講 mut 呀?
Alex: ah bu (外婆上海話) 呢? 係 唔 係 病 病 呀?
Alex: ah bu 病 病 無 返 工
Alex: 爸 爸 返 工 Jarn 錢 錢
Alex: 無 人 聽 哦
Alex: 我 要 食 紅 蘿 蔔, Carrot.
Alex: 呢 件 太 熱 la, 除 左 去 la!
Ashlyn: 細 老 病, 睇 醫 生, 要 吸 氣, woo woo woo o架 (imitating the noise makes from the aspirator), 要 食 藥 o架. 我 食 藥 唔 喊 o架, 細 老 喊 o架! 細 老 唔 乖, 姐 姐 仔 乖
Ashlyn: Quiet, 好 嘈 呀!
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I was talking to my friend on my cellphone one night. In the middle of it, Alex took over the phone:
Alex: 我 係 細 老 呀! 我 病 呀, 要 食 藥.
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Alex: 無 呀
~pause
Alex: 無 呀
~pause
Alex: 無 呀
~pause
Alex: 係 呀, Bye Bye
I continued the conversation with my friend, then, Ashlyn just grabbed the phone from me.
Ashlyn: 我 係 Hay-Yee 呀
~pause
Ashlyn: 細 老食 藥 喊
~pause
Ashlyn: 唔 係 家 姐 呀, 係 姐 姐 仔 呀! Bye Bye!
XOXO
Wednesday April 4, 2007 - 03:52pm (PDT)
Give up & Give in
OK, I give up, and give in. I am not going to search for the lowest price for the complete set of the McDonald's Happy Meal Wizard of Oz dolls anymore. I just made the purchase 10 mins ago, on Ebay of course. Bought the complete set for Ashlyn, and the Tinman, Lion, and the Scarcrow for Alex. Yeah, I know, those are included in the set too, but you have to understand, having multiple kids mean fighting over anything all the time, and I'm just trying to be fair.
I was complaining to my coworker friend Viv that it's so difficult to buy clothes for Alex, cux there's not much selection and everything just looks the same, blue, cars, trucks, dogs, and camo. On the other hand, so easy to buy clothes for Ashlyn. People might think it's favoritism over Ashlyn, but NO, there's just aren't enough cute clothes for boys. I'm on the forever mission to search for cute and affortable clothes for Alex.
XOXO
Wednesday April 4, 2007 - 11:43am (PDT)
HAPPY MEALS
Ashlyn recently got 2 Wizard of Oz dolls from Happy Meals (Dorothy, and Wicked Witch of the West). There're total of 8 characters in the collection.
1. Dorthy
2. Glinda -The Good Witch
3. Wicked Witch of The West
4. Cowardly Lion
5. Wicked Witch of the East
6. Tin Man
7. Daisy Munchkin
8. Scarecrow
I didn't realize those dolls were from McDonald's Happy Meals until my aunt told me to go buy Happy Meals so that Ashlyn can collect all 8 characters. The last time I remember people were crazy about McDonald's promotion was back in late 1990's in Hong Kong. McDonald's had Hello Kitty and Dear Daniel plush dolls. Those were good size dolls like 6 - 7 inches tall. Oh no, not with Happy Meals. It was a purchase with any meals at McDonald's. People were standing in lines for hours and it was summer time, often buying several meals in order to collect a pair, both Kitty and Daniel.
Another one was also in Hong Kong, I believe it was late 1990's too. It's the Snoopy World Series, a 3 - 3.5 inches tall plastic/rubber Snoopy dressed in costumes from different countries all over the World. Each week, McDonald's released couple of Snoopy figures in different customes, and I don't even remember how many were there. Then there was the Snoopy Sport Series.
It's so funny that I have never heard people in the States would go to McDonald's and stand in line for hours for promotional toys.
