reprints

I had these reprints of my dad’s paintings made to decorate my room.

Lately my rice-bowl work requires me to drive 30 minutes to an early learning center (i.e., kindy/preschool) to observe and collect behavioral data on a 5-year old child. The observation starts at 9am and ends just before 11am. Every 15 seconds (prompted by a 15-sec interval tape via headphones), I’ll code on paper whether she was engaged or not engaged, and also several other off-task behaviors if they occurred. Sounds easy but this type of data collection requires almost 100% of my attention for 1.5 hours. No daydreaming allowed…well, I try my best not to

For the past few weeks I’ve been listening to internet radio on iTunes. One station that I always listen to is mandarinradio.com. Unfortunately due to some recent copyright royalty board laws, this and many other stations will stop offering free services Since there’s no local asian radio stations, I’m considering paying for internet radio ($4.95/month), so that I could continue cultivating my chinese-ness. But a big part of me wants things that are F.O.C. I’ll see how things go. Maybe I can find another site that streams malaysian radio, unfortunately, most sites require windows media player, which I don’t have.