HK Trip

We made our way to HK on 17th together with my parents, and stayed in Hotel Royal Plaza for 2 nites, and 1 nite in Hollywood Hotel. The airplane ride was fine except for the ear pressue Randall experienced while the plane landed. The hotel was pretty big but it was a 7-10 mins' walk from the Mongkok MTR. When we reached the hotel the 1 day, it was 1+pm and we just had some light tea at their foodcourt in the shopping centre next to the hotel (Grand Century Place). Surprisingly, the food pretty good, especially the stall selling egg tarts. After tea, we walked in Fa Yuen Street which is located behind our hotel. It's a great place to buy cheap stuff like the Ladies' Market. My mum and I had great time shopping and Randall bought his favourite 'Bionicle' at SGD8. He was so happy about his buy he had to ask Daryl to fix it up for him after we went back to the hotel.
On the second day, Daryl and I had the opportunity to go for a swim in the heated swimming pool with underwater music. Then we had dim sum breakfast in one of the Chinese restaurants in Grand Century Place. We headed off to the Ocean Park taking MTR and bus. Weather was pretty humid although it's stated 24degrees. Randall didn't really enjoy the dolphin show. The only time he got excited was when he saw the underwater creatures in Atoll Reef and the jellyfishes in Sea Jelly Spectacular. While Randall was napping, my mum and I went for more shopping at the Fa Yuen St til late evening and we had dinner at one of their fastfood outlets in Grand Century Place.
The third day, we were transferred to Disney Hollywood Hotel. Their check-in time was 3pm and we had to check out by 11am the following day. I thought this is quite ridiculous given the stay per day is only 8 hours. After checking our luggages in, we took their Disney bus to Disneyland. Randall was still in the don't-take-picture-of-me phase and became groucy when we started taking photos of him. He particularly liked the car ride and nothing else. Not even the Pooh ride. I guess he's over the Pooh phase. In the evening, we had Chinese dinner at Plaza Inn Restaurant and watched fireworks. It was beautiful except that Randall insisted that we go back hotel when the fireworks started to crack like firecrackers. Daryl had to close his ears for him.
Back in the Hollywood hotel, he was more than happy to just watch all his cartoons and lazed on the bed.
The following day we spent some time walking in the garden and playground while waiting for the bus to fetch us back to the airport at noon.
On the whole, I think Randall is still not ready for overseas trip given the fact that he still needs his afternoon naps and gets grumpy if he can not have his nap.
Oh, poor Daryl was bitten by bed bugs in his stay at Hollywood Hotel! Lucky thing is that only he was bitten since Randall and I slept on the other bed. We had since written our feedback to the Hotel. Can't imagine if kids were to be bitten...

School

From the various conversations we had with Randall so far, we know that he has been learning some things in school. Like the other day, he was eating a piece of cake and halfway through, he said he had enough and passed it to Daryl. We asked him if he’s full, he said, “No, becos cakes are Red Light food, so can not eat too much. Can only eat a little bit”.
He has also been asking me recently, what are letters for objects and names. Like, “What letter for Bionicles?”, “What letter for Mistika?”, “What letter for Fish?”