When it's dead meaning it's dead.. (from sheena to her hello kitty keychain)

I'm still waiting for my camera, cause my old one went dead on me. But even now dead, it had served me well for the past 5 years.. Only at 7.2 mp and not from some renowned brand like Canon or Nikon.. My Casio Exilim which we bought for our trip to Australia did not fail me and in many a time, I was able to capture pretty nice shots.. I really regret spending over $40 blinging it when I went back to Singapore.. Good blings are expensive!!!! I can only afford to buy 2 different variety of blings and the result of course is terrible!! It's all because of Xiaxue la.. If she never bling her gadget so nicely, I would have never dare to bling mine.. And the Arab Street that she mention in her episode of her Guide to Life, the prices of the blings are so ridiculously priced, I bet they gave her free blings to advertise for them.. One look at her extensive range of blings tell you not to meddle with your gadget unless you have a collection that is comparable to her.. If not STAY AWAY!! Btw I'm not anti-Xiaxue, I'm only upset that I've bling my camera which I shouldn't have.
I SHALL NEVER BLING MY EXPENSIVE GADGET EVER AGAIN.. My dear old camera I let u down..

I have so many pictures that I wanted to capture and show you guys but I'm still waiting for my new semipro Canon G10.. Some camwhoring photos that I wanted to take but impossible now cause I can never manage to take pictures with Eric's Canon Rebel XTi using only 1 hand.... And also I want to video down my smartie boy who can now tour around the house without any help.. My son can WALK without support 1 month ago!! it was probably about 10 steps initially then 20 on the 2nd week and now he's so good at it, he can even stand from a seated position without holding on to anything and he made me so proud..

2 days ago, I was feeding him cereal and after he's finished, I showed him the empty bowl and then do the handsign for All Done.. He sign back to me!! wow.. I couldn't believe my eyes.. I guess he's abit slow in responding to people cause he doesn't focus very much on us.. When he responded I was elated!!! So now I'm trying to reinforced the idea of signing by doing it regularly.. Sometime when he doesn't respond of course I was abit sad but however I know I should keep on doing it.. Keep it up MoM..

My little man was enjoying the water in this summer heat.. Splish splash.. Too bad, I can only tell you what happened and not show you what happened.. I like having pictures in my post.. My G10, I miss you, please come to mama ASAP.. =DD

Blogging is good for you.

Tonight is one of the many countless sleepless night for me yet again. With Eric and Davis fast asleep, Milkshake nowhere within my sight and most importantly my neighbours who decided not to party, I am enjoying the solitary, serene and silent time where I can write my blog..

Few years back, when blogging is still not as popular, I actually abhor the idea of typing personal thoughts and happenings in a web page where people could read and knew every little secrets of yours. It actually makes me feel vulnerable and naked, but how shallow I am.. I should have started blogging right in the beginning when I knew what a blog is all about.. I would have recorded things that happened to me, important or not, and not lost them with the loss of time..

I don't understand why would people want to pen them down in a public space where anyone could have read and know you, when on the other hand, you don't even knew who your readers are.. I even reprimanded one of my friend for doing so, because her ex would knew her thoughts and take advantage of her..

I should have, should have written down things like, Eric proposed today, with a ring and a bouquet of roses.. My wedding gown was amazing... The food was absolutely delicious, we exchanged a 10 pax food tasting dinner for something else.. Baby kicked me this morning and it feels like bubbles bursting in my tummy.. I did not.. I am regreting it because I've missed out so many important things and thoughts that I could have noted.. What a waste..

If I could turn back time, I would have gladly trade my vulnerability for a lifetime of memories that I can never retrieved..

It's our day!

Happy Mothers' Day to all my mommy readers and mommy-to-be readers.. Have a great day cause you deserve it!

Pink like JC, Juicy and sweet

We went shopping again, AGAIN! Oh dear, spending money agAIN.. And today is a Wednesday, a working day for most people.. If everything went as planned, we were all suppose to be enjoying our week at Disneyworld, Orlando. Due to the swine flu that came at such a so wrong timing, we cancelled our trip just hours before we depart Arizona.. So now our 1 week Disney getaway has turned into a one week shopping cum resting vacation.

We hit the mall.. And today we drove down to Scottsdale which is a high class shopping centre that is comparable to our Paragon in Singapore.. This is the day which I finally bought my 1st JUICY COUTURE (pronounce as coo-tour) handbag.. I'm not acting smart trying to teach you pronunciation. Just in case you get the wrong impression. But anyway what ever you think of me is out of my control, so whatever..

