Our traditional Finnish dinner by chef APe! 芬蘭猴大顯神通呀！

Yo! Starting from 8am till 3+pm, awesome APe cooked a wonderful traditional Finnish Christmas dinner for me and Toivo today!!!!

 🎄今日佢一朝日8點鐘就開始煮，煮到下奏3點幾就係為咗俾丞宗同肥企鵝一個傳統芬蘭聖誕節！

In Finnish culture, they like to have a Christmas dinner which can be enjoyed by the whole family for days! 

係芬蘭聖誕文化裡面，佢哋鍾意一煮就可以同屋企人食幾日。

And today, he cooked a 3-kg ham, potato casserole, carrot rice porridge casserole, lanttu casserole (neep casserole) , liver casserole, sekametelisoppa (mixed fruit soup), rosolli salad (Finnish traditional beetroot salad)!!! Actually, they also have a couple more dishes such as Grav lax, herrings, fish egg roes, etc., 

我哋今日嘅菜單裏面就要一隻3公斤火腿，燉煮薯，燉煮蘿蔔米糊，燉煮大頭菜，燉煮牛肝，雜果湯，紅菜頭沙律。其實重有漬三文魚，三文魚籽，希靈魚等我鍾意嘅疑似壽司食物，

However, because I'm pregnant I cannot have them!!!

但我有咗又唔食得所以無煮⋯

Yet, I love these sushi materials!!! 

I have to wait patiently so I can have them next year in Äänekoski! My father-in-law promised to stay in Finland next year and cook me a Christmas dinner!!! Osh Osh Osh XDXDYo!

猴爸應承咗我下年會留係芬蘭過節，煮聖誕大餐俾我同丞宗食！

Then we opened our Christmas presents!!! 

跟著到折禮物環節！

Thanks Mikko and APe for answering my wish lists!!! 

多謝猴兄猴弟，今年聖誕老人送嘅禮物我好鍾意呀！

Now we have a handheld vacuum cleaner to clean up the grains of rice and beans on the kitchen floor! APe is playing with the new toy in the kitchen now hahahaha! And APe got a new pair of boots and he's ready for icefishing now Yes yes yes!!! I got a greeeeeen bathing rope for sauna!!!! Oh and a pair of well-insulated gloves too!!! Thanks Santa Pasanen!

有手揸吸塵機，桑拿浴袍同一流嘅禦寒手襪！浴袍係綠色𠺢！手襪係我搵咗好耐嘅款同有3M處理！勁開心！芬蘭猴收到一對勁暖嘅新水鞋！佢急不及待要去湖邊釣冰魚！多謝曬呀！

Before the dinner, we made a couple of calls to HK and Thailand. 

食大餐前我哋打長途電話同家人祝賀！

As my father and mother-in-law are on vacation in Thailand, and it's APe's first time to cook this dinner all by himself, he couldn't wait to show off his dishes!!! We are all so proud of him! And Christmas greetings to all of you from all of us in HK, Thailand and Finland!

因為猴爸同猴媽係泰國消遙遊，芬蘭猴急不及待要展示佢嘅作品！我哋每一個都覺得佢好強呀！我有3個叻，佢有5個！ 係啦，芬蘭，泰國同香港同人祝大家聖誕快樂！

And then we called HK!

跟著，我哋打俾香港屋企人。

My parents, siblings, sister-in-law and Nathan are all doing well but Nicole has stomach flu! 

佢哋個個都好好，行得走得食得重不停講笑！但小肥晴繼之前撞瘀眼角，今日腸胃炎呀！

She looked so defeated today and didn't want to talk... her well soon my precious! 

佢個樣同食唔到出奇蛋，玩唔到Elza公仔果時個樣一模一樣，慘慘豬呀！快D飲多兩支益力多，食晒D藥藥同乖乖休息就會好快好架啦！祝早日康復，有得去公園玩同睇燈飾！

And I talked with my mum about our research about Toivo.

跟著我就同阿媽傾計。

You know I always want my babies to be real world citizens. 

識我嘅人都知我想生個真正同世界接軌嘅小朋友。

Luckily with God's blessing I'm married to this Finnish apeina (monkey) who shares the same vision and mission with me. 

感謝神俾我嫁到隻有共同目標同方向一致嘅芬蘭猴。

So our babies will speak the most difficult languages in the world- Finnish and Cantonese! On top of Finnish and Cantonese, we will teach them Spanish (APe lived in Spain for 6 years), Mandarin and English too! And that he will have the free right of abode in EU and in HK, a real multinational city! 

而咁啱我哋嘅母語又係全世界最難𠺢𡃓！除咗我哋嘅母語外，我哋重會教佢西班牙文，英文同國語，希望佢能夠好好認識世界。重有，我哋希望佢係歐盟同香港有居留權。

However, here comes one big challenge:

但依家有問題出現啦：

Will my children who are born in Finland have the right of abode in HK?

究竟一個由香港永久性居民生，係芬蘭出世嘅小朋友會唔會有居港權呢？

I read from the HK Immigration Department website that if a child of a citizen of HK is born overseas and is not declared as a Chinese nationale, s/he will not have the right of abode in HK. Is it true? 

入境署網頁話如果個細佬唔係中國籍係無居港權嘅。

但係點解我教果D細路係加拿大籍美國籍又有居港權？我之前想8月尾番香港幫丞宗攞番張香港出世紙但依家⋯有無人可以解答我嘅問題呀？

Why is that I have so many students who are Canadians or Americans but can live in HK? After our wedding in Finland in August, I want to go back to HK with Toivo to get him a birth certificate from the HKG... but now I'm not so sure... anyone can answer my question???

In Finland, it is allowed to have dual nationality, but it's not the case in HK or China. 

芬蘭係容許雙重國籍，但香港就跟偉大嘅強國一樣唔俾人有雙重國籍。

Then why some of our LegCo Councillors have dual citizenship/ nationality? I'm confused!

咁點解我哋成月去旅行同喺議事堂睇AV同閉目養神嘅議員又可以有雙重國籍呢？我覺得我身處霧霾之中⋯

Anyhow, Merry Christmas my dears and we will start playing Power Grid soon!
我而家去玩Power Grid 啦！聖誕快樂！