tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17917470178462399322024-03-13T11:27:28.130+08:00ALL ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL...ChloeRuoyihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10110392307286050091noreply@blogger.comBlogger1070125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791747017846239932.post-25681518590408228362016-09-29T16:02:00.001+08:002016-09-29T16:02:38.635+08:00Turning 10I turned TEN on 13th August 2016. How did I feel about having a double digit age number now? "Nothing". "Don't know". "Happy <i>lor</i>"...<br />
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On the eve of my birthday (which fell on a Friday), everything went on as usual. I went to school, came home and did my homework, got nagged a bit by mummy, washed my school shoes as usual etc.. When daddy returned home after work in the evening, we went out for dinner....and came home with a birthday cake...<br />
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<i>I hinted my desire to have an ice-cream cake, so an ice-cream cake was what I got :)</i></div>
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<i>Alas, I didn't get the cake of my choice. I wanted the pink bunny one but it was not available on that day. We settled for this little fairy one because it came in the flavour that we liked - Jamoca Almond Fudge </i></div>
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<i>It was a quiet affair at home, celebrated with just daddy and mummy</i></div>
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<i>10 years old, sporting the shortest hairstyle in my life! (Chinese school requirement)</i></div>
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The next day, on my actual birthday, we went for a 2D1N staycation in Penang. Yes, our favourite special-occasion-hotel-stay-tradition is still on *grin*. Before checking in, we dropped by Queensbay Mall for lunch...</div>
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<i>Birthday lunch at Plan B... I had some creamy prawn pasta</i></div>
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<i>Our home for one night - Lexis Suites, Bayan Lepas, Penang</i></div>
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<i>The suite was quite big but half of it was taken up by the unnecessarily huge bathroom</i></div>
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<i>Mini private pool in the balcony</i></div>
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<i>We did a lot of silly things here and had so much fun!</i></div>
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<i>Young lady chilling at the hotel's pool side</i></div>
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Just like that, I'm ten years old already! </div>
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This is an old school update of my previous school in Shanghai. I studied at the Shanghai Singapore International School from Grade 1 to 3. These 3 years could be one of the best times of my schooling life. It is indeed a privilege to be able to experience the fun and interesting learning environment in an international school.<br />
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Saying goodbye and leaving this school was the saddest thing ever. I missed my friends very much and cried on my last day of school. Here are some photos of my school for remembrance and some of my Grade 3 activity updates...<br />
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<i>My school bus.... the most important "connector" that brought me to and from school daily. Riding on this school bus was rather eventful too. It got involved in a minor road accident once but fortunately, no one was hurt.</i></div>
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<i>The main entrance of my school</i></div>
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<i>The main blocks (classrooms)</i></div>
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<i>Another view of the main buildings</i></div>
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<i>The classroom corridor</i></div>
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<i>My Grade 1 classroom</i></div>
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<i>Outside my Grade 2 classroom</i></div>
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<i>The girls' washroom</i></div>
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<i>Track and field </i></div>
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<i>Playground for preschoolers and lower primary pupils</i></div>
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<i>Vegetable patch. Each class had a designated plot to plant various types of organic vegetables (which was then harvested and brought home)</i></div>
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<i>In the gymnasium</i></div>
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Some of my school activity updates:</div>
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<i>Grade 3 Sports Day (held in Nov 2014, yes this is super outdated haha!)</i></div>
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<i>I took part in the Grade 3 girls' 60m sprint and 300m run</i></div>
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<i>And won medals in both events (there were only 4 participants in each race so everyone was a winner hehe)</i></div>
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<i>Me and my medals :)</i></div>
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<i>International Friendship Day concert (April 2015)</i></div>
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<i>The grand finale. The highlight of the concert was a Broadway Musical, One Singular Sensation. It was a stunning performance! </i></div>
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<i>Took part in a compulsory inter-class debate (Should animals live in the wild or in captivity)</i></div>
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<i>There was a topic on Bak Kut Teh in one of our Chinese Language textbook (Singapore syllabus) so our teacher arranged for a mini cooking activity. We had so much fun cooking and eating BKT!</i></div>
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<i>One of the many science experiments that I loved doing (this pic was taken just because I was in it :p)</i></div>
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<i>With my BFFs, Meng Yuan and Erica</i></div>
