Happy 5th Birthday Angel - Part 2

Oh dear ..... Angel's birthday posts still not yet completed till now so ok, I will make it a quick one coz I have been dragging it for way too long :P

She was dressed like a Princess (Snow White is a Princess too right? :P) and she was very happy indeed.

On the day itself, lovely grandma has prepared Angel's usual birthday meal with Mee Suah + a very huge drumstick + red eggs. She requested for pure grapes juice too which she doesn't gets to drink very often and wallop up everything in satisfaction!


And then, she requested for her sandwich 'in bento' style after her afternoon bath 1 hour later! A girl with big appetite!! Luckily grandma is a very handy person and came out with those lovely heart shaped chicken sandwiches in no time and makes her a very happy birthday girl :) :)


We had a simple dinner at T.H western restaurant with our immediate family members and the highlight of the night was the cake cutting session. This year's birthday theme was Snow While instead of her usual Hello Kitty Theme and I am glad that she loves her Snow White cake after I told her that Snow White is a Princess and Good Friends to Hello Kitty too coz all of them know each other in the cartoon world (opppsss .... a big white lie which works).


This year, little Annabelle is joining the celebration for the very first time :) Both are so delighted to see the cakes and little Annabelle can't wait to lay her hands on those pretty cakes, touching and dismantled all the leaves and pulling all the deco out when we are not looking too (>.<)


Then while we are snapping pictures happily and suddenly we heard a loud shout from Angel the birthday girl "MOMMY!!! LOOK WHAT ANNABELLE DID!!!!" and when we looked ......

Oh NO .... little Annabelle has pulled Snow White heads off from the cake while I saw tears started to form in her big round eyes although she tries to laugh it off :P Luckily I was quick enough to make a joke out of it and quickly fixed poor Snow White heads back to where it's suppose to be (with a missing nose which couldn't be fixed :( :( ) and glad that no one noticed the missing nose and quickly pull it over without bigger drama happening with a birthday song. Phew ......


Angel insisted to have the sparkled Candles at the side which truly scared both the girls away when it actually produced tiny little sparkles when lit O.o No more sparkled candles for her birthday as she puts it, because it looks scary acording to her :P :P



Angel got a lot of pressie from us and actually she had more but I have kept some of the gifts away and only to give her after some time. Her toy box are overloaded at grandma's!!!



A very happy girl posing with all her gifts! She would exclaimed out loud each time she opened up a gift :) :)


And among those gifts, this is her most favourite gift which she got from her beloved Grandma! She purposely requested for a Notebook with a 'mouse' and her wish came through that night!

"WAAHHH!! Ah Mah, how you know I wanted this???!!!" She asked grandma with her big wide eyes opened! :P :P


Taa daaa ...... Below is the gift from Mommy, the full set of Dr. Seuss Collection which she loves it to bits day by day. Certainly one of the greatest gifts I have ever got for Angel (as per her requests) because I can see her giggle away happily every night whenever she reads them and still finds it amusing after reading them for 'n' times.

That's the magical part of Dr. Suess book. I must admit that I really think that it would be a very boring book just by looking at its simple sketches and story line until I really read them to Angel.

Now, I have learn something ...... Never judge a book by it's cover!!! :P

"Mommy, how do you know I wanted this Cat In The Hat Books too?? Huh? Huh? Tell me! Tell me!" :P :P Kids are so cute, aren't they :P


Just with a blow off the candles, my girl has turned 5. That night, while stroking her hair to sleep, I told Angel,

"Angel, you are growing up so fast :) Big girl already lo and few more years later, you can't stick to mommy like you used to already."

She was very kan-cheong and replied:

"But Mommy, I wish I can grow up slower ~~~. I want to grow up slowly and not too fast ok, mommy?? I want to be 5 years old long long long long time so that I can stick to mommy for long long long long time EVER and FOREVER."


Of course my Baby :) You would always be my Baby girl forever and ever and glad to have you in our live. Happy 5th Birthday Angel Darling!!! We love you so much!!