OK, so much travelling back to memory lane. As for Ashlyn, she showed me McDonald's website (I didn't even know McD has a website, Geez! where have I been?) and showed me the dolls. We were going through every single characters and I taugh her their names. Ashlyn was telling me she has the one in blue dress (Dorothy), the one in black looks ugly (the Wicked witch of the West), the one in yellow is pretty (Daisy), the lion looks like Alex (Cowardly Lion, cux Alex had lion costume for Halloween last year), and she thinks Glinda -The Good Witch is pretty and wants to get that, because she has pink dress! Figures!! Then, I realized one character is missing, not offered. It's Dorothy's dog. I couldn't remember his name, so I searched on the web, and found it. Ever since then, Ashlyn has been saying "Dorothy's dog is called Toto!"
I really want to complete Ashlyn's collection, but I don't want McD food. So, where did I turn to? EBAY! "Whatever it is... You can get it on EBay!" That's right, and sure enough they have them on EBay. Most sellers selling the complete set factory sealed for around $25 plus shipping, total around $30. That's not bad, $3.75 per character, just about the same price as 1 Happy Meals. I don't want the food and I don't want my kids to have too much McD food anyways (can't avoid, just try to keep it to the minimum). I guess it's not a bad idea to buy online afterall. I'm bidding a set ending in 2 hours. Wish me luck!
XOXO
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Updates: Someone just purchased the set with Buy It Now. Need to look for and bid on other listings.
Monday April 2, 2007 - 05:09pm (PDT)
Ashlyn is Growing
Ashlyn is growing pretty fast. She was 36 inches tall (2 ft) at her last check up, i think it was last December, and her hair was growing longer (but not more). Many of her pants were too short, they turned into capris pants now. We have been dressing her with 3T pants since December. I guess I shouldn't complaint, afterall, we want her to be taller than her parents, that's Johnson and myself. We just have to find new home(s) for her outgrown clothes.
She has been posing for the camera alot. My aunt constantly documenting Ashlyn's new outfits on video and camera. Whenever my aunt told Ashlyn to take pictures, she would stand behind the door, that's her "Picture Spot".
Girls will always be girls, no matter how tomboy they look when they are little. Ashlyn was fasinated by high heels when she was very young. Then it was glitterly shoes with sequines, then it was shoes with heels that make "dic doc dic doc" sound when walking, then it was sunglasses. The latest obsessions are ballerina dress/skirt and lip balm.
My coworker gave me her daughter's Cinderella costume. Ashlyn was very excited and demanded to put it on immediately, then she was looking for her "dic doc dic doc" shoes (she has a pair of shoes with silver sequines and makes dic doc dic doc sound when she walks). She modeled for a little while, then we asked her to take it off cux it was too long for her. Her demanded my aunt to hem it up for her, like NOW! Then she put it back on after the instant alteration, she modeled a little more, she wasn't as happy anymore. Why? She said, "Mama, this is blue, not pink!"
BK has a new commerical when couple of ballerinas with dollar bills sewed on their tutu's. Everytime Ashlyn saw that commerical, she said "Mama, Ashlyn doesn't have that skirt." Aaahhhhhh... My new mission, a pink ballerina skirt/dress/tutu. That gives me an idea, more professional pictures. I guess Ashlyn will not refuse to take pictures in tutu.
As for lip balm, she was going through my makeup bag in my purse one day. She discovered a pink little thing out of all those items in my makeup bag, which included a mirror, 2 lipglosses, and 1 lip crayon. All she noticed was the pink object. So I showed her what it was and how to use it. What a wrong decision I have made. From then on, she kept asking for my lip balm. I have posted a video clip of Ashlyn putting on lip balm. Seems like she is a pro.
XOXO
Monday April 2, 2007 - 01:49pm (PDT)
Breath In , Breath Out
Alex was coughing again, which led to weesing. Running and stuffy nose started Wednesday. On Thursday night started coughing, and Friday night started weesing. Friday night through Saturday morning, he woke up every 30mins and cried and wined for good 5 to 10 mins, then back to sleep, demanded to be carried, and refused to eat since 9pm. Mom and I were going to take turn. She got the 1st half, like 11pm-3am, I was supposed to take over from 3am. Around 2ish, he demand to come to my room, so I took over, and brought all my blanket and pillows over to my mom's room, so that Johnson can sleep and take over in the morning.
