Third Culture Kid(s)

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For some reason, scooter keys are often these fussy little things that fit on no keychains (M.’s has a stubby plastic cap that’s supposed to fit on one, but, as he says, the loop part of the plastic invariably breaks with a little use). So M.’s in the habit of leaving his in his […]

Speaking of being an annoying advocate for greater accessibility, I’m contemplating forwarding my cell phone bills to WMATA (the local transit authority); it’s really their fault I have to have one at all.
The facts:

We own one car. Doing our part for the environment + we can’t afford two cars.
As such, I take M. to […]

In the first few months after I started dating M., I became an almost insufferable advocate for handicapped accessibility. M. kind of laughed at it, to the extent that he paid it any mind at all, because, in the end, it wasn’t me who was disabled, it was him. He told me that […]

I realize that this weblog has devolved into All Bullet Points, All the Time, but none of them would make particularly good posts in and of themselves. So, if you’ll kindly bear with me:

M. has decided that the way to instill a proper sense of Asian heritage in MM is to feed her Spam. […]

If only a mildewy smell and damp air weren’t emanating from the air duct every time the heat comes on in our rented house.
If only I were not fretting about being a better mommy to my baby instead of letting the television raise her while I obsessively check my email.
If only I could find a […]

but I found it to be incoherent in the main.  Never mind.

1. Chow Yun Fat + Leslie Cheung = Angsty manaliciousness.
2. Chow Yun Fat walking in slow motion planting guns along the way.
3. Pouty!Leslie
4. Leslie’s theme song. WITH melancholic harmonica!!!
5. The scene where Ti Lung is watching Chow Yun Fat from across the street, and Smarmy Upstart Boss comes out (in slow motion) and throws […]

Borrowed from Rose:
1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times.
A Better Tomorrow. Because it’s, like, the best movie evah.
2. Name a movie that you’ve seen multiple times in the theater.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. I saw it several times in Hong Kong and once in Singapore.
3. Name an actor […]

First off, greetings to people who have arrived here from other places!  You’ve inadvertently come when I’m in the middle of a midlife-crisis-post-post-partum-blues-dissertation-depression funk - sorry about that.
BUT, it could all be SAD.  I notice that I’ve been feeling ever so slightly less horrible in the last few days - ever since the weather turned […]