Hong Kong 5D4N - Day 3 & 4 & 5

21/06/09 Thursday

Plan changed as I woke up and was raining outside. We had Mc.D for our breakfast in the room, and headed to Harbour City Shopping Mall. We shopped for about 2 hours there, and had our lunch in the mall. We walked to Star Ferry Pier and took the ferry to Central. We went to The Peak, enjoyed the view of the city during sunset after we visited Madame Tussuad's (Jo2 don't like this place, he refused to take any photo).

But, papa2jojo took a lot of photos here.

We had our dinner @ Spaghetti 360 degree (no more wonton noodles or burgers, what a relief). Each of us bought a T/shirt from Hard Rock, The Peak as souvenir. We went for another round of the night view b4 we headed downhill by the peak tram.
What a day!

22/06/09 Friday

Shopping Day @ Causeway Bay during day time and Ladies Market @ nite. Had wonton noodles (again) @ 池记，and kids requested to have fastfood for dinner.

Inside the shopping mall.

23/06/09 Sat

Final call b4 back to Penang. We woke up earlier than @ 8:30 am b'coz papa2jojo said he wanted to go to Wong Tai Sin temple. I had "teng zhai" porridge for breakfast on our way back to hotel. Took a shower, check out and headed to HK Airport.

When the plane was about to depart, I asked my kids to say bye-bye to HK, but they said they like Hong Kong & hotel, they don't want to go home.




The End!

5D4N @ Hong Kong - Day 2

14/06/09 Wednesday

Eaton Hotel - Hong Kong Disneyland

Morning call @ 8am, and they informed me that temp. outside is 24°C cloudy. Later, I decided to give it a green lights and woke the kids up @ 9:30am. We walked to Jordan Mass Transit Railway(MTR) station (about 3 mins walk from hotel), and kids enjoyed their first ride on MTR to Disneyland. Both of them so excited when they saw the arrival of "Mickey shuttle" at Sunny Bay Station - where the magical began.

Jo2:"mommy, I cannot open my eyes, too bright."

got our entrance ticket in less than 2 mins (~11:19am). No Q at all.

Probably due to influenza A(H1N1) alert, it wasn't crowded at all. We managed to cover adventure land, Fantasy land, and Tomorrow land by 7pm, no Q at all for all the rides and shows. We even went for 2 times for some of the rides. It wasn't like all the feedback I got where this place very packed. In fact, I rarely see any local ppl.

this is the only spot we needed to Q up.

Right after the High School Musical show@ noon, we headed to a garden @ Fairyland and took photos with some of the Disney characters, Jo2 kept asking me where is Donald? what is Donald doing now? Why he didn't come out to meet us? So, I told him that we took photo with Daisy already, it's the same. His answer: "No, it's not the same. I know they are from the duck family but Daisy is a girl and Donald is a boy." So , I have to admit that he knows Disney better than I do.

aren't they lovely?

I would said The Magical of Golden Mickey was the best show amongst followed by the Summer Fun parade @ 3:30pm. My biggest regret was to go for the space mountain ride, my heart really cannot take it.

We waited until 8pm for the fireworks, browse around the souvenir shop and 3 of us picked something to buy except papa2jojo. But, he still need to pay the bill!! HaHa

5D4N @ Hong Kong - Day 1

My kids spent their 2nd week school holiday in Hong Kong. We changed our initial plan to depart from Monday (8/6/09) to Tuesday (09/06/09) since there is an excursion by their school to Paya Terubong Fire Station & Mc.D on Monday.

9/06/09 Tuesday

Day 1 Pen - KL - HK

Our flight arrived in HK on time. Check-in to Eaton Hotel Hong Kong @ 3pm. Let the kids had their shower, rest and watch TV for a while b4 we start our walk to Tsim Sha Tsui Harbour. Yes, the kids managed to walk along Nathan Road to Victoria Harbour，and we had our dinner at 香港仔鱼蛋粉. We are not very particulars in terms of food, so for dining place we only opt for cleanliness with reasonable price. Lucky us to find this place where kids loved the food and papa2jojo liked their homemade chili paste to go with his bowl of rice with duck meat. We reached Victoria Harbour around 7pm, enjoyed our promenade along harbour b4 sunset till The Avenue of Stars 星光大道. We waliked into New World Centre while waiting for The Symphony of Lights to start幻彩詠香江 @ 8pm. Back to hotel right after the show and ended our first day in Hong kong with supper from Mc.D.

It's been a year

Jo1 started her drawing class a year ago. Here's what she had done so far.

大扫除 & CJ7 Mother's Day

Hungry Ghost Festival

Merdeka Day

Mid-Autumn & Hari Raya

Merry Christmas
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Easter & 清明节

Teacher commented that her progress a bit slow coz she is the humble type of ppl. Each piece of drawing shouldn't take more than 4 hours (2 lessons), and she is not ready for water color yet. Still need more practice on crayon for the next few months.

Guess what, someone has started his drawing in this month too.... ... it's my "cheeky boy" aka Jo2.

