Friday, February 29, 2008

My First Visit to the Walt Disney World - Day 6

Today is our last day here at the Walt Disney World. Since our flight doesn't leave Orlando until later in the evening, it means that we had some time during the day to make a few more visits around the Resort here.

Our first stop was at the Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa. Daddy made lunch reservation there, and you can see from the few pictures below that this hotel is nice!





Right after lunch, Mommy and Daddy took me to Disney's Animal Kingdom for a few photos. Yeah, we were there just to take a few photos... and this video too!



Riding the Tram to the Animal Kingdom from Addison Chan on Vimeo.


Right after Animal Kingdom, we headed straight to the airport. The video below is taken during my flight back home.


My Plane Ride Back Home from Addison Chan on Vimeo.


It's been a wonderful, fun, and exciting week! Thank you Mommy and Daddy for bringing to the Walt Disney World!

Thursday, February 28, 2008

My First Visit to the Walt Disney World - Day 5

It's Day 5 of our visit here at the Walt Disney World, and our agenda for this evening is to walk around the Epcot Resort area to take some pictures before sunset.



Wednesday, February 27, 2008

My First Visit to the Walt Disney World - Day 4

After the rain from last night, the outside temperature has dropped 20+ degreeds from yesterday's high. It was very cold outside early this afternoon even when the sun was shining. Because of the low temperature, Mommy decided to keep in indoor for as much as possible. Therefore Mommy and I didn't really head outside until later this evening. Our destination for this evening is... Downtown Disney!

Once again, we met up with Uncle Jae for dinner at Downtown Disney, and this evening we ate at the Wolfgang Puck restaurant. After dinner, Mommy and Daddy walked around Downtown Disney for a bit, before heading back to our hotel room.

The video below is a virtual tour of our room at the Beach Club.



The Beach Club Resort at the Walt Disney World from Addison Chan on Vimeo.


And here are some more pictures that Mommy and Daddy took today.


Tuesday, February 26, 2008

My First Visit to the Walt Disney World - Day 3

Today's weather hasn't been that good so Mommy and I have been staying in our room most of the time to take some photos of me, until Daddy gets back from work.





When Daddy returned from work, we headed out towords the Boardwalk resort area to meet Uncle Jae for the first time for dinner. But as we (Mommy and Daddy) were walking towards the restaurant, it began to rain heavily! I guess that's my first 'walking in the rain!' I met Uncle Jae and we had dinner together. It was still pouring outside after dinner, so Mommy an Daddy decided to hang out at the lobby of the Boardwalk Inn until the rain dies down. It did so after about 15 minutes, and we walked back to our hotel room in light rain. A rainy day 3 of Walt Disney World visit.

Here's a video of Uncle Jae holding me...


My First Meeting with Uncle Jae from Addison Chan on Vimeo.

Monday, February 25, 2008

My First Visit to the Walt Disney World - Day 2

It's day 2 of my visit and Daddy left the hotel room early this morning to visit 'work.' Meanwhile, Mommy and I didn't really wake until early in the afternoon. Well, this is because I didn't sleep much last night. I think I'm still missing my own bed. I'm not used to sleeping in the stroller, you know!?

So as soon as I'm fed and dressed, Mommy took me out for a walk around the Epcot Resort area. There's a nice boardwalk area around the lake, and it is really beautiful!





After Mommy had lunch, we went back to the room to wait for Daddy to get off work. When Daddy came back, we immediately headed out again! Tonight, we are heading to Disney's Hollywood Studios! But to get there, we are going to take a boat ride first! Yes, it means that I got to take my first ever boat ride, and here's a video to share!


My First Boat Ride from Addison Chan on Vimeo.


We walked around the Studios a bit and snapped a few pictures. Afterwards, I decided to poop... so much so that I had it all over my body! It took Daddy quite a while to get me cleaned up and changed into some clean clothes. By then, it was already late in the evening, and we headed back to the hotel room after Mommy and Daddy grabbed dinner at the park.

Here are some pictures that highlight my day 2 at the Walt Disney World.


Sunday, February 24, 2008

My First Visit to the Walt Disney World - Day 1

As mentioned in my previous posts, I knew Mommy and Daddy had something in their sleeves to bring me somewhere. I just didn't know when and where. So on Saturday morning, when I saw them packing suitcases of stuff, and removed the car seat from Mommy's BMW, I knew I wasn't just heading to Riverside to meet Grandma!