By 4-ish, mom suggested to take Alex to ER cux she was worried about the weesing. I told her no need, we can go see Dr. Yau at 8:30, but we could go early since he's usually in the office around 8. I prefer to stay home and wait, rather than waiting in the waiting room in ER. Do the math, 4-ish leave home and going to neariest hospital, arrived around 4:30. Finished registration and initial check up by nurses, that probably would take good 30-45 mins. Average waiting time in ER at least an hour, and by the time we got called into exam room, 6:15-6:30. More waiting in the exam room, probably another 30mins. If we're lucky, Alex will be examed by a doctor around 7am. Not worth the waiting.
So, we left home around 7:45 for Dr. Yau's office, arrived at 8. We saw his car parked in the parking lot already, so for sure he's in the office. Door locked, so we called and let him know we're at the door. As soon as Dr. Yau saw Alex, he could see him weesing from a distance.
Looking through Alex's medical records, it's his second time weesing, and the last time was just 4 months ago. Dr. Yau said Alex's respitory systems is very sensitive, that's why everytime he had a cold, caughing would trigger weesing. Just like last time, Dr. Yau took out the machine which turned liquid medicine to vapor so that Alex could inhale to loosen up his pipes, to ease up the weesing. For the first 5 mins, Alex was crying, but Dr. Yau said that's ok, this way, he could breath in more medicine. That's true, cux he would have to take a bigger breath in. Then Alex relaxed a little, then doosing off. First round finished in 10-15 mins. Checked by Dr. Yau, he suggested to give him another round in 5 mins. So we waited, Alex was active again, talking to the nurse, looking at pictures of kids, and picking up sugar free lollipops.
Alex wasn't as fuzzy when the 2nd round started. In a minute or 2, Alex was doosing off again. His eye lids were getting heavier and heavier, finally fell asleep. The nurse came in to check on him and told Dr. Yau that Alex fell asleep in the middle of treatment. I'm sure Alex was very tired since he didn't get a good night sleep, well, who did? and I'm sure the medicine worked too, otherwise, Alex would still be fuzzy and bothered by the shortness of breath/weesing. We left doctor's office around 9. As soon as we settled in the car, gave Alex a bottle, he finished most of it in a few minutes. His appetite was back, that's a relief.
Dr. Yau was kind enough to lend us the machine. We continue to give Alex the medication every 6 hours. We gave him one last round just before putting him to bed, but he was too tired to fight and fell asleep in the middle of it (see picture).
XOXO
Monday April 2, 2007 - 11:46am (PDT)
Bye Bye WHO?
I think Alex is a very well mannered toddler. He'd say Bye Bye to anybody.
We went to May Flower at the Great Mall for dim sum last weekend. People who has been there knew there's a little kids area near to the restuarant. When we finished dim sum, Alex said Bye Bye Great Mall, yeah, he said Great Mall, but he was looking and waving at the play area. I guess his Great Mall = play area.
Today, after seeing Dr. Kanel, we went to Saigon Village Restuarant on Lawrance Expressway. Huge fish were painted on the wall. Everytime we go there, both Ashlyn & Alex would be pointing to the wall and say "Yu Yu" 魚魚 (fish in Cantonese). Today, to our surprise, Alex said "Loan Ha" 龍 蝦 (lobster in Cantonese) and pointing at the fish tanks/lobsters tanks. I wonder who taugh him that. When we were leaving, he was waving at the tanks and said "Bye Bye Loan Ha" Bye Bye 龍 蝦, See You!
Here are some vocab Alex's been saying. I'm sure there're lots more, I just can't keep track.
酸味味 (tastes sour)
維他奶 (Vitasoy)
M&M
雪Big (Sprite)
麵麵 (noodles)
包包 (bread)
聽日見 (see you tomorrow)
Ashlyn is talking alot too, and talks back.
Great Auntie Mary: 你 煩 ah (in Shanghaiese) = You are annoying
Ashlyn : 你 煩 ah (in Shanghaiese repeated by Ashlyn)
Ashlyn on the phone: Wei, 邊 個 ah? 我病 ah!
