旅行后遗症

--某女坐飞机坐到完全internalized。
我说，走我们出门去退件衣服，那边来个，妈妈，我们坐飞机去吗？（当你娘是亿万富翁嘛？！）
吃午饭，某女要摆碗筷。摆就摆吧，人家有规则的。先握手里，说，12点整发，然后大大小小先问一遍，要什么筷子？小朋友（她弟弟啊，假装不认识）几岁了？要什么样的筷子？（就是长着一朵小红花的筷子闹闹也不会使啊！！）要还是不要冰？（吃大米饭啊妹妹！）这边的乘客已经不耐烦了，大声提醒，到12点零1分了空姐，可以吃饭了吧？！

--在我们锦绣中华的各色饭馆里吃了无数次饭以后，对饭馆那套完全门儿清。洗个澡吧，洗澡书变成菜单，某女摇身一变成了采购员/服务员/厨师/，浴缸里的黄色小鸭子成了黄鱼，红色小鸭子成了烤鸭，绿色小鸭子成了油麦菜，完全把浴缸改良成了饭馆。

--不说英文了。
要说带小孩子回过国的前辈们就是高啊就是高，总结出来多少真理。这次回国还真就对中文特别感兴趣了。以前要不断提醒她在家里讲中文，还每天听到无数让人啼笑皆非的混杂中文--"妈妈这个是快est的嘛？" 现在她反过来提醒我不要讲英文，就连书也要翻译过来读中文。朵朵在中国的时候看见大，中，小，天(对不起人民，她就认识这四个字)就像见到了费列罗榛子夹心巧克力大声炫耀，而且经常要求“画”中文字。当然说的还是完全没法跟国内伶牙俐齿的孩子比。

--闹闹也学了几个花招娱乐大众。
自己会用手指头比划2了，会说“BA BO" （大伯），会说乱七八糟的”妈妈爸爸闹闹抱抱“，会摇头晃脑的翻白眼假装睡觉，2岁高龄直追人家18个月的指标。

--认识了名人喜洋洋。
国内喜洋洋成风，基本横扫各种商品，就连汕头汽车站的郊区农民都扔掉了民工格子编织袋，改用喜洋洋编织袋。到饭馆，发给小朋友喜洋洋的玩具，小舅的车里也是两只，临走的时候在北京机场都派送了毛绒绒的喜洋洋一只。

--两个孩子彻底不喝牛奶了。
回家到处有人宠，爷爷大伯伯母姐姐宠，姥姥姥爷宠，小舅小舅妈宠，别的没有，乐百氏之类的甜水（大概含个0.001%的奶？）管够，两个人的消费惊人，基本是每天6-8瓶的样子。到后来基本泛白的牛奶疑似品（豆浆之类）都拒绝品尝。

Yeah~

Thank-you to all members of the RULA2.0 planning team for this wonderful experience!

Tyler starts walking, finally

Podcasts

Yep, got itunes on my desktop and way to go! Added podcasts for WSJ Journal Report, Tech updates, and I even found out there are Rick Steves audio tours for Italy & France and the best thing is it is free! I wish I know that earlier.

Browser tools & Picasa

This is another reason to love firefox--the possibility to add a variety of extensions.

Cooliris works really well for me, it is like botox for pictures. Speaking of Botox, I simply have to mention Picasa, the picture-editing software. There is a newly added function called touchup on its latest version, Picasa 3, which is way more user friendly than photoshop, and get the job done in a few clicks--wrinkles, gone, blemishes, gone, scars, gone!

http://picasa.google.com/

Facebook

I do have a facebook account, so once you can locate Ryerson Library, you are likely to catch all of us :P

Googleopoly

Some interesting articles uploaded to my Google Docs:

Google ebooks project: Googleopoly

Google Street View has been quite a debate over the privacy issues. Here's an interesting article about this- All-seeing Google Street View prompts privacy fears
and another one just for fun: Top 15 Google Street View Sightings