During the afternoon, I noticed that Mommy pretty much packed all the clothes that I have into the suitcase! Wow! She even threw in a stack of diapers! Yet, they still wouldn't tell me where they are taking me to. I was beginning to wonder if Mommy and Daddy had enough of me, and decided to give me away!? I guessed wrong because they also packed their own clothes too! Not just mine. Phew!

When night time falls, Daddy's cell phone finally rang, and there it was a black color car waiting outside of our house. Daddy took my car seat and put it inside that car, while the driver of that car started throwing our luggage into the trunk. The driver even took my stroller too!

After about a 20 minutes of driving, we arrived at this place called LAX, with plenty of people walking around with suitcases too! Then Mommy and Daddy took all the luggage and walked up to the counter to told that guy behind the counter to take all our luggage, and my car seat, and send them to this place called Orlando!

Orlando? Where's that? What's there? More importantly, if we are going to 'Orlando', why are we getting off that car at this strange place?

After this much thinking, I began to feel tired and felt asleep. And when I woke up again, it was when Mommy lifted me off the stroller, and took me inside this strange place with rolls and rolls of seats. I later learned that I was actually inside an airplane!

It turned out that I was taking this red-eye flight to Orlando, Florida, with Mommy and Daddy to visit Walt Disney World!

A few hours later, we arrived at Orlando!

Daddy then picked up the car rental and drove to our hotel at the Beach Club in Walt Disney World.

Since none of us had much sleep, all of us quickly grabbed some sleep as soon as we checked-in to our hotel room. We slept for a few hours, and when we woke up, it was already late in the afternoon. And it's time to have some fun!

Mommy and Daddy took me to this place called Epcot! There were so many people there! We took a few pictures from Epcot, and then Mommy and Daddy sat down for dinner. After their meal, Daddy held me in his arms to showed me my first ever fireworks show! It looks nice... but I have to say it seemed a bit over-rated to me. It looks just like the screensaver that Daddy has on his computer!

Anyway, I felt bored rather quickly, and I started to feel hungry anyway. So I decided to cry so that Mommy and Daddy got the message that it's time to head back to our room. This pretty much concludes our first day of the trip!

Here are a few pictures to share with you...





Here is a video of me watching the fireworks with Daddy. You can tell that it is really 'no big deal' to me!


Watching My First Fireworks Show from Addison Chan on Vimeo.


Last but not least, here's a video of Daddy asking me if I am having much fun so far. I didn't say a thing because I didn't want to hurt his feelings. I really wanted to tell him that the fireworks were overated!


First Day Re-cap from Addison Chan on Vimeo.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Me vs. Jason Bourne (Part II - Bourne Supremacy)

That face... that face looks so familiar! I must have seen him before... Yes! That's the CIA Agent that I once met, faught, car chased and succesfully escaped from! He's back! I can't let him see me... oops, I think it's too late. He's walking towards me now. Maybe if I hide behind this Ferrari, he would just walk right by. I guess not! He's starring right at me! I better run! But I slipped! Too late now! He threw a punch right at me! I replied with 2 quick punches, and then I smash his head through the Ferrari's Passenger side window. I turned around and ran across the street. He wanted to follow, but a car almost hit him! Too late for him... I escaped into subway station. I looked at myself through the reflection of a window. That's when I saw Jason Bourne standing right behind me! I tried to move, but I couldn't. I panicked. That's when I woke up screaming and crying for Mommy. Oh well, I scratched my face again!






The video below was taken yesterday when Mommy was showing me a video clip of myself, and how I said 'Yai Yai' for the first time.



Watching My Own Video from Addison Chan on Vimeo

Monday, February 18, 2008

Caught on Camera! 曳曳 and Pooping

Okay, Folks! Turn up the volume real loud because I'm sure you don't want to miss this!

From the video clip below, see if you can catch me saying 'Yai Yai 曳曳' and my butt making pooping sound! Oh, and if you want to watch this video in Full HD (High Definition), simply click on the 'Caught on Camera...' link located right underneath the video. I'm trying out this video hosting service called Vimeo, which allows me to post my video in HD. After all, Daddy spent all this money on that HD camcorder, shouldn't my videos be presented in HD too!?




Caught on Camera! "Yai Yai" and Pooping! from Addison Chan on Vimeo.


Here are some pictures that Daddy took today.



Now, I continue to overheard some conversation between Mommy and Dadddy about some journey next week, and how much diapers they need to bring. I really think that they are taking me somewhere, and it's not Riverside! I said this before, and I want to say it again... I am not interested in going anywhere further than Riverside!

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Am I Going Somewhere?

