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… just ended like that!!

Seriously, I regret not taking off tomorrow. I’m so lazy getting back to work.

We were supposed to be in Vietnam for 6 days, but some unforeseen event took place which made Mr. Hon ends up in Korea for 4 days, so we cancelled our VN Trip.

But thank god, last minute my colleagues were also planning for a short trip to Cameron Highlands, so I quickly switch over the new ship and brought the kids up to Cameron Highlands. Oh, and bump into Syn Nee at the Sungai Buloh Toll. She was heading to CH also with her family. Small world eh.

Haven’t quick look at the photos yet…here’s 1. Common view of Cameron Highlands, Tea Plantation.

It’s gonna be a good week this week…regardless of what is happening :). Yes!! Good time to celebrate. Shall not tell you why LOL.

Anyways, hope I’ll be back soon with more of this trip.

…in action.

That’s the only word to describe ME currently.

Seriously, I have alot to write, but at the same time, each time I look at my blog, I’m blank. Where to start?

Office work has not been too kind to me, but good news is my next travel for work is due in Sept, no longer Aug.

Most of you would have known now that last week, Faythe went for a laser operation again to remove wart, for the 2nd round. Actually I didn’t expect to do it on the same day, but since the doctor was free, why not. Faythe was really brave, she only shed some tears when they injected her finger, other than that she’s alright. It’s a big wound this round, I hope it heals nicely.

Vyktore is a monster at home at present. He will find every other chance to seek attention and enjoys beating Faythe O.o. Seriously, I don’t know what has gotten into him. I even rotan him twice over last weekend till my rotan also broke into 2 (I whack the floor too hard). Still same. But other times, he’s the sweetest boy you can ever find.

My photography biz had slowed down for pass 2 months, but suddenly this month it picked up again with 3 sessions this month and a few more enquiries in our Inbox.

Internet connection is in a bad condition. I’ve been trying to change my blog header by FTP-ing to the site, it’s taking ages, keep on failing arghh….*in the end I uploaded the blog header from office next morning*

Anyway, I’m heading for a long break soon, it’s high time for me to take a break. Forget about those emails in the Inbox, it’s never gonna end anyway. I need wrinkle eye cream more than anything for now.

Won’t be blogging for the coming month…and won’t be blog hopping much too.

A sun, drawn by Faythe

Apparently alot of bloggers went to Penang during that weekend. But Penang must be so big…cause none of us bump into each other despite the fact that some of us went to the same foodie place to fill our stomach :).

We were in Penang for some family gathering on my in laws side. We’ve not been to Penang for almost a year, since Mr. Hon is also back, so I took off 2 days to go Penang, but we only went 3 days, came back on Sunday…big mistake, should have come back on Monday, cause it was so jam!!

Took me 6.5 hours to reach PJ :(. Legs all aching, somemore I’m driving a manual car..yes ME, not Mr. Hon. He’s either dating with chau kung 80% of the time, or listening to his songs on iPod with his sound proof (dunno what expensive) earphone he bought from Japan till I had to shout and waive at him whenever I needed him to help check the kids etc. Occasionally, he’d asked if I’m OK or not. I prefer to drive, cause I can’t sleep in the car, and I have nothing to do as well, didn’t load my iPhone with movies whatsoever. I can’t read map either, so usually he’s the navigator, I’m the driver.

Anyway back to the trip:

DAY 1: 11TH JUN

Woo Kok is also a must.

We left at 630am on Friday, very early. Made our usual stop at Bidor for Herbal Duck Noodles. This trip, we drove 3 cars. SIL & MIL 1 car, our car & Lawrence family. Both of them enjoyed the noodles, especially Faythe.

That’s how much my breakfast cost :).

Jayden with his Ironman sign

Herbal Duck Noodles

Vyktore, looking a bit worried cause he has to eat noodles

My nephew nick named: Samson. He has curly locks, how cute.

Then we continued our drive to Penang, finally arrived at around 12pm, just in time for lunch. MIL brought us to eat somewhere, don’t know what Jalan lah…makan only. After that, went to Northam and helped MIL to check in since it was booked under Mr. Hon’s corporate rate. We didn’t stay at Northam cause Mr. Hon wanted to go to beach, so we stayed in Flamingo by the Beach Hotel together with Lawrence’s family.

Part of the hotel room. Quite spacious I’d say, with a nice view too. Only thing is bathroom is a bit small, no bath tub. Only shower.

