Category: Alycia and Sherilyn having fun

As teenage sisters, our three girls rarely get time to spend together without the distractions of school and uni, extracurricular activities, and their own individual social lives.

Since Alycia is having a semester break and Sherilyn has several days off before she works part-time again next week, the timing was right for the two girls to have a sisterly staycation. Sherilyn works hard and plays hard too. She works for two days at Barcook Bakery and another two days at our neighborhood cafe (with awesome bosses) each week. And for the remaining 3 days a week, she either goes to her dance studio or goes out with her friends. This will be her routine until her SPM results are out and decides on what course to pursue.

Alycia and Sherilyn decided to plan a sisters-only staycation at Four Seasons hotel to catch up on each other’s lives and bond over fun activities. They have a one-night complimentary junior suite room from their aunt who came back from the UK to KL for a visit last December. Cass had to skip the staycation as she had to go to school.

It’s so fun to have sisters, right? Growing up with two brothers, I always wished for a sister or two to do all the sisterly things with me. With sisters, you have a built-in bosom friend, confidante, and a support system right at home.

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Our middle child is the cheekiest and most mischievous of the three girls, from the moment she announced her grand arrival 15+ years ago. She’s the loudest, most aggressive and most melodramatic. She has mellowed down a lot now compared to her younger days.  When Sherilyn is in a cheeky mood, she will tease everyone just to stoke some wicked laughter. She especially likes to disturb her older sis who is quite aloof and a polar opposite from her.

Here, she’s making fun of how her che che looks wearing a cap. Alycia only wears a cap when she plays tennis and she’s just finished tennis lesson. I find it really hilarious as Sherilyn is only laughing herself while Alycia is super pissed with her mocking and about to lash out laser on her 🤣.

This cheeky fella likes to scoff at her sister’s sense of fashion too, like when her sister wears some bright colored oversized Sweden soccer jerseys or some Korean style checker jackets.  I must say that someone sure has a quirky sense of fashion which makes my eye roll sometimes! 🤣

And it takes a lot of skill to snap this photo before the two realized it. After I clicked on the snap button on my phone, the wicked one realized it and need I say more? 😆

Have a great weekend peeps!

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My two big babies are finally back home after a 9-day adventure in Hong Kong without their parents bossing around them.  So glad to have them home.

Alycia and Drama Queen with their ground assistant and Drama Queen avoiding the paparazzi:

With travel assistance request (which is a FOC service), the girls’ passports were safe-kept by the air-stewardess during the flight. On ground, the passports together with the children will be handed over to the parents / kin. Names of parents / kin must be given to the Airlines. I only realized today that with a ground assistant, Alycia and Sherilyn’s passports were not even stamped in KLIA and Hong Kong Airport.

Home sweet home finally:

BSF (Best Sisters Forever):

The girls’ last dinner in Hong Kong ~ a sumptuous grilled lobster and shabu-shabu meal prepped by their loving koo ma.

We reached home at 10-ish p.m. last night. The girls unpacked their loot, comprising of 80% junk food, albeit some are good quality and ‘healthier’ snacks like organic pop corns, Royce chocolates and some Japanese jelly and chewing gum.  We had supper of Burger King, bought from KLIA.

When a tween and a teenager go on a vacation without their health freak mom and dad controlling them, you can be rest assured of luggage bags bursting with snacks, toys and electronic gadgets.

Health freak mom would like to try one stick of Pocky Squeeze, just. one. stick. only ok, coz this isn’t available in Malaysia yet (?).

Drama Queen’s favorite Japanese orange chewing gum, costing over HKG50 a bottle.  And my favorite almond cookies; the girls also received a packet of emoji chocolates from koo ma:

Too cute ~ Royce Decoration Ball, a X’mas tree decor that comes with Royce chocolates inside the ball; Japanese jelly (the girls favorite jelly):

Luggage bags scattered on our living room floor; guess the bags will be lying there as we will need to pack again today for our trip back to Ipoh tomorrow and then to Singapore next week.

I’d like to say a BIG thank you once again to my eldest SIL and BIL for all the gifts, love, care and time showered on the girls during their stay in Hong Kong.

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Thank you to Drama Queen, I get lots of updates, photos and videos from her everyday on her adventure in Hong Kong with Alycia.

Two days ago, they went hiking with their uncle B.

Enjoy the pix:

Yesterday they went to Disneyland. This marks Alycia and Sherilyn’s second visit to Hong Kong Disneyland. Their first visit to Disneyland was 8 years ago.  This is the girls’ 4th visit to Hong Kong.