Happy 5th Birthday Angel - Part 1

Angel celebrates her 5th Birthday few weeks ago. My girl is 5 now!!!! Kids really grow up so fast, aren't they :)

And we had an early celebration with Hubby 1 week before her actual birthday and when asked about what birthday present that she wants, there she goes again," How I wish I have a Hello Kitty!"

Hello Kitty again?? She have way too many Hello Kitty already to be honest. Imagine, Hello Kitty for Christmas, Hello Kitty for birthday, Hello Kitty for New Year, Hello Kitty for Children's day, she wants Hello Kitty soft toys, Hello Kitty bags, Hello Kitty watches, Hello Kitty Bottle, Hello Kitty shirt, Hello Kitty panties, and Hello Kitty for basically EVERYTHING .... :( :( To the extreme, she even wants me to get her the Hello Kitty panty liner which she saw in Watson which I don't know why on earth does she need a panty liner!!! @_@

And she handpicked her own birthday cake too this year! And guess what, she insisted to have the same birthday cake as mommy's birthday last year (hubby bought me that cake for some reason!). Ok ok, since it's her birthday, she is the boss, no choice as long as she is happy.

Can't wait to see her cake! :P :P


*laugh* Yup, she got herself another Hello Kitty cake again!!!! And that's her 3rd consecutive year that she is having a Hello Kitty cake on her birthday!!! Sigh ..... Hello Kitty cake every year and still never gets bored, that's way too much! I am kind of having phobia when I saw another Hello Kitty cake already, no joking here .... *sweat*

But she is indeed very happy with her cake! She said to me, " Mommy, I feel GLAD that I have my Hello Kitty cake again!" *see??* A big Hello Kitty fan!!!


After the birthday song, we asked her to have the first bite of her cake cos it's her birthday! She stares at me for a moment then ....... she bite into poor Hello Kitty's ear :P The naughty daddy saw it and then suddenly pushed Angel face onto the cake ...... Muahahahaha!!!! A very 'creamy' birthday girl she has turned into :P :P



She can't stop laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing till she was rolling on the floor for daddy's naughty act! kekekekeke ..... she suggested that we have a cake fight and putting fresh cream on each other's face but NO THANKS my dear ..... we told her that only birthday girl gets to have such 'privilege" of having creams on her face, luckily she didn't pressed further *phew*

(Few days later, Annabelle saw Angel's video and pictures loaded with cream on her face and cried out very very loud!!!!! She is indeed horrified and told us "不要这样嘛！！！" and showing us the gesture not to push Angel's face onto the cake :P :P Poor Mei Mei Annabelle.)


At 5 years old, Angel got her first ever remote control mini bike from Daddy!!! :) :) Hubby said he was planning to get a remote helicopter for Angel at first but oh boy, I am so glad that he didn't or else, I will surely fainted!!!!!!

And look at the little girl's eyes ~~~, all brighten up and sparkled brightly when she saw her 1st remote control bike!! Seeing that she is so happy, we are very very happy too :) :) :)



Happy 5th Birthday my girl.

p/s: and we have another celebration with her on her actual birthday itself. Too bad that her kindergarten doesn't allow birthday celebration in school.

1st Birthday Present from YiYi and Ah Gu

(Another belated post)

This is the first time that Annabelle receive birthday gifts from Yi Yi and Ah Gu for her 1st Birthday. But due to mommy's busy schedule and she is so cranky during her actual birthday night (time to sleep), she only gets to open those presents few weeks (yup!!) after her birthday.

This little girl didn't know how to blow her own birthday candle yet but when it comes to opening up presents, she needs minimum of help.

She is very curious wondering why there are something popping out from inside the ordinary looking bundle of "paper". She always takes them out so carefully :P



She got a Hello Kitty from Yi Yi!! I didn't expect that she would turned into a Hello Kitty fans one day too but looks like she is heading that direction as well *giggle*. When she got her first Hello Kitty, she poked its eyes, touch its' mouth and then squeezing it hard!



She is very reluctant to tear those wrapper off at first but she did :) She is a very gentle baby as oppose to her Angel Jie Jie but ........ not anymore.