View from the balcony…clean beach, phew…

Kids watching the fishy swimming

We got a pretty good deal online, RM190/night. Refurbished hotel, sure very spanking new lah..no musty smell :). So after check in and freshen up, we went to pick up MIL & SIL and drove to Bukit Tambun for seafood.

Bukit Tambun Fishing Village

I got pretty p!ssed off with Mr. Hon as he was giving directions in the car how to get to Bukit Tambun, but he never give warnings, all a sudden turn left, all a sudden U-turn, and we kept going wrong directions thanks to him. MIL knows the direction, but he insist to use the bloody GPS, which sometimes is slow to get signal, so by the time signal recover, it’s overshot…arghh…Also driving in Penang is not easy, the drivers there are 100 times worse than KL ppl.

After braving the storm & rain, we finally reached Bukit Tambun, with my face black like Hokkien Mee. Luckily, Mr. Hon quickly made up for it, if not I think he will be eating Hokkien Mee fried with Horse Shoe Crab at that restaurant courtesy of me.

Monkeying around while waiting for food to be served.

We had tea there, MIL ordered some steam mantis prawns, horse shoe crab and a few more dishes. First time Faythe eating steam mantis prawn, she sapu 3!! Vyktore didn’t eat, he wants rice, but we didn’t order, cause we have dinner at Nyonya Breeze later on.

Thanks Daddy for the shot :).

The restaurant which we were dining at is also next to a fishing village. The kids went up the boat and took some photos there. We also saw monitor lizard on the other side of the river bank.

Seriously, they look like some China people just successfully smuggled down to HK (back to those days)

After the tea break, we drove back to Penang again, this time thanks to the not so great GPS, we reached Northam avoiding traffic jam & drop MIL off. Then went back to our hotel to shower and change.

The night before, was actually Vyktore’s Birthday. I thought since we are going to Penang, might as well celebrate there. Hence I ordered a chocolate cake from Shervone. Thanks Siew Hooi for the contact :).

Shark Image cake

Vyktore wanted a Shark Cake. Hence I downloaded a shark picture and sent it to Shervone to get it done. He was so happy when he saw the cake. He said, “Mommy, I want to cut the shark’s tail and eat it” O.o.

I got Shervone to send the cake and asked reception to keep it, so when we check in I’ve already checked to make sure the cake is there.

One for the family. Everyone was busy trying to do something instead of looking at the camera LOL

So we left for dinner, heading to Nyonya Breeze, to meet up with SIL, MIL & MIL’s friend’s there. We celebrated Vyktore’s birthday there and he had 2 pieces of cake. He’s a cake lover, just like me :).

Nyonya Breeze is our usual stop whenever we go to Penang. Simply love the food there. My fav is the belacan fried with cashew nuts and pork/chicken. It’s so creamy!!! Really to die for.

After that, we all head back to our own hotel and went to the beach.

Mr. Hon brought home many kung ming lantern from Vietnam, so we brought 2 to Penang to let go. I know it’s illegal :P, but for the fun of it…why not. We are not near the airport anyway.

So we all went to the beach, light up the lantern and watch it float away. Daddy didn’t bring his cigars, so we didn’t have any e cigarette session by the beach..phew!!

Then we all head back to our own room to watch World Cup match and went to bed….

DAY 2: 12TH JUN

Someone para-sailing by the beach. Did this many years ago.

Had breakfast at the hotel…boy it’s so crowded!!!

Beautiful butterfly

Then hang around the beach till 1030am, then we went to butterfly farm with Lawrence’s family. MIL & SIL didn’t join us. Had fun in the butterfly farm especially Faythe. She went around trying to make the butterfly stand on her hand. The last time we went there, she was only 2years old, she barely remembers that trip. Vyktore didn’t really like it, he only liked the Scorpions which was in the pit.

Her few successful attempt getting the butterfly

We spent a good 2 hours in the farm and Mr. Hon declared, “This my last ever trip to butterfly farm, no more LOL”. We even bumped into his primary school friend. Talk about coincidence.

Vyktore’s favourite section

We were supposed to drive to Balik Pulau for some Durian & Food Fest (Lawrence saw advertisement banner along the road), so off we went, but half way, I think in Teluk Bahang (after passing the dam), we stopped by roadside where there were plenty of durian stalls and decided to just have our durian fiesta there.

After that all went back hotel to sleep. Evening, we went to grand auntie’s house where the family gathering was held. Everyone busy chit chatting till 10pm when finally all left after taking some family photos.

Faythe wanted to sleep with MIL, so Vyktore followed us back to our hotel.

