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Sunday, June 20, 2010

boon's log 2510.07: Happy Father's Day 2010

Happy Father's Day, 2010.

Wow, has it been 3 months since my last entry? Anyways, Happy Father's Day to all daddy-o's (and Daddies-to-be). Our family's been blessed with another little one - eV's turning 2 months next week. How time flies - oh, and that also explains why there's been 3 months of silence :).

My parents recently came back from Shanghai, after visiting their Expo. They showed me the map of the Expo and I was awestruck! The size of the entire expo is truly mind-blowing (!!!). Indeed if one were to really explore each and every country there is in the Expo, it would have taken months! Gosh... Looks like China's outdone themselves again! Here's the official site - http://en.expo2010.cn/. My parents only selected a few countries to visit and that itself took like 4 days. They were saying that the Queue to get into the Japan Pavillion was a whole 4 hours! My mom was humming to one of Annabelle's favourite Disney tunes - Almost There (from Princess and the Frog)...

They brought back tonnes of gifts from their trip (as usual). And one of the soft toys (a gift from my uncle - who went together with them) was the Expo's Mascot (pic below). Annabelle called up my uncle to thank him for the gift. She said, "Hi Pek-Kong, thank you for your Bacteria!" All of us around her immediately broke into laughter! The toy does look like those bacteria portrayed in the television advertisements... It makes us wonder what the mascot really represent... :)

Bacteria from China.

boon out...

Labels: Ab, eV, Father's Day, toys

Sunday, June 21, 2009

boon's log 2509.07: Happy Father's Day!

We were back in Ipoh for Father's Day. Dinner was at Tai Thong, while Father's Day lunch was at Indulgence, Ipoh. This is the second time we were there for Father's Day and I have to admit that I am impressed with them yet again - in fact, I think they've improved from the last time we were there. Dad ordered the Father's Day Special while the rest of us just went for Ala Carte. Ab ordered the do-it-yourself topping pizza - where most of it went into Mom and Dad's tummy.
The grandparents once again never failed to surprise their grand daughter with gifts - from pop-pops to cooking-toys bubble-blowing-gun. Gosh, it's like her birthday, rather than Father's day! ;)

Anyways, we demanded that the toys remained in Ipoh, lest it will clog up her room with more toys (!!!).

Oh and it finally rained - perhaps a "present" for all the Fathers who WASHED and WAXED their cars (!!!). Yeah, I had to re-wash the car after arriving back in Penang to remove all the corpse I collected along the way home. But the rained did not help much in cooling down the weather, though. I still feel the heat... And what better way to cool down at the end of a long day (and weekend) with nice chilled-glass of beer... AAAaahhh......

Well, Happy Father's Day to all and to the rest hope you had an enjoyable and restful weekend. Pumped up to face the week ahead?! If you have not noticed, it is the mid of the year next week...