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)

When I got back home from the sleep over, I started some of my chinese book report for homework. In the middle of my homework, Sydney called me, asking if I wanted to play basketball with her. So we went down to the basketball courts and we played some shooting games. 


When Sydney had to go back home and I went back home, too, Frances called asking me if I wanted to go swimming with her, because it was really hot and sunny outside. 


So we went down together. After running around for a bit, we got hungry, so we bought popsicles and ate them by the pool. 


I had to go home after a bit because I needed to practice piano and violin. I just finished practicing violin, and now I'm gonna go watch the movie 'School of Rock'. BYE!!! 

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 :( 

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

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 :)



    

Charity Bazaar

It was the Charity Bazaar today!! I woke up really early this morning to start getting ready. Later, Rachel came over and mommy helped us do our hair. When she was done, we went over to Rachel's house where her mom helped put on make-up for us. We were supposed to be at the dance studio to rehearse our dances by 10:00, but when I left home, I had forgotten my dance shoes. When I went back up to get them, as I was about to go into the studio, I realized I had forgotten my hat for part of my disco costume!! Although Ms. Claire told us to be there at 10:00 sharp, I ended up being about 10 minutes late. I kept worrying that I would miss the rehearsal for my dance, but turns out that I was pretty early... we hadn't started dancing until around 10:20!


Finally, the time to perform came. It was so hot inside my costume because since I have to change into three costumes, I was wearing many, many layers of my costumes to help make it easier for me to change faster. So after the first few seconds of my first dance, I was immediately exhausted. I was very happy when I got to change back into normal, comfortable clothes, with just one layer.


After performing, Rachel and I got hamburgers. The hamburgers at the Charity Bazaar are soooo good!! I love them :) 
And of course, after eating my delicious hamburger, I had to have something sweet. So I got cotton candy... and the cotton candy is even better than the hamburgers!! They make it humongous and very, very sugary. I loved it as well...


When we finished eating, we walked around, looking at the stalls. Rachel bought a few things, but nothing there interested me, so I didn't buy anything. Well, I did buy a really small popsicle keychain...


Rachel and I soon got very bored of the Charity Bazaar, so Rachel came over to my house and we watched the movie 'Mean Girls'. We didn't get to finish the movie because Rachel soon had to go back home :(


When Rachel left, mommy took me to Pacific Place to watch the new movie, 'Garfield'. It was really good and funny. I enjoyed watching it in 3D, though the movie was only about 1 hour.


After the short movie, I had to go get some t-shirts in Wanchai for camp tomorrow (YAY!) because all my clothes that I currently have are too precious to wear to camp and get dirty :D
I bought 4 really cheap shirts... they're actually really cool.


When we finished getting the shirts, we went to eat at a Thai restaurant called 'The Chili Club'. I wasn't very hungry, so I didn't eat much... but now I'm starting to get more hungry............


YYAAAYYYYY!!!!!! CAMP IS TOMORROW!! I'm not sure if I'll be able to sleep tonight because I definitely can't stand or sit still for just one second at the moment... I'm sooooo excited!! Can't wait to write all about it later! But unfortunately there won't be any computers at camp, so I won't be able to write any posts on Monday or Tuesday, but I will be back on Wednesday to write aaaalllll about fun, exciting, wonderful camp *^_^*!  

It just had to be blazing hot outside on the day of my tennis lesson when it could have been nice, cool and slightly breezy. But surprisingly, although the sun was really, really hot for me (and I was playing on the non-shaded side of the court), I didn't even complain a bit about being hot and uncomfortable; and I didn't even feel extremely exhausted.... well, that's good isn't it?

After my not-so-tiring tennis lesson, I hurried to take a shower and rushed to my violin lesson in Midlevels. Before violin, mommy and I ate lunch at a noodle shop, where we stayed at for too long because we ended up being quite late for my lesson. My violin lesson seemed to pass by real quickly, so before I knew it, I was walking out my violin tutor's studio.

Mommy and I walked all the way to Wanchai because I needed to get new shoes and we knew a shoe store in Wanchai. But when we got to the store, there wasn't a very big selection of shoes, and all shoes were very expensive, so unfortunately I didn't get any new shoes today :(

But I did get a few new t-shirts at some clothing store that sells cheap clothes!

After looking around in Wanchai, mommy took me to a mall called Sogo. We looked around in Sogo and I really wanted to get some things in the Roxy store, but everything was at the least HK$200... even for a plain t-shirt!! So I didn't buy anything. 

When I got back home, I called Niki to see if she was free to play. I went over to her house and we practiced our dance for the Charity Bazaar with Annabelle. When Annabelle had to go back home, I stayed and watched half of the movie called 'Picture This' starring Ashley Tisdale with Niki. Then I had to go home to have dinner.

