More Pictures Around the House

Here’s another set of pictures taken around the house today.  Do you like my outfit?

Just a Few Pictures

Here are a few pictures taken at the lawn outside of my house.  Mommy likes to take me out for walks, even when Daddy is at work.  While out there, my favorite place is the lawn which I knew if even if I fell, it won’t hurt as much.

What Makes a Real Man?

If you still don’t know what makes a real man, let me tell you now! 

“A man is not a real man until he is past 30.”  - Addison B. Chan

Feel free to quote me on it!  Because Daddy agrees with me too!

 

I’m Taking My Vitamins!

Come on!  You don’t think I just completely inherited all the good looks and charm from my Daddy genetically, right?  I have to take daily vitamins to keep my bones strong, and my brain boosted!  Lately, I’m even able to put the gummy bear vitamin in my mouth, myself! 

Counting Oranges

Today, Mommy and Daddy took me to Grandma and Grandpa’s house in Riverside to spend the day.  As mentioned from previous post, Grand Uncle Luiz is also in town, and so does Great Grandma!  As expected, they are always thrilled to see me every time.  Here are some pictures that we took throughout the day. 

Now, here’s a video of me picking up the picking up oranges and putting them into the bag.  I don’t know if I have mentioned to you before, there are quite a few orange trees in the front yard of my Grandparents house.  Every time when we visit them, Mommy always picked a bag loads of oranges home.  Recently, I was allowed/brought-along to the front yard to help picking oranges from the tree.  I even got to help out by putting the oranges into the bag as soon as they were picked from the tree.  I got this routine down so well that… that I even remember how to do this when I’m not in the front yard!

My First Meeting with Grand Uncle Luiz

Yes, that’s my Grand Uncle Luiz.  And 'no,’ I didn’t pull his mustache.  I don’t know why would anyone dare to mess with someone like him.  I’ve heard all kinds of horror stories about him… like how he lifted up Uncle Chris by just pulling on his ears, or how Daddy complained to Grandma all the time about how Grand Uncle Luiz was mean to him.  Although all these alleged incidents happened 30+ years ago, after spending a few hours with him today, all I have to say is…

DON’T BELIEVE IN THOSE RUMORS! 

He seemed to be a very nice Grand Uncle to me!  He held me up all the time, played with me, and even took me out for a walk as soon as he over-heard me wanting to go out for a walk. 

So Grand Uncle Luiz, don’t worry!  I won’t believe in a word that your 2 favorite nephews said about you! 

(And for those who are still confused on how Grand Uncle Luiz relates to me, he’s the elder brother of my Grandma, who is also the Daddy of Aunt Juanita.)

Papaya and Milk

Daddy once told me that he doesn’t believe fruits and milk should be mixed together for consumption.  Obviously, as you can see from this video, Mommy didn’t agree with Daddy.  In this case, Mommy made this special “Papaya Milk Shake” just for me… and let’s just say that it tasted… very unique.  So unique that my taste buds weren’t quite used to.  Basically, I almost threw up.  Maybe a few drops of alcohol might help.  But that experiment has to wait another 20 years or so.  Until then, here’s the video…

 

Dance with Elmo!

This Elmo toy was a gift from Grandma from way back when I was much younger.  I didn’t appreciate it much back then, but now that I have learned how to turn this thing on/off at wish, I like this Elmo a lot more!  Below is a video of me trying to do the dance moves of Elmo…

 

 

Here’s another video taken on the following day.  This Elmo has been my buddy lately! 

 

Look, I’m Topless!

Alright, girls!  You want to see some skin?  Here you are…

 

Combing My Hair

Just a short video taken in the car today.  Enjoy!

I’ve Met a New Friend Today!

Today, Mommy and Daddy took me out to have lunch with her old schoolmates.  Yes, people that actually went to (the same) school with Mommy (and in this case, Daddy as well).  It means that these people must have known Mommy and Daddy for at least 80+ years!

So we arrived at this vegetarian restaurant and the first thing that I saw… Hellloooo!?

こんにちは. わたしの名前は Addison – dess!

Whoo la la!  A Japanese girl!  I didn’t know Mommy and Daddy went to school in Japan!!?  One look at Daddy and he immediately introduced me to Aunt Sherry and her daughter Yuna.  It turns out that Aunt Sherry is the one who went to the same school with Mommy and Daddy… in Hong Kong, and it is her husband who is Japanese. 

We sat down for a while and it wasn’t long before Aunt Winnie showed up with his latest boyfriend, Alex. 

