2016/08/31

Aussie Friends gathering

We were once all marketing and PR specialists under Tourism Australia or its state tourism. We are efficient and responsive people that can fix a dinner including the venue within one half day. Cynthia said we are the most efficient group and that's very true. Sinead said if she's a boss she will hire us all. 
Sinead is coming over to Hong Kong for business trip. We are taking her to try award winning dishes. Never tried any Chinese fine dining in Hong Kong. Because of Shanon's relationship with the executive chef, we paid for a very reasonable price for this yummy and presentable dinner. 
The place is great for girls chat too. 
Appetizers
Mushroom soup. Yummy. Lots of flavors! 
Award winning dish - it's looks so pretty and the photo cannot reflect her beauty in certain extent. Most importantly, that yello mountain thing tastes so good
Old style salted chicken. 
Standard dish but delivered perfectly
This one is another award winning dish!! The garnish and the taste! It's the quality of championship. The pear is so tasty and I said three times. 
This is a very delicious yam bun. The other two are nice too. 
Each of us paid $622 in the end, so it must be discounted giving face to Shannon. 
Executive chef is so talented. As usual, I am very generous in praising his dishes. I hope my compliments made his hard work rewarding. 
Shannon will take us to have another great meal next time like 志雲飯局


2016/08/28

Saturday (Aug 27)

Before papa's going out, let's have a short play. 
Why I don't get this kind of sweet photos!! 
Killing time at the mall before the shops open. Of course I did not insert the coins. 
Practicing chewing with a mini drumstick for a while. She really loves chicken leg. 
Once the baby's jaw is powerful, she will develop her speaking ability more successfully.
Last class in this term. Some classmates are leaving...goodbye. She gave those students kisses and hugs before leaving. 
When she's back home, she's playing with her sunglasses. Picking nose on purpose. Fantastic. This photo will be used to humiliate you when you are grown up. 
How about another naughty look? 
She suddenly stood there with a pose. So captured this in a split of a second. Very cool kid. 





2016/08/27

Wednesday Date #14

I forgot to take any pictures this Wednesday. We just had some shanghaiese food in Cheung Sha Wan on our weekly date night. 

Friday, I proposed going out for another date again. We finished dinner at home and then we drove to K11 for dessert. It's so good that Megan goes to sleep early. We still have so much dating time. Just love it. 
It's Friday night. The car park is full and the streets are parked with cars. After driving for one round, we got a space right in front of K11. How lucky!! 
I invited Ah Lun to take a selfie, and he was pretending shy. 
Hot cakes by Pan de Pain. It's a shop attracting queues. 
My order is tiramisu pancakes. Nice
This is not tasty at all.
My teapot is cute! 
So happy to feel the vibe of the city on Friday night. Keep chatting. 

2016/08/21

Extra date in the week

It's Thursday and we went to attend a seminar together in Cheung Sha Wan. It's like another date, how good is it. 
Look at the old school stationary shop behind, this is where we bought Megan's cooking kit. 
First time I have seen such a tiny kitchen set that's even portable. I am so happy as I could save the space for the easel. After all, the value of an easel is higher than that of a full kitchen set. Most kids will use the easel for drawing, writing or calculating for a few years. 
Watch out the fire. 
Are you sure you want to warm up the milk, even with the box. 
She always says "mama is cooking" "papa is cooking" recently, so this is the perfect you for Megan at this stage. 

Breakfast with Megan

I am always in a rush but I always wanted to arrange breakfast session with Megan. Today we made it happen. 
She had a big breakfast - bread, pear, milk. Me having eggs and kiwi and half of my kiwi was in Megan's tummy. :(
She's extremely happy with the new arrangement. But she's cutting her milk intake gradually...
Kailan is hoping to get one bite from two of us. Megan dropped a piece of bread accidentally, so Kailan's waiting was all worthwhile. 

Sunday (Aug 14)

Megan is brushing her teeth while feeding Kailan
We are meeting my family at Starbucks. 
She's refusing to sit in high chair. Now, she wants to be an adult,sitting in the adult chair. 
She took the straw from the bottle to suck the juice from the toast. Any bread juice on earth? 
Selfie
Dawn dawn was winning her heart close to the end of gathering. 
It's supposed to be a sweet moment.
She picked her nose in the next second. 
After the lunch nap, I thought of taking her out by myself as Ah Lun had to work later in the afternoon. So I set up a painting session for Megan. 
Daddy joined and played with Megan. 
That's great. 
I like the fact that Kailan was not interested at all. 
Daddy used up all the space on the paper!! 
It's really hard to keep her entertained now. I used so many tools - water colour followed by two more kinds of crayons. Used the milk bottle cap as a stamp, and also sponge and paint brush. Finally, stickers!! 
It's a super colorful painting. Let's take a picture as our memories. 
When we were playing with stickers, we involved Kailan too, in a cheeky way. 
She also put a lot on her body. She once put them on her cheeks and hair, but I could not capture the moment. Too bad. 

After this art session, I was home alone and looked after baby's dinner and shower. Very easy to handle baby as she ate a lot and she did not want me to feed her. As she's acting slow, so I still fed her in a fun way to make the meal time shorter and happier. 

After the trip to Phuket, we introduced shower instead of bathing. It's warm rain in the tub, that's what we called. She really enjoyed raining. Shower is much easier for me if no one is offering help to me. 

It's a long day for me again. After having dinner with Ah Lun, I started to work from 9pm until 1:30pm. The bitter part of a working mom's life. I am so sleepy now. 





Sunday (Aug 21)

Yay! We are having our first ever family lunch buffet. As you know, Megan usually has a lunch nap from 12-2pm. But Ah Lun approves her skipping lunch today. What a fun day for me and Megan. 
We were settling down at 1145, and we were killing time by drawing. She loves to ask mama to draw her a fish. 
After all she's a toddler so we do not have a 100% peaceful lunch. She was really really good sitting in the chair eating her meal. But after that, she wanted to be out immediately. That's the hard part. 
It's not her first time. She loves lemon and eaten one piece without any unusual facial expression. 
Eaten it all. 
Such a lovely family lunch! We treasure it. 
Putting down the spoon and bib for a proper family selfie. Everyone is happy. 
After we left, Megan fall into sleep once we started the engine. She had a 30min nap but it did not affect her evening sleep. We put her to sleep 30 mins earlier to compensate the loss of lunch nap. She's really having a super fun day.