My Rocking Cradle

A very practical store formally opened first week of February here in Mapo. It is located in the same building as the Mapo English Literacy Center. It is a membership store where you can borrow two toys at a time for a maximum of two weeks. Very practical, isn’t it? All I had to do [...]

Even before my husband and I got married, the gym is one of the places where we bond. We continued the habit, or the lifestyle as we prefer to call it, even during and after my pregnancy. I have no doubt in my mind that my comfortable pregnancy and easy labor is due to my regular exercise. [...]

I mentioned in my previous post that “In contrast with how Korean’s celebrate valentines day, I always think that this day is reserved for lovers“. I wrote this because Koreans celebrate valentines day by women giving chocolates to the opposite sex. This giving of chocolates is not limited to the woman’s boyfriend or husband or [...]

In contrast with how Korean’s celebrate valentines day, I always think that this day is reserved for lovers. So, my idea of valentines day is intimate. How could you get more intimate than this gift? Happy Valentines Day!

My son and I had been reading Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves for several months now. It’s one of the stories in the book set I bought from Samsung Books. While some children’s stories are amusing, others can be quite violent thus, the need for parental guidance in how it is read or narrated. [...]

Today isn’t a bright day here in Seoul… and since my Little Dynamo loves baking with me, we entertained ourselves with… baking orange cookies! We’ve had several baking moments already that’s why he always gets perked up with the idea of baking. I never thought the kitchen would be a fun place with a toddler. My [...]

We are all affected with the global economic slump, one way or another. I see the effect in my grocery bills. A little over 100,000 won grocery bill used to be enough to cover some basic ncessities for our family of three for a month. This does not include food and clothes and cosmetics but the really basic ones [...]

I was with a Vietnamese friend yesterday afternoon checking out one of the day cares around Mapo. While at the daycare, I received a call from a Korean friend inviting me for coffee. While my son was sleeping in his stroller, I did have that coffee. While having coffee, another friend called me asking if [...]

I wrote the post below on July 2006, after watching Brian Tracy talk about his book ”The secrets of Self-Made Millionaires”: My husband brought a DVD copy of the talk of Brian Tracy on the topic “Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires”, a take-off from the book he has written with the same title, for the weekend. As [...]

For more than three months, I didn’t have the energy to go to the gym. It started when my son got sick last November and I can’t get out of bed when he’s still sleeping. He just constantly cried out for me. It was also the start of the cold climate. Waking up so early [...]