DAY 3: 13TH JUN

Had breakfast in the hotel and sat by the pool for some couple talk while watching Vyktore eating his cereal.

Check out at 11am and went to grand aunt’s house for another round of chit chatting and makan. Grand aunt made fried oyster with eggs..yum yum…

We finally left Penang by 3pm and took us so long to finally reach home.

Mr. Pilot & lil Pilot LOL. MIL bought this lil pilot uniform for him. So cute hahaha…

We’ve learned that we can’t let both of them sit together cause they either keep on fighting with each other for toys, books, or whatever. So we came up with a brilliant plan.

I drive the car, and either 1 of them sit next to me. While Daddy sits at the back with the other 1. This way, they got less chance to interact and have their love-hate sessions in the car. So all the way back, either they were sleeping, snacking or occasionally playing games on my iphone. Very peaceful indeed :).

I was on leave still on 14th June, so we took the kids to KLCC (by LRT, another LRT ride) and watch Karate Kid there. TGV Cinema must be crazy…the aircond was freezing!!

That’s all for the trip, and some photos taken from the trip.

Like I was telling Agnes, I very envy her photos, cause I didn’t manage to do much in Penang. Makan je banyak LOL.

Faythe in the hotel, eating papadam (brought from KL) while watching Nat. Geo.

Vyktore getting comfy on the bed

Kids, trying to get them pose spells H3LL…

Naughty face

Another naughty face

the boat parked by the restaurant that allowed us to go up and take some photos

Vyktore, wanted his face to be painted with blue cream (like Avatar O.o)

My model posing for me with her killer pose.

Vyktore, so hot @ the beach he didn’t wanna take a walk.

Faythe, in her quest for more seashells

Vyktore with his pitiful look. He kept pestering me for water, in the end went to the bar to get some ice cold water for him.

Sweats..it’s realll hot!!!

Got a butterfly

Some don’t know what insect crawling from the sunnies. We nearly had to bring it home as it was hooking itself on his hand.

Lovely butterflies

I guess I’ll be heading for a break soon unless I manage to schedule some post up these few days. Busy 3 months ahead…

No I didn’t get myself involved in another Summer Project, or join any affiliate marketing program, but just got busy with so many things since I last updated my blog.

Kids school holiday was 2 weeks, Mr. Hon came home at the same time.

Then it was Vyktore’s birthday, where we celebrated in Penang this year, as we had a big family gathering there with my in law’s family.

After that it was all about getting back to the normal life since Mr. Hon flew off 2 days ago. Oh, not forgetting, the phone line was down, hence no access to the internet.

School starting on Monday and back to the normal routine, waking up at 630am… ^.^.

Work has not slowed down either. After my previous trip to Jakarta, I’ve been delaying my travel to visit the countries I take care of, but looks like there’ll be an unavoidable trip very soon…and I mean real soon, like 1 week from now.

Oh and BTW, have you watch Toys Story 3? If you have not, you just gotta watch it. It’s so heartwarming, I cried at the end man….it’s my 1st time watching 3D, not the kids though. Not very dizzy as I expected.

Faythe said, “how come Toys Story 3D the toys didn’t chase after me like what happen in other 3D movie?”

Probably 3D effect not so power :P.

Vyktore said, “Mommy, I like the Mr. Papadam LOL” *Mr. Potato became Mr. Papadam at 1 point of the movie*

Anyway, I hope I’ll have time to blog about our Penang trip next week before my next BLOG HIATUS.

Here’s a photo taken during our Penang Trip. We stayed in Flamingo By the Beach Hotel. Newly refurbished @ RM190. Beach was great, but the pool is over crowded. Hotel was not bad too.

Kids were watching the fishes swimming in the bowl @ the pub at hotel lobby while killing time.

Welcome back to school everyone….

When I was young and still single, one of my favourite pastime was to clean my room and rearrange the room furniture LOL. Don’t ask me why haha..but I feel that by rearranging the furnitures, it gives a good feel, like something new. Maklum lah can’t afford to buy new furniture, but by just rearranging it will make me feel good too. You know it feels like getting a hairdo or changing hairstyle once a while. That’s how I feel.

So 2 weeks ago, since no photoshoot and weekend quite free, I thought I should do something to the abandoned room. Kids didn’t want to sleep here, so dusty (no thanks to my maid!!!), toys all over the place, books not arranged properly…the list is endless. Hence I started the furniture rearrangement project :).

