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Disneyland Hong Kong

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We’re just back from our Hong Kong holiday. Yes, we’re CRAZY to go there with the summer crowd but we had little choice really because:
1) Lucas needs his oils / lotions as his eczema acted up last winter - severe [...]

The homemaker is back

Weather: Foggy
Temperature: 21 deg C
After a month and a half of enjoying my Mum’s cooking or economy rice, we are now back in China and I am back to my old role. We had a packed dinner yesterday and went out for lunch today.
We wanted to enjoy a Pizza Hut lunch today but of all [...]

We’re back in China

We are back in China and I feel like I’m going through the culture shock I experienced the first time. Being back in Penang for 2 months is a genuine *pleasure* and though I enjoyed getting to know China, there’s really NO place like home.
The flight there was good and smooth - I will blog on that later to [...]

Travelling with a toddler

When we traveled to Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2006 when Lucas was 9 months old, many of my friends and colleagues were amazed and impressed we did it.
I was *highly* stressed weeks before the trip but looking back, all the planning helped a lot. Check out my list of baby things here.
The question everyone [...]

Gearing up to go!

With the move shifted earlier plus the fact that Hubby will not be escorting us, I’ve had to switch gears ASAP and leverage on my years of experience in event management. In summary, this means:

getting all boxes ready for shipping
packing all non-shipping items into luggage
packing all on-board items for Lucas
settling as many ‘administrative’ items as [...]

Countdown to China

Dear Friends,
In September, I posted progress reports on our move. Our initial date of departure was Dec ‘07 but now it looks like we’ll be able to move in Nov! This is because I negotiated an earlier leave date at work, kindly agreed to by my boss
This means that from Nov 1-18, I’ll [...]

Sri Lanka: part 2

I was going to post all the photos I took during the trip but Blogger gave up on me after the last one here, which means I’ll have to do a part 3 later.
Here are some photos I got of a wedding reception held at the hotel. The bride and groom were busily being ordered [...]

Sri Lanka: Part 1

Ayubowan! This is how you’re greeted in Sri Lanka. Finally, I snuck in some time after recovering from travel and catching up with work to post this up. No lengthy updates allowed so here goes punchy points:
The flight
- Penang- Singapore - I always enjoy travel whenever I’m on either MAS or SIA carriers and this [...]

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