Closet

I was cleaning up Ha's closet this afternoon. It was not big, but it's a walk-in closet.

When I moved things and boxes out of his closet, one of the corner looked empty, and Ha was excited running in and said that he wanted to read and work at that corner in the closet. It sounded crazy but familiar.

When I just came to the U.S., we lived in 中山大廈 in Oakland Chinatown, and in our room, there's a small walk-in closet. I liked to borrow books from the Asian library downstairs and read the books in the closet with the door closed. The books that I liked to read were 偵探小說, such as 福爾摩斯，亞森羅蘋, and I was so into the book in my own world in the closet.

Closet, 或許是個讓人感到安全，溫暖的地方。

Spring Break

It is Kids' spring break this week, and my goal is to help them cleaning up their messy rooms.

iPhone Application

This morning, I heard from the radio that one man earned $800000 in 5 months by writing softwares for iPhone's Apple store, so I did a little research on it. I guess that he joined Apple's developer program for mobile phone application.

I have to admit that I don't know what I'm writing about or talking about, but some of my readers may know it or may be interested in it, so I post the links (it's just two of the websites that I found. I don't know if they are good or helpful because I have no clue about this technology): http://developer.apple.com/iPhone/program/, or http://www.mobilephonedevelopment.com/ . Or, if you know any brothers or sisters being laid off and they may have the skill to do it, feel free to let them know.

Ok, if you get rich because of reading this entry and working on it, I won't ask for the commission, but at least, it will be nice if you can invite me for a dinner!

The Bathroom is occupied

Before, Ha and Hee only brushed their teeth at night before sleep, and every time I asked them to brush the teeth in the morning, they refused to. Since we were mostly in a rush in the morning, I just let it go. However, I really wanted to train them to brush the teeth and wash the face when they wake up.

I got an idea. I usually brushed my teeth as soon as I woke up, and they never noticed it. Therefore, I changed my schedule. I would cook the breakfast and make their lunch box and then just before I sat down for the breakfast, I would say " Oh, I need to brush my teeth now." When I came back from the bathroom, I would express my "口氣清新，神清氣爽”的 enjoy my breakfast. I "acted" for few days and didn't mention that they needed to brush their teeth, too. However, from about a week ago, ha started to close the bathroom door and brush his teeth and washed his face before the breakfast; and today, Hee copied it, too, and he locked the bathroom door, so Ha waited outside for his turn.

My dream came true! However, now, the new worry is that they spend too much time in the bathroom, and I'm afraid that they will be late for school!

Silkworm again & Good bye, Hermit Crab

Last week, one day, I saw the hermit crab stopped moving, so we buried him beside one of the peach trees in the backyard. Around the same time, I saw the Mulberry Tree starting having green leaves, so I went to check on our silkworm eggs, and some of them have been hatched to mini silkworms.

At beginning, it was so hard to see them by the eyes, but now, after a week, they turned into grey little worms, and I believed that not for long, they will be white, fat babies.
This year, I only saved few eggs, so I'm sure that we won't see thousands of silkworms like last year. However, when I told Stephen that silkworms were hatched, he said: “不要讓我看到，免得我看到之後要餵他們”。It looks like that he is not fully recovered from last year's “蠶災”。

Hee and T-Ball

Hee likes sports, and usually, he's pretty good at them (like Stephen, not like me). The following link will send you to a video clip that he played T-ball in our backyard few weeks ago. It was his first time that people threw the ball to him, so he's still trying to get a hand of it; however, 看那個架勢，挺不賴的哦！http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyTtEk-vETg

He goes to a fun of sports class last Fall, and he will go again starting this week since the weather is nice now. In class, the ball was on a stand, so he could hit the ball easily. We got the t-ball set from a garage sale, and it was less than a dollar. In Target, it will be at least 7 to 8 dollars.