I think she is so happy with this interactive book that her Ah Gu got for her. And her happiness is all written on her cute little face, isn't she?



Annabelle @ 1Y

I Can Smell Love In The Air

^ ^ Lovely Valentine's Day packaging :)

Today it the V Day and I can smell Love in the air!!! ^_^ Wishing all the old and new love birds out there a very Happy Valentine's Day, for it's the time to celebrate and treasure the love we have with the person who we care most :)


^ ^ Me and my little Valentine :)

So in order to avoid the 'no-surprise' surprise from hubby which he is very good at, I reminded him about the V Day and he mumbled softly with his same old phrase again, "Huh?! Valentine's Day AGAIN? I must thank whoever invented this day ......"


^ ^ A lot of Valentine's deco around here and I don't think anyone would missed it :P

AGAIN?? What does he mean again?? Well, not everyone loves Valentine's day I guess especially mine here coz he is just too lazy to think of what gift to get and being 'robbed' alive during that day :P So normally I would not asked for any gift especially roses but this year, I really 'feel' like getting something from him for some reason. ^_^

Anyone thinks that 情人节 = 情人劫？？ :P


^ ^ My very first Valentine's Chocolate from my not-so-romantic Valentine + a family trip to Korea next month too! Hip Hip Hurray!!!!!

Lastly but not the least, my Valentine got his valentine's gift too this year :) Nothing special but just a token of my appreciation towards his care and love which he shower our family with.


^ ^ A gift for my Valentine + a 3 person steamboat valentine's dinner and a movie date.

We will be watching 'The Tourist' tonight follow by hubby's favourite steamboat valentine's dinner for 3! Hubby will be very happy this year coz he gets to spend the night with TWO pretty ladies! *smile* And I think it's snowing a little too outside on this Valentine's Day ^_^

Anyway, to be able to spend quality time as a family and truly care for each other profoundly is already the biggest ever valentine's gift to me.

Happy Valentine's Day to My One and Only XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO :)

Our Little Landlady's Chrismas Day

On our early Christmas morning, our little "包租婆" woke up in a very jolly mood. It's the day that she has been asking and waiting for so long!!! Gosh, where she learn to pose like that?!

Does she look alike the character of the infamous 包租婆 （Landlady） in the movie "Shoulin Football"??



Our little "包租婆" was so happy when I told her that she could open up her Christmas presents finally! She has been waiting for this moment for so many days since she got her first Christmas present from Aunty GX a week before Christmas ^_^



Yeah!! X'mas present from Daddy!! Actually this is not her first fishing set. I think it’s her 2nd or 3rd but she either lost all her fishes eventually or breaking the rod so she hasn't been seeing this toy for quite some time. She was extremely happy about her new fishing set and start squealing with delight :) But she was a bit upset for daddy wrapped mommy’s present in pink while hers in brown :P



Next is from Mommy! I don’t know what to get for her and then I came across a couple of nice children books and think that she might like them. And she surely does especially the 《鳄鱼怕怕，牙医怕怕》. She has been asking me to repeat and repeat that book for almost 5 days in a roll now ^_^ Chinese books are so complete and relatively cheap here in Shanghai and it’s such a waste if I do not add to her book collection while I am still here.



Aunty GX is so thoughtful to sent Our little "包租婆" a very nice Christmas gift all the way from Beijing too. She is so happy when she first received the parcel and thank you so much Aunty GX for your thoughtfulness! Our little "包租婆" love the set so much ^_^



Mommy got a gift from Daddy too ^_^ And of course Our little "包租婆" insisted it’s her gift instead and refuse to let go (as you can see from the picture!) She wants everything and everything belongs to her! @_@



This little bunny was a gift by Aunty A few days before Christmas. She loves bunny and will rock 'Pink Bunny' to sleep everyday.



Our Christmas lunch + dinner was a steamboat in Dolar Shop (豆捞坊) in 龙之梦 Shopping mall. The food served was so good!!!! Have you ever tried a “sea urchins” (海胆) meat ball before? It’s the picture on the lower right below (yellow + white colour) and oh my!! That’s the most delicious meat balls I have ever tried!!!! NO KIDDING!!!