XOXO
Thursday March 29, 2007 - 04:16pm (PDT)
Tigger Thumb - Follow up
We went to Dr. Kanel today, 2nd Orthopedic, specializing in kids. Wait for like 20mins or so, brought into the exam room, waited another 5 mins. Dr. Kanel came in, felt Alex's thumb, drew a picture to explain to us what's going on with his thumb, then tell us to go back after Alex's 2nd birthday to see if his thumb got better and will decide if surgery is necessary. That's probably another 5 mins of combination of examing, drawing and talking, and we were out of there.
Just like Dr. Wong, Dr. Kanel explained the surgery procedure and recovering time. He told us there's a kid had the surgery in the morning, released from hospital in the afternoon and off he went to the playground, jumpy and happy as if nothing happened.
Will following up again in the Fall.
XOXO
Thursday March 29, 2007 - 03:43pm (PDT)
Say What?
Alex: 細老同媽媽瞓
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Alex: Yo yo yo yeh boat (Row row row your boat)
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Alex: 爸爸 lay 埋訓覺覺豬
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Alex: 姐姐仔, pleasssseeeee…
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Alex: 細老被被, mine!
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Ashlyn: Quiet!
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Ashlyn: 細老, 呢個姐姐仔既
*****Ashlyn: 我要食朱古力雪糕
Alex: 我要食雪糕
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Alex: 細老嘔呀
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Ashlyn: 我要坐細老位
Alex: 呢個細老位
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Tuesday March 27, 2007 - 12:00am (PDT)
What's wrong with Alex's right thumb?
It was like 2 weeks ago when my mom found that Alex's right thumb was kind of stuck in the 90 degree position, and we were not able to relax it. We worried that he got hurt, or bone fracture when he played and didn't realize it. It didn't bother him at all, no pain or anything. We took him to the Pediatrician Dr. Yau anyways, to have him check it out. Dr. Yau felt his bone with his fingers, no fractures, that's a relief. He asked Alex to push the button on top of his pen, and Alex was able to use force to push it down without pain. Dr. Yau suspected that Alex had Trigger Thumb, but he asked us to observe for couple more days to see if there's any pain complaint or swell up.For the next couple of day, Alex's thumb was fine. It's the matter of fact, his thumb was relaxed just like a normal thumb right after we got home from Dr. Yau's office. His thumb was locked on and off in the 90 degree position, so we went back to Dr. Yau's in couple of days. He wrote us a referral to Orthopedic Surgeon. We finally decided to take Alex to the Orthopedic, Dr. Wong, a week later as we found this thumb locking happened more frequently. Sure enough, Dr. Wong told us it's Trigger Thumb, and require a minor surgery to fix it. He said the surgery will take no longer than 30mins, Alex's thumb will be able to more right after the surgery, and will be fully recovered in 6 weeks. Sounded simple, but of course, we're going to get 2nd opinion. So, we found this Dr. Kanel, a Pediatrics Orthopedic, and will be seeing him this Thursday. In the mean time, we serach online for more information about Trigger Thumb and the surgery.Here is what we found from www.orthoseek.com:
What is it?
Trigger thumb is a condition where the thumb is locked in the flexed position at the Interphalangeal Joint (IP joint). Sometimes, the thumb can be forcibly extended with a palpable or audible click. Sometimes, it is locked in acute flexion and cannot be extended. The condition may be familial (runs in the family) and is bilateral in 50% of cases.
Trigger thumb is due to thickening and constriction of the fibrous flexor sheath the surrounds the Flexor pollicis tendon at the base of the thumb. The constriction does not allow for free movement of the tendon within the sheath. This causes the thumb to be stuck in the flexed position.
What does the doctor do about it?
The condition may present at birth, or during infancy. Treatment is often conservative. Parents are taught to stretch the thumb and gently extend the thumb, even in the thumb that is locked in flexion. Over a period of 18 to 24 months, the triggering may resolve spontaneously. In cases where the thumb is locked in acute flexion and does not allow any extension, surgical release of the fibrous flexor sheath is indicated by age 2 to prevent permanent contracture.
