We can't resist but greet the father of ChildBook on this special occassion.

Happy Father's Day, Ray!

Ray is like a father to us (he might contest with the age basis though, heehee), he patiently teaches us and listens and yep, he's funny too.

One of the roles he prizes the most is being a dad to his daughter, so he most deserves a warm greeting on this special day.

Hope you have a great day ahead, Ray!

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Next week I am helping out a friend again at a trade show in Florida. My first time to Florida! The headache is it's on business :-( And we are so close to Disneyworld. We are flying in Monday and flying out Friday night.

And I am still in catch up from last week from my daughter's finals. Her AP Euro Teacher had a really nice comment on her report card (excellent teacher, who is also known to be a GPA killer). Good news is a web site I was doing for a client is almost done! Yes, on the side when I am not running childbook.com and helping out with EliteDresses in my spare time (ya, right), I also do Search Engine Optimization, Marketing Consulting, and E-Commerce Web Design. The good news is it keeps me from getting bored!

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Business Week recently ranked her school as one of the top in the nation. To my surprise ahead of Walnut and Arcadia.

It seems the school district we live in is upset that so many of their top students go to the Walnut School District, which has my daughter's school in it. Under a school choice initiative. So they want to stop that district of choice one (it's all about funding), and actually force students who have been going to other districts, to return to their home district.

The editorial in the LA Times, Smart choice for California schools, is in support of renewing the school choice, but has some strange comments. They are surprised at the high number of Asians who decide they would rather attend Walnut School District (with better scores) than Rowland. With a high focus on education in the Chinese and Korean communities, taking the extra effort to commute to Walnut just makes sense. It would be a lot easier if I did not have to drive my daughter to school every morning, especially when she had zero period at 7AM, but I like her school much better than the ones I saw in Rowland. And she is doing very well there. I know of a teacher in Rowland who is also sending her kids to the Walnut District because of the same reasons (and had to go through a huge battle to make that happen).

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Parental respect is huge in Chinese Culture, traditionally. When my in-laws speak, my wife jumps. So my in-laws room has a bit of a paint smell, so what to do? My wonderful wife decided this morning that her home office on the 2nd floor should be converted back to a bedroom, and that her stuff would evict me out of my at home office, since I am not using it. I have an office outside the home and when at home, I work next to my daughter on the computer at the kitchen table. My office had become a storage area truthfully that I was trying to ignore.

The good thing is everything got moved! And we found a lot of stuff that we could get rid of (always good). And my in-laws are happy!

The negative is my aching back and we still have a lot more stuff, now in my bedroom, that needs to be gone through. The good thing when you move is you get rid of a lot of stuff. If you have not touched it in a couple of years, you probably don't need it. The challenge is organizing everything and not keeping it in boxes after you move. Unfortunately, there were a number of items still in boxes from our last move a couple of years ago in my office.

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Today was SAT II World History, then Cello Recital, then Chinese Choir Performance.

I am exhausted, and all I had to do was help review for the SAT II - she took AP Euro, so I thought how hard could the SAT II be for world history...

Drive and be in the audience for the Cello Recital

And drive and be in the audience to watch my daughter's solo etc. in her Choir.

And this follows the great clean up! As well as finals week for my daughter. We are both exhausted, at least there is nothing major scheduled for tomorrow I know of.

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My Mother-in-law is due back tonight, plane arrives 8PM. You might ask, so what?

Umm, she lives with us when she is in the states, so we are in Emergency Clean Up Mode to prepare for her arrival. Last night I got to bed after midnight, but the house and her room are much cleaner!

And the night previously, I was up till the early morning the other night helping my daughter with a project for her AP Euro class. She got an A+ on the project, but I missed a bit of sleep so I came in to work late yesterday and today.

Good news was yesterday was my daughter's last day of school! So no more late nights for a while due to school! And once my mother-in-law arrives the emergency clean up comes to an end and she starts cleaning up (amazing lady, who has more energy than anyone else I know).

Amazing how your efficiency can drop when you don't have enough sleep. This was also the reason for no blog post yesterday.

So I am in catch up mode. And I still have cleaning to do :-)

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