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I celebrated my birthday for the 3rd time in Shanghai this year. This year will be my last single-digit age number. Everyone around me keeps telling me how much I have grown and matured during the last few years and I kinda agree too haha. I am about 143cm tall now, almost as tall as some of the shorter adults that I know of :p<br />
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OK, back to 13th August 2015... It was a hot summer weekday (Thursday). I was on summer holiday while daddy went to work as usual. Mummy suggested a half-day outing to the city and the destination was picked by me, of course. We went to the Nanjing Pedestrian Street because there were 2 things that I enjoyed doing there - sitting on the "choo-choo train/tram" and visiting M&M's World...<br />
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<i>Huan ying lai dao Nan Jing Lu Bu Xing Jie!</i></div>
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<i>They were having sales...what perfect timing so mummy bought me some birthday gifts ;)</i></div>
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<i>Afternoon snack back at Sky Mall near our home.</i></div>
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<i>Walked out to Sky Mall again for dinner when daddy came back after work. I picked this western restaurant where daddy and mummy ordered a family set meal...</i></div>
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<i>The following day, mummy's good friend (a fellow Malaysian who lived in the same apartment as us) insisted on giving me a birthday treat at a Hello Kitty cafe in the city. Thank you, Aunty A. We miss you very much!</i></div>
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Phew! It has been a whirlwind homecoming since our return on 5th September 2015. Yes, we've finally moved back to Malaysia and we are now in PENANG!</div>
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Life in Shanghai has been great. We've had the best of almost everything in Shanghai but nothing beats the comforts of home. Despite being relocated up north (of the peninsular) and being home away from home, we still feel very happy and thankful to be back on Malaysian soil.</div>
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Hello 北海 Butterworth! (from "upper sea" to "northern sea" haha) </div>
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<i>Fascinated by other people's rubbish!! My silly antics made mummy burst into laughter :D</i></div>
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Upon visual inspection (didn't touch it of course), I concluded that the broken toys belonged to a dog. I mean, just look at the level of damage...</div>
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Mummy: The dogs here have very good life, <i>hor</i>?</div>
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Me: Ya, got nice toys to play with.... just play only, no need to do (school) homework. Better life than me...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">is a super belated post. We took this trip in October! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, we finally managed to go for our very first long-awaited, long-put-on-hold local holiday. It was a short 2D1N weekend getaway to Hangzhou...</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We took a high-speed train from the Shanghai Hongqiao Railway station. This railway station looked like an airport...it was huge and modern, and the system was impressively efficient! </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Inside the train....the journey took approximately 1h30m with a maximum speed of over 300km/h</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had an early lunch immediately after reaching Hangzhou. No lunch pic (we had pick-own-ingredient noodles) except for this big tumbler of fresh fruit juice that mummy bought for me after lunch :)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We spent 2 days (our entire trip) just walking leisurely around 西湖 or West Lake, Hangzhou's main attraction.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The boat ride cost about RMB40 (RM20+) per person (can't really remember the actual price cos it's been 2 months since the trip :p)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is one of the many famous scenes of the Westlake </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The name of the island is "Three Ponds Mirroring the Moon" and the whole place is a beautiful park/garden!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Built in the early 1600s, this is the largest island on the lake. When there is a full moon, candles inside the pagodas are lit, and the candle light appears as though you see the moonlight, hence the name.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And then we just continued walking....there were just too many different sights and scenes along the lakeside...</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I felt very tired from all the walking and my dear daddy piggy-backed me hehe...</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Watching the sunset on a bridge with a funny name - "Lingering Snow at Broken Bridge". </span></i></div>
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<i>Planting time in our mini vegetable patch in school... We planted rapeseed, statice and tomato</i></div>
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<i>Farewell party for a classmate during lunch time at the cafeteria (friend leaving, we all got presents from her instead!)</i></div>
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<i>I participated in a friendly soccer match in another international school. </i></div>