Here’s how it looks like previously, something like this, but with more mess (just imagine OK).

With just the bed, it’s quite OK, but hubs wanted to have that big table there, which took up alot of space!! Then we even put a shelf (courtesy of Tesco) on the table (since no more space right). At the window, we stacked up the Ikea chest so that all can fit into 1 room LOL. At the side, there’s also Ikea chest and the kid’s clothes rack was there too (can’t see the clothes rack cause I hid it under the bed).

Very cramp and I didn’t like it, especially having the table there.

So after living with this for almost 1 year, here’s what I did 2 weeks ago:

1. Moved the table out and went downstairs (since they are doing homework downstairs, might as well lah)
2. Pasted the Little Mermaid wall border on 2 sides of the room. Wanted to do this so long ago, but Mr. Hon keep dilly dally, so I do lah. It was actually pretty easy!!
3. Rearrange the bed to L shape to free some space
4. Moved 1 Ikea chest downstairs, Kept 1 Ikea chest under the bed
5. Got a new curtain. Since this room will be Faythe’s room eventually, and she likes purple. got her a purple curtain with bees on it.
6. And a few more arrangement to move the furnitures all to the side to create more walking space
7. Moved the clothes rack right to the end

The photos are with alot of mess cause I practically dumped all the toys & books at one side while moving all the furniture, then sort them accordingly, asked the maid to wash all the washable toys (and the chest!!).

Basically I created more walking space.

And here’s the finaly result:

After sitting there over the weekends and a few nights (also shouting at the kids not to enter the room), here’s the finished product, before the next wave of messiness comes :P.

1. Rearrange all the books according to category: Scholastics 1 tier, Hardcover books 1 tier, workbooks 1 tier, boardbooks 1 tier, puzzle based books 1 tier. I also gave away some books of which they’ outgrew to Jayden.
2. Sorted out all the toys: 3 chest for masak masak (1 for food, 1 for plates, 1 for rest of the cooking utensils, all cutleries in a box)
3. All the cars went into 2 smaller boxes and 1 of the chest, together with some bigger cars that can’t fit into the small box
4. All robots into 1 small box and 1 of the chest, together with some bigger robots that can’t fit into the small box
5. They had plenty of uncategorised toys (like those from McD, KFC, loose ones bought fr here n there). All these into 1 chest. I also put them in small boxes based on category (Kungfu Panda 1 box, KFC 1 box, Monsters vs. Aliens 1 box)
6. Barbie dolls and her accessories all in 1 chest
7. Faythe’s girlie stuff 1 chest (hairbands, bracelets, fake lipsticks, mirrors, etc)
8. Puzzles 2 chest. Sorted out all the puzzles and each of them either in their own box or in ziplock bag LOL
9. Blocks 1 chest
10. Stringing materials (Montessori) & blocks puzzle 1 chest
11. Placed the radio on top of one of the chest at 1 corner

Notice that I hid 1 chest under the bed. I decided to keep all the stuffed toys there since they don’t really hug them but occasionally likes to play with it (pretend play). So that their bed is not cluttered.

The chest which I’ve moved downstairs, I kept all the painting, colouring materials there. So anything to do with art, writing, drawing, all downstairs. Room is strictly toys and sleeping.

Oh and what’s with the giant chair next to the book shelf?

I moved that chair from my room to theirs. Since it’s sitting at one corner look so pathetic LOL and we only use it when we need to massage our leg with the iSqueeze.

Why put there?

1. In case I want to take nice photos of them I can ask them sit on the chair LOL (no lah that’s not my initial purpose, just thought of this haha)

Actually when I was pregnant, I always have a wish that someday, I can have a nice lil corner where I can sit down and read them books while putting them to sleep. I happen to see alot of angmo photos have something like this.

So to make my wish come true, I move the chair there, right next to the book shelf for easy access. So I can read the book to them while they are trying to fall asleep on their bed *dreaming still, since haven’t even start retraining them*.

I’ve also placed a standing lamp beside it, so I can actually off the main light and leave that on..muahahaha…

The turtle on the chair is actually a night lamp that projects stars to the ceiling. Redeemed this from Credit Card Points :).

Few more things to complete the summer project:

1. Over the weekend, went to Ikea to buy a flower shape lamp, need Mr. Hon to mount it on the wall where Faythe’s bed is. Will put this at the edge just next to the chest so that she doesn’t accidentally get tangled with the wire while sleeping.
2. Hang up the Safety Poster. Need Mr. Hon to drill also
3. I also want to use one of the wall to put some pictures (their art work or photos), still thinking where’s the right place

Note: If you notice, there’s something hanging down from the main light at the ceiling, that’s a Hari Raya Deco LOL. Faythe told me that it looks like Princess Jasmine’s Castle and we bought it last year. She wanted to hang it there, like the castle over the cloud LOL. Memang alot ideas.

