A trip to Hui Zhou

We had 3 days long holidays past week due to the Mooncake festival. At first we planned to travel to Japan, but the visa would take 3 to 5 days to be processed so it was impossible for us to stay in HK for 3 or 5 days for merely waiting the Japan Visa. I did think of going to Taiwan, but luckily we didn't make the trip came true as Taiwan has the severe typhoon.

We went to Hui Zhou (惠州) as hubby wanted to join the golf session which was arranged by the banker. It was first time for me to go there where it is a Hakka town. A Hakka dialect seems not a problem for me as i have been conversing Hakka with my hubby although i am a Hainanese. At Hui Zhou, it has a beautiful 小西湖 which is as pretty as the original one in 杭州西湖. But what a wasted that we didn't take a breezy walk at 小西湖 as the main reason we went there is only to play golf.

We stayed in a bungalow at LakeFront Golf House, i don't know how much the bungalow charged per night, but i know it definitely won't be cheap. Even the golf session is RMB1000 per session. The price is expensive as compared to the price in Sabah. I remember it was about RM80 - RM100 per session in Sutera Harbour, Sabah. Golf is expensive activity in China, i guess...even a simple golf shirt can be charged few hundred but i never seen the brand before. Hubby likes the brand of TailorMade, but last Friday i got no time to travel down to TST for getting him the shirt. So he only wore normal collar t-shirt when he was at the golf course.

It was also a first time for me to join those millionaires, but you know, they are totally don't look like millionaires although they own expensive car and also expensive condo. One of them has a house costs more than RMB2500,000! OMG, i don't think i have chance to have such an expensive house in my life. The bankers are really rich, so does the vice president of the insurance company. Sorry as i can't write down the bank's and insurance company name here. The vice president told me that i didn't look like a mother of 2 before his eyes as he thought i was just a secondary school student. Even his son says the same to me. I wondered would his son marry me if i am not a married woman? Haha...that's just a joke as his son is only 9 years old. :-)

Actually with kids along i hardly enjoyed my holidays in Hui Zhou, and i needed to take care 2 kids alone when hubby went down to golf course. Nevermind, i was happy enough to have 2 days 1 night getaway to Hui Zhou. The most importanly is i had few delicious meals in Hui Zhou. They taste good! And the most eye opener is i also first time to eat a tableful of foods, you know, they had ordered more than 20 dishes for only 18 person (including 6 children), no wonder China people never order rice when they are having lunch or dinner, for them, they could get full with just dishes. However, it was a memorable and unforgettable Mooncake festival for me.

We watched Ratatouille

Brought Jo to watch the Ratatouille this afternoon, not a wonderful outing as he didn't show any interest in this movie. If you let him compare Ratatouille with Transformer, i believe he will tell you he loves Transformer more than this cartoon. He tends to dote on watching violence movie more than this childish movie. I didn't plan to bring him out indeed since my cough still on and off and really afraid my cough would affect other movie goers. But, since today is holiday, Jo's cousin were not coming to my house and some more my parents had their own activities, that's why i still brought him out though i am still coughing.

Backdated post : Shrek 3

Jo had his first movie on last Saturday. Actually he didn't pay much attention to this movie most of the time, and his questions also non-stop coming out from his mouth. Some questions were related to the Shrek 3, but some just non-related. He only felt interested once Shrek is fighting with Prince Charming. Jo told me he wants to watch Transformer right after we finished our Shrek 3. I think he will love Transformer more than Shrek 3 as myself also feel Shrek 3 is quite boring.

First movie for Jo

Later i will bring Jo to watch Shrek 3, it's the first time for him to cinema. I don't know which seat should i buy so that he can watch easily without blocking by others. In fact, i don't know how is the cinema in KK as it has been an ages i didn't go for the KK's cinema. I just hope later he can behave well, and most importantly don't keep asking me questions as i don't want other cinema goers throw me banana. Wish me good luck for the first watching movie to cinema with Jo.

Backdated post - Sunday Outing

I brought Jo to City Mall last Sunday, this mall is new opened so it doesn't have many shops can be shopped. But i like this mall as it just nearby my house, and it has Giant and GNC inside. So if i want to buy a cheap Enfagrow i can just go to this City Mall, i no longer necessary to drive to Penampang.

Jo dry cough has became to phlegm cough, and he has bad runny nose as well. He had finished the chinese medicine and the conditions didn't improve at all. So yesterday i brought the western medicine (cough and runny nose syrups) from pharmacy and trying to feed him. Those western medicine just make him looks more tiredness and crankiness the whole day. Sigh, just don't know how to cure the bad cough...

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Tsim Sha Tsui to Mongkok!

Just came back from Hong Kong, i only can tell you a word, that is "tired"!

