Happy Birthday

Dearest Hubby,


Thank you for being there always
Thank you for the love and tenderness
Thank you for being my friend, confidante and partner
Thank you for all the happiness and the memories
Thank you for just being you.


Happy birthday sayang.. May we get to celebrate more birthdays together in the future.


Love you lots forever.

JJCM :: Penang - Part 2

Day 2 was a quiet spend it at the hotel day. The girls were happy enough to spend hours in the bathtub. And then they had lots of fun at the hotel's kid's club. And in all honesty, that day marked their first experience of having lunch at a warong stall by the roadside. 

We took a stroll by the beach and the girls went swimming too that evening. The plan was to go out for dinner, but unfortunately it rained so it was another order in night for us.

Day 3 was when all the fun happened. I was feeling much better too at that point, so we did a whole lot of walking. First stop was breakfast of roti canai and believe it or not, nasi kandar (for hubby of course)! We chose to go to the Butterfly Farm first before it started to get hot. I definitely recommend this place as a must visit if you have kids. And I have to say, it is much much much better than the one in KL. Price wise was OK too, we got the family package which costs us RM46 for 2 adults + 2 kids. One thing to point out was they had staff doing rounds and giving detailed explanation to the visitors on everything there is to see. And the staff knew their stuff well!

Our next stop was the Teluk Bahang dam - just for the sake of it!

Next was the fun train ride going up the hill - Bukit Bendera. Seeing it was the weekend, of course you would expect more people. Again thanks to the family package, we paid RM18 for a 2 adults + 2 kids 2-way ticket. It is not that cold anymore up the hill, unlike how I remembered it 25 years ago. We took the buggy to explore the hill and our driver told us of all the tales of the hills (including gossips about the owners of the houses on the hill!)

We then had lunch and I had the yummiest scones I have ever tasted in my whole life!

By the time we took the train back down, I was soo tired already. But the kids were all still so hyper, and wanted to build sandcastles by the beach. So terpaksa lah Papa yang bring them. Mommy got some much needed rest, albeit just for a little while. 

Just because Mommy wanted her Rojak Techno (search youtube with Penang Rojak Techno as keywords and you will find him for sure) for dinner, we braved traffic to get to Gurney Drive for it. Kids were sangat penat by this time, and Jannah even fell asleep at the kedai despite the noise and uncomfortable-ness. 

Day 4 - time to go home.. Took the ferry back to the mainland and the kids loved it! Detour to Semanggol to attend a wedding and took our own sweet time to get back. Tired as they were, the kids slept most of the way home. It was a good outing I would say. We didn't finish exploring Penang yet, hopefully another trip up north will be in the books next year.

JJCM :: Penang - part 1

Just US vacation

We planned it rather as a sepintas lalu kind of thing.. We knew that we couldn't wait for the school hols as by that time I would most likely be "home-bound". And as the girls already had their exams, it seems like the perfect time for a getaway.

We saw a dragon along the way

The plan was to leave early, as we didn't want to get stuck with the evening traffic in Penang. But, yes plans always have a way of screwing itself up. Or rather, Allah has better plans for us. I wasn't feeling very well (still not actually) so I couldn't really be running around doing the packing. In fact, I had to take a break every 20 minutes else I would be on the verge of fainting.

My Alma Mater

We finaaalllyy got to leave home at 3. And after the detours and pitstops, we were on the highway at 4. It was an overall uneventful journey if you discount J vomitting in the car somewhere near Taiping right about Maghrib. That set us back another hour.

Beautiful sunset

After taking a few wrong turns enroute to Batu Feringgi, we finally checked-in the hotel at 930pm. Too tired to go out, dinner was an order in affair. J, who slept after the incident in Taiping was all so chirpy and only fell asleep around midnight (I think, no one knows for sure as everyone else was already asleep by then)

 - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad and much later edited on the home PC :P

Retraction

I take back my earlier statement, Little Baby definitely wins hands down in the tummy movements battle. ;) The amount of movement, the severity of movement is way way way out there compared to the 2 kakaks. One very happy active little tot I have in there. Alhamdulillah..

Btw, it was fun watching Aliah & Jannah playing bump with Little Baby. Their shrieks of laughter when Little Baby gave them a bump back was such joy to watch. :)

Sigh of Relief

I was actually going to post about Aliah's exams but got sidetracked by the new blogger layout. Kagum sebentar.

Anyway, *fuh* I can now give a sigh of relief as the last paper dah habes today. I know I know, she's 6 not even in Std 1 yet. But what to do, kiasu Mommy like that. :P

Actually, I am more keen to know how Jannah has been faring in school. According to her Kakak, who got to sneak peek at one of Adik's papers.. the little girl was holding her own and doing the right things. So, I guess she is OK. For her, no pressure as this year it was more to expose her to being with others and having fun in school and NOT just watching TV 24/7. I am just extremely happy that she now wants to hold the pen and colour / write.

So, 2 weeks to go before Mommy hyperventilate about the PTC. Haha! 

I need to remind myself to stop being critical and assess the situation from the bigger picture (like what Mr Hubby has been reminding me all this time); i.e. if she gets a 98% - first congratulate her for the extremely good results and ONLY THEN ask what question(s) she had problems with instead of going all kiasu about that single wrong answered question.

According to Aliah, some papers were harder than others and some were still in the category of "easy peasy lemon squezzy" :)

We shall see.