When I woke up this morning, we watched the movie 'Pride & Prejudice' (the BBC production). It's a really good movie, one of my favorites! I've also begun to start reading the book, by Jane Austen.

For lunch, we went out to have noodles. We bought tickets to watch the ballet 'The Nutcracker'. We watch this every Christmas, but this year it seemed to be most entertaining for me, probably because I am more interested in dancing this year.

After watching The Nutcracker, we looked around in Pacific Place. Mommy and I shopped around in the store 'Lane Crawford'. I bought really nice silver flats made from Juicy Couture.

Then we looked inside the other Lane Crawford, the one with all the furniture. We looked around for quite a long time, but then it was starting to get late, so we went to eat dinner at the Chili Club.

I just came back, and now I'm gonna go watch Pride and Prejudice (again!)... it's such a good movie!!!

Christmas Eve

Last night, I went over to Sophia's house for a Christmas Eve party! We ate a huge turkey and played lots of fun Christmas games... and drank a lot of egg nog, too! Then we watched the movie 'Meet the Robinsons'. It's not really a Christmas movie, but Sophia didn't have any other Christmas movies, so we just watched that. It's a funny movie!


This morning, I got up real early and immediately began opening presents. Here's what I got:


~For Your Entertainment album by Adam Lambert (from Rachel)
~4 Hawaiian baby shrimps (from ?)
~A pink mechanical pencil and blue pen (from mommy)
~Pink Sony Cybershot camera (from ?)
~Pink fluffy footie slippers with internal heaters (from ?)
~Soap and shampoo from the Body Shop (from mommy)
~Pearl necklace (from daddy)

Mount Butler

Yesterday morning, mommy and I went down to a place called Causeway Bay, because we needed to buy some presents for Frances, Katy and Rachel, because they bought presents for me. Katy wanted nail polish, so mommy and I went into a huge nail and hair store, and the store sold all sorts of nail polish. I bought her a neon pink colored nail polish. For Frances, I bought her the album 'Echo' by Leona Lewis. I may want to get that album myself; it's really good! I bought Rachel 'Echo' as well, because she really likes Leona Lewis. I hope they like the presents!!


After buying all the presents, mommy and I went back home. We then went hiking with Frances, Katy and Samantha. There is a really hard hiking trail called Mount Butler, which is the trail that we hiked yesterday. It was quite tiring, but I still enjoyed it :)


After the long, tiring hike, Frances and Katy stayed over for dinner (pizza, yum!). 


When we were done eating dinner, we watched 'Pride and Prejudice' on the TV. But soon, they had to go back home because it was beginning to get quite late. 


Then, Sophia's dad called, inviting us over for dinner for Christmas Eve. I can't waittt!! 

This morning, mommy and I went to Central to get a haircut at La Chine. I said to cut my hair 3 inches, and when the haircutter was done, it felt WAY shorter than 3 inches! It may still look really long right now, but it's quite short compared to my hair before... I also got my side bangs cut a little bit shorter.


After the haircut, we went to the DVD store 'HMV' and looked for a present for daddy. I can't say what I bought him, because he might be reading this right now!!


After buying the presents, we looked inside at Marks & Spencer. I bought a red bath robe and a box of candy canes :)


When we got back home, I got the news that our tower had won the Deck The Halls competition! The Deck The Halls competition goes on every year during Christmas time, and judges go around the towers and judging the decorations in the tower. Rachel and I signed up to be in the competition, and we worked really hard to decorate our tower. And we won! So we're gonna get prizes, yay!

When I woke up this morning, it happened to be another boiling hot and sunny day... so once again tennis became very tiring very quickly. But I still enjoyed playing :)


After tennis, mommy and I ate lunch in the Aberdeen, and when we finished lunch, we looked in a sports store. One of my tennis coaches at Wong Nai Chung says that I should get a jump rope for my foot work for tennis, so I bought a sports jump rope in the sports store. I haven't yet tried out the jump rope, but I really do wanna try it! I also bought a Babolat tennis bag. It can hold 2 tennis racquets and has loads of pockets to put stuff inside. 