If I ever had to go back to my secondary school days, I would be very contented to just own a Juicy paperbag, take a look!!

Paperbag already look so chio..

Side view of the paperbag.

Take a peek inside.

Zoom in for you to see what's written on it.

And Tadah! My black velvet handbag from the suddenly gone famous brand, JuicY!!

Back view of the bag..


And the price tag that went with it?

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Take 25% off from the already reduced price and we've got $56.66, printed on pink paper..

So the next time when you want to buy a bag, you

cause I think they're worth every penny of it.. Items from the discounted shelves that is..

More photos to share

For the benefit of my readers, I've decided to post some of our photos taken on the day of Davis birthday in here as not everyone can access to my facebook.

Here we have, our female guests..

Shirley wanted to take pictures with the tree with yellow flowers, that's why all of us were outside of the clubhouse posing with it..

Davis loves lights. I think he must be looking at the candle flame..

Our new friend Kate and me.

For a moment I felt like a maid that is having her rest on Sunday. Cause they like to gather together and sit on some spot in the park or garden.

Aven engrossed in blowing the Mickey mouse thingy.. Totally bo chap.. haha.

Creation of Shirley. Thank you very much..

Davis 1st Birthday @ Adiamo Clubhse, 2nd May 2009

I've got so many people that I need to thank in here.. However the 1st person I want to thank so much is my Dear God. Thank you God for making this happen on this very special day. Thank you for the fine weather and great company that we have. Indeed without you, we wouldn't be all this happy to celebrate this joyous occasion. It has been a wonderful 1 year with Davis that contain countless moment of joy and tears.. You were there to share with us..
Thanks to Huisi Ah yi and Uncle KE for that video montage of Davis. We didn't screen it during the party as there was no projector and screen.. Still we love it very much..

I want to thank Sheena and Moey for letting me cook at their house and making it so messy and noisy till wee hours.. My other friends includes Shirley, Arlene, Kate and their hubbies. Thanks for accompanying and also helping me to do the food preparation..

Thanks Shirley for helping me to wash so many dishes and baking the cupcakes even though she's very pregnant now and still stayed till the end with us.

Thank you Arlene for making the Ang Ku Kueh, cause I was in a lazy mood to look at the instructions and recipe that Sheena had handwritten from the net even though I still had full bar of energy in me. The ang ku kueh taste great! Thanks for helping me to decorate the cupcakes and make it so wonderfully pretty.

Our Cute Mickey Mouse cupcakes

Thank Kate for helping me to fry the beehoon and also cracking up yellow jokes that made us laugh so much..

Thanks Moey for helping me to look after Davis all the time and running up and down to get things for me.

Thanks Juliet for helping me to set up the decoration as I was still very busy heating up the Ang Ku Kueh at the very last minutes and I still haven't bath yet.

Thanks Edwin for being our photographer and also doing up the decoration for us..

Thank to my hunny that accompanied me all this while hunting for the right birthday cake. I wasn't impressed with the very little selection of mickey mouse cake that local bakery offer and hence we search alot of places for the perfect one..

Our cake for Davis

Thank you my dear friends for helping me do the otah and many other things. Thank for staying up so late and still have to get up that early to continue with the cooking..
There are so many other people that I want to thank, sorry that I missed you.. I remembered.. Thank people, but I have no salary for you. Keekee.

And lastly, to all my guests. Thank you for spending this Saturday afternoon with us and also for the presents and red packets.

We are so blessed to have you guys celebrate Davis first birthday with us..

I'll upload more photos of Davis 1st Birthday in my facebook once I get them from our photographer, Edwin..

Keep a lookout people..

2nd May is a special day

Hi, my dear AZ friends. Davis is having his very 1st birthday this year and I'm feeling just as excited as him (if he know what is it all about), and this excitement has been going on for weeks already.. I've scouted the neighbourhood stores for party ideas. Search all over the web to buy stuffs for this Big day. SOoo here... I'm cordially inviting you to Davis 1st Mickey Mouse Birthday Party at


Venue: Adiamo Palm Valley
Clubhouse

Date: 2nd May 2009

Time: 1p.m

Dresscode: Parents are encourage to dress your kids in Mickey Mouse or Disney Characters outfits.


Expect to have loads of food and fun with us.

I can't wait for the day to come and hope to see you guys there..