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ChloeRuoyihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10110392307286050091noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791747017846239932.post-58721043310437582652014-10-06T11:03:00.002+08:002014-10-07T13:11:39.168+08:00Happy Kitchen: Doughnuts<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In our recent home trip, I received a gift from Aunty Ivy. It's something that I've always wanted to play with but due to my busy schedule during the weekdays, mummy kept it aside until the recent Golden Week Holiday (China's week-long National Day holidays). This was the first thing on my holiday activities to-do list...</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They look quite like the real thing, don't they? Mummy didn't allow me to eat them but I did take a small bite just to know how it tasted like. Anyway, the fun part was in making it, not eating it :)</span></div></div>ChloeRuoyihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10110392307286050091noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791747017846239932.post-42847567384707237152014-09-17T09:11:00.000+08:002014-09-17T09:19:59.590+08:00Asia's 1st M&M's World<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">M&M's World is one of the latest places that we like to visit. Daddy and mummy first came across this store in Las Vegas about a decade ago. When they heard that it was coming to Shanghai, they were excited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Opened just a few months ago along Shanghai's busiest tourist shopping area - the Nanjing Road pedestrian mall, this is Asia's very first outlet. We have already been there twice since it's opening and on both ocassions, we were equally delighted to browse through the hundreds, of not thousands, of cute merchandise there! Here are just some of them...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Post <i>basi</i>. Below are happenings between June and August, during my 2-month-long end of school term break, also known as the Summer Holidays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I spent the first half of my holiday in Shanghai. Besides doing Math and BM practice at home, watching TV, getting engrossed in the Rainbow Loom, mummy and I went out quite often too...</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I tagged along with mummy on her many "auntie outings" (her weekly outings with friends), mainly for grocery shopping and makan-makan...</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">We ate a lot of good food around the city. Sometimes we had lunch, sometimes we had afternoon tea and sometimes we had both :)</span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mummy tried to fatten me up before we went back to Malaysia... but somehow, all the fat grew on her instead while I remained stick-thin haha...</span></i></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the days when we had no where to go, we went to the library. The district library is only 5 minutes' walk from home but only Chinese books were available there (in the kid's section). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The second half of my holiday was spent in Malaysia, from 19 July to 18 Aug...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Our flight home was just 2 days after the MH17 tragedy. We flew home in fear</i><i>! (I went back with mummy first... daddy joined us later) </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back in Seremban, we went for my first buka puasa dinner in Gung-gung's friend's restaurant. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">We spent most of our days in Seremban... we explored some new places and discovered a new park in S2 Hill Park.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">We spent a lot of time with Gung-Gung, Ah Ma and Kau-foo :)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">We also took a day trip to Raub (Gung-Gung's birth place) and visited some of my grand uncles and grand aunts. My late great-grandfather had a shop here. The shop is no longer around now but long ago, mummy spent many of her school holidays staying here. This is where mummy used to play when she was a kid (at the corridor where I'm standing).</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Visited the lake gardens before taking a slow drive back to PJ</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had a few play dates with cousins and friends too. With cousin Leanne here.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I fell in love with Hayley jiejie's dog, Shadow :)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I celebrated my 8th birthday in Seremban and PJ. In Seremban, we had a family lunch in a restaurant of my choice and I chose the Manhattan Fish Market. Back in PJ, I only had one birthday wish - Kids E World. I wasn't interested in parties or meals or cakes or anything birthday-related so Kids E World (in IPC) it was for me...</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I really had a ball of a time here and guess what, I refused to leave until 7 hours later! 7 hours in Kids E World sounds so crazy haha. Daddy and mummy took turns keeping me company here. Best birthday present ever.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the second day of my school holidays (20th June), mummy brought me to Edaytown 星期八小镇. Edaytown is China's version of Kidzania where children get to play-pretend and role-play different types of occupations. I have actually been here last year in one of my <a href="http://chloeruoyi.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/my-first-school-excursion.html">school field trips</a> but it was too crowded and I only managed to take part in 2 occupations. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had so much fun and earned so much money (Eday currency) that I asked mummy for another future visit. Well, let's see how first. Entrance fee is not cheap! RMB150 (RM75) for child and RM50 (RM25) for accompanying adult. Maybe we should go home and try Kidzania first :)</span></i></div>
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In the blink of an eye, I've completed another academic year here in Shanghai. Last Wednesday, 18th June, was my last day of Grade 2. A few days before that, there was a prize giving ceremony in school. Daddy and mummy were invited to attend this event because I was a recipient of an award...</div>
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Yay, school's out and I will be enjoying a very long holiday until the new academic year starts on 25th August. Looking forward to our hometrip next month!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every Saturday, when the weather permits (no rain), we like to go out for <i>jalan</i>-<i>jalan</i>. Sometimes, we explore new places of interest (tourist attractions) but on most days, we prefer to go somewhere not too crowded. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A few weekends ago, we went to a popular shopping area in the city called Jing'an Temple. This is how our typical Saturday outing is like...</span></div>
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<i>The concert was held in a theatre quite a distance away from home. Daddy took time off from work to watch me perform.
