2010!!!!!!!

Wow, this past week has been really busy for me!!


Since I am playing the tenor saxophone for band, we had to buy a saxophone for myself. Last weekend, we looked around at every music store, trying to find a tenor saxophone, but they were all out of stock!!! There won't be saxophones until the end of January, and band class starts on January 4th! I'm really worrying about what to do...


On Wednesday, Frances, Katy, mommy, daddy, Samantha and I all hiked the Twin Peaks! It was a lot of fun. The total amount of steps in the Twin Peaks is 1,200! But surprisingly, I still find Mt.  Butler more tiring than the Twins. The Twins actually isn't as bad as I expected! But, since on Wednesday, it was really foggy, wet and drizzling, there was a point in the hike that was very, very slippery and dangerous. Part of the second peak has lots of rocks, and on Wednesday, it was especially slippery. We all slipped at least once, but it actually made the hike more interesting, not just step after step after step.
After the long hike, mommy, daddy and I were invited to go to a party. The kids there were all boys, so I spent the night watching wrestling and things like that... not very fun for me. But towards the end of the party, I sang karaoke, which was quite fun :)


Last night, it was New Year's Eve!!! For dinner, Frances, Katy, mommy, daddy, and I ate a buffet together. I was really full after that. Frances and Katy then invited me to sleep over and count down to 2010. We baked fudge brownies and watched the movie 'Anne of Green Gables'. It's a really good movie and I enjoyed watching it. Then we counted down to New Years. We slept really late (or, technically, really early), so now I'm really tired. 

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!! 

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!!

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!!

Last night was so much fun! It was Rachel's school fair, and she invited me to go with her. Her school fair was during the nighttime, so right after our ballet class, we got ready and went to her school together for the fair. 


When we got there, Rachel met up with her other school friends. Pretty soon, I started talking with them and then we became friends. At the school fair, we went into a haunted house which was really scary because people were jumping out at you and stroking your faces and everything. We also played laser tag, went on bouncy castles, bought lots of really good candy, and I bought a small pink squishy pillow... it's very comfortable :)


When we got back from the fair, it was already very late so I didn't have time to write in here...


Today, I had a play date with one of my friends at school called Jessica. I went over to her house and we played on the computer, played with our iPod Touches, played outside, and baked some really yummy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.


I had to leave Jessica's at 4:00 because I had another tennis group lesson again at Wong Nai Chung. It was really tiring, and my legs are still really tired and sore from Thursday's training... but I still enjoyed it!


After tennis, Katy called, inviting me over for dinner. So I went over, and after dinner, we watched 'America's Got Talent' on TV. Then we played 'Twister' and played the 'Wii'. While I was at Frances and Katy' place, mommy and daddy were out eating dinner. When they got back I had to go back home. 

3 busy days

Ahhhhh! I'm so sorry I didn't write in here for the past three days!!!! I was really busy; Saturday night I had a sleep over with Rachel, Sunday night I had another sleep over with Frances and Katy, and last night I went out for dinner and came home at 1:00 A.M., so I was too tired to write. But I'll write about Saturday, Sunday and Monday right now.


Saturday


     On Friday night, I wanted to invite Rachel over for dinner, but it was really last minute, so mommy hadn't prepared anything for dinner. Instead, she said Rachel could come over on Saturday night for dinner and a sleep over. 
     Before the sleep over with Rachel, I had a violin lesson. I only managed to memorize 2 pages of the concerto, so now I have to memorize 3 more pages.
     After violin class, mommy took me to eat noodles again at the same restaurant as last week. Since this noodle restaurant is really close to the shop 'H&M', mommy said I could go there to buy some clothes for the wintertime. At H&M, I bought:
~A pink sweatshirt with black zebra stripes on it
~A pair of skinny jeans that are very stretchy so they are comfortable
I didn't buy much, so I'll need to go back again because almost all my winter clothes are too small for me and winter is coming soon!!




Sunday


     It was the first time in a while for me to play with Frances and Katy, since we are all really busy with homework. But after lunch today, they were free to play!
     Although it wasn't very sunny outside (it was cold and windy in fact), Katy wanted to go swimming, so we all went down to the pool to swim. As I guessed, the water was SO COLD! But we swam for a long time and soon I was used to the temperature. 
     After swimming, I had to go back home to take a shower and take Samantha out for a short walk. When I told Frances and Katy about having to walk Samantha, they said they wanted to come with me, so after our showers, we went to the park to walk Samantha. 
     When we came back from the walk, Frances and Katy had some very good news for me... we could have a sleep over!!! So I immediately started packing and went over to their house. 
     We made smoothies out of juice, yoghurt, marshmallows, raisin and bananas. When we mixed them all together in the blender, Frances and Katy really didn't like it, but I liked it a lot, so I drank it all up :D
     


