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Leprechaun Trap Cake

Happy St. Pattie's Day! It's been a while since I downed any green beer or got pinched for not wearing green on this holiday. Thinking back to my younger, partying days makes me a bit nostalgic (didn't you know that Koreans are the "Irish of the Orient"? ;-)), but considering my current level of fatigue I am glad to be home, away from the drunken masses. I've seen some awesomely creative salutes to St. Patrick's Day on my Google Reader today, but the cake below was hands-down the best. The fragile pretzel bars underneath the gold that is meant to break under the weight of a leprechaun, the rainbow filling, the pretzel ladder...

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If You Watch It Backwards [Tumblr Blog of the Day]

If You Watch it Backwards is a submission-fueled Tumblr blog which tells you exactly what would happen if a movie or TV show’s plot or premise were reversed. Some of my favorites from the first few pages include: If you watch Pinnocchio backwards, it’s about a fairy that turns a boy into a puppet, who is then sucked into a whale, regurgitated, forced to be in a puppet show, and is eventually carved into a block of wood. If you watch Toy Story 3 backwards, it’s a tragedy about a gang of toys who go through hell just so they can wind up in a home where they are neglected. If you watch Pokemon backwards, it’s about rehabilitating victims of legalised animal fighting and releasing...

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Raising a Baby in a Multilingual Family

Last year when I was still pregnant with Claire I wrote a post about how J and I are aiming to teach our kids all the languages we collectively know: Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and English. Well our goal has not swayed. And I like to think that we're well on our way. How so, you ask? Right before I gave birth to Claire we met a little girl who — being one month shy of turning two years old — knew three languages. We asked her parents how they managed to teach her three languages simultaneously, and they told us exactly how...

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