The sisters goofing around:

They went up this gut churning ride. I would have puked and gotten a stiff neck had I gone up this ride. Can you spot the 2 girls?

Eating ice-cream, with cousin E.

They spent the entire day in the happiest place on earth! Wish I was there too.  Exactly two years ago on 8 Dec 2015, Cass and I were at Disneyland. How can time fly by so so fast without me even realizing it?!

Munching on Mickey head shaped waffles.

Today is the girls’ grandma’s birthday and there will be another grand celebration.

I can’t wait to see Alycia and Drama Queen again on Monday next week.    I pray that they will have a smooth flight back home.

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Here’s a picture of A & S with their mama upon arrival at the airport in Auckland about 3.5 hours ago.

Thanks to my bil who waited patiently at the airport.  The flight was delayed by 1.5 hours and by the time they were out, it was already close to 2am Auckland time.  Thank you also to him for keeping us all updated with pictures sent via our group chat in Whatsapp.

As usual, the drama queen must have some drama on the plane la.  She messaged me in Facebook just a moment ago, telling me that her lips were burning when she was eating her dinner on the plane.   Here’s our Facebook chat.  She also sent me a voice message…

To be continued with more pix of A & S in Auckland tomorrow… I really need to get my sleep now. It’s been a very tiring day for me today.  I also had a major heart-attack  when I could not find our passports anywhere just now!

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This is the kind of ‘watery porridge’ that my fussy rice pot likes to eat, as  mentioned in my earlier post.

Alycia likes it that the rice grains still look, feel and taste almost like rice, just like how rice is eaten with soup.  If the consistency is thick, she finds it gross and hard to stomach!

This is the ‘watery porridge’ that I cooked for the kids’ dinner last night. I used one whole Ipoh ‘yim kook kai’ (salt baked chicken), carrots and sweet potatoes to cook the porridge.  And guess what? The fussy rice pot could not be happier with her watery porridge and she ate it again for lunch today. Since there was still some porridge left, she told me that she does not mind eating this for dinner as well tonight! LOL!  But of course they ain’t going to eat just porridge alone again.  I will be cooking some dishes to go with the porridge 🙂

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There was a lantern party to celebrate mooncake festival at Sherilyn’s pre-school 2 weeks ago. The pre-school holds this party every year. The kids, their parents and the teachers will walk round the neighborhood holding the lanterns and then there will be a party inside the school. It’s a party that my girls look forward to attend every year.

At the party, I finally met Berlyn in person. Berlyn is Sherilyn’s best friend and I also had the chance to meet Berlyn’s mum and her entire family. It was great chatting with her and talking about our 2 vain pot daughters who call each other very often.

Birds of a feather flock together – see the 2 vain pots?  Will they be best friends forever?   Till today, I still remember my pre-school best friend’s name but we had lost contact with each other for decades. Hmm, time to look for her in Facebook!

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Since young, Alycia has a strong interest in culinary. She loves food and she loves cooking too. In fact, she loves watching Jamie Oliver, Anthonay Bourdain and AFC with me 🙂 If there’s anything that she truly loves to do, it has got to be cooking, painting and drawing. Well, swimming too 🙂

Here, she’s helping koong koong cook chicken stew….

… helping granny make crispy toasted cranberry french loaf slices

… Sherilyn and Alycia helping koong koong make pandan kaya. Later, there was a tug of war over the wooden ladle!!

… helping koong koong squeeze pandan leave juice….

I wonder if she will follow her daddy’s foot steps and take up a course in Hotel & Catering and Hotel Management. I won’t be surprised if she does.

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Whenever Alycia and Sherilyn (and even me!) want to eat junk food and Baby is having lunch or dinner at the dining table, we all have to go into secret hiding to eat in peace.  Baby is now not a baby anymore.  She has learned to love eating junk food – ice creams, cakes, biscuits, keropok, chips, etc, etc.  Who doesn’t like junk food eh?  They taste good and you get a rush from gorging on them haha!

Here, Alycia and Sherilyn are having a feast with ice-creams and they are hiding in the wet kitchen LOL!  I have to stand there on guard, lest the 2 monkeys try to creep out and tempt Baby. Yup, they just love tempting their baby sister, aargggghh!!!

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An easy guess this time. Any idea what the girls are blowing here?  It was their first time seeing such holy smoke and they were super duper fascinated by it.

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