OK, so now gotta start retraining again, hope they’ll sleep in this room…gotta have new strategy, anyone can share with me kids sleeping strategy that you have successfully implemented? Hope they don’t need any sleep aid to get them to sleep in their room.

Sometime ago, Paik Ling wrote in her blog about a night out (without kids, without hubby) and asked if anyone interested.

After checking my schedule and arranging for babysitter aka my bro, so off I went for the night out (dinner + party) last Saturday.

Syn Nee, Jaccs & Barbara. Sorry ladies, I set my camera to highest aperture, hence only Jaccs is clear.

We all arrived around 630pm and ordered our food. Dinner was at Apartment @ The Curve. Food was so so only, but the company was great.

Elaine & Patsy. My 1st time meeting Elaine after heard her name so often :). My 2nd time meeting Patsy.

As usual, when Mommies meet, without the kids, we’d be yakking till cow comes home ;).

Paik Ling & Wendy, 2 sexy Momma. Paik Ling has slim down alot!! Way to go…

Dinah & Marlina

Dinah, Marlina & Me. Yohh..I really hate my hair. In the process of keeping long, sob sob..looks like shaggy dog O.o.

At 930pm, we proceeded to karaoke session @ Red Box. Only a few of us went, Elaine, Marlina & Barbara left earlier. Hey people, next time must join the karaoke session ya ;).

Starting of karaoke session.

We sang our hearts out till 2am+ if not mistaken LOL…Must thank Wendy for the Red Box session ;). Not only sing, but dance and laugh and pose somemore!!

Later part of karaoke session, went a bit gila already LOL

To all you ladies who joined the dinner/karaoke, thanks for the great company, I really had great fun, next day hangover sleep till 11am hahaha…

Our star of the night, Paik Ling.

To our dearest organiser, Paik Ling, you are one hell of a Momma!!! Thanks for organising the session. When is the next one coming ^.^.

There’s a lot my undisclosed photos…censored from public viewing.

To all attendees: I’ve drop you an email on the photos, check your mailbox ya.

Paik Ling/Wendy/Dinah: I was editing the *mei siu lui* photo last night and OMG!!! We can be that crazy LOL.

No joke people, ever since I started staying up late and more work load in office, coupled with some stress, I’ve been putting on weight. Put on close to 5kg and ever since then, life has not been the same :(. I put on weight mainly at my thighs sigh..and an extra spare tyre, no place to hide O.o.

I’ve told myself many times that I need to control my food intake and get back to exercise.

So recently, I’ve finally shift my B-U-T-T and work on something.

As of last week, I’ve not taken any rice, mainly living on veg and meat…and occasional noodles. Only curi makan 2 pieces of sushi on Saturday.

For a *rice tong* like me, I must say it’s quite an achievement. Having rice served in front of me and not touching it, really isn’t an easy task.

Besides avoiding rice, I’ve also started my badminton, once a week for 2 hours. Maybe it’s not enough, but I guess it’s better than exercising than non at all right :P. I prefer extensive exercise rather than going to gym as I don’t sweat buckets there.

Here’s what I had for dinner tonight.

Fish cake stir fry with rocket leaves, white button mushroom & baby carrots. I also had 2 slices of bread with peanut butter. Eating healthy doesn’t mean I need to starve myself :P.

So for now, probably I don’t need to buy diet pills.

Lets hope I can loose some weight over the next few weeks.

If you read my facebook status today, you’d probably know that I had a *showdown* with the traffic police this morning. YES!!! I got really cheesed off with that fella I beh tahan, I wind down the window and showdown with him.

So what happened? Here’s what happened…

I left the house at 745am, after feeding both my kids with medicine, and myself already like half dead (have to see doctor later). Was on my way to send Faythe to school, as usual, I’ll take the road from Sea Park, then turn to Sea Park Market, then go down all the way near the ferrari showroom that road.

The jam was unexpected…then I took a left turn at the Guocera junction and head towards Rothmans roundabout.

Again it’s bumper to bumper…and slowly as the car was moving, I look at my watch, it’s already 8:10am. Late!! Anyway, jalan only lah right…

I already can see that gemuk-traffic police standing in front diverting traffic (seriously, I think he’s a nuisance, cause when he’s not around, the traffic is so smooth).

