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After our careful consideration, we decide that Lele stays at home for a few months. Last week the daycare director from another center talked with me for about one hour. She told me she found Lele was not happy and engaged in his class through half day’s observation. Her talk reminded me to learn more about the daycare’s education. I watched tow classes this week. I was totally disappointed. Since Lele dislikes the class of his age. He changed to the class of four years old. The teacher often threated him to send him back to the old class if he didn’t listen to her. The teacher could say that so frequently even if I stood beside. I cannot imagine how many times she threats him every day. How can a person be happy under the pressure? The teacher spent the half class time on keeping order. When she told the story she didn’t care how many children were listen to her. She just tried to finish her job. I can understand her, but I cannot agree with her. As a preschool teacher, she need more tips and skills to keep her class easier and happier. The teachers often send Lele to the director’s office. So Lele spend more time in the office than his class. He is not happy in the daycare. I don’t find any reasons that we should keep on sending him the the daycare. We decided to teach him at home for a few months. When he is ready for the shool, he can start his school life again. We wish Lele has a happy childhood and learn new things happily. That is why we call him Lele (double happiness).

Last night, after I finished reading a story to Lele, I kissed him on the cheek and said good-night to him. Suddenly Lele kissed me on the mouth and put his tongue between my lips. I was surprised why he did that. Here is our conversation.

“Why you put you tongue into my mouth?”

“I put a baby into mommy’s mouth, and then the baby will get into your tummy and grow up. Finnaly the baby will get out from mommy’s bellybotton.”

“Do you want to become a baby again?”

“Yes, I want to hide into mommy’s belly.”

That’s the imagination of a three-year-old boy.

Last weekend Xudong and I bought a musical instrument respectively. A guitar for Xudong and a harmonica for me. Xudong played guitar since college time. After we went abroad, he didn’t have any chaces to play his favotite instrument. Recently Xudong wants to enrich his spare time. So a guitar came to our home. I found Xudong played his guitar every minute he could use. Even when he was looking after Lele, he still indulged in his guitar, no talking and eye contacting with Lele. I dislike this. Lele wants to play with his father not just play beside him. I wish Xudong would pay more attention to Lele when they are together. Maybe everthing will be fine after his honey moon with new guitar. Why I choose a harmonica? Because I had one when I was young, but I didn’t know how to play it. I’d like to learn playing harmonica to realize my childhood dream. Although the harmonica is small, playing harmonica is not as easy as pople imagine. Good luck for me.

I like money, just like most of my readers. So, I like comparing prices and buying something relatively cheap. However, probably like most people, I often get myself cheated and end up paying for pieces of craps. Recent examples are: buying thing like water filters and rechargable batteries from eBay. These are good lessons that make me more likely to choose quality products over cheaper ones.

Does this have anything to do with software? Well, buggy software. We all know that even great software has bugs, but too many obvious bugs that hurt a user heavily is another thing. Shipping something that has lots of unresolved bugs is like selling counterfeited product that looks good, but does not worthing anything, or worth much less than it is marketed for. Customers get hurt and will be wise next time in avoiding such products, or better blacklist the company, since software quality is much difficult to tell from the outside.

Test, (smarter) test, more (automated) test, to limit the shipped bugs to a minimum!