I think I have overheard a conversation between Mommy and Daddy that they are planning on taking me on a trip to somewhere. Although the conversation took place when I was half asleep, I was rather sure that I heard words like 'hassle', 'tired', 'exhausting', and 'long hours.' That's why I thought they must be talking about taking me on a trip. Otherwise, I can't think of any reason why they would use such vocabularies. Oh well, I'm sure they will come asking me for my opinion, and I'm just going to tell them that if it is anything longer than a drive to Grandma's house in Riverside, I'm out!

Can you take a guess on what I'm trying to tell Mommy and Daddy below? Leave me a comment if you want to take a guess.





Finally, below are just a few pictures that Mommy took yesterday. Do you like my outfit?


Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day!

Today is Valentine's Day! My first Valentine's Day! Since I couldn't decide who to go out with, I made the tough decision to stay home with Mommy and Daddy instead. Sorry, girls! Maybe next year!

Early this afternoon, I was home with Mommy just chilling and doing some tummy-time. Mommy took the camera and snap a few photos of me. As you can see from the pictures below that, lately, I have been having quite some fun sticking my hand(s) into my mouth. Although Daddy has been warning me that I need to stop, since I'm still pretending I don't understand a word he said, I can still ignore him... and maybe give him a smile sometimes.

Anyway, to all the girls out there who are waiting to go out on a date with me, rest assure that I will wash my hands first before holding yours!

Last but not lesat, I want to give a special Valentine's Day shout out to Chloe, Sophie, Julie, and Rachel. Happy Valentine's Day to you all! Don't think of me too much!



Monday, February 11, 2008

恭喜發財! Happy Chinese New Year!



恭喜發財! Happy Chinese New Year!

Yes, I know. I'm cute in that outfit! Yes, I know. I do look good in red.

So, this is my first Chinese New Year. I knew Daddy has been on the phone in the past few days talking to my Grandparents wishing them good health, money, good health, and money. I also overheard that people are wishing me to 'fast tall grow big.' Yeah, if you don't understand it in English, don't expect me to understand it in Chinese either! Why do they want me to grow up so fast? I'm just happy at where I am. I get to cry whenever I want; I get to stick my entire fist inside my mouth whenever I want... even when Daddy threatens to put tobassco on my fingers. (Yeah, try me, Daddy! I'm so scare that my legs are shaking! If you do that to me, I'll tell Grandma!)

Technically speaking, the New Year was on Thursday. But since Daddy had to work on Thursday and Friday, we didn't visit my Grandparents until over the weekend.

First stop, Riverside! We arrived there at approximately 5pm on Saturday afternoon, and as always, everyone wants to hold me. I was so busy that day, I hardly had time to cry at all! For the record, the first 利是 that I received for the New Year was from Aunt Juanita (see picture!) Once that started, all the 利是 just kept on coming! I even received a special one from Grandma! Because when Grandma was handing out 利是 to everyone, there were any writings on the 利是, but mine got some special messages. Anyway, it was a very fun evening, and we didn't get home almost 1am!

Second stop, Arcadia! We arrived there at approximately 6pm on Sunday afternoon, just in time for dinner... for the grown ups! I also received a ton of 利是 from Grandma and Grandpa! As you can see from the pictures, Grandpa was especially happy when I was in his arms. The picture below give you an idea of how many 利是 I have received! On last count, according to Daddy, the total amount of 利是 collected comes out to be $26.92! But Daddy said it's still isn't enough for me to buy some toys. I guess I just have to save up for a few more years.

And all these activities made me really tired as you can see from the picture below. And we didn't get home until almost 11pm.


Overall, it was a very fun and eventful weekend! Not to mention that I got to receive so many 利是. I hope you all like the pictures! Once again, Happy Chinese New Year!


Saturday, February 9, 2008

All I Want for Christmas (or maybe Chinese New Year!)

Ferrari Pedal Car1

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Not a bad idea! 

  • A seven-speed transmission
  • An on-board computer
  • Disc brakes
  • Racing tires and styling,
  • Bucket seat with four-point harness
  • Leather steering wheel
  • And an aero kit

Depending on the chosen options, prices start from €499 to €1499 fully loaded.  The good thing is, I don't even have to pay for license and registration! 

Friday, February 8, 2008

Where are the Factories?

It says I have 2 new factories opened, but I don't see it anywhere!

Anyway, my unemployment is not back to zero!  That's good!  So just keep on clicking!

Click here to increase population.

Click here to increase industry.

Thank You for your participation!

Plastic Baby Bottles May Post Danger?