When we got back home, Frances and Katy came over to my house to play. We took Samantha out for a walk to the reservoir. I was really tired after having such a tiring tennis lesson this morning. 


After hiking with Samantha, Frances, Katy and I all planned about what we should do during the Christmas holidays.

A busy Three Days

These past three days have been real busy for me!! So sorry I couldn't write in here... so here's the update for Thursday, Friday and today, Saturday:


Thursday


New moon came out today!!! Mommy took Katy and I to watch it at night, and it was soooo good :D I'm planning to watch it at least 5 times... I really enjoyed watching it. I can't wait until the DVD comes out because I'm most definitely buying it!!


At tap today, we had a Christmas party! Frances and I went to Park 'N' Shop earlier to buy some candy, chips and soda for the party. We all played games together and ate and had fun :)


Friday


YAYY!!! School's out today!!! I'm sooo happy :) Seventeen days of holidaayyyy :D At school today, the whole entire school got together and we all sang Christmas carols and the strings orchestra played the songs "Hallelujah", "Jingle Bells", "The Hanukkah Song" and "We Wish You A Merry Christmas". It was a lot of fun. 


We only had a half day at school, so I when I got back home, mommy had booked a dentist's appointment for me. Mommy had found another place to go to the dentist, and I tried it out... my dentist is sooo nice!! And he was really detailed about everything... it was quite interesting actually. But the most important part was that I got to watch a movie while they were doing things to my teeth :) 


After getting my teeth checked, I went over to Sydney's place to play. She just moved a few months ago, and I had never seen her new house... it's really nice! All renovated and stuff... Sydney and I made Christmas decorations for her lobby, but I didn't have time to put it up with her because I soon had to go to ballet class.


At ballet, we had another Christmas party :) Two parties in a row for me! It was even more fun at ballet because there were more people, so the games were more entertaining. 


Saturday


This morning I had a tennis lesson with Todd. It was SO cold outside... I think I got frost bites :( Though that probably isn't possible in Hong Kong...


When I got back home from tennis, our Christmas tree had arrived! It is seven feet, and really nice... I also really like the smell of it :)


Tennis was followed by my violin lesson. 


After violin, mommy and I ate lunch at Mac-Donald's again. 


I wanted to get a haircut, but the salon was really busy today, so we decided to go back on Monday morning, so it wouldn't be so crowded. 


When I got back home, Frances and Katy once again invited me over for dinner. We made sushi together.


When we were done with our sushi, we went down to the indoor playroom and nobody was there, so we climbed around the place and played hide and seek tag.


After about an hour in the playroom, we went back home, and Katy did my nails.... they look really nice!!

Once again at school, we did more christmas crafts. Mommy even came in to help out! I made a red and white beaded candy cane and a green and white beaded wreath. I was going to make a mini red and green candy cane, but I had no time. After making those, I made a photo frame with Sydney. We decorated it with glitter, sequins, beads, tiles and other stuff.... it was a lot of fun :)


After school, we had violin class. On Friday, our school is gonna have a big assembly in the gym with the whole entire school for the Christmas holidays. The advanced strings will be playing a few songs at the assembly. We're gonna play the songs "Hallelujah", "Jingle Bells", "Hanukkah Song", and "We Wish You A Merry Christmas". So for violin class, the whole advanced players rehearsed together.


When I got back home from violin, mommy and I immediately went to Wong Nai Chung for tennis. Today it was freezing cold outside, so I didn't get very tired so soon.

At school today, we did christmas crafts! There were lots of different stations for the crafts, and I made a felt mouse that holds candy canes (it also came with a candy cane... yum!). I also made 3 pairs of earrings. A snowman, a red and green bell that actually jingles, and a big red and small silver ornaments. It was lots of fun... I can't wait to wear my earrings!


After school, I had piano class. For the whole time we just worked on my song for the competition that is soon gonna come up.


