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Our Happiness: Nathan

May 20, 2015 CrazyChineseFamily 47 Comments

It’s been now 15 months since Nathan is with us. 15 months might sound long but they passed by very quick. 15 months of happiness, worry, hard work and more joy. Especially in the beginning it was always so hard to figure out what to do when he got sick or cried for a long time but in the end we always managed. He has grown so much by now that it is hard to recognize him from his early pictures “Wow, he really looked liked Churchill!”

By now he is running non-stop around the apartment, opens every drawer, steals everything he can reach and proclaims loudly in his mumbling way that he is here and be better taken care of. He doesn’t say any real words yet but what do you expect when being around four languages every single day. He will take his time and until then we will be happy with his mumbling some random sounds and tries to copy few words which so far never really worked out.

What is your happiness in life?

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My Intercultural Love: Timo & Ruowei (Interview on Madh Mama)

May 17, 2015 CrazyChineseFamily 25 Comments

Madh Mama just posted this interview with me on her running series “Your Intercultural Love Stories”. Madh Mama is a blog by Alexandra Madhavan and I actually don’t even know where to start describing her blog. Well, first of all there is so much about intercultural relationships to find there as she is herself a Canadian woman married to a South Indian Man and they have a beautiful daughter together. You want to find out more about India, Indian recipes, life in a intercultural relationship and stories of other intercultural couples? Then this is a must see blog for you!

So here is a little snippet of the interview:

Who proposed and how?

I proposed to her on her birthday in 2012. We went first to eat at a restaurant in downtown Helsinki and I had planned to propose there but I just didn’t find the right moment as silly things happened non-stop – such as the noisy people at the next table, the waiter popping up at unexpected moments and so on. Due to this I decided that we should take a walk after we got back home to the nearby lake and I proposed to her standing on a berth just as the sun was setting.

Check out the rest of the interview and of course all the other stories on Alexandra’s’ blog.

Thank you Alexandra of Madh Mama of doing this interview with me as it was a really nice experience to reflect on my life on what happened in the past years!

Crazy Chinese People, Mom in Law

MIL’s multifunctional kitchen rag

May 13, 2015 CrazyChineseFamily 71 Comments

I think the title is already giving you all the .needed information. Today I will focus on my crazy Chinese mother-in-law’s favorite kitchen rag. This kitchen rag is so great that she uses it for nearly everything. Where “normal” people use a kitchen rag to do some basic drying of their kitchen stuff or to clean few things. Of course these things MIL is doing as well with her kitchen rag but it can do so much more:

cleaning apples
cleaning the cooking platform
cleaning the floor
covering any dough for rising
drying her hands
cleaning and drying the sink
cleaning the frying pan
cleaning the frying machine
and and and

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out more uses of this great multifunctional kitchen rag. And do you know the best thing about this rag? Apparently it does not require any washing! You know, ever since I realized she is doing this all with one kitchen rag I do not feel particularly hungry anymore when she is cooking…

Right now the kitchen developes more and more into a battle zone

WP_20150513_11_46_12_Pro — How the rag looks now

WP_20150513_11_32_20_Pro — When it was still new a month ago…

Do you have also a multifunctional kitchen rag or do you know somebody doing this very insane thing?