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A view of the apartment where we are staying. Don’t be shocked, as this a norm in HK. Considered luxurious as it comes with a string of facilities & clubhouse. Very well maintained and active owner association.  

It’s been 4 months plus since we moved to Hong Kong. And I’ve not blogged since July!! My longest ever blog hiatus. Only had time to update FB on and off, that’s about it. Life been 1 word: H.E.C.T.I.C. So busy, I didn’t even have chance to download photos from my SD Card O.o.

First it was cleaning up the house when we just came. That includes all the unpacking of the stuff we hauled over. Thank god Hon already unpacked most of the stuff that we shipped over. We left in such a hurry as I was starting work end of July, so we basically work ourselves towards a timeline so that I can still get some rest after that before starting my new job.

Second, was settling the kids at school. Vyktore side was easy. We registered him to K3, just downstairs of our apartment and we were done. He started off with Summer Holiday Program and for first time in his life, he never cry/whine anymore when he needs to go to school. Finally!! Faythe took a while to adjust and everything seems so alien to her. Actually I pity her because she was not exposed to Cantonese at all, and Mandarin also half pail water. In fact I was struggling as well helping her to cope with homework. Not many, but tedious. I had to do some translation to assist her. In the end we decided to hire a tutor to come and teach both of them, 3 times a week, at least can help to ease some burden off me. If not, I would have gone nuts, after work, come home still gotta translate homework. She just finished her exam and results will be out in a few weeks time.

Then, it was my job that I had to adjust myself. I’ve always been lucky with my job, moving it closer and closer to home, but my current job requires me to travel at least 1 hour, 20 mins. Although it allows work from home, but it’s based on the project I’m assigned too. Unfortunately, I’m assigned to a project that is based in office..hu hu hu…It’s pretty tiring having to travel so far for work, though I can get a seat most of the time. But well, at least I’m not stuck in traffic jam. I usually do some reading (catch up with what’s happening in Malaysia) or play some games to kill time. Gotten used to it after a while. Colleagues are OK. But I do find them a bit strange, as some of them likes to tell grandfather story alot instead of telling you directly. So after a round of grandfather story, you gotta try figure out what they want you to do. Weird eh.

We have a group of friends here (mainly Malaysian & Singaporean), so it’s not a strange place after all. And coincidentally, one of them, his family is also here and his kids’ age same as ours, they’ve became best buddies ever since. It’s great to have friends especially when you are in foreign land. We are quite closely knitted though only knew each other for few months. Even went for short trips together.

That’s basically a quick update on us. Oh we also managed to get a part time helper to come over to help clean the house 3 times a week and help to pick the kids up after school. Extremely reliable helper and we feel so blessed.

Till the next update, I hope it’s soon…cya.

My friend’s dad recently turned 60. She was asking me what to get for her dad since he is already 60, he wouldn’t need stuff like cufflinks and watches. So I suggested to get her dad a lovely basket. This is not any ordinary basket, but filled with lovely treats that is good for health. I’m sure at 60, dad will love gift baskets filled with treats.

My friend’s dad owns a bearings factory. Last month they called us to give us a big assignment. To take photos of their products for their new website. Never did any product assignment before and we were so nervous. Good thing that they were well prepared with white backdrop and lighting. We did quite a good job and they were satisfied with the results.

Kids sure love cartoon characters on their favourite personal belongings. Faythe loves Princess. Vyktore loves Dinosaurs and Sharks. Sometimes it’s not easy to find bagpacks with their favourite character because some are not so famous. I had a hard time looking for a little mermaid bagpack, luckily she was OK to get a Kuromi bagpack. For Vyktore, he’s lucky, as I managed to find a shop with personalized backpacks for kids, so we made him a shark bag :).

Just another month before Christmas and everyone has started their Christmas shopping for christmas presents . Too bad I’m not going back to KL for Christmas, so there won’t be much Christmas shopping for me this year. I’ve asked Faythe to prepare her list for the Santa but she has yet to give me her list. As for Vyktore, I think he’s much easier to settle with his favourite stuff.

Hubby been looking for new sunglasses, as usual, just to add to his collection. He previously had a pair of RayBan but lost it. So he’s been thinking if he should get a pair or should try other brands instead. In fact I told him that he should just go with Rayban since he’s used to their design and it suits him very well.

There are many people here in Hong Kong that works for Healthcare Department. You will be surprised indeed because most of them are volunteers. I’ve not worked in Healthcare field before but I don’t think I’m strong enough to labour all those activities in the hospital day in day out. Seeing death is not something that I would do daily. Maybe in the labour department, it’s alright. If you are interested with Healthcare jobs, do hop over to a Healthcare Aides Jobs website for more details.

I’ve always been envied with the long eye lashes both my kids have. They inherited the genes from my hubby. I’ve got short eye lashes and I do find it difficult to even apply mascara and to curl them. How I wish my eyelashes could haha…If that ever happen, then probably I’ll have an issue trying to maintain the eyelash growth from time to time.

As hubs is a cigar lover, he was very upset when he discovered that he was not able to bring in more than 3 cigars into HK. What a weird regulation. So he had left his whole cigar humidor behind and opted to just purchase some black and milds cigars in airport as and when he needed. Well at least he’s not band entirely from smoking yet.

A friend of mine works at the Old Folks Home and recently she told me that KL had a shortage of adults disposable diapers. Whoa, I didn’t know such item could be shortage as well. So I did some surfing for her and found that there were actually alot of websites selling incontinence products at disposablemedicalexpress.com and comparing the prices in KL, they were much cheaper too. But with shipping cost added, it might end up to be more pricy though. I’ve given the URL to my friend and asked her to look into it. Maybe they want to consider direct sourcing.