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Ocean Park, Hong Kong

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!With the roach-fest, period-pain and selfpity-party dragging me down last week, I thought I’d start on a cheery note this time
After visiting Disneyland Hong Kong“, we went to this famous marine park the next day.
It’s all very organized [...]

Disneyland Hong Kong

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 drying and scaling all over his stomach and legs - major itching!
2) I needed to [...]

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 [...]

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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