Davina’s Blog

Ok, Chirstmas is over, Mum back to work, Tata still on holiday…  There aree only baby Davina and Dad for the rest of the week until weekend.  What shall we do in these 3 big days?  There isn’t much chance that we can have such private and cosy time together, right?  So lets stick close together, forget about office work (although I  did attempt to switch on the notebook, but it was never logged in!) and think about how can we make best use of these 3 days.

First thing I would do is to make some good food for baby.  Then some quality time to play which is always the no.1 thing Davina wants.  Well, we should achieve something which normal days won’t do.  Oh yes, why not prepare baby for a trip, i.e. travelling documents.  Making use of baby sleeping time, I prepared food for her, got ready baby and myself to be out as well as filled up the downloaded forms for document application.  Yes, I know that I have to prepare everything at home since I won’t be able to do it at the immgration office.

Photos – how can I take photo for baby?  After 30min of queuing, instant photo station keeper dare to tell me she is not willing to take photo for baby!!  What?  We walk all the way back to Wanchai downtown and find a photo-shop.  We manage to get baby’s attention and ready 1,2,3… Right before the button is pressed, a fat lady jumped out in attempt to catch baby’s attention to the camera.  My God, that helpless fat mid-aged lady indeed trapped baby’s attention, but to herself not to the camera!  We spent another 5-10mins in order to get baby back to the camera.  That fat lady is just too big to be missed!  Most disappointingly, the quality of the photo print out was bad.  We spent an hour on this for nothing good.  I know that we have to take another set somewhere later to meet the extreme high standard of our nation i.e. Chinese travel card.

Another challenge come up when we filed the form – we need someone to declare the baby in the photos is baby Davina!  What a rule?  Fortunately, we have Uncle Barry working nearby and we managed to get him to help us.  We walk to Grand Hyatt and baby had her tea time (milk) at the park there while waiting for Uncle Barry.  Baby is so tired, so I walk gently back to immigration office when I carry baby to sleep.  When we go back, the security has closed the main door, I have to explained to them and get the way in again through another door.

What a day!  6 hours!  It is 6pm when we finished the filing.  We picked up Mum when we went home.  Well, at least, we are happy that baby Davina will have an HKID card and a Passport in a month time!  She can fly soon!