It's okay!  When that day comes, I prefer Iced Grande Café Mocha anyway!  But for those little kids who are still sucking bottles, you might want to tell your parents to check this out. 

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

I'm 3 Months Old Today!

Can you believe that? I'm exactly a quarter of a year old today! 3 Months ago, I was still hiding inside my Mommy's tummy, nice and warm. Today, I'm 3 months old! To celebrate, I thought I share you some pictures that Mommy took today, in my birthday suit!





Grandma and Grandpa also visited me today. I was hoping that they would bring me some birthday gifts, but it turned out that they were here just to drop off some stuff for Daddy. However, when they arrived, Daddy was on a conference with his office negotiating some big money deals. As soon as Daddy let Grandma and Grandpa into the house, Daddy handed me over to them, and continued with his call.

While I was having so much fun with Grandma, I pooped! No big deal! I do that all the time! But since Grandma thought that Daddy is too busy to change my diaper (he was still on the conference call), Grandma decided to change my diaper... herself... for the first time... on me! (Mommy was not home at that time. I don't know where did she go.) The Diaper-change went on smoothly, I thought. But when Grandma handed me back to Daddy right before she left, I knew something was wrong. Grandma told Daddy that... "Check his clothes. His poop went all the way to the edge of the diaper, and I'm worried that his clothes might be dirty."

Then Daddy said: "Why didn't you check his clothes too during diaper change?"

Grandma said: "I tried, but I couldn't see much because he was lying on top of his own clothes during diaper change."

Daddy said: "Okay! I'll check later."

Well, Daddy didn't check me right away because he was still too busy with his work. Mommy came home, and thank God there's Mommy in this world... this is what Mommy found...




Can you believe that? It went through 2 layers of clothing! No wonder I was feeling a bit sticky on my back!

Last but not least, my Virtual City is building up nicely! I'm now allowed to build some 'Industry' because I have 2% unemployment rate in my City. To build some places for employment, please click here. Ultimately, this is how I want my city to looks like.

Stay tune for more pictures from my first Chinese New Year!

Monday, February 4, 2008

My First 團年飯 (Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner)

Since 年三十晚 (Chinese New Year's Eve) is on a weekday, the family has decided to have our 團年飯 a few days early, on the weekend. The location for my first 團年飯 is at Grandma's house. It means that I had a long road trip to Riverside again. As you can see from the first few pictures, I fell asleep in the car almost immediately.





Not only it was my first 團年飯, it was also my first Super Bowl Sunday. The New England Patriots are playing the New York Giants, with the Patriots heavily favorited. That's why you can see in the pictures that I was also wearing Tom Brady's jersey, courtesy of Aunt Peggy!

Dinner started early with plenty of food! Once again, I was left out of the food. I still don't understand why they won't let me eat. I have a mouth, just like theirs!

After dinner, Grandpa spent most of the remaining evening holding me. Occasionally, Uncle Chris got his hands/arms onto me. As you can see from the video below, Uncle Chris didn't seem to know that I like people holding me, AND walking at the same time!





Our evening ended with another long drive home. But it was certainly a fun evening since I get to visit Grandma and Grandpa!

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Chinese Kung Fu!

Yesterday, Aunt Annie and Uncle Joseph invited us out to dinner. Aunt Annie's parents were also there, along with my Grandma and Grandpa. The location is a Japanese restaurant. THEY were having all kinds of sushi, rolls, and sashimi! Once again, I was just THERE, sitting in my stroller. I don't even get to taste a sip of the green tea! If these dinner events continued to be so unfair and boring, I think I will stop attending these events very soon! The picture above was taken shortly after dinner last night. Aunt Annie was holding me. Oh, by the way, I hope you like my shoes! Aren't they cute?

So after we got home last night, and right before diaper changing, Daddy was having a chat with me. He asked me if I'm interested in martial arts. Well, what do you think, Dad? I'm born in America, but my blood is very much Chinese! Therefore, how can a Chinese not have any interest in martial arts? Duh!

All of a sudden, Daddy started teaching me some basic moves in martial arts. Mom happened to video taped part of it, and here it is:





Last but not least, here are some pictures that Mommy took a few days ago, in my Pooh outfit. I know, you don't have to tell me! Yup, I'm totally cute! Totally one of a kind! Totally awsome!


This Little Piggy Shortage?

For a moment, I thought my (previous) web-site was mentioned in Newsweek!

But after reading this Newsweek article, I'm more concerned about that so-called 'Pigjackers!' I guess Daddy wasn't BS-ing me when he told me that if I don't stop crying, he's going to give me away!

And yes, I do read Newsweek, okay!