Furniture shopping day

I had been thinking of buying some new furniture lately. Finally, we had a few hours to shop around in Shatin today.

When we first stepped into the mall, we found a really nice shoe cabinet made by good wood materials. As this is so classic, we decided to buy it though it's very expensive.

I am sure we will keep this cabinet for life.

Dec 17 - Winter solstice dinner // Chan's Family

We have decided to have hot pot dinner this winter solstice as per discussion from our last family gathering. Tse's family therefore became the host of this dinner.

Ah Lun had to work on that day, but he rushed back home for two hours around noon to help me with house cleaning and buying food for such a big group. Really appreciate his help!

Everything was set and then we found out the stove was not working when we were about to start!! Classic...

Kong and Kitty then helped to buy a new stove downstairs. Luckily, we still have hot pot dinner last night.

By the way, Kailan was so excited about the arrival of so many guests. She was so busy greeting and playing with them. She almost got heart attack!!

Dec 16- Christmas party with PolyU HTM classmates

Ah Yee offered to be the host of this Xmas party, so she had never stopped running around to serve us tonight.
I was so honored to get a bowl of hot noodles from her husband, though it came a bit late after Ah Yee made a few white lies.
My gift went to Elaine while I got a gift from Judy. We also had a fun magical session with Xena! She is really really lovely and cute.
I love the dinosaur hat at her place and we had a role play there. :)

Meiling and Xena are great entertainers!

Feeling a bit sad...

I just found out the Vietnamese restaurant in quarry bay has closed down. Ah Lun and I had spent so much of our time together at that restaurant when we were living in the neighborhood. Food is not really great, but it's sad to say good bye to our great memories there!!

Dec 12 - Sunset @ West Kowloon

My annual leave officially starts on 12 Dec. But the flu just wants to stick with me.

After seeing the doctor, we passed by West Kowloon to enjoy another sunset. The skies are so amazing this winter, and we never get disappointed the sunsets from all angles.

Dec 9 - Happy 4th Anniversary!

Cannot imagine that we have already married for 4 years...I feel so old now. :(

Ah Lun took me out for dinner tonight, but i was so sick these days, the choice of cuisine is so limited.

In the end, Cube sent us to a dinner place near the water next to Aberdeen, it's so dark there, i could not really locate myself.

not a high end restaurant, but food is yummy! 3.6 score in Open Rice. not bad.

thanks for hiding the beautiful flowers again.

but i normally do not go into the study room in the first place!!!

Dec 9 - Surprise birthday party for Carol!

OMG! December is such a busy month for me, because i have to organize so many parties.

Here comes Carol's birthday lunch on a Friday.

Carol has been a hard core fan of McDonald's. The Dubai team has been planning a McDonald's birthday party for this "young" lady. As the Quarry Bay branch does not accept official birthday party from Mon - Fri, we organized our own party in our own way.

I had kidnapped Carol and pushed her into a taxi on that day. I secretly asked the driver to make a few turns before stopping at McDonald's. Unfortunately, we got a very uncooperative taxi driver. He has been trying to play with us, and disclosed the destination before we unveiled it by ourselves. That's totally disgusting.

This hiccups did not defeat me. I have a few lies to get Carol's trust. The plan is still going on.

The taxi has finally stopped after 10 mins (in fact, it's a 4-min walk from office to that branch). We insisted not to take away Carol's eye shield. But...Carol loves McDonald's so much that she could smell Uncle MacDonald's once the doors open. hahahah!

We missed the McDonald's ladies who organizes the games for us. But we had our colleague Matthew to prepare some mass games. That's really fun! We were so noisy, and we laughed so loudly! Games include Mona Lisa, Pictionary, plus so many low B jokes.

The week was ended perfectly with a surprise party. I am glad that Carol was over joyed. Most importantly, i enjoyed this so much!

謝氏的道具重用再重用

入戲中

落車後都唔比人除眼罩, 比信心我地啦！

最後就好開心啦！Surprise!

Full team at McDonald's

Pictinary永遠使我興奮

哈利波特 ---- 我估左"蝦你個波"

Dec 3 - Celebrating Ah Lun's birthday!

Ah Lun has been telling me that he hates birthday celebration for many reasons.

But...I am trying to change his mind this year......

Meiling has been thinking, thinking and thinking to organize something nice for him. It's a hard job but i really enjoy the process of such surprise arrangement.

Dinner @ Main St. Deli

I am actually aware of the XXXL hamburger at Main St. Deli for a long while, but i still have not got a chance to order that hamburger for Ah Lun. Therefore, i have decided to take him there to taste the 32oz burger to celebrate his birthday.

As Ah Lun did not know that the burger is so big, he even considered to order pizza. After a secret discussion with the waiters, we have decided to lie to Ah Lun and skipped that pizza order.

When the birthday burger was served, he was totally shocked. hahaha! I was so contented with his terrified look!

The burger was divided into 8 pieces in the end, and he finally finished 3 pieces. He smiled with a satisfied look, that's heartening. :)

The candle looks so small in this XXXL burger!

meat pie is still very juicy! tasty!

mouth opened wide to welcome the burger

Ah Lun loves Banana and Toffee, so how can i not order a Banoffee Pie for him as a dessert?

Gift --- iPhone 4S

Before the dinner celebration, he has been asking me the same question every day - "What did you buy for me?" I guess he did not feel secure if he is not in charge of everything. It was really difficult to hide my plan away from him.

He guessed that i would buy him an iPhone. In fact, he made the right guess, but i kept telling him that he was wrong. After a few days, i tried to pretend that i could not hear his question, or change the subject or run away from him, haha!

Special thanks should also be given to his sister, because she had let me to buy her iPhone 4S she has recently ordered from apple shop.

Of course, Ah Lun likes the gift a lot because the camera's len in 4S version is so much better. How i present the gift was another surprise.

If i have time, i will try to make a video of my birthday card.

i really want to remember that i still have a young heart to make something nice for my husband at the age of 33.

MIB

2011.12.13. Men in Black...
Father dressed like daughter today. I love my cool family members.

Dec 2 - Bridal Shower for Donna & Birthday Celebration for Ah Yea

Donna is the chef in our group, the theme of bridal shower must be related to cooking!! Joyce Wong has arranged a macaroon making class for 9 of us at Flavors, and we had such a great time at the studio. The whole experience recalled our fond memories at cookery class in secondary school. Jokes keep flowing in and never stopped for a minute! Joyce Ip turned out to be the best student becoz she asked teacher to do all steps. ^^

Not sure if I had another chance of making macaroons, but it is a lovely experience.

Last but not least, we got a Donald Duck cake for Ah Yea at the shop. But she found this out by herself before the party starts. She is really 八卦！

Welcome Donna at the entrance!

When was our last cooking class at school?

Anton made us some nice deocr for the party! Well done!

We were so tired with all those floor sieving.

Nice packaging! There is a special box for bride-to-be Donna.

My sister and ah Lun both had a sweet tooth, and they loved my macaroons even though I think they are too sweet.

Look at our aprons! The green apron worn by Ah Yea was the needlework class homework 1x years ago. We cannot imagine she still keeps her apron, with her name stitched on the border.

Donald Duck Cake

Another awesome party in our memories.