Because It's Chinese

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Last night, Kyle, the 2nd Kuya, could not remember some of the characters in Jake's Chinese review sheet. And because I didn't know a stroke of Chinese, I was totally useless in helping them. Sadly I'm clueless even if my life depended on it.

What was there left to do then? I texted my ever dependable Hubby, who was in Manila, to go online as I would be calling via Skype. He texted back to confirm. As soon as we connected, the Chinese tutorial commenced.


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Jake and Jerry during their Chinese tutorial over Skype



And what was I doing while this was going on?


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I was holding the iPad steady and taking photos while they talked. Not too useless after all!

Comments

  1. JO8/8/12, 12:10 PM

    cool!

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  2. linnor8/16/12, 6:37 PM

    hehe, just making use of the next best thing. :D

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  3. Annie9/4/12, 3:17 PM

    You guys could have Hangout on Google+ instead.

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  4. linnor10/20/12, 5:44 AM

    Thanks Annie! I should check that out. :)

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