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!!!

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 :)

Sleepover with Sophia

Originally, Sophia and I were planning to go to Ocean Park yesterday (even though I've already gone twice very recently), but we couldn't go.

So instead we had a barbecue at the Country Park. I took Samantha with me, and at the Country Park today, there were loads of people who were having barbecues too, so Samantha was going crazy trying to look for food; it was really hard to control her. I can't imagine how Samantha can still be so hungry even when she's just eaten almost half a bag of dog food (it's a really big bag!). While we were eating, Samantha kept jumping up onto the table, trying to get our food, so we had to tie her to a tree. She was whining the whole time we ate, but I couldn't untie her from the tree otherwise she would eat our food!!

After the barbecue, Sophia and I went back home and we played basketball together. When we became really thirsty after a while of playing, we went back to my house.

We watched some really funny videos on YouTube, and Sophia invited me to stay at her house for a sleepover. So we started planning what we would do.

When it was time for my ballet class to start, Sophia came to watch. We didn't get to learn any new dances or didn't get to play any games even though it's soon Halloween; we had to just do our normal, boring exercises.

When ballet was over, we went over to Sophia's house for a quick dinner, because I had to go home soon for Sophia to have her piano lesson.

While Sophia had her piano lesson, I had to practice piano, too. After I was all packed and ready and everything, Sophia called and I went over to her house.

We watched the movie 'Ice Princess'. It was really fun to watch.

Now it is gonna be Allison's barbecue birthday party, and after that it will be Katy's birthday party, and then... HALLOWEEN!!!!

Happy Halloween :D

Last night, Rachel came over for a sleep over. We went to ballet together and went out to dinner together. Daddy just came back home from Beijing last night, so mommy, daddy, Rachel and I went out to the chinese restaurant Min Yueng together. Everything was going very well until I ate something... with peanuts in them. I'm allergic to peanuts. At first I didn't feel bad at all, but soon my stomach starting aching sooo badly. We quickly went home and I just lay in bed for a few minutes. When my stomach was just a bit better, Rachel and I watched the movie, 'Another Cinderella Story'. Soon, my stomach wasn't even hurting at all!! Usually when I eat peanuts, my tongue and lips swell up and my stomach starts to hurt really badly for 2 hours. And then I vomit. But last night I slept through the whole night without feeling the least bit sick!! That's very fortunate, because if I did have my usual peanut allergy reaction, Rachel would have had to go home and the sleep over would have been cancelled.

This morning, we both had tennis. First it was Rachel's lesson. I watched her, and when it was my lesson, she watched me. She just left to go back home :(

Tonight, mommy, daddy, Frances, Katy, Rachel, two brothers, Cheng Wok and Christopher, other old friends and I will all be eating at the pool side for another barbecue because today is Mid Autumn Festival. I'm gonna go buy some glow sticks to play with for tonight... can't wait!! :D

Ocean Park

Today was so much fun!!! Since there wasn't any school, Sophia and I went to Ocean Park!! At first, I thought that Sophia wouldn't be able to go, because she wasn't calling me at all. When I finally decided that she would never call, Sophia called! I was sooo happy that we could go to Ocean Park!!! 


At Ocean Park, we rode many rides. I'll describe every ride we did...


-Dragon = Roller coaster with 3 loops and 3 up-hills and 3 down-hills. Sophia and I rode it 2 times.
-Mine Train = Roller coaster with no loops, but really fast. 4 up-hills and 4 down-hills. All hills were really steep. Sophia and I rode it 2 times.
-Bungee Trampoline = Jumping up and down really high. Sophia and I did it only once.
-Raging River = Boat on rocky water, then a really steep drop. Sophia and I did it once as well.


Those were all the rides we did... not much :( But all the lines were reeaaallly long, so those 4 rides took up almost 3 hours!! Sophia and I might go to Ocean Park again on October 1st. We don't know yet... I hope we can go again and ride more rides!


After Ocean Park, since it was boiling hot outside, Sophia, Niki and I went swimming together. The water felt sooo good and refreshing. But we couldn't swim long because I had to rush to ballet class. I had such little time that I couldn't even take a shower after swimming!


When I came back from ballet, I went over to Sophia's house for dinner. But we only had time to eat together; we couldn't play because Sophia had a piano lesson to go to. We planned to play after her piano lesson, but she never called, so I guess I'll just have to wait for tomorrow to play with her!!

Early Birthday and Wellesley (again)

Today was any early birthday for me! My birthday is actually on August 21st, but I will be in Hong Kong on August 21st, so I just celebrated an early birthday here in America before I go back. Mommy, daddy, Wesley, Aunt Cindy, Uncle Jon, Granddaddy and I all had dinner at the restaurant called Bertucci's. Wesley and I had a big, yummy, 5-layer, rich chocolate cake! Yum!! Wesley, Aunt Cindy and Uncle Jon bought me a present -- Demi Lovato's new album called Here We Go Again!! I'm listening to the songs on the album right now, in the kitchen :)

Earlier today, mommy, daddy and I went to Wellesley again and went to the shop called Capezio, a shop for dance supplies. I do tap, ballet, and disco, and I needed new stuff for all three of them. I bought long, black pants for tap, white tights for ballet, and lose, black capri pants for disco. I also got these things that I had never heard of before: Foot Undeez. They are actually shaped like little underwear and they go on your toes! Ha!

When we came back from Capezio, Wesley had come over. We played tag inside and outside the house. Then, we went to a big public golf course. Wesley and I took a lesson from a wonderful coach named Don. He used to teach Monica, my 26 year old sister, about 15 years ago!! I learnt how to swing and I hit quite a few high balls :) . But unfortunately, I got a blister on my right pointer finger :( . But I had loads of fun playing golf today!!!

OK, I'm gonna go to bed now! Can't wait to listen to more songs on Demi's new album!!