Carissa's update

Some of Carissa's latest pictures :)

Qi Bao 七宝

Qibao is an old town.... near the Shanghai snow city.... The place had lots of yummy snacks.... and was recommended in a local TV program. It is quite fun, but maybe should go in a bigger group so that we can try more of the snacks.... hehe... also due to winter, the night falls early and they close early .....

Mushland Park in Shanghai

During the earlier part of the month, before we made a trip back to in-law's place... we actually came across this mushland park which was newly open. Located north of the Huang Pu River mouth, it is actually quite a distance to go... taking one of the mrt line nearing the terminal station.

Maybe Shanghai is so big, but there is their own taxi company in this area with a cheaper flag down fare.

I guessed we went at the wrong time... was quite chilly on that day ... Maybe summer would be a better time to go there, have a slow stroll and enjoy the sea breeze .... not freezing in the sea breeze haha...

their very own taxi company

Snow in Shanghai

Guess by the time i publish this is already old news. News in Sin had already reported massive delays and energy shortage due to the snow storm... with another big one set to hit town next week. According to scientist, they think this could be caused by la lina effect .....





initially when the snow first started it causes a lot of excitement... it had been a long while since shanghai had a snow fall....never did we expect it to last so long to caused a whiteout in PVG...

Also coincidentally a group of us were also affected by the lina effect at Hooters...
haha

Lina the new waitress on the block at Hooters

Recently came across this picture.....

I really wouldn't mind if thats my partner in the cockpit ..... ;-)


anybody guess which aircraft is this ??

Its Caviar Time !!!

In Harbin, there are a lot of shops selling Russian stuffs. Items range from field bino to ladies pocket mirror that comes with exquisite casing... For me... is the caviar that caught my eye.... since coming to PVG, long time no chance to eat it til now.....

A group of us gather to savor the delicacy ....like the chinese saying 独乐乐不如众乐乐...is more fun to try the russian caviar together.

hows the presentation ?? can pass ?



yum seng !!



thanks to them ... we got a chance to taste don perignon

Happy New Year 2008 !!!

Wow.....

End of Jan 2008 already .... Already only 11 months more before 2009... !! hehe.... A few more days gonna be Chinese New Year .... Doing my First flight of 2008 now... after this flight going to go back to my in-law's place for chinese new year .... looking forward for all the firecrackers and fireworks .... but dreading the cold....

this year the winter is quite cold as you can see from the news, the snowfall was quite heavy and a first since many years in Shanghai ...

Sorry if i am abit late in my postings... cause in PVG no time to just sit down and relax and think about what to write ... there are too many distractions hehe.... of course they are wonderful distractions like Carissa and Jessica haha....

Carissa is growing up well... She is 3 months now... She is very curious about her surroundings always looking at lights and aircon... sometimes she will try to talk to the air-con when she is alone... quite a funny sight to look... people say she see at this point of time, but sometimes i really doubt it as she will always smile back to you if you smile at her....


For the past month we had went to a few places around Shanghai for tour and I also head to Harbin to take a look at the Ice and Snow sculpture festival... of course carissa and jessica did not follow along ... is too cold... about -26 degrees c....

I am still sorting out the photos and will soon post them hopefully tomorrow.... for you all to see. For now gotta go for dinner and rest and see u all soon !!

Carissa

Hehe enough grumblings... time to give an update on Carissa... She is doing really well ;)

Now when u call her name from the side, she will turn her head to your direction. Now she is smiling very often, also sometimes tried to engage us in a conversation with her "ehh ehh ehh" baby language haha.... dunno what she talking about la haha... Also she will also ehh ehh ehh when she wanna pee/poo. So nowadays nappies usage reduced quite a bit. Thanks to her granny for toilet training her. But her problem of burbing still exits after makan. Also now at night she is having milk powder to help her sleep longer.

Remember she had her hair cut ?? Well only the top of her head grow back the rest are in patches... sign... blame the forgetful daddy for not getting the martel he promised. This trip back to PVG i will get some martel for u to rub ok... Hope u get a full nice head of hair ;-)

30 hours delay

My god.... finally reached AMS after a whopping 30 hours delay and a 22 hour duty period with 4 hours hotel stay in between... multiple engine defects plus apu and brakes problem. Never had an aircraft with so many critical problems.

I think i will be quiting soon if every flight is like this....grrr....

XMAS is coming to town.....

Its the festive seasons once again... wishing everyone a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year !!!

满江红

In Singapore, when we see the stock market all red, guess most of us would be shaking their heads in dispair, but the reverse holds true in china. When the board is red everybody is happy as red indicate gains and green indicate loss.

So dun get a shock when you sea people cheering at a sea of red ;-)

First Haircut

Hehe... again early in the morning, we made our way back to the regional hospital to get her jab done. She was soundly sleeping when the nurse put the jab into her hand. Her eyes opened big and wide when she felt the needle into her. And just after the nurse squeezed the contents in, she started wailing.... but she stopped less than 3 mins after our frantics efforts to calm her down....

Then we rushed home to get her first haircut done.....



This look like the standard hairstyle in china ;-p


This is my funky hairstyle hehe....;-)




yee.... i dun like my new hairstyle ... ;(

Carissa Baby Shower

I know is a bit late but let me catch up on the significant events in the past few weeks. The most significant one was of course Carissa's 1 month celebration !! That day we went to the hospital to get Carissa her immunization jab. I know in SIN they had less jabs to go through, but over here, as I counted from the booklet got 14 jabs within the first 12 months. She had 2 after birth and this is the 3rd one.

We went to the hospital where she was delivered in the morning. But was told to go to a regional hospital. In the cold, we rushed to the regional hospital and during registration we were told to go to another regional hospital. Cause my address and Juan address falls into different region.

Anyway when we reached the jab station we were told we were 1 day too early for the jab and told to go home and come back again tomorrow with all the paperwork. Quite a hassle. Getting busy the whole morning but objective not done.

In the evening, carissa was all dressed up.

what u all doing ah ?


We went to a nearby restaurant for her big day.



Jessica's friends turns out in full strength... too bad my friends all flying or not in PVG... if not can like me bathe in a sea of beauties haha...



Falling asleep at the restaurant.

Delay in publication

Wow, time really flies so fast that i had no time to catch my breathe. Before I know it, I had been in Sin for 4 days liao and i am going back 2 days time. Thought I can document Carissa 1 month in SIN, but looks like gotta work in the blind back in PVG, but then again I might be spending long lost time playing with Carissa.

Back to SIN, since I got back, there is a frantic preparation to look for someone to do a makeover for our parents' place... searching for raw materials to going to design houses. There is just so much to be done in such little time. Quotaion will have to be viewed and finally choose by this weekend so that work could proceed and be completed before CNY.

Guess friday gotta spend the whole day packing up my stuffs into boxes first...... coz will not be around when they finally start shifting out for the renovations !!! Oh my god is really such a mess .....

Can I have some PA to help me out ??? Haha.... well ..... gotta go zzz... tomorrow gotta go and visit some projects under the contractor to view their workmanship.

See ya soon

Why do you keep burbing ??

According to reading material, babies on breastfeeding had a lower occurrence of burbling compared to bottle feeding. However, Carissa burbs after every breastfeeding meal, it does not go away even though you may had been patting her back for a long time. A case or wrong technique ?

Sometimes while patting, the air does comes out, but within 30 mins of lying in her bed she starts burbling again. This is affecting her sleep especially at night.

The solution so far we found is to bottle feed her warm water or breastfeed her again.
Yesterday's poo had a sour smell... overfeeding ?? Well gonna wait for tomorrow's poo to find out more.

God bless..