Lots of Smooches
Christine

Random thoughts that just pop

Davis boy boy is turning 1 in a few days time. I can't lock time in a safe and it just zoomed past me. I should really be cherishing my remaining months in the States before the reality starts to kick in. I've seen a couple of friends who used to stay in Arizona, commenting that Singapore is a reality whereas States is like a dream or something.. I totally agree to that statement.

My rotting-at-home-time is coming to an end pretty soon. Just like 1 year ago, I gave birth to a most gorgeous boy, Davis Kwong on 7th May 08. Since after, my rotting time has turned into an extremely hectic and very tiring job that I have to be ready almost 24/7.

Davis on his part did what all babies have to do.. He grow up everyday, bit by bit.. He is now taller, stronger, heavier, noisier and very demanding on occasions. As for me, I became very fat but finally manage to get back to my pre-preg weight. A bit grouchy and short tempered sometimes. Must be the lack of proper sleep and entertainment..

Sometime before I end my stay in AZ, I'm going to do a post on the differences between Singapore and States.

My thoughts about my 2 years 9 months stay in Arizona.

Places that I've been during this period etc...

So stay tuned.. They should be coming in late August or after..

Shopping day at Chandler

We went shopping at Chandler today. I told hunny that I need new clothes for our trip in May and today is a Saturday so we've decided to hit the mall. Prior to that we visited our usual restaurant Da Vang to have our very late lunch. While driving along I-10, I thought we were going to Arizona Mills, but hunny drove past the exit at baseline and told me that we were going to Chandler instead. Of course I know the reason. They have Abercrombie and Fitch in Chandler! But actually I wasn't keen at all. Because although I can accept their style, their prices is way to much for me to accept. Even clearance items. But for hunny, AF is one of his favourites.

His catch of the day.

$50 each, I want to faint le.

Our mindset is to go straight to the end of the store for that is where the clearance items are. These Chinese collar cotton shirt are now at $19.99 each. So hunny manage to get 2 of them at $42.88 in total. That I can accept..

Now it's my turn.

I was a tad disappointed when I saw Forever 21 has turned into a bicycle store.. But as we walked a bit further, I saw this huge XXI store that sells female apparels. When I finally made my purchases at the cashier, I realise the plastic bags that they use were of the same design from Forever 21. That was when I realise I was right inside Forever 21.. I couldn't read the word XXI and thought it means 101. Silly me..

my scalloped skirt

little vest


and lastly some accessories from ALDO.

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I'm very stupid. I saw the sticker that was pasted on the price tag of the clips. It says 2 for 1.. Immediately my mind was registered with the meaning of any 2 for $1. Happily made my pick and asked hunny for cash. He gave me a $10 (thank God), and when the cashier ask for $9++, I was shocked. I even asked the girl politely if they were 2 for 1. Luckily I said 2 for 1 and not 2 for $1.. It suddenly daunted on me that it was a buy 1 get 1 free offer.. Still I have to pay for one of them whichever is more costly.. So embarrassed.. Next time I have to open my eyes wider. $9++ is still a bargain while $1 would be a steal!

What should I do?

I was never a person with patience to begin with.. Nope its not happening yet, not now.. I want to complain!! I wanted to brand them as my neighbours from HXLL, but shall call them my terrible neighbours instead. They partied 3 day straight from the 1st day. Cranking up the most irritating and definitely the most annoying noise by stomping on the floor, kicking on the wall (I guess because they got high and really excited about something, football maybe??), cheering loudly and running down the stairs at wee hours or very early in the morning without any consideration for the neighbours. That aside. they even resort to playing pranks on us, 2nd time this month!! XXxxXXx!!!!!!! And fyi, this is only their 1st month..

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The stupidest thing is that they put it in such a way that its so obvious to us..

Are they missing some brains?? Knock on their head, "Hello, brains are you there??"


The 1st time they put a half eaten ice-cream cup from cold stone under our wheel. And this morning, they left a cup with some brownish looking liquid underneath that same wheel again..


The only differences is that the 1st time they put the cup at the back of the front wheel. Which means that we will roll over the cup when we do our reverse. Today is, how should I say? The brain thingy. They put it in front of the front wheel.. So even if we do a reverse, we won't hit the cup.. Now tell me, is that a clever thing to do?? I can't explain it.. NO BRAIN AT ALL.


The 1st time we wanted to take revenge by putting the ice-cream cup under their own wheel. Since we saw it and had prevented that little mishap. But guilt came over us, I went back to pick up that cup, together with other litters (can of beer and empty Gatorade bottle) that they discarded around my house. I'm not their servant lor. And I still have to pick up after them. Grrr!!!! That happen last week, and today we have new litters again..

