烏來之旅

Mibao going home for the first time

After 35 days in 北醫月子中心, Mibao came home.  Our house will be full of the newborn scent and vivid young energy.  Welcome home, Mibao!

Christmas Eve dinner

Christmas Eve at Taipei World Trade Building.

Macau trip

We visited Macau on 12/20-12/22 before heading back to Taiwan.  We had tasted lots of great food and saw grand decoration of the casino hotels.

School Christmas Party

Before the Christmas holidays began, we had an in-class party.  Lots of good food and we exchanged gifts.  

Climbing with friends

I went climbing with Hazel and Corena on top of a shopping center in Shanghai.  It was great fun!

Artwork-van Gogh VI (梵谷年曆封面&集體創作)

School performances

G3 Pearl performing a holiday dance.

School choir.

Student of the Month for Care

Hsin-Yuan's birthday party

We celebrated Hsin-Yuan's 9th Birthday with fellow Grade 3 friends.

Artwork-van Gogh V (臨摹梵谷)

Auntie Yaweng's visit

Auntie Yaweng was Mom's high school classmate.  Her family traveled to Shanghai from Singapore for 5 days.  I had a great time playing with Kodi and we will plan on visiting them shortly.

Mibao in Week 2

Artwork-van Gogh IV (大地風景)

Choir for Christmas Light-up at Shanghai Hilton Hotel

Happy Thanksgiving!

Roasted chicken, one-tomato pasta, stir-fried vegetable and Sara Lee strawberry cheesecake.  What a Thanksgiving fusion!

First week of Mibao

Artwork-van Gogh III (流動的線條)

New family addition--Mibao Tsai!

Uncle Ian and Auntie Weichi had their first born after Auntie Weichi was in labor for 12 hours.  We are very happy for the new family member and I will be your best older sister, Mibao!

大董烤鴨

Quite pricy and the order of dishes was arbitrary.  Dessert came before the duck and the veggie came the last.  Food itself was nice and beautifully displayed.  The dining price has gone up tremendously in Shanghai--the newly opened ones come with high price, and the old ones find many ways to add surcharges (for example, charge ¥10 for one disposable towel, and they didn't tell you that until you saw the bill...)

Raw Diamond

This is an art exhibition by Shanghai Singapore International School students held near Xintiandi.  One of the artists (Clara) rides the same school bus as Jolene.

We took a photo with the artist (Kloe) who painted the musician on the back.  The lady was the artist's 70-year-old piano teacher who just started to learn the cello.  The artist expressed that the beauty shall not be based on the attraction of the appearance but the depth of the heart.  Mom said those words really touched her.

花旗小小銀行家

We learned about the prices, currencies of different countries, and what a bank can do to help us in one's daily life.  I am not sure if I want to become a banker, but I am sure money can be very useful when you need it.

千兩 回轉壽司

Yummy!

Artwork-van Gogh II (梯田)

Grandpa's visit

Grandpa visited us this weekend.  In addition to having brunch at our all time favorite Madison, we went to the famous Shanghainese restaurant 老吉士 to taste the authentic Shanghai cuisine.  It was really yummy but too strong to come back in the near future.  ;) We strolled around on the breezy Sunday.  He accompanied me to the school bus on Monday.

Artwork-van Gogh I (Sea and Sky)

Corena's birthday party

Corena is one of my best friends in class.  We went to her place to celebrate her 9 years old birthday.

Introduction to van Gogh

We talked about the story of van Gogh and his artwork in the first class of van Gogh series.  Each of us posted a note after the class.  On mine, it says "I really like your art!" It made my mom wonder if we would feel the same way if we were in the same era as van Gogh...

SSIS International Family Bazaar 2014

Happy Halloween!

Purple witch here I come.

柏鈞舅舅來訪

Artwork-Circles in rotation and motion