Yayyyyy!!! Tomorrow is the Charity Bazaar! I'm really excited but I'm not exactly looking forward to the changing costumes part because there won't be any bathroom stalls for me to change in!! And I have three dances to do, which means three completely different costumes to wear. So every year, mommy holds up a big towel while I change... it's quite embarrassing... you do not know how many people are watching! But I'm still really excited for the Charity Bazaar :D

I just came back from playing with Rachel at her house. We just finished eating dinner together. Earlier, we watched the movie 'Wild Child' starring Emma Roberts. Rachel doesn't have the DVD, so we just searched the movie on the internet and watched it there... it was kinda blurry bit it was still really fun to watch!!


Before going to Rachel's house for dinner, I had a tennis lesson in the morning. It was still really hot today, but it's getting cooler, which is good for tennis. But after tennis, I still had that big amount of sweat forming on the back of my neck... my tennis lesson was then followed by another violin lesson. 


When I came back from violin, I played with Niki. We walked around in the garden, then played with my basketball. We wanted to go to the basketball courts to shoot hoops, but other people were playing in the basketball courts and we didn't wanted to play with them because we aren't exactly very good at basketball, so we didn't really want to embarrass ourselves in front of other...
When we went back to Niki's house, Annabelle called. The three of us played together at Annabelle's house. We played a game called 'Sims 2' where we create characters and play around with them. It was fun playing with Niki and Annabelle, but I had to leave to go to Rachel's house.


My horrible sore throat has gone, but unfortunately, instead of my sore throat, I am now coughing all the time, and my nose is all stuffy. It feel like there is a big ball of dust at the bottom of my throat -- it doesn't hurt, I'm just constantly coughing, trying to get that 'dust' out. And I keep sneezing too........
Well hopefully I'll be much better by tomorrow because tomorrow I'm going to a paint-ball party!!

Sorry I haven't been writing recently... I've been coming home quite late these past couple nights. So here's what I did on Saturday and Sunday night.


Saturday night was really fun. My friend Grayce had come over and we went swimming together. Then she stayed over to have dinner with mommy, daddy, Frances, Katy, Rachel and I for Mid-Autumn Festival. There were many fun activities for us to do. There was someone making little animals out of dough, and Grayce and I got little cute pandas. There was also someone making different bracelets, so Grayce and I got the same bracelet for a friendship bracelet.


Yesterday, mommy and daddy took me out to Pacific Place to watch the movie 'Fame'. It was all about singing, dancing, acting and instruments. It was a really fun movie to watch. After the movie, we went over to someone's house for dinner. We stayed there really late, so I had quite a lot of trouble waking up early for school this morning.


I've found some old clothes that I will be wearing for Colony Day this Thursday for Cultural Encounters. Though I am still trying to find a black apron... it will probably be quite difficult to get a black apron now...


Ahhhhh!! My piano exam is in just 3 days!!! I'm soooo nervous, but I'll be really happy when the exam is over because then I won't have anything to worry about!!


Oh right! I also forgot to mention that I started the 4th book in the Twilight saga called 'Breaking Dawn'. I finished 'Eclipse' and 'Breaking Dawn' is really good so far! :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

Hi again! Sorry I didn't get to right an entry about yesterday... yesterday I didn't have any after school activities so I was quite bored. But at 6:00 PM I went to have a group tennis lesson. I still had some homework that I needed to finish, so by the time I was in bed, it was already very late so I didn't get a chance to write in my blog. :(

Once again, today my teacher didn't give much homework for us. So I finished homework in just about 45 minutes, then I practiced clarinet. I was about to practice my piano when I remembered that I had tap lesson, so I went to tap instead.

Tonight at school, there is a parent/teacher conference, so mommy went to school today and sister stayed here at home with me.

At school, we got permission slips for... CAMP!!! I absolutely love camp at school. We go somewhere out in the suburbs in Hong Kong for 3 days and 2 nights. It's been really fun in 3rd and 4th grade, but in 5th grade, we get to go to the best camp site in Hong Kong and we get to do really fun things like kaiaking and jet skiing and canoeing, lots of other water sports and other activities on land as well. I really can't wait for 5th grade camp which is going to start on October 19th - October 21st... too bad we can't stay at camp for 2-3 weeks!!

Tomorrow at school, we are going to have a free dress day, and my teacher wants the class to dress very wacky tomorrow. I don't have many wacky clothes, so it was really hard for me to choose wacky things to wear. Soon, I finally decided. I'll try to upload a picture tomorrow of what I looked like.

Well, I'm off to watch the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire!! Bye :D

After school... wacky clothes:

Since I couldn't figure out how to upload a picture of what I looked like at school today for free dress, I'll just describe it.