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<div style="text-align: left;">This is the continuation of our Qingming weekend outing. I was given a few choices of places to visit and I picked the Shanghai Zoo (as if we didn't have enough walking on the previous day!). Anyway, we were all raring to go and both daddy and mummy didn't disagree. The weather was just too perfect for long-walk outings like this. Mummy packed some food along and we had a picnic there :) </div>
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<i>The first animal we looked forward to seeing was the giant panda.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R5yVeN0_psU/U1S7ZTEZRnI/AAAAAAAASAQ/6cQNu_5MY4M/s640/blogger-image-1475716968.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><i><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R5yVeN0_psU/U1S7ZTEZRnI/AAAAAAAASAQ/6cQNu_5MY4M/s640/blogger-image-1475716968.jpg"></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Such a big zoo but only 1 panda? It was sad to see the lonely panda all by itself in such a big enclosure.</i></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xcqm6K3jE-Q/U1S66srZafI/AAAAAAAASAI/LR0X_ezAY5M/s640/blogger-image-486231906.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><i><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xcqm6K3jE-Q/U1S66srZafI/AAAAAAAASAI/LR0X_ezAY5M/s640/blogger-image-486231906.jpg"></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Red panda... </i><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><i>Many of the animals here were kept in glass enclosures, which was good because we got to see them close-up. </i></span></div>
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ChloeRuoyihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10110392307286050091noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791747017846239932.post-71622501862307850052014-04-16T11:30:00.000+08:002014-04-16T12:25:11.920+08:00Chenshan Botanical Gardens Part 2 - Tulips and Orchids<div style="text-align: left;">
This is the continuation from the <a href="http://chloeruoyi.blogspot.ca/2014/04/saturday-outing-chenshan-botanical.html">previous post</a> but this will be all about flowers - tulips and orchids, especially. We also visited the Shanghai International Orchid Show just because it was there, not that we liked or knew how to appreciate the beauty of orchids hehe :p</div>
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And of course, one of the main attractions here was the tulip garden, featuring a mini tulip field where mummy went crazy snapping dozens of photos of them (not that she's any good at it though, haha)... </div>
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<i>Some were past their glory days and were wilting already...</i></div>
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</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">First stop, Chenshan Botanical Gardens. This park was recommended by one of daddy's colleagues. Although it is not very far away from our home (about 40 mins' drive) it is not accessible by the Metro subway. Instead of taking a taxi, daddy engaged a private driver for a return trip there...</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
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</div></div>ChloeRuoyihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10110392307286050091noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791747017846239932.post-9214377308867296322014-04-03T12:15:00.000+08:002014-04-03T12:23:31.148+08:00Sharing a Miserably Tiny Piece of Cake!<div style="text-align: left;">Besides the daily hugging, kissing and verbal I LOVE YOUs, I have an unusual way of showing my love to mummy. Every now and then, I will come home from school with bits and pieces of "surprises" in my snack box... specially kept and reserved for her. You see, whenever I taste something nice in school (esp snacks given by my friends or from a class party), I would bring some home for mummy to try.</div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Just last week, there was a birthday party in class and the birthday boy's mother made a very yummy lemon cake for the celebration. I liked the cake very much and could have gobbled it up in seconds but with a little bit of self-control, I chose to save a small portion instead. I had mummy in mind and I wanted to share this tasty treat with her...</div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
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</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Looking at the cake, mummy felt very, very loved and thanked me many times for thinking of her. And guess what, she split the already tiny piece into half and shared it with daddy haha!! </div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
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</div></div></div></div>ChloeRuoyihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10110392307286050091noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791747017846239932.post-50704675867072895052014-03-31T09:00:00.000+08:002014-03-31T11:44:29.833+08:00Eating Out 7 - Ikea Restaurant<div style="text-align: left;">Ikea is one of our favourite weekend <i>lepak</i> places. There are at least 3 Ikea stores in Shanghai and the nearest one to our home is just a few Metro stations away. Every time we miss home, we will just head to this Ikea and imagine we are in Mutiara Damansara haha! After all, the sight, the smell (especially) and the Ikea feel are the same everywhere :p<br>
