(Freshly Peeled Grapes – Dun you love them? These grapes come with thick bitter-sour skins and it tastes awful. We just have to peel off the skins to eat it. Just like the good old days when my dad and granny fed me with these skinless grapes. No doubt, it is hard tedious work to peel the skins off but the skinless grapes taste so juicy and yummy! Mmmm… Not a bad idea, maybe I should keep on buying these "thick-skinned sour grapes" so Felicia can peel them everyday for Elkan and ME!!!! Some one should invent a device to peel grapes.)

I feel so bad now. I kinda promised Elkan that I will be back before his 9pm bedtime but I reached home 40 minutes late. Sigh…I am sure he slept with a heavy heart.

Elkan was super excited this evening. He rang me a couple of times, chasing me to come home early.

At 7pm, he rang and said "Daddy, I have a surprise for you! What time are you coming home?" I answered 8:30pm. He then said "Okay! Come back early! I have a big block for you!"

At 8:15pm, he rang and asked "It is almost 8:30pm. Where are you?" I am still in my meeting. "My bedtime is at 9pm. Come home before that, okay?"

At 9pm, I finished my meeting. I called him "Elkan, can you wait? I be back around 9:30pm." He sighed "Okay…but I am sleeping soon. Come back, okay?"

I felt very bad. I felt the disappointment in his voice.

Along the way home, I told Tracy about the "big surprise" Elkan had for me. I was as excited as my boy.

When I opened my door, I saw this very cool toy-formation that he has made. And he placed all his favorite LEGO characters on them. Piece by piece, it must be quite a feat for him to do that! Felicia described how excited Elkan was when he was stacking these wooden blocks. Elkan wanted me to see his creation so badly. He was expecting me to give him that big "hug and praise". Most importantly, he wanted to see that "first reaction" on my face.

With a guilty heart, I walked into his bedroom. He was already in his deep sleep. I am sorry, my boy. Daddy is very impressed. I will redeem myself tomorrow. And yes, he will be very very pleased to see that I have blogged his works here. 🙂

(Photo Taken: Elements Mall @ Kowloon, Hong Kong – This is exactly what you get when you combine 2 best friends of man of woman [diamonds & cars] together – You get a super sexy topless bling-bling with some decent horsepower!)

(Photo Taken: Ruins of St Paul’s, Macao – They are not the press. They are just the hundreds of tourists armed with professionally-looking DSLRs. Who needs paparazzi when you have these tourists?)

Guangzhou is literally turning green, dressing up for the big show. Come Nov 12th, Guangzhou will host the 16th Asian Games. Big international events really "force" the Chinese government to clean up their messy host cities. Just look at Beijing 2008 and Shanghai World Expo 2010 – Not only the government got rid of the ugly and messy sign-boards, they also cleaned up the vices off the streets. Overnight, a rouge city was transformed into a tidy modern metropolis. (You see new monuments / bridges, more trees / parks, new airport terminal, better public transit, wider and cleaner roads, hornless drivers, friendlier hotel service etc). Just hope the Chinese government continues to maintain these standards for her people and not not just doing this for the "show".

(Photo Taken: The Canton Tower, Guangzhou – Standing at 610m tall, this will be the WORLD’S TALLEST TV TOWER. Designed by the Dutch architects Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuit, the Canton Tower is expected to be completed before the Asian Games. Taller than Taipei 101, this will be amongst the top 10 tallest man-made structure of the world. The main attraction of this tower is its WORLD’S HIGHEST FERRIS WHEEL (yes, we Singapore has the World’s Largest Ferris Wheel but the China is aiming for the world’s highest). According to its website, a ride on the transparent cabin will take approximately 30 minutes, making a full circle around around the tower where one can enjoy full panoramic views over the metropolis of Guangzhou. Isn’t this a "Merry Go-Round?" For more information about this new landmark, please click here: http://www.gztvtower.info/)

(Photo Taken: Causeway Bay, Hong Kong – Edible toys! Yummy!)