When I got back home, I worked on another chinese book report that is due tomorrow. 
I finally finished it!!


And now I'm off to practice some violin.....

Decorating for Christmas!

This morning, daddy, mommy and I all went down to Wong Nai Chung for a group tennis lesson for me. Today it was really, really sunny and boiling hot, so after only half an hour I was extremely tired. The last hour was so tiring because it was noon time and thats when the sun is hottest... but I guess I still enjoyed it. 


After tennis, we went down to the Aberdeen and we ate noodles for lunch.


When we were done with lunch, we went up to a music store called 'Tom Lee'. Daddy bought me an acoustic guitar!!! He really wants me to learn the guitar :) 


After buying the guitar, daddy had to go back home to work. Mommy and I went to Wanchai and went to a stationary shop called Cosmos so I could buy a present for Secret Santa in school. I bought:


~a blue mechanical pencil
~a black mechanical pencil
~a green mechanical pencil
~ a red mechanical pencil
~ a plain, white eraser
~a blue, white and orange striped eraser
~a green camouflage pencil case


I hope the person likes it!!


When mommy and I were on our way back home, we passed by the lobby and a bunch of people in our tower were decorating the lobby for Christmas. I stayed and helped decorate. Soon, Rachel passed by and joined us as well. Then, Niki called me and asked if she could play. So then Rachel, Niki, me and lots of other people decorated the lobby. It was loads of fun! One person had loads and loads of decorations so now our lobby looks really cool and bright! There is a competition called 'Deck the Halls'. Each tower competes against each other, trying to decorate their tower the best... we'd better win 1st prize this year!!!

After my violin tutor today, Timmy and Darren came over and we joined up together with Sydney. We played for about an hour of doubles all together, then splitting into singles. It was a lot of fun. Then Darren and Sydney had to leave, so Timmy and I just continued playing singles. After about two hours, we got really tired, so I introduced Timmy to Samantha. We played fetch with her and ran around with her... it was fun. 


When Timmy had to go, it was soon already dinnertime. Frances and Katy invited me over for dinner, and mommy and daddy went out for dinner at a friend's house. At Frances and Katy's house, we played on the computer and ate desserts.


I just got back home but mommy and daddy are still out, so I'm just gonna go and watch some TV.... bye!!

At school, it was green day, so we had to wear green. Also, at lunchtime, the cafeteria was selling candy canes!! I got three candy canes from unknown people...


After school, I had clarinet class. We went around the school, playing christmas carols for the office and other kids. It was fun.


After clarinet, Sydney and I went to violin. Once again, we just worked on scales... when will we be able to play real songs again?!


Tomorrow, two boys from class, Timmy and Darren, are coming over to my house to play tennis. Sydney will be playing with us as well. Timmy and Darren keep saying they'll definitely beat us, but I am sure gonna beat them!!!

After school today, I had violin class. Our concert is over, so we didn't need to practice songs, and there won't be another concert until the end of the year, so we just practiced scales for the whole time.


When I got back home from violin, I directly went to Wong Nai Chung with mommy to try out the group tennis lesson on Wednesdays. It was quite fun! I'm probably gonna start coming to Wong Nai Chung on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays... that is, if I don't get too tired :)


Our neighbors gave us a gigantic santa clause, and it's really cool! We put it outside our door and the people who have seen it so far really like it! I really wanna get more christmas decorations... I just can't wait at all for Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since I am a Peer Helper at school, today I was on recess duty. I monitored lunchtime for the third graders and I also monitored the third grade recess. It was really cool! In the beginning, I wasn't so confident to go up to the people who were doing things they weren't meant to do and tell them off. But then I eventually tried it once and it wasn't so bad... I hope I can do it again soon!

Also, at the end of the day at school, we picked our Secret Santa's. We just drew a name from a box with our eyes closed, and we have to buy a present for the person we picked. I can't say who I got, but I got a boy, so I have no clue what to get him... HELP!