Chinese version taken from www.vghks.gov.tw
定義
所謂的板機指指的是手指屈肌肌腱在指頭基部形成結節，使得手指在彎曲而想伸直時會卡在滑車(pulley)，以致指節無法完全伸直；或者在伸直時會有阻力，形成類似扣板機的情形，稱之為板機指。
板機指是先天或後天的？
許多小朋友在出生即有，因此被認為是先天形成的；但也有許多患者是後來才發生的，因此被稱為是後天的。先天的板機指，可能與壓胎現象有關。而後天的板機指，可能與局部的發炎反應、反覆刺激或創傷有關。
好發於拇指？
雖然每一個手指都有可能發生，但是姆指的板機指是發生率最高的，尤其是兒童的扳機指，幾乎青一色都發生於拇指。
治療
復健、按摩、牽拉運動：絕大多數的兒童扳機指，只要沒有完全卡住，都可經由按摩及牽拉運動恢復正常。
局部注射：大人的板機指以局部注射(local steroid injection)有相對較好的結果，但在小朋友的板機指大致不適合打針，效果也不好。
手術：手術的目的，是把卡住結節的滑車切開。由於手術簡單(平均手術時間只要10分鐘)，效果顯著，適合於完全卡住或持續疼痛，其他治療方法無效的病患使用。
Monday March 26, 2007 - 11:20pm (PDT)
Early Bird Saturday
People who know me know that I would do anything for shopping, even sacrify hours of beauty sleep. I would get up at 6am and go shopping the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas, dispite the fact I left the same mall at mid-night when they close. Or get up even early and drive an hour to shop at Outlet mall. That was all history since I was pregnant with Ashlyn.
I was told everything would change once you had babies and your kids are your first priority. I knew it was true when Ashlyn was born, and now, I couldn't agree more.
Summer recreation classes offered by the community center began registration for residence on 3/24, Saturday, 8 am to 12noon. I got up around 7am, left home and got there, parked, and got in line around 7:25. It's not far away from home, kind of just around the corner. Got there and there's already a line of people, about 100 of them, with picnic chairs, blankets, and coffee in hands. I wondered what time they were there. It's like lining up at Best Buy at the wee hours on the day after Thanksgiving, or lining up at Target, Circuit City, and Best Buy on Sundays for Wii. This is insane!!
I was #127. As I was waiting in line, more people came. They began the registration 15mins early. By the time I got to the door around 7:50am, turned around and looked, there's probably another 100 people behind me.
The registration process didn't take long. What they did was simply take your registration form, checked your IDs and take your money from your wallet. Applications will not be processed until later, and will be processed in the order based on the number you received.
What's the damage? Ka-Ching$$$$ ! $172 for 2 classes for each of my kid, total $344, that's like a month of my car payment! O, almost forgot, there's a $20 material fee for each participant for one of the classes.
Here are what I have signed up for Ashlyn and Alex. There're limited classes for their age. Class #1: Little Panda. The class introduces children to Mandarin through folksongs, nursery rhymes, creative movement and instrumental play. Class #2: Tumbling Tikes. Basically it's English version of Little Panda, or like Gymboree classes.
I'm sure Ashlyn would like to take ballet class, but she has to be 3 by the time the first class begins. Oh well, next summer then. And for next next summer, when Ashlyn turns 4, will sign her up for Ballroom dance class. Get her ready for her "first dance"!
Classes for Alex? don't know yet, maybe Hip Hop dancing for him.
So, I got home around 8:10am, just as I got cozy and trying to catch up with my beauty sleep, Mr. Alex was awake! NO WAY!! I have done my part, it's Johnson's turn. Wake me up for lunch!
Next time, I'm gonna go early, get in line and get ticket #1, go home for a nap, and return before noon to turn in my application. Just wish I knew better. Oh Rookie!
XOXO
Monday March 26, 2007 - 05:02pm (PDT)
What did Ashlyn Just said?
