Friday, December 22, 2023

On This Day - (22nd Dec) #Reminders from FB#

22nd Dec 2022

冬至节快乐!Happy Solstice!

I didn't even know today is 冬至 until I received messages from friends.

Too tired to do anything. So does this count? At least it's round. And it's sweet.




22nd Dec 2021

Changed bag from this to haversack (hiking) back to this. Then you know the trip is coming to an end soon.


2nd laundry. Yay, back to the yummy Vietnamese food near to laundromat.

We 3 girls have nothing much to wash coz ours need dry cleaning




22nd Dec 2021
added 25 new photos to the album US2021.

DAY 12: A slow day in Las Vegas for the non gamblers


Had Vietnamese for brunch, at a different restaurant


To the laundromat. Put the laundry in.



Rushed to the car wash.


Lil' one hasn't seen this kind of car washing service before.

Car is cleaned. Yay! Those bird left souvenir - 💩 - the car on the day we left 😫



Back to laundromat to put clothes in dryer. Killed 2 birds in 1 stone in that short 45mins - 1hr.



Cakes at 85c all look so yummy


The girls had to try corn dog


Hmm...what is this?


Casino - noise, cigarette smell. Don't like


Stratosphere and bored after that, so went back hotel to rest.

And that's when I found out there was a 3.6magnitude earthquake today near the NP we went, in the town we stayed. Wah…lucky we left already.


Out after nuah-ing for 1hr+.

Since there's a bathtub, the girls popped into Lush to get bathbombs




The colours in the sky is so beautiful




Our first n last In-N-Out.

Really nothing special about it. Dunno why people said it's nice.



HK not Hello Kitty but Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen


Inside Cesear Palace


Even the Christmas tree has golden laurel decorations


Girls came in here coz they wanted Cheesecake Factory for supper


Fountain show at Bellagio


Lil' one's bathbomb.

Really a slow and boring pictures day.



22nd Dec 2019

Beautiful! 





22nd Dec 2019

No need to queue at 4am 😜

Too much fast food, shall ban them from fast food for 1mth after this.


Meantime, I'm so happy to get fresh cranberries here. Or do we have it back home? (I've never seen it before tho).

Goash! I usually don't eat much when I'm travelling, no difference this time but I don't know why I feel more guilty.


Every night!

Charging phones, watches, portable batt (still not too bad…coz the girls didn't use their portable batt that much so didn't need to charge theirs that often this trip)



22nd Dec 2018

In Salzburg for the day



22nd Dec 2018

In Munich : The best group of musicians so far, we walked around and came back to them for Part 2



22nd Dec 2017
* at Seligman , AZ

🤔 any takers?


22nd Dec 2017

Beautiful right? Taken on iphone, apparently the min aperture for my DSLR is 3.5 but I need 2.8 for star shots. Duh!

#stargazing# #orionbelt#

Footnote written in 2022 : I learnt my lesson so in 2019 was so ready to want to attempt astrophotography. I read up more. Then lug the heavy lens. It's also freaking cold I need a tripod to make sure camera is steady. By the time I want to set everything up, I cannot tahan just want to run into a room and hide.

I really salute those photographers who can take pics in the cold. Not to mention in 2021, I couldn't even tahan the cold. Coz nobody keen to accompany me also, I can't venture out in the open. Later kena eaten by wild animals how? Or drop down the cliff.

Now with iPhone 13pro, so easy. Of course DSLR win over the iPhone. But I'm not a good photographer lor... take huge camera also like no use. I think i can totally scrap my idea of trying to do astrophotography in winter with DSLR.




22nd Dec 2016


What is my girl pointing to?

Hokkaido 🦀 



She dare to eat raw salmon 😳 (even more daring than me). I don't even serve her raw salmon at home.

Anyway, I hate salmon.



22nd Dec 2016

She wanted iPhone right? So we passed her an 🍎. I started mimicking that PPAP song, "i hv an apple, I hv a phone. Uh! Apple phone"



22nd Dec 2014

It's 3 days to Xmas and I hvnt done any shopping yet? I do not want to shop just for the sake of shopping; buy for the sake of buying. And now that I'm in the mall...my mind goes blank. Can I simply give angpow?

As for Santa, it was time to tell che-che the truth.

That Santa n Tooth Fairy is me all along. She told me she suspected..so | was a bloody fool for past 1-2yrs while she was happily receiving gifts from me feigning ignorance. (Who's the silly one?)

But I feel it's not fair for mei-mei to be told the truth, so che-che will play along with me for another 4 years?

Meanwhile she's tasked to dig out info what mei-Mei wants early so I can shop early n start removing any

"Importer (Sin)" stickers.



22nd Dec 2014


Who made it on her book labels this year? Aikatsu!!

Workbooks have to be kept simple tho'.

Ok, now you know why I always like to know their class n reg no. asap. I label everything they have.



22nd Dec 2013
added 81 new photos to the album España and Portugal - 2013.



Circa Roma


Muslim influence house in Toledo region


Narrow winding cobbled streets


Iglesia de Los Jesuitas



Signs to indicate that you've stepped into the Jewish quarters


Church of Santo Tome where El Greco's painting The Burial of the Count of Orgaz is.


Aren't they beautiful?


Cookies that made me stop my steps and click. Wonder if they taste nice


More Press-A-Penny into her collection


On our way to Salamanca



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