Thrown down from their patio.

Now I really regret not staying on the 2nd floor. At least I don't have to suffer from those unnecessary noise and probably lesser bugs. How am I going to endure the next 5 months?

ZZzzz.. I wish for a good sleep

I have a sleeping disorder!! I'm having insomnia now.. It's 5 min to 6 in the morning and here I am blogging.. Seriously I don't like this at all. iIIII envy my husband who can doze off almost immediately, the moment his head touches the pillow. I, on the other hand doesn't possess any of this quality at all..

Sheena commented that I am beginning to look like her.. Both of us are developing panda eyes. Who am I to blame? Davis just fell asleep at 5am. We had this change in our sleeping pattern that I like it in one way but detest it to bitsssss on another..

We (Davis and I) now will usually only turn into bed after 4a.m. Sleeps till probably anything from 2p.m to 4.30p.m, then the day went on till about 8p.m, Davis has his nap for maybe 2hr+/-. Continued to 4a.m.. So that's our usual routine for now.

I don't like the idea of waking up in the morning even if I turned in early the night before.. Simply put it this way, I'm a night-owl. After living together with Eric for so many years. I'll picked up this habit of his.. And now we are spreading this "virus" to our 11 months old son. OMGOSH!!!

I hate bugs!!!!!!!! I wish to live in a bug free zone but unfortunately this wish of mine is far beyond reach. Summer is around the corner and these little pests are bugging me like a plague.. Why didn't they just die during the winter? I'm sorry God. I didn't mean to curse them but why did you create them when they serve no purpose other than to irritate people??

I just walked out of my house towards my car which is probably 10 steps away and on my pants, I see little flying bugs sticking on it.. I swear never to open my windows to prevent them from entering but there's no point in doing so.. They're so tiny. Which make it easy for them to crawl into my house through any little opening.

These little buggers invaded my fluorescent lamp..

I have a new best friend and her name is Shieldtox Insecticide.. All I need from her is a few sprays and its goodbye bugs and spider.. My hair is standing as though they are preparing to do the hero salute.. And until now which is almost 30min later.. They're still at that same position..

I'm going to ask the pest control guy to come in next Monday and I'll be sure to stay at home for them.. Requested their service a couple of time but a hateful thing is they always come when I'm not around. What a bother..

For now I only want to fall asleep. In the first place, panda eyes are never welcome at all.

My bad

I should have know it.. My new post is just right below because I save it as a draft the other day and now when I've finally finish my post and publish it. That new post did not appear at the top where it should have be. And I do not want to copy and paste everything in a new post as it takes time to load the photos..

here's the link anyway

http://loveromances.blogspot.com/2009/04/its-for-davis-again.html

watch my Davis laughing away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UqAKFtQb-E&feature=channel_page

You can also watch other videos of Davis on Youtube. Simply type Davis Kwong in the search engine.

Thanks for your support

Princess catering.

Sheena and I started our catering services 2 weeks ago.. Our charges are $25 for 4 meals/p.week. Tue to Fri. Inclusives of a soup or dessert, 2 dishes and steamed rice. Sometime we do give extra food, like dough fritters, fried wantons or Otah etc... We take pride in ensuring that the menus will not repeat too often and we give enough food for you to fill your stomach or to share with your colleagues. You will find quality and quantity in every meal that you dig in. We replenish our fridge every week so you don't find rotton vegs in your lunchbox. Menus may changes without notice.. Please contact our hubbies, Eric from weapon or Moey from DCC if you are interested.

Lots of thanks from Princess Me and Princess Ni..

Steamed egg with salted egg and century egg, broccoli with prawn, radish soup with carrot and pork ribs served with steam rice.

Braised pork with eggs, chinese mushroom, taogee, taopok and taokua. Fried wantons, Veg with oyster sauce and steam rice.



Bak Kut Teh with taogee and taopok, stir-fry beansprouts, garlic prawn with tomatoes, dough fritters and steam rice.

It's for Davis again..

We went to a restaurant D&B at Tempe marketplace that has similar dining concept as Peter Piper Pizza.. It is a place where you can dine and play at the same time. Actually we were planning to go to the Hooter's at downtown but the place was already fully packed and the waiting list is quite long so we switched location. Sheena used the points that they won from the games to redeem gifts for every kids of our's. Here is our Moo Moo Cow from Sheena and Moey. Thank you.