Monday  


     This morning, Frances, Katy and I wanted to walk to Stanley with Samantha. Mommy said it was OK. But when we got to my house, mommy said Samantha can't come with us, because she was sick. A couple nights ago, we ordered new dog food, and the bag was open so Samantha ate almost all of it... and it is a pretty big bag!! So now she is vomiting and pooping uncontrollably so we couldn't take her on our walk.
     When we got to Stanley market, it was really busy since it was a public holiday, so we had to wait in a very long line to have lunch. We ate at a restaurant called 'Wildfire' since the line was the shortest.
     After eating some pizza and pasta, we had to go back home because mommy booked a tennis court for me to play with a boy called Jonathan. 
     When we got back home, there was still a few hours left until tennis, so Frances, Katy and I went to the pool to swim. We played hide-and=seek tag. It was really fun but I had to go home to get ready for tennis.
     Jonathan is really, really, really good at tennis, so there weren't a lot of rallies between us at tennis because his shots were so hard for me to return. But after a while of playing I started improving a bit.
     After tennis, Jonathan's mom invited mommy and I over to their house for dinner. Jonathan just got a hamster, so before dinner I played a lot with the hamster called Happy. After dinner, we watched a movie called 'Monster House'. It was pretty good. 
     When the movie was over, it was really late so Jonathan had to go to bed since he has school tomorrow. But it is now my mid-term break, so I could stay up later. 
     But time and time passed, and mommy was still talking with Jonathan's mom. I was so tired that I fell asleep sitting upright! When midnight came, finally I could go back home and sleep in my comfortable, warm bed :)



    

I read the book 'New Moon' most of the time today, which is probably why I finally finished it and am now starting 'Eclipse', the 3rd book in the Twilight Saga. 'New Moon' is really good and everyone says that 'Eclipse' is the best one... the most exciting one!! So I can't wait to read more of 'Eclipse'!

After many, many hours of reading, someone was finally able to play. I always wonder why I'm the only one who is always free, 24/7!! People are always sooo busy, and I'm always sooo bored, with nothing to do, homework all finished, and all other friends aren't free to play. But luckily, Frances and Katy finished their homework before everyone else (thank you!), so I immediately called them to play.

We had decided to play in the playground, but ended up just playing at home because it was just much too hot outside to play.

Unfortunately, I couldn't play for very long because there was a movie that I really wanted to watch on TV called 'Princess Protection Program', starring Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez. It's really good! I really enjoyed watching it :)

After watching 'Princess Protection Program', I pushed my bedtime to a little bit later and watched one episode of the TV show called 'Wizards of Waverly Place'. I ate a watermelon flavored popsicle while watching.

I'm hoping now that tomorrow I can go to an amusement park called 'Ocean Park' together with a friend, since I still won't be having school tomorrow. Hopefully it won't be too hot and the weather will be just right for Ocean Park.

Today I had my second violin lesson with my new violin tutor. Mommy had bought new violin books for my tutor and I to work on. So he taught me new songs to learn.

I had planned to eat at McDonald's for lunch after violin, but I wasn't very hungry after violin class, so we just took a taxi back home.

When I finished a small lunch at home, I called Rachel to see if she was free to play. I went down to her house and we played on her new Macintosh laptop.

After playing a bit with Rachel, I went swimming with Frances and Katy since today was really sunny and beautiful (about 92 degrees). First we started out to just talk, and then we played a game of tag and other games as well. When we were in the middle of a game, Frances spotted something on the floor of the pool. We all went to investigate in it, and decided that it was definitely doo-doo! We ran to tell the lifeguard, and as soon as the lifeguard starting using a long net to scoop the poo out, everyone in the pool immediately got out and left. But we stayed (not inside the pool of course) to watch the lifeguard, giggling and laughing. Then I soon had to go home to take a shower because it was nearly dinner time.

After a warm shower, Frances and Katy called, inviting me over to their house for dinner. I was allowed to go since mommy and daddy were going out for dinner. Frances and Katy's parents were going out as well.

We played lots of things; it was almost like a sleep over!! So sad we couldn't actually have a sleep over :( . But luckily I will be having a sleep over with Frances and Katy on September 18th, because it will be a sleep over birthday party for Frances!! Also, Katy and Frances have loads of clothes that are much too small for them, but since they are taller than I am, their small clothes could fit me! So Katy and Frances let me have all of their clothes that they couldn't wear anymore. They had lots of clothes that were too small for them and they are really nice clothes!! I'm so happy to have them :D Thanks so much, Frances and Katy!

When mommy and daddy got back home from dinner, they called me and unfortunately I had to go home since it was already really late :(

But I'm probably going to be playing with Frances and Katy again tomorrow... hopefully!