黃愛頤

別耽心，我們還沒有打算生女兒，也不是預先給女兒取好名字。這是我老公的新名字：黃愛頤！





以下是搞笑夫妻的動人對話，請以平常心看待。若有噁心或雞皮疙瘩脫落的現象，是正常反應，不必太過耽心。





。。。。。。前面ｃｏｎｖｅｒｓａｔｉｏｎ省略


Ｓ：我要改名叫黃愛頤。


Y: （受寵若驚中）好像女生的名字，可是你如果真的改了，我會很感動喔。你如果不改，就是不夠愛我。（這下可好了！）


Ｓ：（趕快找個臺階下）可是，我如果改了，大家就不認識我了。


Ｙ：才不會，大家聽到這個感人的故事，一定一傳十，十傳百，本來不認識你的人也會趕快想來認識你。別的團契的人知道“黃愛頤”Ｓｕｎｄａｙ參加第三堂主日崇拜，也會特別到第三堂來看你，第三堂人數也會增加。


Ｓ：（再想個辦法）可是美國沒有登記中文名字，要怎麼改？


Ｙ：沒關係，那不重要。臺灣的身份證也不用去改，這些都是形式上的東西。只要朋友都知道你叫黃愛頤就可以證明你的決心了。教會通訊錄和Ｓｕｎｄａｙ　程序單要不要改？還是你還沒準備好？要不要先讓小組的弟兄姐妹知道你的新名字？


Ｓ：先讓小組的弟兄姐妹知道就好。


Ｙ：我可以ｓｅｎｄ　ｅｍａｉｌ　給他們，然後寫在我的ｂｌｏｇ上嗎？


Ｓ：可以。


Ｙ：真的嗎？


Ｓ：Ｙｅｓ．


(I asked him many times about this, but he seemed to make up his mind on having the new name).


Y: 晚上有人叫你黃愛頤，你不要假裝沒聽到。


S: hahahahaha......





Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls:


May I have the honor to present you my husband~~~~~~~



黃愛頤!

Please feel free to call him by the new name!

Jury Duty Scam

FYI, I got this from an email:
Jury Duty Scam:

DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING ! This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below).Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It isspreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us takethose summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out ontheir civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced. The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that younever received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for yourSocial Security number and date ofbirth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrestwarrant. Give out any of this information and bingo; your identity wasjust stolen. The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma ,Illinois , and Colorado This (swindle) is particularly insidious becausethey use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into givinginformation by pretending they are with the court system. The FBI andthe federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their websites, warning consumers about the fraud. Check it out here:http://www.fbi. gov/page2/ june06/jury_ scams060206. htm And here: http://www.snopes. com/crime/ fraud/juryduty. asp Yep! It's true Please make sure and pass this on! Especially tell the elderly in yourfamily, they are so easily confused, and they are the ones that are theeasiest to prey on!! Thanks

Ha was making his bed

Ha is a messy person (well, now, he's much better than before. When he was younger, it's almost impossible not to step on his things when going into his room.); however, he insisted in making his bed every night. In winter, he had 4 or 5 layers of blankets, and it would take him more than 10 minutes to make the bed. Now, he only had 2 layers, so it's much faster.

My question was: Every night, when I went to check on him at 11pm, most of the time, he kicked off all the blankets. Then, why bother to make the bed so neat?

Click the link, and you will see his video clip of making his bed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHTas7Qf0Bw

Grapefruit

Our grapefruit tree bore a lot of grapefruits every year. They are big and beautiful but VERY sour.

I used about 6 grapefruits, water, and honey to make grapefruit juice. Stephen and I thought that it was yummy, but Ha and Hee were not used to that taste, and they wanted me to make lemon/honey juice instead, which I have been making every week. It was our regular drink.

Our final decision was to make these 2 kinds of juice alternatively; however, it meant that we won't be able to consume our grapefruit as fast as we thought. Anybody wants to help us consume the grapefruit? They are sour, but by adding the honey, the juice is good. Want to try it?