So all the cars start moving, then when it was right at the time I was suppose to turn out, he stopped me.

I looked at him and he stared at me…Then I looked right, there’s no traffic, so I attempt to go forward to sneak out..Yes I’m not a very good driver. Then he stare at me and gave me a hand signal, ask me wait…

I mengamuk already..F U lah…that side no traffic, why you stop me..so I show my *apalah* hand sign (not middle finger OK)

Then he show me his *apalah* hand sign to me….then I point my hand to Faythe…trying to tell him I’m so so so late!!! He ignored, still stand in front of my car…so I no choice, wait lah..takkan want to bang him right.

But other side cars not many…so I honked…he stared at me…

Then I beh tahan, so I reverse and try to go left to go out then turn into right…and that moment i reverse and move left…he also move left and I almost bang into him…

Then he stared at me again and I also stare at him with my fiery eyes (wearing my sunglasses)

Finally, he had no choice, he just walk to the side, so I start to get ready to move…And you know what???

He came right next to my car and bang bang bang my door!! F…what the hell he wants, so I wind down my window.

Jasmine: Apa mau?
Polis: Tak boleh tunggu kah? Orang semua nak lalu..traffic jam.
Jasmine: Encik, tadi traffic mana ada, kereta pun tak ada, kenapa awak tak kasi saya lalu?
Polis: LDP sana jam teruk, saya kasi orang lalu…
Jasmine: Macam lah saya dari sini tak jam…itu jam sudah sampai belakang sana…waving my hand showing him that the jam is so far behind
Polis: Saya tau, tapi LDP sana sangat jam..
Jasmine: SO!!! Tiap tiap hari awak berdiri sini pun jam, bila awak tak ada sini, jam tak ada…buat apa awak berdiri sini?
Polis: Stunned…and he mumbled himself…then he said, “Jalan jalan”
Jasmine: Yalah…you berdiri sini tengok, kalau u tak divert traffic, tengok ada jam atau tidak…

Then I wind my window and left him there mumbling to himself and I left the incidental roundabout :P.

I’ve always been so cheesed with them every morning. Because of them, the traffic outside my house is so jam…and I’ve always been tempted to scold that fella..but never did of course.

So to avoid the jam, I had to use the backway to get out and go thru Sea Park then thru Rothmans roundabout..and this police every morning also standing there and today he really *liu hei ngo pah foh*.

I really don’t see they serve any purpose. Cause if they are not around, the traffic is much better, no jam at all!!!

They better just go and catch criminals rather that divert traffic without any cow sense.

L-R: Vyktore, Jayden & Faythe posing for a photo. Each of them holding a Ironman Figurine.

Yet another travel post…gosh, when am I gonna finish with my travel post O.o. I think there’s like 3 more backdated travel post I’m gonna put.

So we finally made a trip to Bukit Tinggi, 1st time in my life, after seeing so many nice photos, many nice brochures, nice websites and what have you.

Reason is, Mr. Hon wants to take his bike for a ride and the only way he can do this is going for short trips. And while he rides, I will take our 4 wheels together with the kids & the GPS (in case we are lost). As usual, he don’t ride alone, his riding buddy came along. Since Lawrence & Jayden has nothing to do at home (Angie went for training), so they came along as well.

Our breakfast….

But it’s a 1 day trip OK…no staying over night. We left KL around 830am and started heading towards the highway. Stopped over at Petronas by the highway for petrol & had McD for breakfast.

Daddy mentioned that we should go to waterfall on our way back. Vyktore, 1st time hearing waterfall, thinks it’s very syiok, so he said, “Mommy, I wah go waterfall”. OK…I bet he’d scream when he sees waterfall later LOL.

So we continued our journey after our breakfast and soon arrived at Bukit Tinggi.

1st stop, Rabbit Farm. I recall that we arrived before 10am, hence it was still not open. We were the 1st there.

The cranes that looked like statues to Vyktore

So while waiting for it to open, we chanced upon some cranes (I think) that was sitting on the grass over at the other side. Vyktore loves bird, he was so amazed at them. Then suddenly one of them started walking. Guess what Vyktore said….”Mommy, the bird can move…” LOL, sure can lah. They must have looked like statues to him earlier haha…funny boy. He even requested for some photos of him and the birds.

Vyktore taking photos with the cranes.