Me: "細老, 食粥 la !"
Alex: "No Way!"
Ashlyn: "細老唔食粥, 係唔係去廁所打?"
Me:" ha? "
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Ashlyn: "係唔係 Hay Yee 打麻雀 ah?"
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Ashlyn, what's this?
Ashlyn: "紅中, 白板, 發財, 雀雀, 北, 波波"
Alex, what's this?
Alex: " "紅中, 白板, 發財, 雀雀, 東, 波波"
note: 打麻雀, 學中文
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Thursday March 22, 2007 - 11:55am (PDT)
Say What?
One morning, Alex woke up, yawning and stretching. All the sudden he said : "mama, sai loe larn sei sei 懶 蛇 蛇 (lazy snake snake)" meaning = Mom, little brother (referring to himself) doesn't want to get out of bed.
XOXO
Wednesday March 21, 2007 - 11:16am (PDT)
$2 monitor updates
Greetings from Amazon.com
This is what I got this morning in my email:
Greetings from Amazon.com,We're sorry, but the following order from PC Universe has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience.
That's for the $2 LCD monitors. Oh well, worths a try.
Monday March 12, 2007 - 09:24am (PDT)
What? Are you sure?
I thought it was Johnson's wishful thinking, or he was not reading the product listing correctly. He told me this morning, well, Sunday morning rather, Amazon was selling a NEC 19" LCD monitor for $2 plus shipping.
So, on Sunday morning, around 12 noon, as usual just like any other weekends, Johnson, Alex and I went over to my grandma's place to meet up with Auntie Mary and Ashlyn to go out for lunch. Since Ashlyn refused to have her milk this morning, my aunt suggested to give her some baby food potato with corn. Yeah, Ashlyn is still having baby food occassionally when she didn't want to have milk, so, it's like snack for her. As I was getting ready to go make Ashlyn some snack, Johnson started to browse his favorite website Slickdeals and said "Vickie, 19" LCD for 2 bucks!!" here is the conversation.
Johnson: Vickie, 19" LCD mon for 2 bucks each
Vickie: what? are you sure?
Johnson: yeah, that's what it says here on Slickdeal
Before he could finished his sentance, he clicked the link and both of us were in disbelieve.
Vickie: try to buy it. how many can you buy?
Johnson: 3
Vickie: ok, buy 3 then 3
seconds later
Vickie: did it go through?
Johnson: yeah, with shipping for 3 monitors is about $78
Vickie: that's only $20 something each!! Let me buy some (note: I said SOME, not 1)
So, as soon as Johnson completed his transaction, I took over the computer.
Vickie: Johnson, look, it says the quantity requested not available!
Johnson: gone that fast?? Oh, IE crashed. Open another browser. Hate IE, try Firefox
Vickie: OK, 3 again.
waiting as it was loading...
Vickie: OK, went through. I must call Jessica now.
Vickie: Miss Wong, Amazon, $2 19" LCD monitor, will give you the link
Jessica: what? OK!
that's exactly how short our conversation was, right to the point.
called her back
Vickie: you checked the link? if it says qty. not available, start a new browser and try again. that's what happened to me.
Jessica: OK, have you checked your email? did they send you order confirmation?
Vickie: let me see.... Yahoo mail not working wor
Jessica: OK, I guess it's Yahoo issue, I tried to log in all morning without success. I got 3 too. Geez, Mr. Wong is not answering the phone. Too bad!
Vickie: aiyo, just reserve 1 for him la
Jessica: just hope they are not going to cancel our orders once they found out it's a listing mistake
Vickie: oh well, if they shipped and charged us $78, that's great! if they canceled our orders, nothing to loose.
Jessica: that true
As I was putting in my order, Johnson went downstair and told Uncle Chi the deal. It was funny that Johnson didn't ask Uncle Chi if he wanted to place order, nor Uncle Chi mentioned he was interested. Until I went downstairs and mentioned again, well, actually, Uncle Chi told me he already knew before I had a chance to finish half of my sentance. So I asked him if he's interested. He said "of course, place an order for me, as many as possible" So off I went upstairs and told Auntie Mary, she said "buy 3 then". In 30 minutes, 4 of us placed 4 orders for total of 12 units of 19" LCD monitors at $20 something each.