One of the best steamboat I have ever had so far and I am still drooling over it when I saw the picture. I said it is our Christmas lunch + dinner coz the queue for this restaurant is incredibly insane hence we decided to go there at 4pm just to avoid the normal crowd and finally got a really nice window seat!! A steamboat restaurant not to be missed!



There, that’s how we spend our Christmas day in Shanghai. Tomorrow will be another new year for all of us hence a very Happy New Year 2011 to all of you, my friend!

May the new year brings you Healthy, Joy, Love and Peace throughout the whole year!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011 and LET'S CELEBRATE!!!!!!

6th Wedding Anniversary

Such a belated post …… due to lazy worms crawling all over me in such cold weather :)

It’s our 6th Wedding Anniversary last month and we had a simple celebration. Oh ... I can’t even remembered how we celebrate our last anniversary already so I better jot it down this time just in case I forgot all about it and blame hubby for not remembering our day :P :P

^ ^ Daddy and Mommy’s Anniversary but this little girl insisted that it’s HER BIRTHDAY and refused to move away from ‘HER’ cake and even blow away the candles :P

Hubby bought us a nice fruit cake and then ..... yeah! I got a card and a nice little gift too :) Have been longing for a decent camera for long and before I made up my mind which one to go for, seems like hubby has made a choice without telling me. He came back with a ‘black baby at first and I am so delighted but I was so in love with the white one so finally we exchanged it for my colour :)


^ ^ My new baby LX5 :) No need to worry about short battery life anymore :)

I remembered that when Angel is born, we bought a new camera purposely just for her and now when Annabelle is here, this camera did come just in time. Can’t wait to get some nice shots of little Annabelle with my new baby soon :)

Angel is 3!!

Wow ..... Such a long time I didn’t update my blog here. It’s mainly due to China is still blocking blogger and facebook which makes updates almost impossible and another reason is, as some of you might already knew …… yes! I “hit jackpot” again since the day I landed my foot in Shanghai :P

A blurry line but it’s there!!

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And guess what, Angel finally turns 3 few days ago!!!! OMG ...... time really flies! We didn’t celebrate Angel’s birthday on the actual day but instead, we did it earlier due to daddy’s busy working schedule with close family members and a few great friends who happen to join us on that day :) The special thing about Angel’s birthday this year is that she is finally decided to choose her own birthday cake!! Lately she is so into Hello Kitty (like mother like daughter) and purposely told mommy that she wants a Hello Kitty cake for her 3rd birthday! As it was such a rush hunting for cakes and other stuffs, finally mommy managed to find a cute picture of the Hello Kitty and asked the bakery to print it on the cake *phew, wipe sweat*

We celebrated her birthday in a restaurant and when the waiter finally took out Angel’s cake after our dinner, Angel was very excited to see her cake and asked whether it was hers! And when she look closer and saw the Hello Kitty print on top of her cake, she actually squeal in delights with a big grin + surprises on her face saying, “OH ~~ HELLO KITTY ~~!!! HELLO KITTY CAKE ~~!!! HELLO KITTY CAKE ~~!!!” bouncing up and down on the sofa and I tell you, I have never seen my little girl acting so happy and surprised ever!! *I certainly will not forget those happy looks on her little face and lights in her eyes that night ^_^ * That moment, I honestly thought that everything from hunting for her cakes, booking a decent restaurant and other stuffs for the past few days with a huge tummy + morning sickness *yup, still is* pays off instantly!!

When the candle was lid and all of us (such a big gang) sang her the Happy Birthday song, she looks extremely surprised and overwhelmed until she hide behind mommy’s back, peeping at us with her shy but extremely happy smiling look face watching all of us wishing her a Happy Birthday! Mommy and Daddy have to pulled her out from hiding, she happily cut the cake and blow out the candle one by one and I can see that she was extremely thrilled :)

She gets to enjoy 1 huge piece of her Chocolate Bananas birthday cakes for the very first time and thank God that no allergy reaction from her taking in all the diaries this round. After the celebration and until she gets home, I can still feel the excitement in her while she keeps telling everyone, “Angel 的 Hello Kitty Cake!!”

