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Is this what maids do?

KittyCat on 28 Aug 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was catching up on my newspaper reading when I came across this article in the Star titled “Keeping order in the house” (29 July 07)” with this disturbing photo of a maid helping a primary school kid remove/put on [...]

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KittyCat on 24 Aug 2007

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KittyCat on 22 Aug 2007

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Insight Guides - China

Insight Guides - China (with the Discovery Channel) (ISBN: 978-981-4137-78-2) Instead of Lonely Planet, we got this travel guide for China as we wanted “great pictures, which vividly convey a sense of everyday life”. Heck, we are going to live in this country, best to see hat everyday life is like, right? A partnership with the Discovery Channel, [...]

Let’s Get Ready for First Grade!

Let’s Get Ready for First Grade! by Linda Desimowich and Stacey Kannenberg (ISBN: 1-933476-10-9) Grade 1 is when children enter the “real” school i.e. elementary school. This is when things start getting serious and games, toys, naps and other “baby” stuff related to kindergarten are things of the past. In this book, the authors introduce Ms. Best (Mrs. [...]

Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten

Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten by Linda Desimowich and Stacey Kannenberg ISBN: 1-933476-00-1 One of a set of 2 books recently released by Cedar Valley Publishing, “Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten” begins with an introduction by Mrs Good, the class teacher, who welcomes the students to a class for “children of all ages and stages of learning development”. She [...]

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS by JOHN BOYNE (ISBN: 0-385-60940-X) “If you start to read this book, sooner or later you will arrive at a fence. Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to encounter such a fence.” It’s been a long time since I’ve been *excited* over a book, until this one. First, [...]

Little Girl Fly Away

Little Girl Fly Away by Gene Stone (ISBN: 978-0671780852) I first read the condensed version of this book in the “Book in Review” section of Reader’s Digest. A couple of years later, I stumbled upon the hardcover copy and bought it. The book, unfortunately, stayed in my box a couple more years. I found the book again while [...]

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