Story from Santa Rosa : Halloween


It's foggy today. i woke up at 6 am, talk to G for 1 and 1/2 hr (WOW), went to breakfast and drove to work around 7.45 am. It's still grey and dark. I thought a storm is coming but the server in the restaurant told me this is normal California weather. i thought to myself, this is just the perfect weather for Halloween, it's foggy, it's blurry and will add spookiness to the whole thing.

It's grey and blur but it's not grumpy because it's Halloween. It's not grumpy at all because rite after i walk out from my room to the hotel lobby, the receptionist suddenly transform to be wilma from Flintstone. she had the pink/purple hair and a bone as bow !! how funny. On the way to the office, i gave way to a clown with red nose and a circus ring leader. There's a purple witch with pointy hat sitting next to my cub here (not just a witch but also a purple one, how pretentious !), a blonde 'red-indian' chief (what a weird combo, i saw her in the bath room and she was admiring herself in the mirror and i had to give her the compliment... hehe), an Elvis look-a-like, a ranger from Colorado (she really have a back pack ALL the time !) and ultimately, an guy with PJ in the cafeteria. That's a shocker because i was really surprised and kept thinking to myself if this is my office, or am i dreaming.

Feeling the festivity, i wanted to rush down the store later and get something for Cass. hehe

I think the Halloween spirit is a good activity. It built courage and especially creativity and imagination You see in Halloween, you cannot just have costume, you need to have 'unique' costume. and you can be anyone you can be (you can be sandwich also if you wanted to...)
It's about being different and have the individualism, unlike in PG, we were asked to conform and compromise.

So you see, it's not a celebration of the dead or creepy death like our 'hungry ghost month', it's actually a celebration of life, living the life and being alive !!

Happy Halloween everyone !!

Si Manja

Cass loved the red sweater we got for her. She will insists on her sweater wherever and whenever we go out.

She especially loved to snuggle and manja with her dad. It is the father-daughter game that they play all the time. Cass will first act sad, so that dad will comfort her and ask her what happen, then she will manja and ask for hug and kisses :)

She's our 'drama-queen'. Insisting we sit near her, pretend play with her, dance and sing along. Cass, it's our blessing to have you around !!

B'day Present

Cass's 2 years old birthday is just around the corner but i'm not around to celebrate it with her *sob*. Due to that, we bring her birthday earlier with her dad got her a new keyboard to play.

She played cousin's chun keyboard couple of weeks ago and has been pretending her pillow as keyboard since then. She will use her finger and start playing 'jingle-bell' again and again. I will need to sit next to her and hit hard on her pillow pretending play also.

So, there you have it, the keyboard is just out of the box (see the photos ... ;p) and she can't wait to climb on the chair and start her own concert.

It has been great to have a keyboard like this because then all of us get to enjoy the music too. Sometimes she will just dance with the pre-recorded music and it's lot's of fun. Happy Birthday Cass !

Paintings under the morning sun.

The paintings are under the Saturday morning sun.
We usually let the paintings dry outdoor while Cass taking her bath (due to the paint all over her body).

These are some of the masterpieces from painter Cass. You can see most of the time she does circle, drops of colors and hand prints. What can i say, she's a hands-on person. :)

Hand painting.

Cass usually woke up very early in the morning (around 6.30 am) and she is usually bored because all of us are 1/2 awake and not in the mood to play with her.

Because we hope to get a 1/2 hr of peace, we recently introduced painting to her.

So far so good, she has been doing a lot of paintings and i'm her loyal fan and collectors. Her paintings are every where in the house and she loved it when she saw her paintings are 'in display'.

Ready, Set, Dance !!

Curious Cass


Cassandra checking out the bug activities in the garden. Here she's doing her 'signature move'. Point and ask what's that ?!' :)

Cassandra's Date Chart

Lilypie2nd Birthday Ticker

Re-Entry (Yr 2007)


It's been almost a year since i updated the blog. luckily the blog is still around and i can continue updating it again :)

i've been bz for the pass 9 months ... switching job, new responsibilties and etc and etc ... so anyways, Cass will be 2 yrs old in 1 month time and i thought it's a good time to continue.

Check us out again next week for more updates :) thank you for stopping by !