Soon after I had the conversation with Miss Wong, Johnson called his coworker to tell him the great deal/steal.
So, we checked the forum again in the afternoon, people were discussing what if they charge us full price, what if they cancelled our orders...etc. Lots of "what if's". The only thing we all can do now is to hold our breath, wait and see what happens next. Some dude called the vendor to reconfirm the price, needless to say, that alarmed the vendor. How did I know he called? He posted himself that he called to verify the price. Other people who ordered the monitors jumped on him and saying how stupid he was to call and let the vendor know they made a price mistake. Oh well, we'll see.
Happy Shopping!
Monday March 12, 2007 - 01:05am (PDT)
What Alex is saying?
Here are some conversation with Alex or something he said out of the blue. Remember, Alex is only 19-month-old.
Great Auntie Judy calling Alex: "Sai Loe? (in a tone like 'where are you?) meaning = little brother in Cantonese (that's how we call Alex at home) Alex: "What?!" in English
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Alex: "How are you my friend?" in English
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Alex: "Mama, Ten mm doe wor!" meaning = mom, I cannot hear (he was complaining the volumn of the DVD in my car was too low )
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Alex: "Sic Farn la!" meaning = dinner time
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Alex: "Jau la" meaning = let's go
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Alex: "Mama, hui bin ah? hui upping?" meaning = mom, where are we going? shopping? (he couldn't pronouce 'sh' and the 'op' sound, it's like up-ping)
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Alex: "hui uk-on-no sic shu til" meaning = go McDonald's and eat fries (he couldn't pronouce McDonald's, the closest he got was uk-on-no)
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Alex: "Mama, Tei ha!" meaning = mom, look!
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Alex: "Mama, sim sim leng leng" meaning = mom, blink blink pretty (as he was playing with my diamond pendent)
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Alex: "I got it!!" in English
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Alex: "NO WAY!" in English (standard answer for any questions you asked him and anything you asked him to do)
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Alex: "Baba, wei wei yeah yeah" meaning = Dad, call grandpa as soon as the phone was connected
Alex: "wei, yeah yeah, sai loe ah!" meaning=hello, grandpa, it's Sai Loe (Alex)
Grandpa Tony: "sic jor mum mum may ah?" meaning=have you eatten yet?
Alex: "sic jor la" meaning=already ate
Grandpa Tony: "bao may ah?" meaning = are you full?
Alex: "bao la" meaning = i'm full
Grandma Anna joined in: "sai loe, jone e sic d mut ah?" meaning = Alex, what do you like to eat? Alex: "uk-on-no shu til" meaning = McDonald's fries
Grandpa Tony: "Ashlyn neh?" meaning = where is Ashlyn?
Alex: "jeh jeh jai gau gau jue" meaning = sister is sleeping
Grandpa Tony: "Ashlyn gau gau jue ah?" meaning = Ashlyn is sleeping?
Alex: "hai ah, Bye bye!" meaning = yes, bye bye.
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I'm sure this is not the end of it. There's gotta be more, but I cannot remember right now. Geez, I should have marked down every single one when it happens.
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Monday March 12, 2007 - 12:35am (PDT)
HAPPY YEAR OF THE BOAR!
First of all, we would like to wish you all a healthy and prosperous year of the Boar/Piggie (Oink Oink!).
I was telling my friend this little incident and she said I should blog about this, so here it is.
2 weeks ago, Uncle Wilson visiting from HKG, and my Cousin Joey and her Fiance Tim visiting from Vancouver Canada for the weekend, so we had dinner with them at Auntie Grace's house. During dinner, Alex picked up some books from a basket on the kitchen floor, and Auntie Grace yelled out "NO" in a very loud voice. Alex was stunned immediately, helpless, confused, and didn't know what to do.
