Wa Gwai 兩隻人見人愛的搗蛋嘩鬼 - My 2 Little Rascals

I’ve been back for 3 weeks now, and I haven’t really started to blog about my trip. One word - AWSOME!! It was a blast!

My last trip to Hong Kong was almost 4 years ago, when Ashlyn was 4 months old. Things haven’t changed much, except more high rise buildings, and upscale shopping malls.

The best part of my trip, besides seeing my nephew for the first time, spending time with family, all the good food, and lots of lots of shopping, was that I had met up with many of my friends from elementary school, secondary school, ex-coworkers, and family friends.

I think I should start organizing all those pictures of food, stuff I bought (for Ashlyn, Alex and myself) and start blogging.

Stay tune!

Oh My God!! Even the same hair style!!

I am counting down. Counting down to my upcoming vacation to Hong Kong to see my newly born nephew. Only eight more days, I will be on the plane to Hong Kong.

My nephew, my brother and sister in law call him “little pig”, who doesn’t have an American name yet, is 6 weeks old, but he is already over 10lbs. My mom just came back from Hong Kong about 2 weeks ago, and showed me a picture of Mr. Little Pig. Look at his chin, his round face. What do they feed him?

Last week was terrible. All four of us were sick.

Started off with Alex. He started to have mild fever last Monday morning (3/24), he came the coughing. Fever lingered for 3 days, come and gone, then all the sudden shoot up to 102/103F. He was so weak that when I fed him the medicine in the middle of the night, his little hand shivered as he holding the cup. My heart just dropped and broken. As he was going back to sleep, he murmured a little and insisted on sleeping on my arm. Took him to Dr. Yau, got some anti-biotic, fever was gone in no time. He still cough a little, but he is energetic.

As for Ashlyn, she just had a little running and stuffy nose, that’s all. Baba started to feeling tired as Alex was starting to get sick. He got a lot better after 2 days of sleep. Me? I think I started to sneeze on Tuesday. I tried to fight it, cux I know I can’t be sick when Alex needed my care. As Alex’s fever subsided, I let my guard down, and that’s when I start to feel muscle and joint ache on Saturday. The cold and flu medicine didn’t help, so what did I turn to? Chinese wisdom. I thought about spooning, but I didn’t.

The older generation of Chinese in my family, and I think many Chinese in every corner of the world, believe that when you had flu, you should make yourself sweat. Well, that’s exactly what I did. Not by cleaning the house, washing cars, or exercising. I went to bed. I had a cup of hot herbal tea for flu, and prepare a hot water bag between the sheets(which is a rubber bag that holds hot water and releases warm temperature to keep you warm) just before I jumped into the bed. Then I basically hibernated with 2 goose down comforters for 3 hours, I started to sweat. Although I still cough and sneeze the next day, but all in all, I felt must better. I’m still sick, still coughing, and for some odd reasons, I felt like I’m riding a plane, cux my ears are stuffed by air pressure.

Oh, I hope I’ll get well soon!

Have you dine in the sky before? I have. That is dining on the airplane in the sky. Ha Ha!

It was on Today Show. Dinner in the Sky is hosted at a table suspended at a height of 50 meter, which is about 16.5 feet, by a team of professionals. They prepare, cook, and serve the meal up in the sky. They serve up to 22 people each session. As you can see, they are not serving heavy meal, and I wonder why. For me, I guess I won’t have the appeitite when you ask me to dine 16 feet up in the air. Maybe that’s why they are serving bite size food. I can’t help but wonder, where is the washroom?

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He has arrived! He has arrived! He has arrived!

I’m officially a “Goo Ma” (姑 媽) now. This is what we call Daddy’s older sister in Cantonese.

My sister-in-law, Penny, just delivered their first baby on Feb. 29 in Hong Kong after a 7 hour-ish labor and a little complications after the birth. That’s considered rather short labor for a first timer, and both the baby and Penny are doing fine now. You noticed I have been referring to the baby as “baby”? cux, they haven’t told us what his name was. All we knew was he weighted approximately 6.7lbs, he has the signature mouth of the Chu’s, and he is the first leap year baby in the family. I wonder if we should celebrate his birthday every 4 years? N-O W-A-Y !! Just celebrate on Feb. 28, since there’s the time difference in HKG and USA, I think it’s perfectly fine to celebrate on Feb. 28.

xoxo

Operation F-A-I-L-E-D !!

It was not really a good start. The outfit I prepared for Ashlyn to wear on the first day of the Chinese New Year, she refused to wear it. She said “there’s no princess!!” Like the other outfit she picked had princess on it? I had no problem getting her to wear the bling bling Mary Jane sneakers, cux they were pink and bling bling. As for Alex, he was just an easy going dude, rarely he refused to my choices of clothings for him.

Here is the spot light of the dinner —

Shark fin chicken soup in a small clay pot - 1 person serving

Yum Yum Yum.. Mmm Mmm GOOOOOD!

Yesterday, Ashlyn had a mini potluck party to celebrate Valentine’s Day at the child care facility. It was held in the late afternoon, after their nap time. When I got there, the little tables were set up with pink table covers, plates, and napkins with hearts. All the kids were sitting in a circle, waiting for their parents to come.

Kids were wearing hats made of of paper plates, obviously it’s one of their craft projects in class, and they also made a treasure box, too. Kids brought the Valentine’s cards and they were all put together in a basket. I prepared the little treat bags for the kids. Ms. Parwin asked the kid, one by one, handing out their cards/treats to their friends in class. Ashlyn was a bit shy when she was called. Ms. Parwin helped her to hand out the bags to her friends.

They also made something for their parent(s). A heart shaped bag with their hand prints and a note attached to it. I think you better see it yourself to get a better idea. As Ashlyn brought it over to me, my heart just melted. Then she said, “Mama, you prepared the treats for me and my friends!” You could tell she was very happy and her eyes sparkled.

Ashlyn didn’t want to go, she said to me, “it’s a party, we haven’t had food yet! why leave so soon?” So we stayed a little while more, she had some cookies, brownies, and milk, and she took home the cupcake with pink toppings on it.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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