Throughout the luncheon, I was a bit cranky because I didn’t know that there will be a girl joining me for lunch, and I felt that I wasn’t at my best… to impress.  Furthermore, as you can see from this video below, I was sitting way too far away from Yuna, and I was so worried that Yuna couldn’t get close to me.

 

 

Fortunately, Yuna later had a chance to come closer to me.  I have to say I was very impressed by her demeanor because most girls wouldn’t be able to control themselves once they get within touching distance of me.  I guess the fact that Aunt Sherry (Yuna’s Mom) was there did play a factor. 

 

 

Needless to say, both Yuna and myself stole the show all afternoon.  Here’s a video of Aunt Winnie playing with Yuna and me.

 

 

Last but not least, here are just a few pictures that Daddy took today.

 

What Shall I Tell Him/Her?

Okay, people!  When I was in my Mommy’s tummy, my Guest List looks like this. 

It has been almost a month since I announced that I will be having a younger brother, or sister, come July of this year.  And this is what his/her Guest List looks like. 

Yes!  Sad, isn’t it?  No one cared to drop my future brother/sister a note to congratulate him/her for having such a good looking older brother!  And when I wrote ‘no one’, it literally means that the Guest List has zero entry!  (At time of typing this post.)

I don’t know about you, but I certainly do NOT look forward to explaining this phenomenon to my younger brother/sister.  After all, what do you expect me to tell him/her?  Do you want me to tell him/her that because I’m better looking and that’s why more people signed my Guest List?  Or do you want me to tell him/her that people just like me better than him/her? 

So instead of having myself to deal with this ‘explanation’ in a few years’ time, I’m just going to point him/her to YOU!  And you know who you are!  Oh, and let me warn you ahead of time… it might be easier if it turns out that I’m having a younger brother.  If it happens to be a younger sister… I’m sure you all know how girls are like when they are upset!  Just don’t come running to me to find out what kind of girly dolls she likes!

Daddy, May I Borrow Your Car?

Once again, posting has been light lately because of the various tasks that I have been doing these days.  I didn’t know that the older you can, the more work that you have to do.  Looking at Mommy’s tummy now, I asked myself if I rather be the one who is living inside Mommy’s tummy now?  Or do I rather be the big brother?  I think I’ll stick with being the big brother for now.

So what do you think of that picture above?  Do you think we look alike?  That’s Daddy to the left, and me on the right.  Daddy’s picture was taken when he was living in Taiwan.  My picture was taken during the Chinese New Year Week, when I spent the week at Grandma and Grandpa’s house in Riverside.  As for the cars, I didn’t find out where did that car come from (on the left); but I can tell you that the BMW convertible is Grandma’s car. 

Anyway, back to the picture(s)!  If you like this picture on top, then you’re going to like all the pictures that Daddy took during that Chinese New Year Week holiday.

 

Meanwhile, here are some pictures that Daddy touched up, from Grandma’s collection.

 

Here is a video of me having some fun in Grandma’s BMW and Grandpa’s truck!

My Week-long Chinese New Year Celebration

With so many pictures and videos, it has taken me longer than I thought to get them processed and uploaded.  Finally, they are all done, and I’m proud to share with you some of the highlights of my Chinese New Year week-long celebration at Grandma and Grandpa’s place in Riverside.

Chinese New Year Day (年初一)

Since we were at my other Grandparents house for dinner last night, we didn’t get home until late.  To make things worst, Daddy noticed the tire of our car was running flat, and he was a bit concern if the tire can do another 70 miles trip to Grandma’s house.  So the first thing that Daddy did this morning was to brought the car to a Tire shop for check-up.  The prognosis of both rear tires were not good, and Daddy decided to get some new tires.  Which means that by the time he got home, it was already late in the morning.  With packing has yet to be completed, we did not leave the house until 1pm in the afternoon. 

(By the way, just in case you are wondering, Daddy took a week off from work to celebrate Chinese New Year with the family.)

After an hour or so driving, we arrived at Grandma’s house, and immediately, she fell in love with my outfit!  Seriously, how could you not?  Here’s a video of me playing basketball with my Chinese New Year outfit. 

 

 

What I had almost forgotten, was that I bought a birthday gift for Uncle Chris back in December.  And I thought it was a great opportunity to present to him his belated birthday gift, on Chinese New Year day!

 

 

Then towards the evening, I got to sit by the Mahjong table for the first time! 