Okay... I really need school now!!!

Well, today was another one of those boring, nothing-to-do-at-all days. Well, at least it was like that during the morning, since everyone else was either at school, or they were busy with something else.

I woke up quite early in the morning, which wasn't quite a good thing because there was more time for me to wait until my friends got back from school. When I got up, I went to take Samantha out to the bathroom, because it was already 8:00 A.M. and Sammy usually goes at 6:30 A.M., so when I took her out, she was bursting to go...

Then I went straight back to my book, 'New Moon'. I really want to finish New Moon and go onto the 3rd book in the series, 'Eclipse'. Everyone says that Eclipse is the best book in the Twilight saga. So after about 5 hours of reading this week, I'm nearly finished with New Moon!!

Once I started to get tired of reading, I pretty much just stared at a wall for about 15 minutes. There wasn't anything better that I could think of to do!! And while I was starting to get fascinated by the smoothness of the wall, I realized I still hadn't practiced piano. Well, that brightened myself up a little! I had something interesting to do!

But, piano didn't last long because I only had 3 songs to practice for my exam. But luckily, it was already past noon time, so in just a couple hours, I would be able to do something fun with a friend!

I've just realized that now I don't go on the computer that often anymore. The reason is probably because there is nowhere to go on the computer!! I'm not very interested in games anymore, and I don't know what to watch on YouTube, and I barely know any fun, interesting websites to go on anymore! But I guess that's a good thing, that I don't spend so much time on the computer anymore. But without anything to do on the computer, I can't think of anything better to do! Oh dear, I really think I need school again :(

Finally, 4:00 came. The time when everyone would be back from school. I rushed to the phone and dialed Frances and Katy's number. They answered and luckily they could play!! First Katy came over and we played computer of course... Katy knows lots of things to do on the computer, which is probably why she spends loads of time on the computer (that was a compliment, Katy!)!! Then Frances came over and we took photos on PhotoBooth, since we didn't know what websites to go on...

Then Frances and I went to our tap lesson together. I thought Ms. Tiffany would be teaching tap since Ms. Claire had a baby to take care of, but luckily... Ms. Claire taught tap instead!! I really missed her and I was soooo, extremely happy to see her again! She told me she would be teaching both tap and ballet. I waited for her to say that she would teach disco as well, but turns out, Ms. Tiffany will still teach disco; for the first term at least. I really do hope Ms. Claire will start teaching disco again for the rest of the year starting from next term!!

It was really sunny today, so in the morning, I went swimming with Frances and Katy. When I went to the pool, Michelle and Rachel were there as well, so the 5 of us played together for a long time until we had to go home for lunch. It was really fun!!

After lunch, I had to continue finishing my Chinese homework... and now I still haven't finished it, but luckily I still have one more day to finish it until the due date.

When I finished most of my homework, I practiced my piano for quite a while, since I had to prepare for my piano exam that will be coming up in October.

After a long hour of piano, I practiced my clarinet for a bit, but my cheeks soon got tired from blowing for a long time.

And then, just when I thought I could call a friend to play with, I remembered I had to practice my violin. But there wasn't much for me to play, so I soon finished practicing violin.

Finally, I could call a friend to play. I called Rachel, and she came over to my house to play. Then Frances and Katy came over as well, and the 4 of us played together.... mostly on the computer of course!! :P . But Rachel couldn't stay for long, so after about 45 minutes or so, she had to leave. But Frances and Katy stayed, and on YouTube, we watched a movie that we really wanted to watch called The Wizards of Waverly Place movie... we still haven't gotten to finish it yet, because Frances and Katy had to leave as well for dinner, but we're nearly finished watching it, and it's really good and exciting! I'm probably not going to finish it tonight because it's already really late right now -- maybe tomorrow...

Well, gotta go get ready for tomorrow's school!

Brunch

Today I went over to a place with mommy and daddy for a brunch. We went there because mommy's friend moved there, so we went to have brunch with her.

Mommy's friend has 2 sons called Cheng Wok and Christopher. I showed them my new iTouch and we played some games on it -- this morning I downloaded loads of applications!! They are sooo cool :)

We also went to see their apartment. It's quite big! It looks just like my friend Gina's apartment. Gina used to live there, too.

Once we got back home, I started working on my homework that is due tomorrow at school. It was very fun -- I had to do a collage for my writing journal, so in my collage, I put photos of me and my friends and pictures of my dog, Samantha. Now my writing journal looks great!!

When I finished my homework, I called Sophia, asking if she could go night swimming with me, since it was already quite late. But, nobody answered the phone!! So I called Frances and Katy, but they couldn't go because they already went swimming. I called a few other friends, but they were either busy with homework or they just couldn't go. So I ended up not going swimming at all today :(

Gotta get ready for tomorrow's school now!