I wore different socks: one with red and white stripes, one that is green with blue flowers.

I wore different shoes: one green sneaker, one red All-Star converse.

I wore brown leggings with swimming trunks with green flowers on them.

I wore a blue, baggy Abercrombie t-shirt.

I really did look wacky at school!!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

When I woke up this morning, I suddenly felt like cooking something. Of course, I wanted to cook something sweet. A dessert. So I asked mommy if she could help me cook chocolate chip cookies.

We found a cookie mix with directions. Preheat the oven, combine the cookie mix together with 1 egg and half a stick of butter. It was all very simple, but we didn't start from scratch...

Before I knew it, I was already making balls out of cookie mix, egg and butter. Mommy did an example for me, and I followed, trying to make the balls the exact same size as mommy's ball. It was really hard for me to decide whether my balls were going to turn out too big, or too small.

Soon, I was carefully sliding the tray of 12 cookies into the preheated oven, careful not to burn myself. I eagerly watched the oven, watching the tiny bubbles appearing on the cookies, making the cookies get bigger and rounder and taller. Soon, the smell of cookies starting filling the whole apartment. I pulled the tray of cookies back out, the tray much more hotter. I sniffed the cookies; they smelt wonderful -- I couldn't wait to eat them!!

After I let the cookies sit for a while to let them get a bit harder, I gathered the cookies up and placed them on a plate, making a simple design. I tried my hardest to place the cookies very gently, but I ended up breaking a few cookies in half. Oh well, at least they all still taste the same -- sweet, warm, sweet, yummy, warm and yummy.

I immediately grabbed for the cookie on the top pile, excited to try the cookies I had made. Mmmm... they were delicious!!! I especially liked the warm, melted chocolate chips :)

After some violin practicing, I went to ballet class with Rachel. We just prepared for our ballet exams, although they aren't coming up until next year.

After a tiring ballet class, I went over to Rachel's house for dinner and we watched a movie that was playing on Nickelodeon called: 'Spectacular'. It was a musical and it was really fun to watch! The dinner was great too =)

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!

Papa Razzi and Aliens in the Attic

Noooo!! It's my last day in Boston!!! I'm really gonna miss America, but I'm also really excited about going back to school and seeing all my friends and my dog, Samantha. I've brought lots of stuff from Hong Kong over to Boston, but here in Boston, I had lots of shopping trips! So I spent most of my afternoon packing and I just finished struggling with closing my luggage because it's so full of stuff!

For dinner tonight, I went to eat at a really fancy restaurant called Papa Razzi. It's an Italian restaurant, so of course I had pizza!

Earlier today, Wesley and I went to the cinemas to watch the movie Aliens in the Attic. It's really funny!!

I finished reading the book The Clique, and now I've moved onto the sequel, Best Friends For Never. There are so many books I've started but haven't finished yet, and there are still so many books I want to start reading, but I haven't started them yet because of all the books I'm reading at the same time right now!! And whenever I go to a bookstore, I see a new book and I really like it, and turns out, I usually just pick the books that is a series! So then I have even more books to read!!

Good-bye America :'(((... Hello Hong Kong :)))))!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Julie & Julia

Today I went to watch the movie Julie and Julia. I wasn't expecting much from it, since it was mainly about cooking. So I wasn't as excited as when I'm about to watch 'Ice Age 3' or 'Up'. But when I stepped out of the theater, I felt exactly how I would usually feel when I step out of the theater after watching 'Ice Age 3'! The movie was great; very funny and the story was very cool, being based on 2 real life stories. It was about a girl called Julie Powell who loved cooking, and loved the famous chef, Julia Child. She started a project that was 365 days, 524 recipes. Julie Powell blogged about cooking and going through one of Julia Child's recipes. Soon, lots of people started following her and she soon became very famous and wrote a book.

After watching the movie, I went to the mall, Natick Collection, since the theater was really close to Natick Collection. But I didn't have much time to look around because I had to go home soon for dinner. So I just went to the shop Claire's and bought a cute choker necklace (with different colored small beads). I'm probably gonna go back there again because I'm going to get my ears pierced for my 10th birthday, so I'm going to buy earrings at Claire's. It's very surprising, because usually, whenever I go to a mall, I always buy clothes or at least shoes. But this time I only bought a choker necklace!! But I bet I will always buy at least something when I enter a mall... it's just quite impossible for me to never buy something when I'm in a mall! Especially when I'm in Natick Collection!!!

So now I'm just sitting in front of the computer, with nothing to do... I'm really hungry but we're probably not going to have dinner until about 7:00 PM the earliest! Well, I gotta go now... gonna go eat a yogurt! The hunger in my stomach can't wait =)