When the Rabbit Farm opens, we went in. Faythe was all excited when she was able to touch the rabbits. But Vyktore was screaming and refused to come along at first. But after convincing him, he finally came and join the fun. After patting the rabbit, he started to get comfortable and they all had great fun *torturing* the rabbit. Jayden at 1 stage was practically pulling the rabbit’s ears and lifting it up LOL. We were warned by the rabbit keeper to keep an eye on the 3 kids haha…memang pai seh.

Examining the donkey. Vyktore was scared of it.

After the rabbit farm, we went to see the donkeys…which looks so much like ponies. Faythe agreed to ride the donkey as that remembers her of Mulan. But Vyktore refused. Hence only Faythe rode the donkey and we took some photos, but towards the end, Vyktore wanted to get a feel of the donkey as well, so he sat at the back of Faythe.

Oh so crowded French Village!!

Done with the rabbit farm, we head to the French Village. Actually I was pretty excited about the French Village as there would be alot opportunity to take photos. But Daddy was in such a hurry, we just scrambled at the French Village like 10minutes, then went down to see the black swans, fed them with cornflakes *oops* and left the place. Yup, that’s how fast we finish that entire place. Arghhh…I hate it when I have to rush around like this…next time I datang myself and cam* kow kow…

Why he’s in a rush leh?

Well, he was in Bentong few days ago and went to eat this Ikan masak Tempoyak. So he wanted to go there to eat again and he was worried that the shop will be closed when we reach there. Grrr…

Japanese Garden mini waterfall. Jayden trying to open his shirt :P.

So after French Village, we headed off to Japanese Garden, to look see look see and enjoy the greens. Boy, I really wonder if there’s really no where else to go in KL…Bukit Tinggi is so crowded!!! And it’s not even a long weekend…WTF!!

After Japanese Garden, we head to Bentong to eat Ikan masak Tempoyak. It’s about an hour drive from Bukit Tinggi..and I really hated that lunch.

Kids KO-ed in the car as they were so tired walking up the hill LOL. So we actually left them in the car  (with the window open and within our view of course) while we had lunch except for Faythe that woke up and got down with us.

Yucks..I really can’t accept Durian in other forms…seriously, it tasted disgusting. No offence to those that love it, but I really beh tahan…not only me, even Lawrence & Yuen didn’t fancy that. So Daddy ate up the whole plate of Tempoyak Fish!! While we went crazy eating the stuffed green chilli with fish paste and don’t know what and some other dishes.

Faythe enjoying her chocolate ice-cream

Then Seng Yuen told us that his hometown was actually Bentong, so he brought us to this shop to eat have some homemade ice cream..yum yum…

Jayden was still sleeping in the car when we arrived at the ice cream stall, so we brought the ice cream for Lawrence to eat while he babysits Jayden.

Vyktore nose-bleeding with Chocolate Ice Cream LOL…

We all each had our share of ice cream and ice kacang with ice cream. Both the kids had Chocolate Flavour, while I had Jagung Flavour. Daddy had Ice Kacang with Ice Cream as topping. Delicious!!

We left Bentong close to 2pm and started to head home, but we stopped on the way at Hutan Lipur Lintang to go to waterfall.

Walking towards the waterfall

I tell you, Vyktore been pestering me since 9am till 3pm that he wants to go waterfall. But when we arrived and he saw what waterfall was, he refused to go join the fun LOL. Yeah, this his 2nd time experiencing waterfall. 1st time was like 2 yrs ago, I doubt he remembered.

Faythe building sand castle next at the waterfall.

Faythe couldn’t wait but just dive in together with Daddy. She’s been taking up swimming lessons for sometime, hence she’s very into swimming now.

Look at his ker lien face LOL

Vyktore refused to go in and even after I tricked him into putting his feet into the sand, he just wanted to sit on the rock and stare at all of us LOL. So I end up sitting next to him most of the time, and occasionally trying to coax him to come with me to another side of the waterfall where it’s very shallow and the current is slow.

Nope, MCA didn’t cheng us dinner, but so happened Daddy park his bike there.

We spent a good 1 hour at least at the waterfall, then we went to Bukit Tinggi Village to have very early dinner, at 530pm!!

On our way home, we were hit by the rain..poor Daddy, all drenched by the time he reached MIL’s house LOL.

Some photos taken for this trip. Plenty of photos ahead :P. Definitely didn’t enjoy the “rush-ness” of this trip.

Vyktore’s favourite Ironman

Ironman Mark II

Bad Ironman (according to Vyktore)

Faythe wearing odd shoes LOL

Kids taking a photo outside the house

Faythe & her fancy nails. Yups..nail painting has started.

