Author Archives: Rachel

Organizing the Chinese New Year Party?!  WAY TO GO girl! I want to hear all the details! If I had an extra computer here, I’d send it to you to China in a heartbeat so you’re not left without one.  :( I’ll look in my storage and see if we have any sitting around that I […]

Look what I got from my parents for Hanukkah!  Stay tuned for explanation on what is exactly Hanukkah!

Some guys are seriously so stupid.  I was just having a chat with one dude on JDate, and part of the conversation went like this: Dude: kinda a weird question, but do you like muscles? Rachel: do you mean guys with muscles? Dude: yeah Rachel: I’m not into the looks. I’m more concerned about personalities […]

A few nights ago, at dinner, my mom said to me, “Have you thought of joining JDate?”  Uh oh!  I think she was giving me the message that she can’t wait any longer to have grand kids!  JDate is a Jewish online dating site where singles can find their match.  While I am primarily open […]

…Trees are decorated with lights.

As I am tweeting up the storm on Twitter about travels and commenting on my friends’ statuses on Facebook, I realize how my life is so deeply integrated with social media.  When I am on the subway heading to and from work and home, I’m on my iPhone, checking out the latest on Twitter and […]

This brilliant quote from a design website, Workisnotajob, sums up our life -

As the leaves turn to red, yellow and orange, an overwhelming number of pumpkins show up in big huge cardboard boxes and on the shelves of grocery stores.  Pumpkin sweets including pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies and pumpkin ice cream are frequently found in restaurants and bakeries at this time of the year, from […]

Well well…here are my results on my custom-made clothes I picked up on the morning of the day I left to go back to the states!  You probably already saw them from my travel blog. Speaking of fashion, I came across an article on CNN speaking about fashion in China.  I’m curious to hear your view […]

I had five ripped bananas sitting on my kitchen counter for days, and they really needed to be eaten or they would have been tossed in the garbage.  I was too bored to eat the bananas themselves.  I was sick of making banana bread as I make it at least once every other month.  I […]