I'm very much in favour of obliging kids to make their own entertainment occasionally, though. KW should teach them to play chess.
^^Yeah, as a kid I got bombarded by the litany that "you're lucky that you don't have to wake up at 4 am and have to walk 5 km just to go to school" - as both my parents experienced that, coming from poor, rural farming families. My school was just a short walk from our house that time, and yes, I was indeed lucky that my circumstances were easier than theirs.
And now, my nephew has an easier life with internet, computers, etc. I remember when my sis & dad (the kids' grandpa) brought her kids to my dad's hometown/ province for a visit. Nephew said he didn't want to go back because it was very provincial. Kids these days!
Happy New Year to all!
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Agreed, they already know how and as a matter of fact are playing now.
Oh you are right, I missed the Arabic there.
^^^
My daughter's school has chess classes and when I'm home we play quite often. She always seems to want a game just after I've had a Ya Dong and beats me more often than not.
I've got her into Backgammon now... I seem to do better, maybe because there's more luck involved?
#millenniumman
Bet he's hand painted the ceiling as the Sistine Chapel's Last Judgement.
Yay, a travel thread.... about fuckin board games
Coulda told you it was freezing up there in December
Even your phone was telling you to stay home
That Genting Highlands is just a shopping mall on a mountain, with the main attraction that overpriced indoor amusement park along with several franchised similarly overpriced diners like Harry Ramsden or TGI Fridays, with cable cars, huge queues everywhere and loud Chinese Kunts taking selfies and shitting and spitting everywhere.
Take them down to the warm of Sunway Lagoon water park, to bathe with the Indians.
Its like the River fuckin Ganges, with a log flume
God I miss Malaysia
Thank Lulu it's not The season to be sybil.
I seem to remember that there was one of those 18 to 30s places there, but I used to go to this quiet resort with wooden beach huts and a simple little beach bar. It was a great place to get away and entertain.
I was once entertaining a Chinese Malaysian friend when early in the morning there was loud knocking on the door and a couple of religious police types barged in. They checked that my friend wasn't muslim, and then departed. I don't know what would have happened if she'd been Malay?
whoops, I didn’t spot that. They are both under 10, but then again so was that lass featured in the Queen's Gambit, so best to blame their teacher . Both of them sleeping now. Missus back to Genting Premium Outlets (GPO) for a bit of shopping.
It’s kind of like an outdoor mall, with a collection of free standing branded shops. I’ve seen similar in the US, but not so much elsewhere.
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the young fella with his haul from the other day.
fortunately no crowds anymore, but still plenty of loud mouthed, mannerless Chinese.
we’re staying slightly down the hill in a much more salubrious area.
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^ I don't really understand that
Top thread anyway, nice to see another travel thread on here apart from Mendip's lonesome tales
^ How about you mate... you must have a load of spare time.
A thread about how an expat with a Thai family adjusts to life back in the UK?
There's a New Year's project for you.
this is the same view this morning, don’t reckon we will be doing much sightseeing.
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