Cupcakes!

If there’s ever a place that my little lady will always choose to go, It will be a trip to “Original Cupcakes“. They have several locations  in downtown Vancouver and they are worth the trip! 

I love how they make the place so easy to find, especially with a bit of a retro feel to it. The real attraction though? is their tons of selections of cupcake, the most popular is of course red velvet cupcake and then the lemon, followed by the chocolate.

If you order a boxful, they place them into this nice package. They fit very nicely and maintains freshness in the fridge, If you’re in the area? I super recommend you hear on down for one of these delicious treats!  

 

 

 

Weekend with my little lady

This weekend was special, my little lady wanted to go shopping at Aberdeen Centre Mall. She said she needed some supplies, so after her Kumon classes we went straight there. Then after spinning around the mall parkade forever we finally found a parking spot and went straight to Daiso, i love this little Gem. Everything in there is roughly $2 bucks to $2.50 on a two for one deal for snacks, they also carry everything from household supplies to school supplies too. Unfortunately my camera battery had gone next to nothing, so i couldn’t take a lot of pictures. I wish i had it better charged, because they had decorated the entire mall into the Chinese New Year Theme, it was neat! 

We also spent a great deal of time chatting about my blog, as it turns out. She had been a huge fan of it and had been keeping up with my current posts, she didn’t ask me who my poems and quotes were for but enjoyed the posts about her very much. How do i know? because this lucky dad got a kiss on the cheek and a very loving hug for the posts! reading my blog reinforced her interest in writing and in creating stories at school, i see someone quickly becoming quite the blogger here! never too early or late to teach a child the art of expressing one self either on a diary or blog  

Aberdeen Centre Mall

Dancing water fountain (Goes with music)

Chinese new year decor at Aberdeen

Hello Kitty Overload!

Lady & The Tramp + Puppies

Ducks!

 

To look through innocent eyes..

I had been walking home from work earlier today as i normally do, listening to my music as usual and watching life around me. I always turn the volume down on my earphones as i walk past, there’s nothing more calming after a hectic day than the sound of children’s laughter. As i made the first of a series of turns i saw a young baby girl in her mother’s arms happily, until her father took a picture of her and she tried to reach over. Unfortunately, the father had his hands full carrying a camera. But, i could tell he really wanted to carry his baby angel. How i envied the young couple, This is the most beautiful part of parenthood. The tender love and the way a young angel says “I trust you to carry me” in her own way, they have so much to look forward to. Everything from the first steps, to the first complete sentences. If everyone was to see life in so much wonder such as that of through a child’s eyes, what a world would that be? wouldn’t it?

 

 

She’s the sweetest and i’m the luckiest :)

I always try to spend as much time with my daughter as i can, especially on my days off i drive from home to her school just to check on her and see how she’s doing. With her being among the tallest kids i am not too concerned about bullying, the school’s pretty good with the recess monitors but still! the heart of a father never stops worrying! SO i went to the food court to buy her favorite sushi combination of California rolls and shrimp tempura. Then i went to her school to visit her, upon arriving at the school her friends saw me and hurried into the library she was at to tell her that i was waiting outside. She walked out and gave me a loving hug before i could even say anything, then she handed me a card! 

 

She asked her mom to take her to buy a card

Then she asked me to open up the card, with her eyes glittering in joy she pointed at the back of the card which she instead of using tape. Decided to use Dinosaurs which i always found fun to look at, you know! being a guy and all.

Inside the card, she drew me a paper card and in french at that! i sure am blessed because we originally didn’t enroll her into french speaking classes. Given how she was is trying to learn Cantonese and Mandarin, we figured we’d let her learn french later but! it appears she’s learning on her own!

What more can a father ask for??

 

It was a good weekend!

 

 

This weekend wasn’t as exciting as my daughter and i had imagined it would be, we had to do some errands and look for a new digital camera that both she and i could use. I am going on vacation starting this coming Wednesday and won’t be blogging for about two weeks, so i wanted to take as many pictures as i can while i’m out. So, we celebrated that i’m getting out of town finally after awhile with cupcakes! yups! red velvet , mint , chocolate , cream cheese and sprinkles cupcake to be exact! yum!  

 

A father’s thoughts

Growing up, i was never really close to my dad. He had his ideals that he wanted me to follow and had the old fashioned mentality, that he was the man and so therefore nobody had the right to comment on his decisions. It as always his way or the highway, i on the other hand was more expressive and let life happened as it did. It turned into a lot of long lectures and the like, i don’t think i remember a single moment in my life where i actually spent any good times with him, he’s trying to make up for lost time now that i have a daughter. Basically, giving me ideas of how to raise her but i ignore 98% of it as he has no right, long story.