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<i>We usually order this Family Set, which comes with 2 mains, a kiddy meal, a salad and 2 refillable drinks. RMB59 (RM30)</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div>
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ChloeRuoyihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10110392307286050091noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791747017846239932.post-40682180616428831972014-03-26T14:29:00.000+08:002014-03-26T14:41:59.760+08:00Colours of Spring: Gucun Park<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">Last Saturday, we spent half a day at a park again. It was a sunny (but cool) day... a weather too perfect to be wasted staying or going anywhere indoor :) Springtime is the best time for park-hopping so this is what we will be doing for the next few coming weekends (subject to good weather, of course).</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">We went to the Shanghai Sakura Festival in Gucun Park. Although the festival is still ongoing, we somehow felt that the timing wasn't quite right. While the white sakuras were still <i>botak</i> with unblossomed buds, the pinks ones were like "past their optimum beauty" already... they had more green leaves than flowers! Anyway, it was still a beautiful sight although we felt that <a href="http://chloeruoyi.blogspot.com/2013/03/cherry-blossoms-gucun-park.html">last year's was better,</a> even in the gloomy and rainy weather. </div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
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</div>ChloeRuoyihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10110392307286050091noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791747017846239932.post-18965662250767400872014-03-21T13:52:00.000+08:002014-03-24T14:56:53.557+08:00Animals are Cleverer than Me!<div><div style="text-align: left;">One of my recent after-school chats with mummy...</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div></div><div style="text-align: left;">Me: Mummy, do you know that animals are cleverer than me?</div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Mummy: Really?</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Me: Yes... a baby elephant can stand up and walk as soon as it is born!</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Mummy: Oh, cleverer in that sense. Yes.</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Me: And a penguin can go out and catch fish on its own when it is only 2 years old!</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Mummy: At 2 years old, a penguin is considered old already... but nevermind. So what could you do when you were 2 years old?</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Me: Me? (without even pausing to think) <b>Break things</b> lor!</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Mummy: LOL!!!!!!</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">That's very true indeed! I was quite a destructive little menace back then and here are some of the things that "died" in my hands...</div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
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</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-R-ymP5BRwGY/UyvSyWFpfqI/AAAAAAAARwU/lImmUunAj4M/s640/blogger-image-1792756055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-R-ymP5BRwGY/UyvSyWFpfqI/AAAAAAAARwU/lImmUunAj4M/s640/blogger-image-1792756055.jpg"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Heh heh heh... digging daddy's wallet was just one of the many naughty things that I enjoyed doing! </i></div></div>ChloeRuoyihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10110392307286050091noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791747017846239932.post-59472541094532343062014-03-18T12:19:00.000+08:002014-03-18T12:25:34.582+08:00Welcoming Spring: Magnificent Magnolias @ Xinzhuang Park<div style="text-align: left;">We have been enjoying lovely spring-like weather in the last few days. On Saturday, the mercury rose to a warm and sunny 20C! It was a good day to resume our favourite weekend activity - park-visiting. We went to Xinzhuang Park, which is about 20 minutes' walk from our home...</div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br>
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</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7bO-X0z8KNE/UyaVbIqtySI/AAAAAAAARtQ/7lFtYWiYJj0/s640/blogger-image--1500634322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7bO-X0z8KNE/UyaVbIqtySI/AAAAAAAARtQ/7lFtYWiYJj0/s640/blogger-image--1500634322.jpg"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>It is a star-rated park... one of the better ones in the city.</i> </div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
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</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-QjNfyVSViPQ/UyaXdMRL_MI/AAAAAAAARuE/4q920pLz2wA/s640/blogger-image-170064164.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-QjNfyVSViPQ/UyaXdMRL_MI/AAAAAAAARuE/4q920pLz2wA/s640/blogger-image-170064164.jpg"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>These pagoda-roofed huts are all over the park. Many elderly folks were seen lepak-ing here, either playing traditional musical instruments or even dancing!</i> </div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
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