Bought a pair of gigantic leaf from Ikea. It's not cheap. they're about $15 each.. I intend to use these leaves to decorate Davis future room in our Singapore flat. If you had read my older posts, you'll know that Davis has a Rainforest's series jumperoo from Fisherprice. I'm going to continue the rainforest spirit in our new home, I mean erhmm his room..

Sheena gave Davis a pair of Crocs as Bjorn already had a pair of the same size.. I bought the Spongebob and squarepants Crocs from ROSS.. It's only $4.99. And the Osh Kosh sandals is from Merry..

Last weekend, we went to Ikea with Rayson and his family, Moey and his family and my own family.. Daddy picked the toy on the left ($7.99) cause he said that the little colorful blocks will not mess up our house as they were "caged" in the colorful metal wires. So no toys to pick and also I need not sing that piece of song Clean Up, Clean Up, everybody, everyday from Barney. I pick the one on the right ($10.99) as it might be useful for Davis in the future. When he start to learn math. In the end Davis seems to prefer the one that I picked.

The 1st 3 piece set cost $8.25, the other 2 is about $6.99 each.

I went to Babies "R" Us about a mile away from our house with Lynn, Sheena and Jerlyn. Suppose to accompany Lynn as it was her virgin visit to this new outlet but I ended up doing some purchases for Davis boy boy..

mental note to self, Bring Daddy Kwong to Toys "R" Us to look at the Mickey Mouse table set..

Renaissance Festival

We finally managed to visit the Renaissance festival on it's very last day. Drove for more than an hour to reach the destination but it was well worth the effort..

Princess me and Princess Ni

Cosplay for young and old.

Crying Bjorn Bjorn cause he doesn't want to stay in his stroller..

Inside one of the shops.. Everything looks so buyable.. If you get what I mean.

I should have dressed in costume.. If I have any.. or perhaps somethings fun and appropriate.

Airshow @ Luke

I'm almost ready to write. Almost there.. Getting abit sleepy again.. But before I shut my com off I better be off to start on this new post.. So here goes....

Princesses catwalking on the flight line.

Rented a pilot uniform for photo-taking..

We went to the airshow at Luke Airforce base.

Sheena, Moey and me had breakfast at Litchfield Mcdowell before heading to the CVS pharmacy where there is transport for us.. It was about 10.30am and the jam on the road was still pretty bad as alot of people were also heading in the same direction as us.. The base is completely flooded with tons of peoples as it is also open for public..

Dry

i know my recent post hasn't been entertaining nor informative but there's nothing much for me to blog about hence the dry topics.. I promise you. I'll update on some of the stuff that we did over the last few weekends.. When I'm ready to set the mood in.. Right now I'm just dying to fall asleep on my bed, without my hubby (sob,sob) cause he is really busy revising his work.

Stay with me okay.. It won't be long.

watch my Davis watching his dvd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjPDBkRsTE

My reviews on Liang Zhu.

The Butterfly Lovers

Cast:
Nicky Wu as Liang Shan Bo 梁山伯
Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei as Zhu Ying Tai 祝英台

This is the first movie of the butterfly lovers I've ever watched. The ending is somewhat scary to me as I was only 12 at that time and I was really frighten by the paper white makeup on Ying Tai's face and also the part when she jumped into the grave..

Verdict: It's good. Old time classic.

Cast:

Peter Ho as Liang Shan Bo 梁山伯
Dong Jie as Zhu Ying Tai 祝英台

This is considered to be the most comprehensive, finest and largest scale television series which presents truest adaptation of the original legend. I love this the most.. There was a part when Ying Tai had to dance on a stage and I was mesmerize by her moves..

Verdict: Thumbs up. Recommended to all.

Cast:

Wu Chun as Liang Shanbo
Charlene Choi as Zhu Yingtai

This one, is really so-so.. I'm watching this movie because I love Wu Chun, the one and only reason.. The plot has got so much twist in it that it doesn't seems to make the audience feel anything similar to the original butterfly lover anymore, except that the ending is pretty much the same..

Verdict: Watch it if you have time to spare..

少年梁祝

the youth of liang shan bo and zhu ying tai

Cast:

Show Luo as Liang Shanbo

Vivien Leung as Zhu Yingtai

The dubbing is terrible, the acting is terrible too.. I love Alan Luo a lot in the recent years and happen to realise that he starred in this drama series a few years back.. Went to watch this series at tudou.com and it's so terrible that I only manage to finish the first episode. Very disappointed with the plot and their acting skills..

Verdict: Don't bother..