the Park with Gioia

Sunday in the Park with Gioia Originally uploaded by beuk Seeing as I had a lot of rough posts earlier this week, I thought I would tone it down with some weekend posts of Gioia. Here is how the weekend went: First there was the pool. Then there was lunch by the pool. Sunday we …

Let’s Play Balls

Let’s Play Balls Originally uploaded by beuk This was baby G’s lunch plate at the restaurant the other day. Let’s play balls! Don’t ask what it said on the drink cup.

What language does Australia speak?

WARNING: This post gets a lil crass, so don’t show it to the kiddies. (That means you G, look away). Studying Mandarin in multiple cities has given me an insight into how language shifts from location to location. People may believe they are speaking the same language, but the words are not the same. So, …

This post is B-rated

Miss G is learning to speak. We started with the letter “B” and are up to, well… “B”. To give you an idea, there is ball, bubbles, bye bye, bow, ba ba (daddy in Chinese), and poo poo (ok, so it is not a B, but useful :). The great thing is that she actually …

What Olympics?

I received several emails today stating how great it must be to beable to watch the Olympics in real time, to which my reply is, "WhatOlympics?" I gotta tell you it is not as great as you would think. First offthere are no channels in TAIWAN that are only showing the games.Compare this to the …

What’s in a name?

Many of you have asked questions around:What is the baby’s name?How do you say it?What about her Chinese name?Where did ‘X’ come from? But before we get to that… I am reading a book called “Beyond Coincidence.” It is a great book from B that talks about all the crazy coincidences in life. Things like …