Do you know how far is it from Tsim Sha Tsui to Mongkok? I am not sure it takes how long from Tsim Sha Tsui to Mongkok if taking KRC, but i know it takes more than 1 and half hour by walking. Hubby told me it only needs about half an hour can reach to Mongkok when we're hunting his soccer shoes in Tsim Sha Tsui, since it just needed half an hour then he suggested we could walk to Mongkok and see what shops are around, yeah, i thought it's a great ideal since i always love to explore more, but i'm so regretted now as i feel like both of my legs are going to break soon...

Lesson learnt, don't believe what guy said when the guy isn't from Hong Kong...And, we didn't buy anything from there but did bring back a tiredness bodies and sour faces..

What a "manic" Easter Day

We supposed to have our Easter Holiday in HK and go to church on the Easter Day. But we've had to shelve the plan as we couldn't find a "cheap" hotel during this 5 days holiday in HK. Jo looked quite ok at the morning, he woke up around 9ish and we went out for brunch after his favourite "SPD" show.

After brunch, we took a long walk to other places that we aren't so familiar with, we walked and hunted all over the place to discover more about our area. Jo started his crankiness about that time after he saw his favourite Abare's (AKA Power Ranger) toy hanging on the rack. He yelled as trying to prevail his situation that he wanted to buy, but i was staying firm too as i don't want this habit always happens that we have "toy" to bring back home after each out. Somemore, he has too many toys at home..i rarely see him playing them and i found out he just has habit to buy new toy everytime we're out.

He stopped his crankiness after few coaxing by hubby (hubby always does great job to coax Jo, perhaps he does have much patience with his son) but he started his crankiness again once we reached home. We did bring him to park before headed home, he was enjoying himself there and it has been quite a while we didn't bring him out to park. We fulfilled whatever he asked, even he had his boat rowing though i hate it very much. I felt sick while the boat was stopping at the middle of the lake.

Upon our arrival at home, my rest of the day was filled with his hysterical sobbing, even my hubby couldn't stand his cried, so don't say me. He keeps saying he wants the Abare toy till now. I hope he can forget it but seems like he has very good memory now, he could talk in great detail on what had happened on Easter day without missing a single part. The most funniest part he said is "i shee-shee to the lake while i was rowing the boat". He looked so proud when he said this...why? Is it bacause his urine like "fountain"? Pardon me to let him peeing there, no choice as we're at the middle of the lake...

Another episode..

I like to go out despite just an hour or even lesser. I think no SAHM like to be a hermit as SAHM still needs breathing a fresh air outside after a whole day being confined at home. But recently i found out that i hate going out, i hate to take the public transport here as it's like going to kill me, seriously to say but it's true. Like last Sunday, the bus driver boldly closed the back door while half of my body still inside the bus and i had to use my hands to block the door from closing. You can imagine how dangerous for a pregnant woman and a little boy. Apart from that, the driver also like F1 driver who wanted to show his driving skill, he could simply step on the accelerator or brake like nobody inside the bus. If you ever tried the pink colour mini-bus in KL, then you probably know how terrible of the public transport here. Here even triple worst than the pink mini-bus.

But i was so tempted to have pizza yesterday night after reading Mom2Ashley's blog, prior to go out, i only realized i don't have Winter suit that can cover my whole body, somemore Jo kept yelling there as don't want to wear this and that, i tell you, he definitely challenged my patience. I yelled too, I think i suffered some hormones imbalance that i easily to get angry lately, even a small matter would outbreak into a serious matter. Perhaps i'm deprived of a good sleep or some peaceful time..

Of course being a mother always can prevail the situation as finally i dressed Jo successfully. I don't know why he hates his red Winter jacket, i have to give in more effort everytime i dress him with this red jacket. It's freezing and raining outside, so i don't have other choice, my dear. And, i just grabbed my hubby's suit for myself, the suit isn't nice but acceptable. Please, freezing fast fast go away, i totally don't have enough long shirts and pants that can cover my bloated tummy. Of course i won't buy any new set since i'm going back to Sabah soon.

This's the second time we went to Pizza Hut, to my suprise, Jo was quite enjoying his meal. He took the Black Forest cake, the fries, 2 slices of Pastrami pizza and half bowl of chicken cream soup. I never thought that he likes pizza as the first time we had to order rice for him (yeah, Pizza Hut in China served rice as well) to munch of. This time was so GREAT!

We did a while shopping after our dinner, but hubby wanted to blast the toilet so we had to head back home. He's so hurrying the moment we reached home, Jo also learnt from him, took off his pants and threw on the floor. Jo excuse is "i do what papa does", see, parents always impress their kids either good or bad habit. But what i observing here, it's all bad habits! The other day, Jo even told me "i don't like reading, i want to watch TV just like papa". Why he never learnt from me? I seldom glue myself in front of the TV and i like reading.