She was happily present with a few ang pows for her birthday but when she sees us holding the nicely wrapped gifts, she quickly handed all the ang pow to mommy and reaching out for those gift boxes instead!!! She loves all the gifts that she received that day especially the little Crayola Magnetic Drawing Desk from Daddy which she has chosen herself from Toys ‘R Us few days ago. Later that night before she went to sleep, she refuses to take off her party hat and even asked us to have another birthday celebration for her again saying, “Tomorrow Angel’s birthday again ok? Angel’s Hello Kitty Cake ok? Tomorrow blow candle again ok?” and finally goes to bed with a big smile on the face still ....

Sweet dreams my Little Angel and Happy 3rd birthday from Daddy and Mommy! We will always loves you and remember such a great birthday night at your 3rd birthday ..... Happy Birthday my sweetheart ~~ Everything was so wonderful for all of us ^_^.

p/s: And thanks to all lovely mommies who sent those sweet birthday gifts to Angel .... you guys are so thoughtful and sweet ^_^ I am really touched and Thank You so much ......

To A Wonderful Friend - Yoki

This is such a back dated and belated post but still, I would like to put it up and say a big Thank You to a super wonderful Multiply friend of mine, YOKI for her wonderful gesture and trouble she took to sent me these lovely gifts for me and Angel :)

Thank you so much Yoki .... I really appreciate your kindness and I love the egg mould so much, would definately try the oat prawn (I think I will be hook by it :P) as well as those lovely gifts for my little Angel. I can't wait till I see them in person soon (as you know, I am still away :P ) *hugs and kisses to u*

Nice gifts from Sweet Sweet Yoki

Our Mother’s Day 2009

Another back dated post :P :P ...... This year’s mother’s day was just a simple celebration for us. We had an early eating out with my brother & sister in Saisaki Japanese Restaurant and 7 of us all was stuffed until we couldn’t breathe anymore LoL Guess which food is Angel’s favourite food of all? …………. The deep fried quail!!! I think she has at least 2 quails all by herself.

And on the day itself, we went for a simple Chinese cuisine as my mom (Angel’s grandma) says she would like to have Chinese food for a change. Our dish was very simple too but very tasty. We ordered 1) Ginger Chicken 2) Steam Chicken 3) Fresh Prawn Salad 4) Mixed Zai Choi 5) Fried Bean sprout and 6) Fish bitter gourd soup for 4 of us. Angel loves the chicken so much and also eaten a lot of the bean sprouts (yes, she is willing to eat vege nowadays :) ) while my mom loves the soup. Again everybody was terribly stuffed so our initial plan for another round of ice cream after the dinner was cancelled eventually. Too bad :(

Hubby got me this handbag this year as my mother’s day gift. Hhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm …… a black colour handbag? Is the design more suitable for shopping bag or as Angel’s diaper bag when we go out ??? I am not so sure about the colour and the design at first (honestly, what do you mommies think??????), but since it’s a gift from hubby, maybe I should think of some occasion to ‘use’ that bag so that hubby won’t be complaining that I always ‘store’ his gift of love in the cupboard as usual LoL I know I will grow to appreciate and love this bag one day when I have start using it ...... thank you dear for the lovely gift :)

Angel’s 2 Y.O. Birthday Gifts [Back Dated]

Angel would like to say a sincere belated “THANK YOU” to Auntie Ai Peng, Auntie KC, Auntie Esmeralda, Auntie Mummy Moon, Auntie JoanneT and also Auntie Nicole for the lovely birthday gifts for my little Angel’s 2 years old birthday *so touching* Thank you once again for your sweet gesture for getting Angel those lovely gifts and she loves them very much *muaks muaks muaks*

^ ^ From Mummy AiPeng and Mummy KC

^ ^ From Mummy Esmeralda

^ ^ From Mummy Moon and Mummy JoanneT

^ ^ From Mummy Nicole