Last night, we had dinner at Auntie Grace's house again after we picked up my brother Jeff and sister in law Penny from the airport, they're visiting from HKG for the Chinese New Year Holidays. Alex picked up a book from the same basket again, and left it on the floor. This time, Auntie Grace was at the dinner table. I saw that and asked him to put the book where it belongs. Ashlyn told Alex the same thing, basically repeating exactly what I had just said.
Ashlyn: "Alex, put it away, Goo Por lau ah!(Great Aunt will scold you in Cantonese) Fi D La (Hurry up)!" Ashlyn then took a peak at Great Auntie Grace to check and see if she was looking. Then she hurried up and put the book away for Alex.
What a LOVINGLY sister Ashlyn is. Great sister-brotherly L-O-V-E!! XOXO
Friday February 16, 2007 - 02:01pm (PST)
Disneyland, Here we come!
Where to begin?? Well, let’s start from Halloween then.
This year, Ashlyn dressed up as JoJo the Circus Clown, and Alex dressed up as Jojo’s pet Galioth. I might have already mentioned in the last update, Alex was scared of the costume and refused to even look at it. Surprisingly, my aunt was able to put the costume on without any problem. AMAZING! It seemed to me both Ashlyn and Alex had fun dressing up at my cousins’ school parade. They even posed for pictures. At night, we started trick-or-treating from 7pm and went home around 9:30. A non-stop 2.5 hours going door to door, it was exhausting. Why? Because both of them refused to walk. Alex was better, he was willing to take the stroller. I think each of them got 3 buckets full of candies, we had to unload several times. As for the candies, they were all confiscated.
Both Ashlyn and Alex have grown so much and it was unbelievable. Ashlyn is now 2 years and 5 months old, and Alex is almost 16 months old.
Ashlyn, being the big sister, presents the big sister’s attitude, in another words, very bossy. She kept on telling Alex what to do and where to go, like sit here, come here, no no this, no no that. It’s quite funny to see she bosses Alex around and Alex just followed her commends. Needless to say, they fight for toys. Uncle Jeff visited for a few days and brought them toys from his business trip to the east coast, it was a little race car with remote control. It was for Alex, but Ashlyn just snatched it away from him. Whenever Ashlyn did something like this, Alex had a very innocent and confused look, like “what’s going on” on his face. He would look at us, look at the toy, look at Ashlyn and look at us again. He just looked so funny and cute.
Alex has starting to talk shortly after his 1st birthday. At first, no Baba, no Mama. Now, he talks so much. I counted briefly, he knows at least 60 vocabularies. He picks up key words from our conversation quickly, and his pronunciation was so precise that really surprised you. We must admit, Alex speaks better than Ashlyn.
As for Ashlyn, she talks even more. She understands everything we say and can carry on conversations with us.
For Thanksgiving holidays, we went to Disneyland in Los Angeles. It’s Ashlyn and Alex’s first visit to the Happiest Place on Earth, and they got their first ear hats. The first ride they went on was The Small World. Alex was scared of the little characters and Ashlyn seemed to be OK.
While we were waiting for the rest of the group, Santa Goofy appeared. So, we took Ashlyn & Alex to take pictures with Santa Goofy. Ashlyn kept shaking her head and refused to go near the area when she saw Goofy from far away. Alex didn’t really realize what was going on, I kept telling him it’s doggie. As we got near Goofy, Alex was shocked to see Goofy and started to scream and cry and turn his face and pushing away from me. We managed to take a few pictures before Alex went crazy.
Then we went to Mickey’s house to meet Mickey. As expected, Ashlyn & Alex were scared of Mickey. Both of them pushing and kicking and tried to stay away from Mickey and the pictures were funny.
As for Johnson and myself, Johnson took care Alex for majority of the trip, cux I pulled my back muscle. I lost my voice since Friday afternoon. Huumm… could be from the screaming at the Disney Parade, seeing Mickey and Minnie, or from all those exciting rides. NO, NO, NO!! The only ride I went on was The Small World, how excited could that be?? I just got too tired, and as of today, 5 days already, my voice still not recovered. *Sigh*
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Wednesday November 29, 2006 - 02:52pm (PST)
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