 

 

 

And here are some pictures…

 

 

 

Chinese New Year Day 2 (年初二)

I pretty much spent the entire day doing what you see in the video below.  Let me tell you, I was so tired by evening that I fell asleep immediately. Grandpa and Grandma’s house was just too big for me to be running around non-stop all day.

 

 

Chinese New Year Day 3 (年初三)

Aunt Phoebe arrived today from Hong Kong this morning.  Not that I didn’t get enough attention in the past few days, but with Aunt Phoebe around, I’m just going to get even more attention.  Otherwise, I pretty much did the exact same things as I did in the past few days… which is playing my toys.  However, I was also introduced to a new toy today!  It’s the organ.  No one has told me that the organ has been sitting there since the day I was born.  Had it not for the brilliance thinking of my dear Grandma, who thought that I might be interested in expressing the musical side of me, I would have never gotten the chance to play this fine piece of of music instrument!

 

 

Here's a video of me playing my toys while getting everybody’s attention.

 

 

Here are some pictures that we took on this Day 3 of Year of Ox…

 

 

Chinese New Year Day 4 (年初四)

I’m beginning to get used to living in Riverside by now!  There are so much room for me to run around the house that I didn’t even think I was at home.  I thought I was at the playground!  Today continues to be another day of running around the house, and taking plenty of pictures.  By request, I put on the same outfit that I wore on Chinese New Year Day 1, just so that Aunt Phoebe can take a few pictures with me in such outfit.  I was told that I brought shines to the outfit, and I made it look even more expensive!  For the record, it was my dear Grandma who bought this outfit for me while she was in HKG just a few months ago.  Yes, I know I'm good looking.  You don’t have to tell me.

 

 

Chinese New Year Day 5 (年初五)

It’s time to go home!  We woke up and after breakfast, Mommy and Daddy started to pack.  We arrived home by mid-afternoon, and things slowly returned to normal.  It’s been a fun and exciting week.  Once again, Happy Chinese New Year to you all!

Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner

Now that I’m back at home after a week-long celebration at Grandma’s house, I can finally find some time to update my blog. 

First off, Chinese New Year’s Eve!  We went to Grandma and Grandpa house in Arcadia for our Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner, also known as 團年飯.  (For the record, Chinese New Year’s Eve was last Sunday, January 25.)

We got there a bit early and I spent some time running around the house, while Grandma and Grandpa were busy preparing dinner.  As the evening approached, all the Grand-Aunts and Grand-Uncles started to arrive.  There were lots of people there.  Aunt Annie, Uncle Joseph, and Uncle Steven were there too.  Unfortunately, my cousin, Annabelle, couldn’t make it because Aunt Vivian took her back to Malaysia to celebrate Chinese New Year.  I guess she just has to wait until next time to find out how much more handsome I am since she last saw me.

As you can see from the pictures below, I wasn’t kidding when I said there were lots of people there!  I guess when it is 團年飯, it really means business, and you better show up!  I’m glad that I did! 

 

Right after dinner, I spent more time running around the house, and this time, I had the help of Grand-Aunt Jean, who was kind enough to take the time to show me the best way to take a step up a stair.

 

Later on, it was time for Grandpa to play with me!

 

And of course, before we left, Grandma gave us all 利是 to ring in the New Year!

You Want Me to Share My Toys with Who?

Today is the first day of Chinese New Year (of Ox).  Also known as 大年初一.  We woke up early this morning and immediately, we hurried to get ready to leave the house to Grandma’s house in Riverside to 拜年. 

While I stole the show with cameras snapping non-stop, as usual, everyone kept telling me that I need to soon share my toys with… who again?

恭喜發財! Happy Chinese New Year!

It will be the Year of Ox!  May this year be a “bull run” year for Daddy, so that he can buy me more toys!  May this year be full of joy for Mommy, like a laughing cow.

Happy Chinese New Year to you All!

Happy Birthday, Mommy!

Today is Mommy’s birthday, and Daddy took a day off from work to spend the day with Mommy and I. 

We started the day with my usual wake-up hours, followed by some breakfast fed by Daddy.  Mommy got to sleep-in because… it’s her birthday!  A bit later, when Mommy woke up, we immediately got dressed and headed out to lunch!

We had our lunch at this French Bakery in South Coast Plaza.  Mommy ordered a crepes, while Daddy ordered a sandwich. Here are some pictures…

After lunch, we headed back to the store where Daddy bought Mommy's birthday gift. Daddy picked up all the wrong sizes, and Mommy had to exchange them all.

