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!!

Sorry I couldn't write these past days... I've had really late nights. On Friday night, friends invited us to eat at the FCC (Foreign Correspondent Club) for dinner and we came back home extremely late, and on Saturday night, after playing about 3 hours of tennis at Wong Nai Chung, mommy, daddy and I went to the Chili Club for dinner and came home really late as well. 


Today was the Sedan Chair Race and Bazaar at the Matilda Hospital. Island Dance (the dance company where I take dance class) was invited to perform there. So this morning, I went over to Katy's house and we got ready together, then her mom took us to the hospital which was where we were performing. I only performed my disco dance, "Low". It was really windy up at the Peak which is where the Matilda Hospital is. It was freezing and the costumes were really thin so we were all freezing!! 


After the performance, Katy, her mom, mommy, daddy, and I all shared a taxi to go back home. 


For a science project for school, I had to get a water sample at the reservoir. So mommy, daddy and I walked with Samantha down to the reservoir. We scooped up some water and surprisingly, the water looked so clean!! I could barely tell the difference between purified water and water straight from the ocean!


We were walking back home with Samantha, and we decided to take her off the leash and play fetch with her. As we threw the ball and Samantha ran to catch it, she disappeared into the bushes. We couldn't see her anywhere. It was beginning to pour with rain and we had to hurry home to get dry, so we couldn't stay long to look for her; Samantha had run away loads of times before and we knew that she wouldn't come back just from a simple call of her name.


I was so sad. I kept worrying that she wouldn't come back and she would be stuck out in the pouring cold rain. But when we just got back home, Sophia's mom called us. She had found Samantha!! So daddy and I went back down to the Country Park where Sophia, Rogan and her mom waited for us with a very guilty Samantha. Apparently, Sophia had found Samantha in the barbecue pit and Sophia cornered Samantha and managed to catch her! I have no idea how she did it because Samantha is one fast dog, but I'm so glad that she's back!!! 

After school today, there was a mother-daughter tea party for all the 5th grade girls. Grayce, Sydney, Niki, Sophia and lots of other people went. We had cookies and tea and talked.... it was quite fun.


After the tea party, Sydney, Niki and I had to quickly rush to violin class straight after. We were still about 10 minutes late, but the teacher didn't get upset because he knew we were at a party. 


At violin class, the teacher gave us 5 new songs for the upcoming concert. The older songs were quite hard, but these ones are extremely easy for me.... the songs that we got today were just normal Christmas Carols (Jingle Bells, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, etc...). 


When violin class was over, Sydney, her mom, mommy and I all went back home together. We organized to have a play date sometime tomorrow afternoon. It's not official yet, but I really hope we can have a play date!! We haven't had one in ages.


When I got back home, it was already time for ballet. I quickly changed and went down to the dance studio with Rachel. 


At ballet, Ms. Claire had GREAT news!! I had told her yesterday about me stopping disco class because it was too easy for me. When I told her this, she immediately called the office and asked to move me up to the highest level!! They said I could, and now I've started disco again! I'm just soooo happy that now I can do harder, more challenging things :D 


Currently in the highest level of disco, they are learning 4 dances at once. I have no idea how to do any of the dances, and since Katy is in this level too, I went over to to her house after dinner so she could teach me how to do the dances. Although there are 4 dances, Katy could only remember 2 and we only had time to finish about 3/4 of each of the 2 dances. The dances that I learnt today were to the songs 'You Know I'm No Good' by Amy Winehouse, and 'Better In Time' by Leona Lewis. They both aren't very fast songs, but they were still really hard for me to learn. During the weekend, Katy will try to find some more time to help me learn the dance, though she does have lots of activities and homework to do... but I really hope I can learn at least 2 dances by this Monday so I won't be so far behind!!




When I got back home, I had to practice violin because tomorrow is my violin lesson. It was really late, and I only just finished, so I should be going to bed now because tomorrow I have tennis early in the morning!! So bye for now :)

Halloween!

Yesterday was the BEST day ever!!


For lunch, Frances and I went to Allison's birthday barbecue party. Katy couldn't go because she had to prepare for her own party. We ate hot dogs and pork chops and Michelle was there too!! We prank called some people; it was funny.


Unfortunately, Frances and I had to leave the party early to go to Katy's party. 


Not long after Frances and I got back home, Katy's friends started arriving. For one of Katy's presents, she got 3 fish!! She was really happy :)


When everyone was there, we went to Happy Valley to get manicures and pedicures in a nail place called 'The Nail Bar'. The colors I chose for my manicure were hot pink and black, and for my pedicures I chose dark purple. After I got my toes painted, I thought they had already dried, so I started walking around carelessly and now my toes don't look very pretty... but at least my fingers still look nice!!


After the manicures and pedicures, we started getting ready for trick or treating. Frances and I put on our mad scientist costumes and started putting on face paint. We made our eye brows slant upwards to mad us look evil and we put dark purplish circles around our eyes. 


Trick or treating was so much fun, but I guess it was a bit too crowded. People kept pushing past me to get candy... but I still really enjoyed it! I got loads of candy, but the candy all ran out within half an hour because there were so many people. But in half an hour we all got plenty of candy that would last for a real looonnnnggg time :D


Sadly, trick or treating had to come to an end, but the sleep over that followed was just as fun! After eating lots of candy and eating pizza for dinner, we put on make up and played and it was so much fun. We wanted to watch 'Wild Child' after, but Katy's mom told us that we had to go to bed :( 

This afternoon, mommy and I went out to buy birthday presents for Katy and Allison. I can't say what I bought because I know you might be reading this Katy.... :)

After buying the gifts, we went over to the IFC Mall. We went to the bookstore, 'Dymocks'. They renovated it and now it's waaaaay bigger! I spent a lot of time looking at all the children's books! Turns out,  there were too many books to choose from, so I didn't buy anything. But mommy wants me to practice my math more, so she bought me a really thick math notebook to do everyday >:(

After looking around in Dymocks, we went to City Super to buy stuff for dinner, and then I had to go back home for tap class. 

Since it is soon Halloween, Ms. Claire brought lots of candy for us to eat. We had to do normal, boring exercises for most of the time during the lesson, but we played a really short game at the end... it was still fun!!

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 :)



    

Birthday Party

Today was so much fun!!


It was Frances' 10th birthday party, and last night I went over to Frances' house for a birthday sleep over. I helped her prepare for her party.


Unfortunately, my violin tutor started exactly when Frances' party started, so I had to be about an hour and a half late for her birthday. I bought Frances an H&M gift card -- like what Sophia gave me. Frances really liked it. At the party, we played games and treasure hunts and stuff :)


Also, I had tennis in the morning, and I thought it would be a bit cooler this week than it was last week; I was wrong. It seemed much hotter today than it did last week at tennis!! I was soooo hot :o


When everyone went back home and it was soon dinner time, Frances, Katy, their mom, my mom and I went to the pool side to have a barbecue dinner. It was really fun as well. After Frances, Katy and I finished dinner, we dipped our feet in the pool and played around. We started trying to make each other laugh and it was really funny.