I wonder if god was listening because, earlier today i saw a father and a young boy sitting across from each other enjoying a picnic at a plaza. The father was passing his son a few pearls of wisdom and the boy watched carefully with a slice of bread in his hand, my dad never gave me such dedication so i was envious of the little young man there. I hope, that i will be able to pass on these thoughts to my daughter. So that she may learn patience and understanding as well, something like this can be applied through all of life.

 

It starts small and sweet

On my way home, i had walked past the library like i always do. It’s kind of a shortcut home after hopping off the skytrain (mass rapid transit here in Vancouver). There’s always really sweet moments going on, whether if it’s lovers having a picnic together on the grassy area or couples sitting on the bench cuddling and watching children, it’s always been a peaceful place.

Today though, was the absolute sweetest reminder of why i became a dad. During my childhood, most of my friends always wanted to just have a good time. They wanted to party and live life, but for some reason i was always motivated to build a strong foundation for a family, so. Imagine how sweet it was for me to watch a mother crawl around her infant trying to encourage her to try, of course the sweet little baby was perfectly comfortable with sitting and letting her mother do all the work. It was adorable, i remember my little one learned to crawl because she was motivated to go after a cd with music she seemed to really enjoy. I wanted to go up to the new mom to give her a suggestion, but it’s not my place and i didn’t want to ruin such a beautiful scene. So i kept walking, but on the corner of my eye i could see the little infant in the end got motivated and started to put her hands on the grass to lift herself to crawling. Such beautiful moments, remind us that not everything in life is about struggles to make money or pursue relationships. It all starts small, then it turns into something incredible and beautiful.

 

 

Had a fun Saturday :)

 

What a great Saturday!  my little lady isn’t staying overnight today and because her school took longer. It meant that our day got shorter since i had to drop her off at her mother’s place later in the day. So, we went to a warehouse that’s still trying to sell off the surplus of stuff that didn’t sell during the Olympics and got a couple of complimentary mukmuk mascots she’s always loved these and later we went to costco for ice cream. So, it was a really good Saturday for just her and i to just chat about people and her week  

 

 

It’s the weekend!

I’m so glad it’s finally Saturday, every second weekend i get to spend an overnight weekend with my little lady. Either we go do something crazy like plan to go to the suspension bridge and look over 200 feet down below us, or we simply hang out at home with heart to heart talks. She is the only reason i still keep going, it doesn’t matter the heartbreak or what anyone puts me through the weekdays. My angel always finds a way to heal me, so i’ll be posting a little less while i spend time with her as she reminds me how good of a job i am doing as a father thank you so much for everyone reading my posts over the week! you’re awesome!!

 

The sweetest things in life

I was chatting with a friend of mine about simple stuff, while at the same time i was also blogging on the side about things that are coming up tomorrow and how much stress it will be to me. Then as though my friend knew that i needed that positive vibe she gave me the best cheer up i could ever think of! It’s true what they say about how the sweetest things in life really are the most unexpected (“,)

 

Smallest acts are sweetest

Last night, I was going through a lot of things on my mind. Stress and disappointments had been building up from mistakes I made and wondering what led me to them, I didn’t want to burden anyone so I figured I’d try to get some sleep but it never happened.

I was up tossing and turning and on twitter reading messages till I felt sleepy, but then a coworker texted to change shifts and that woke me right up again.

It wasn’t long before i received a message on twitter from a close friend that i was calm enough to sleep from 3am to 4:00am before going to the gym, but at least I got a bit of rest!

Just comes to show you how little things can have the biggest impact, I didn’t need a phone call or an email. Just needed that short 140 character message telling me that she’s there for me. It’s amazing how something so sweet and small made such an impact on my burdens that were so big and stressful, I’m so blessed

 

The sweet weekend and the rides

 

Great weekend!

It was a good day for many, a friend was on a day date with her bf and another friend of mine is down in Vegas with her long time bf. Me? I went out for a date with my sweet baby girl! we went to watch the smurfs which was painful to watch. The entire theatre only had one or two kids actually laughing, another kid was busy yelling non stop and a mother was yelling at her toddler through the entire movie, so my angel and I enjoyed the better parts of the movie. It is an awesome day and then we’ll play some xbox before she goes to bed later and onto the next day when she greets me with a hug saying “Good morning daddy” i love sleepover weekends! :’)

 

That feeling that just won’t go

 

Hearing the voice of the one you love is like no other, every word spoken makes you feel wanted. Yet if when you’re no longer wanted that voice is the one that hurts you the most. The words also become the ones that sting the worst, guess what I’m trying to say is careful with who you give your heart to because once you are hurt, you’ll always feel it deep down inside like a scar that won’t heal.