After school, Mr. Lovett told us he wants Alex, Johena and I to play at a meeting tomorrow morning. So after school, we practiced our trio song that we played at the concert last week. I hope the meeting tomorrow goes well!

This morning I had a group tennis lesson again at Wong Nai Chung. It was also really hot out, so I got really sweaty. At the same time, it was pretty windy, so it was quite hard to hit the balls properly.


After tennis, one of my friends from school called Isabelle invited me over to her house to play. So when I got back home from tennis, mommy took me down to where Isabelle lives. 


Right next to Isabelle's apartment, there is a big market and plaza with lots of shops. So we went and looked around in the shops. We bought cookies and candies and slushees, and I got this thing called iFoam. Its styrofoam mixed together with colored goo. It's really fun to play with :)


I'm really excited for school tomorrow! We're starting 'Secret Santa'... I wonder who I will get! Also, at our school, we have this things called 'Operation Santa Clause'. We dress up in christmas colors all week and donate $20 every time we dress up. Tomorrow we have to wear red, then on Friday we have to wear green, and then next Friday, on the last day of school, we have to wear red and green. I already have all my red clothes prepared for tomorrow!! I can't wait!!! We will also be starting some christmas crafts, so we'll be making christmas stuff!!! Yayyyyy :D

This morning I had tennis with Todd. It was really hot today, so I got really sweaty and tired really quickly.

After tennis, I quickly got changed and mommy and I went to go to my violin lesson.

After violin, I ate a fast lunch at MacDonald's, then we went to a noodle restaurant for mommy to eat her lunch.

We were planning to go get a haircut for me, but mommy had to do something back home, so now she is out and I am all alone... bored... nothing to do :(

But when she is back we're gonna go back downtown to get my haircut.. I can't wait!

Later tonight, we're gonna go to a concert that Ms. Kwok will be in. It's gonna end really late so I hope I won't be too tired so I can stay up to watch the whole thing!

At school, it was China Day. We all wore our chinese clothes to school and played lots of fun chinese games and ate really good chinese candy :D


After school, I had clarinet class. At the end of clarinet, Mr. Lovett pulled me over and asked if I wanted to start playing the saxophone for the second semester of band. There can only be 6 saxophone players and I really want to play the saxophone, so I'm really happy I got chosen!! Playing the saxophone will be really fun and cool I bet.


After clarinet, Sydney and I went to violin class. Our concert got video taped, so instead of playing violin, we just watched our concert. It was a lot of fun... the concert sounded really good actually!


When I got back home from violin, I went to ballet. At Rachel's school fair, we got some jewelry for Ms. Claire, so at ballet, we gave the jewelry to her as an early christmas present. She really liked them!!

After school today, mommy and I once again went to Wong Nai Chung for a tennis group lesson. My calves were really, really sore because at school today for P.E., we had to run for 20 minutes... nonstop!! So I'm extremely tired right now. 


After the 2 hours of tennis, I directly went to tap. We worked on our dance to the song 'Steppin' Out With My Baby'. 


Tomorrow at school, we have something called "China Day". We're gonna be playing chinese games, eating chinese food, and wear chinese clothes. All the girls have to wear a chinese dress, which is called a 'qi pao'. I'm quite excited for tomorrow!!

Concerts

These past nights were really busy for me!! Last night was a band concert, where I played my clarinet. We played one concert for the assembly which was during school, and then another one at night for our parents and teachers to see. I really enjoyed playing in my very first band concert. The middle school jazz group also came to our concert to play a few songs with us. Their songs are really cool and I hope I can play those songs as well when I'm in middle school!!


I just came back from another concert, but this time it was a strings concert. This strings concert wasn't my very first concert because I've been playing in the strings program for 2 years now. But I still also really enjoyed it :D


At school today, there was a book fair going on. So our class went to look at the books. I bought a few books there. They are called:


~Fablehaven (book 1) by Brandon Mull
~So B. It by Sarah Weeks
~Guts by Gary Paulsen


I've only started reading Fablehaven, which is really good so far, but my teachers and friends all say the other two books are really good and exciting as well!