Afterwards, we walked around the shopping mall for a bit, and Daddy bought me a pair of Puma-Ferrari shoes!  Not only they look good, they also look fast!  Yes, I know today is not my birthday… but they were on sale!

Since we had an early dinner reservation, it didn’t take long before it was time to head to the restaurant.  And Daddy picked Roy’s at Newport Beach to celebrate Mommy’s Birthday tonight.  I’ve heard good reviews of Roy’s.  But not until I tasted their dishes, I am convinced that Roy knows how to prepare a real seafood dish!  Their food is so yummy!  And the deserts were just too yummy to use any word to describe it!  Check out these photos and put your imagination and taste buds in high gear!

 

To top off the evening, we even received a souvenir from Roy’s.  A picture of Mommy, Daddy, and Myself!  (Daddy thinks that I look like Aunt Zabrina (when she was young, many years ago) in this picture.  What do you think?)

Here are some pictures that we took today. 

Once again, Happy Birthday, Mommy!  I love you!

Now I Know What’s On The Other Side of the Fence!

Those of you who are old like my Dad, or older than my Dad, I’m sure you have seen this commercial before. 

 

And if you don’t know what’s the big deal about this commercial, then let me tell you that my Uncle Chris is featured in this commercial.  And just in case you don’t recognize him, he appears in the 51st second into the commercial. 

So when Daddy showed me this video, I asked Daddy:  “What is Uncle Chris looking at?  What’s on the other side of the fence?”

Daddy said:  “I don’t know.  I’ll ask him for you.”

Daddy called Uncle Chris in Hong Kong and asked:  “Hey, my Son wants to know what’s on the other side of the fence when you shot your 維他奶 commercial.”

Uncle Chris:  “Girls.  Plenty of Girls.”

Daddy said:  “Go back to sleep!  You are not talking sense.  Sorry to woke you up.”

Well, you should all know by now that I was at Aidan’s Birthday party yesterday.  And during the party, something happened that told me that… Uncle Chris was not lying!  When you’re so good looking, it’s not unusual to have girls standing on the other side of the fence looking at you!  And if you don’t believe me, look at this video below, and pay attention to the left side of the screen!

 

That poor girl!  She must have waited for a long time before she had the courage to approach me, or to even try to touch me.  She was totally throwing herself at me… even thought there was a fence there.  But her Mom just made the decision (for her) that her daughter is not good enough for me.  I hope she didn’t cry too much last night.  More importantly, I hope she will forgive her Mom for dragging her away from me.  Anyway, although I don’t know who she is, but just in case she has found this web site, and has been secretly reading my blog, repeatedly, I just want to tell her… “Hi!  It was nice seeing you!”

Oh, and Uncle Chris… I knew you were telling the truth!

My First Party of 2009

I can’t believe that January of 2009 is not even over yet, and I have already attended my first party!  It is a birthday party of Aidan, who is the son of my Mommy’s good friend, Judy.  It’s his 3-year old birthday and his Mommy and Daddy threw him a party at Jump ‘n Jammin in Arcadia. 

As you can see from the video below, this place is massive!  And it is full of kids!  Kids that are a bit older than me.  It’s okay, because I don’t mind being the youngest in the crowd.  But the thing is… they are allowed to run around everywhere, while I have to hold Mommy or Daddy’s hand most of time.  Daddy told me that if I don’t hold him tight, these kids were going to ran me over.  I dare them! 

 

“I don’t recommend you go there if you have even a bit of a headache.”  Daddy said.

Of course I disagreed with Daddy!  Because there were so many things to do there.  For example, you can see from the video below that I was doing slides…

 

Even if I was doing nothing particular, you can still see from this video below that I had fun playing with that giant cushion.

 

I was having so much fun that I almost forgotten that I was there to celebrate Aidan’s Birthday!  So when it was time for food and cake, we headed off to a dining room inside this complex...

 

And yes, those are all Guests of Aidan.  And if you don’t believe me, check out this video when everyone in the room sings Happy Birthday to him. 

 

Yeah, he wasn’t that responsive by then because his parents thought that he was tired, and in need of a nap.  But the fact was, I knew he just had too much to drink when he was sitting with those girls. 

When most people were ready to leave the party after all the food and cake, Daddy wanted to try the big-boys-slide at least once before we leave.  Here’s a video of it…

 

No, I didn’t like it.  I prefer the Small-Boys-Slide for now.

Here are some pictures that we took from the party…