Bento tools giveaway

I packed lunch box for my children to school everyday so that they can eat it during tea break. I was out of idea of what to pack until I came across Maisie Eats Bento that gave me great ideas on what food to pack.


Until now, I still don't have any tools to start bento-ing. Will start my bento when I got the tools so that I can make the food more interesting, and hopefully my son will eat more food I prepared.


Tools above look interesting, right?
Guess what??
To celebrate the 100th Bento of that blog, there will be a random prize drawing on the run until Apr 5 2009 at midnight EST.
So, why Wait? Check out the site now.

Mommy, we need CCTV

Last nite, Jo2 said we need a CCTV in our house... ...

What happened???

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here's the story...

In the afternoon, I picked Jo2 from his school to see PD b'coz he had rashes (due to allergy)on his face. I applied elomet cream and gave him piriton and is still not working. His PD's moved to a new clinic, and it's juz a few blocks from his school. My appointment was 12:30pm, and I reached there earlier. So, the nurse told me that I can bring Jo2 upstairs to play at the playroom while waiting.

I was in the toilet when Dr.Sim called up his name. He walked into the consultation room by himself. I came out from the toilet, nurse told me that my son is in Dr.Sim's clinic. I opened the door and my boy was chit chatting with the doc. I missed what conversation they had, but Dr.Sim only commented that I am lucky to have 2 HAPPY kids. He asked about Jo1 even though she wasn't there while doc make his checking on Jo2's face & body. Suddenly, Jo2 pointed at the monitor, and he recognised that that was the playroom where he was juz now.

Jo2's All time favourite dino t-shirt and "soi-soi" (innocent) look

I feed him medicine at the clinic b4 I sent him back to school for his afternoon Chinese class. I didn't mentioned anything about the CCTV.

Back to school about 1 pm, he had his milk and nap. Teacher Sara told me that my boy very TALKATIVE in class. Unlike Jo1, very quiet and obedient. But, she assured me that Jo2's

behavior will change as they grow, after all he is a BOY!

On the way home after dinner, I asked Jo2 why he talked to his friends in the classroom, within second he replied me that he actually doing his HOMEWORK as he finished his SCHOOLWORK already. (yes, he is a pro in giving good excuses). I lied to him that I saw it thru the CCTV, and he believed me as the school is equipped with CCTV too.

At home, while I was taking my bath, he came to knock on my door and he said:"M-O-M-M-Y, WE NEED CCTV AT HOME." Why-le? So that Papa2jojo can see it from office whenever jiejie scold me. LoL...

In fact, he started the "WAR" most of the time-lo.

Hair cut

My BIG girl cried at the hair salon, other hair dresser also walked to me and told me that my girl cried-liao......b'coz bad mommy insisted to cut her hair due to the HOT weather. Normally, only go to salon to trim but not really cut. I let her keep her hair long b'coz I like girls with long hair, and is a must during Ballet exam. I promised that only cut for 1 time, and will let it grow later.

I think this hair style make her more "student" look, neat and easier for me to wash. And I am satisfy with it.

菩提心园

We had a city getaway on 15 Mar 2009 morning to Bodhi Heart Sanctuary
Jo1's Sunday school is having their morning session there instead of the usual temple. It's consider an outing for the children too. I decided to follow since I have never been there before and would like to make sure that she is safe. I drove there, but she followed the school bus provided. The route to this place has to pass by a private cemetery, I swear I will not drive there by myself at nite. Once we reached the place, a special smell stint our nose (cow's shit) that we rarely get in the city (that's what I told my kids). I tour around the place and took a few photos of outdoors and indoors.

Dancing for charity

Rehearsal at Dewan Sri Pinang (Jo1 standing 2nd from left)

Theme: "By the children, for the children"
Organized by: Greenapple Ballet Academy & Lions Club of George Town
Date: 29 Feb & 1 March 2009
Venue: Dewan Sri Pinang

My daughter was very excited when the teacher informed her that she will participate in a charity concert for the first time. When I asked her what charity means? She said charity means you buy a ticket as a donations and then later use the ticket to buy food....Ya, she was partly correct, she actually refer to charity food fair.

So, the reason I let her perform was b'coz it's a good stage experience for a good cause even though I know that I need to make transportation arrangement for practices, and self pay for the costumes. Moreover, it's close to the school 1st term exam week!!!

Anyway, being a supportive mom, I went to the concert on both days, and it was a fantastic show esp the finale. On Sat show, I was in the front row but too bad no photography with flash is not allowed coz they hired professional photographer and video taking. So, I ordered a DVD and some photos from the Ballet school, as a memorable for Jo1 to keep.

The proceeds from tickets sales will go to 7 Children's home in Penang-Handicapped Children’s Centre, Ramakrishna Orphanage, St Joseph’s Orphanage, Pertubuhan Thalassaemia Pulau Pinang, The Children’s Protection Society, Pemulihan Dalam Komuniti and Pertubuhan Rumah Kebajikan Seri Cahaya Pulau Pinang. According to the MC, their target was to raise RM50K, the good news is they managed to collect over RM70K. This means that economic downturn doesn't stop Penangites from doing charity...esp to the children in need.