Hi - I'm back. I've been working out like a fiend for the past eight weeks - some weeks not taking that coveted "day of rest/off" and doing a seven day workout week! But tonight, it's my last night before the final weigh in the (yucky) bod pod - which measures your body fat/muscle ratio and is very persnickety from time to time. Instead of cramming in that last workout - I'm at home on the computer because my body is rebelling against me and I've given in - to a stupid eye infection. So, working out with my glasses is not my idea of fun and I feel icky since I didn't sleep last night - I kept scratching my eyes until I couldn't take anymore. So, I will toast to myself tomorrow and continue the work that I've started in the gym. Besides buying new workout stuff - I'm buying a gym membership for me and my husband!
My blog is going to be about that stupid "Battle Hymn of the Tiger mom". As I mentioned a few blogs ago - I wouldn't make comment about the book until I actually read it. Well, I received it from the library last week and ave been reading every night before I go to bed. I really should have switched my reading routine, because after I would read, I wouldn't be relaxed.....but pissed off.
Amy Chau, the author, drives me insane. Not only does she generalize the "Chinese way" in everything, she sounds like an uppity bitch, who doesn't have a warm,. compassionate bone in her body.
Now, I know plenty of Chinese parents and kids -I'm related to a lot of them! My parents, for instance, had definite standards for what we did. And, we knew what was expected of us - and we either did it or didn't. They mixed the Chinese way with the "western" way - because we live in the western world - not the Chinese world.
OK - enough of that. Read the book - if you want to be angered. I read it (most of it) but didn't finish it because it did anger me. I figured she had her 15 minutes and I wasn't going to waste anymore of my time on her.
More later on!
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