eat, play and work

Saturday night, we had Shabu-Shabu buffet dinner with our Sunday dinner kakis at a Japanese restaurant called AQ 阿久 (Wuyi/Dingxi Road). Yummy although mine tasted more like Chinese hotpot becoz i chose the chicken soup base. Joel kept playing with the toothpick cover...spinning it, of course.

Dinner Hiccup 1:
We had changed the dinner from Sun to Sat becoz a friend, Kiat, was in town (he's currently working in Beijing). BUT, no one informed him of the venue! So after we've finished our dinner, he came to meet us for drinks. Kiat is also father of a 7 month old baby girl who looks just like him - which is not a good thing. Keke... ;p

Dinner Hiccup 2:
The waitress spilled a colourless drink on Carols' white dress when the food and drinks were served. The glass broke (i was worried coz Joel was crawling all over the place). Anyway, it made her dress kinda see-through. Someone had an extra tshirt, but Carol wanted to go home with Raymond to change. All of us were pretty sure she wouldnt come back...but we were wrong! Haha! Never judge a person from their always-black face.

As for Joel, his fever had gone down after his nap in the afternoon. But kiasu Mommy still made him wear a cardigan at dinner becoz their aircon was pretty cold. He was once again a happy baby. ;)

* Elvis touched down in Shanghai at 1am, then he went into the office and came home at 4.30am. Slept for a few hours, and left the house again at 8am for a meeting. Then he continue to work again till he came home at 7pm...and we went for dinner. Here is what Joel & Mommy did at home.


Sunday, we had lunch at Grandma's Kitchen before going to Joel's first art lesson. Daddy fed Joel some XO sauce fried rice... Initially, Joel ate the rice happily...then after he's swallowed it...he goes "AHH AHH AHH..." It's SPICY!!! Haha... Elvis continued to feed Joel...and Joel continued to eat it and go "AHH"!!!

At Gymboree
- Level 1 Art Class for kids above 18 months
We felt that the Art Class was more interesting than the Play Class becoz during the 45mins, the kids got to explore various things. First, they tried molding with Crayola Playdoh, cutting tools and rolling pin. Then, they played with sand (which is actually inside the table on the picture). When Joel first touched the sand, he didnt like it. After he tasted it, he loves it! Haha! He started to play with the spade and made sand-fishes and sand-crabs. The third and last activity was painting! The kids were each given a piece of paper, a bowl and a circle sponge stamp. The teacher gave them yellow paint, then red paint. The idea was actually to mix it into orange paint to draw the sun...but there was too much red in Joel's bowl, so it what you see is still red. Then, they were each given a stick of glue and some glitter foil to paste onto the circles to represent the sun's rays.

The kids were given aprons but i was really more concerned about the paint that still got onto Joel's clothes and socks....and MY jeans. There were also some "naughtier" kids who walked around and stepped on other people's painting. Despite the mess, Joel tasting sand & paint, and that no one's painting came out looking like the sun, i guess everyone have had fun. ;)

The last picture is Joel's masterpiece.

After that, Daddy Elvis had to go to a production house to look at some work stuffs. We followed him there coz it's supposed to be "for a short while". You can see from the picture below that Joel was making himself really comfortable drinking water lying down on their sofa when we first arrived. By the end of the three hours, Joel was playing and screaming with the boss of that company! Joel kept laughing and throwing 2 plastic bottles on the floor and saying "CUT" each time he did that. All the staff (very busy working) also cant help but to laugh at Joel's horrible laughter. Joel also call that Uncle "Cut" and laughed whenever he saw him. Hmm...maybe becoz he had no hair??!! Haha!


We were supposed to meet Ann for late dinner at 8/9-ish becoz she also had work to do. We had a gift for her, so we went home to take it. It was late and we were hungry, so we decided to go ahead with our dinner at Sushi Tei, and she'll join us when she wraps up her work. After all that crazy playing the whole day, Joel finally fell asleep on our way there. So we had a peaceful dinner. By the time the restaurant closed, Ann still hasnt finish her work. You should never trust what advertising people say. Keke... ;p

* Learn how to make your own playdoh here.