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

There were so many activities went on over the past couple of days, I’m still trying to recuperate. First off, getting ready for Baby Ryan’s first US visit, meaning lots of moving things around, and cleaning up to do. Then, preparation for Ashlyn’s birthday parties, note, P-A-R-T-I-E-S, plural, one at the childcare center, one at home with relatives. I have been trying to wrap her presents after she’s asleep, but I fell asleep with her too, so I had to make a quick trip home after I dropped her off at my aunt’s after school. On Saturday, it was my cousin Jessica’s big day - wedding day. Although she opted for the simplified version, no ceremony, just the traditional Chinese tea ceremony and banquet at night, but I was exhausted. Thought I could spend Sunday at home, doing nothing. WRONG!!! My cousin visiting from Canada, attending Jessica’s banquet, they’re cousins by “marriage” kind of, but they’re also classmates from elementary school in Hong Kong. Since she’s in town, we went dim sum with grandparents, then done some shopping for Baby Ryan. By the time we got home, it was dinner time. We had so much left over from the wedding banquet that could feed us for the next 2 weeks.

I will go into details individually and share pictures shortly. All I wanted to do now is to catch up with my beauty sleep.

All my dear friends know how much I love to shop. It could be in upscale department stores, that usually just window shopping, and if I did make a purchase from these stores, items must be from the sale racks. I wouldn’t miss the chance to dig for exceptional deals at discount shops, or fighting for the great stuff with other moms at the street hawker stands (that usually happened in Hong Kong only).

“The item” I purchased from the Hong Kong trip was a ring I got from a friend’s jewelry shop. It caught my eyes cux it’s simple, but yet multi-functional. The price tag was in the 5-figure (Hong Kong dollars), which is in the mid-4-digits in US dollars. Since it’s her family business and they are wholesaler, let’s just say I got a pretty good deal.

OK, back to the ring. It is a ring, but, you can wear it as a pandent — 2 ways. Pictures tell a thousand words.

There will be more goodies to come!

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!

OK, so I was back from vacation a week or so ago, but I didn’t feel like writing much. Jetlag? No. Lazy? Not really. Well, let’s put it this way. I think I’m keyboard challenged. Not that I don’t remember how to type, or I have to type with my pointy. It’s just… It’s just… Well, see if for yourself.

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Pretty hun? You now know what I meant by keyboard challenged? These are Gel Nail, I got them done hours before I got on the plane. It took 2 hours to have the extension, color, glitters, and bling bling (Swarovski crystals) done. They are comfortable, not hurting. Just need some get used to when it comes to typing. It’s extremely popular in Hong Kong for the past year or so. It’s been popular in Japan. I still remember flipping through Japanese fashion magazines, like JJ and CanCan, models always had long decorated nails. Back then, some 20 years ago, didn’t understand how they could possible do that, but now, I’ve got them myself. I just hope they will last ’til end of June, that’s when my cousin is going to have the wedding banquet.

Bling Bling!

TOUCH DOWN!! I have arrived HKG. I arrived yesterday morning. The flight was pleasant, but to my surprised, I didn’t sleep at all. Majority of my friends know that I sleep on flights, short and long distance, from the moment I got into my seat until the plane pulled up to the bridge. This time, I didn’t sleep. Why? Simply too many great movies offered on the plane. Well, I must mind you that I haven’t been to the movie theater ever since I had my first child, which was almost 4 years ago. Since then, busy with kids, needless to say, didn’t even have time to rent a movie. Yeah, kids are older now, so our choices of movies is limited to Disney. On this 12 hour-flight, I watched American and Chinese movies one after another.

I arrived at 6:20am, I stayed up by keeping myself busy with activities, such as SHOPPING and working (replying emails). I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore at 6:30pm, so I took a 2 hour nap, had dinner, then I went straight to bed at 9pm. I slept through the night (sounds like a new born baby), and woke up at 7am this morning. It’s almost 10pm now, and I feel alright after a day full of activities. I think I should go take a shower and hit the sak.

xoxo