All Quiet Again

Mother-in-law is the only one remaining with us. Sister-in-law left today and the others left on Thursday. This house feels a bit empty without people occupying the sofas -- either for sleep or for TV. I probably will be stressed out soon since this means I have to watch the children more.

RyanC was super attached to me this afternoon. Yep, that's right, he wanted me and not mommy or grandma! (The fruity bars finally worked!) It is not clear if that was caused by the sudden drop of his playmates (grandpa, uncle and aunt) in the past few days. For some reason he didn't want to play with grandma for much of the afternoon and instead wanted me to keep him company. He did eventually warm up to grandma gain in the late evening and went to bed without a fight though...

In the past few weeks RyanC has learned to call "ma ma" and "ba ba" clearly. He will call the right names when we look at the pictures taken. Heck, he will even call "gong" and "gu" for grandpa and uncle. He doesn't know how to call auntie and grandma yet. gotta work on that.

So... on Friday at lunch I mentioned that I was brought up in Taiwan and then SV immediately started the sentence "Oh! Do you know...." and was interrupted by TG "Come on! This is where you ask about someone you know from Taiwan and I will bet you lunch that he does not know of so-and-so since Taiwan is not a small country!"

So SV took the bet and continued "Emil, also goes by the stage name Wakim"... and at this time I blurted out "Emil Chou the singer?! I used to listen to his albums all the time! He is one of my favorite singers!" I was then thinking SV was just mentioning a famous person to see if I know of him -- kind of like how 10 years back people betted on whether I would know what Hootie and the Blowfish was...

However, SV then proceeded to tell how her high school girl friend is married to Emil and that they come to Fort Collins to visit her folks yearly! WHOA! I had read that Emil was married to an American but I did not know she's from Fort Collins! Anyways, TG lost the bet and I learned more about an idol. By the way, Emil made cameo appearances in Jacky Chan movies. For example, he was the ice-cream vendor in Rumble in the Bronx and Mr Nice Guy.

While I am commenting about famous people in real life, I should mention that da funny blogger CherkyB (who may not have as large of a following as Emil) was in town for house-hunting and we went out for lunch on Thursday with other co-workers. I learned that he was not kidding when he had previously told stories of himself looking at the ringing cell phone and then decides not to answer because it's The Mrs... but then he called the voicemail to check the message soon after that...