Faythe enjoying her pancake

Vyktore taking a sip of the Ribena

Simply yummy…can be McD advertisement or not

Why Jayden look like this? LOL..He was sitting on his chair, then it suddenly fell backward but he landed on the floor seated. Then he gave this look to us haha

Faythe fooling with her pancake

Who ate the pancake!!!

Faythe taking photos with Morning Glory. Notice her special baju, inspired by Winx Club O.o. MIL ordered it from her tailor and she has 3 sets. Faythe designed this herself and insisted the butterfly ribbon in front.

Touching the rabbit.

Vyktore’s 1st encounter with Rabbit…totally fell in love and tortured it *oops*

Kids enjoying themselves at the rabbit farm

This the cheeky boy that pulled the rabbit’s ears LOL

I heart this photo very much

Donkey & Daddy

Faythe on the Donkey

One for the clan

Giving the donkey a kiss

Donkey Mulan Style!!

More donkey photos

French Village from far

Bumped into Cheryl when we were about to leave the Rabbit Farm. I heart this photo too..Cheryl do you :P…

Flea market at the French Village. I like that suitcase LOL

Faythe kissing the purple flowers. She’s crazy over purple O.o.

Black swan

Kids with black swan

Trying to mes around with the white swan

Feeding time

Oh shiaks…it’s too late…

Another family photo

Tower or what?

Walking up the Japanese Garden…extremely tiring!!

Vyktore, defying gravity in his own way

Look at Faythe’s bored face after climbing up the hill

Vyktore & his Ironman collection

Faythe pretends to be in the jail LOL

Vyktore’s turn

Oversized sunnies…

Daddy enjoying his ice kacang. Faythe, my poser.

Yuen doing mud facial wash there LOL

Vyktore holding back his tears..poor fella, he was so bored

Taking a puff?

My willing model

Snacks time, raisins…

Enjoying their snacks

Faythe

Vyktore biting raisin

Faythe showing me Monkey face while we were waiting for our dinner

Vyktore & his Ironman again…

That’s all for Bukit Tinggi Trip.

Have a nice weekend everyone…I’m taking my 2 kids for movies again this weekend ;).

It is very often, that even myself, forget that I’m a Mother and entitled for something during Mother’s Day. I always teringat have to get something for my MIL (since my mom no longer around), but forgotten that I should be entitled to celebrate this day as well. And knowing my other half very well, he treats me as a wife more than a mother to his 2 kids, hence I didn’t get any gift from him *ahem*.

Anyway, we celebrated (MIL, SIL & myself) our Mother’s Day in style, with 3 of us went for brunch/lunch at Oriental Pavilion @ Jaya 33 yesterday. We belanja MIL lah of course. But same time belanja myself. Maybe I should claim back from Mr. Hon later kekeke…

Some of the food we ordered (sorry no photo, too busy entertaining the kids since I’ve *cold storage* my maid at home):

1. Sharks fin in shark bone soup
2. Cod fish served on pomelo sauce
3. Stew pig’s ears & tongue (MIL’s fav)
4. Roast pork (not suckling pig eh)
5. Stir fried ching-loong choy (don’t know what you call in English, but the veg is yummy)
6. Some dim sum for the kids
7. Peanut ball with sesame filling (for dessert)

We spent about 2 hours enjoying our food. With such good food, I wonder how my diets for quick weight loss plan is gonna be achievable.

Then went shopping at Ace Hardware (cause we wanted to get free jockey parking :P).

I also ordered a bunch of carnations hand bouquet for MIL, when we arrived at her place after our brunch, it has arrived.

I also sent another bouquet to another Mommy, whom is my dearest friend’s Mommy.

But lets travel back to Friday night, after work, I was greeted with these lovely art by my kids.

Nothing beats gifts from them seriously…

left & middle: a card done on Sunday in her art class. Front & inside. You see on the right, between the rose and the heart shape, there’s a packet of orange stuff with some white seeds. That’s barley pumpkin LOL. I’ve been boiling that over a few weekends and she loves it.
right: the flower was done from the Kindy. Notice one petal missing, don’t know where it went :P.

left: front of the card done in Kindy. I had a good laugh when I saw this. Cause Vyktore has 8 fingers LOL.
right: inside of the card. This card doesn’t really tell the truth, cause he don’t really cook whatever I eat, apart from fried rice

So that was how I celebrated my Mother’s Day.