Suatu hari yang meriah di Bird Park, KL

Our first visit to Bird Park was in 2008. Sometimes, it feels nice to be able to retrieve the journal-ed event and revisit our feelings at that time. And yet even amazing is to compare the children's faces before and now. What a big change! And we won't notice it as we live day by day. Yet even surprising was that I had quite a number of commentors at that time! What happened *gasp*? Why they ditched me? *gasp*

Anyway, this time, being our (meimei and I) third time to the park, it needs no more intro anymore. I took the kids, sempena cuti sekolah yang ke-2 tahun 2010, after some pestering from goolypop who was obviously scared of being attack by those mighty birds and dinosaurs. The kids had a great time chasing each other in the park, so, pictures ensued, with captions not necessary meant to be "real". Add on funny captions too, if you have, but peeps, no offensive words ah..

A birthday to the 40s

Early in the morning on the next day we got home from our trip, I was still blurry and lazy to do anything. Then while making breakfast, didi wanted to know what date it was for something he was doing (forgot what it was) and I told him to check the calendar himself, for my mind was really blank!

Then he ran back and asked me if it was the 9th. And it hit me! Not immediate, but maybe a few nano seconds later. It was my hub's birthday and I forgot about it totally! Even the night before when we were watching a movie way past 12. Jeez... what a wife I am!

So I quickly grabbed my phone and sms-ed him. Also asked if he wanted to eat out or in that night. No replies from him. Guess he was too busy after being away for 2 days from the office.

As lunch approached, I hadn't yet thought about what to cook, being lazy still, so I called him and asked if he liked us to join him for lunch. He said ok. I wanted to see his new workplace too for they have just shifted to another place.

So the whole office didn't know it was his birthday, it seemed, and 2 of them joined us for lunch, treat on him. Went to Papah Rich and stuffed ourselves full.

Came back home and started work on the big pile of laundry and cleaning up the house. It took all my effort.. puff! puff!

When he came home from work, we had dinner and went out to get a cake. He said "no heart" from me! I defended saying I wanted to, but it was raining! Fortunately, he's not very sentimental in stuffs like these.

So that was our little family celebration for his first turning 40s birthday. I should have recorded how we sang the bday song. All 4 of us were singing together but all different versions one. It sounded so messy but fun! He rolled his eyes too wondering what kind of song that was!

His mommy, as almost every year, wanted to be part of his birthday celebrations and came over to KL over the weekend for that. For her, it wasn't his birthday until the "eat dumpling" festival day, as she only refers to the chinese calendar.

It was a big feast for us, 6 adults and 3 kids for an 8 course meal for 10. The highlight was the abalones.

Yumz!

Cupcakes with pink, yellow and blue sai on top for him. Else he would be jeles why I went all the way out making these sai-looking cupcakes for another friend while he has nothing from me. I am getting in love playing with these icing, but need a lot of practise, certainly. Or I should just make a brownish colored icing to make it looked more like sai! Yes, that would be yummy!

Rest of Bukit Gambang.

Pix below shows the pool we took a dip in, from the previous post. That's the view from our hotel apartment.

Didi was rather disappointed when he woke up the next day and saw the same view, after all the promises of an exciting and fun water theme park for months. I suppose he thinks the pool will magically change after a night's sleep?? Well, that's certainly not what I was feeding his mind, I wonder where he got that imagination from. Too many of "Biggest magic secrets revealed" over AXN.


After a breakfast of instant noodles with fishballs and fishcakes, we got ready to charge the theme park. All ready now for the main attraction of our whole 3 hours journey.

The view we saw from the entrance. Looked pretty attractive to me, with all the vibrant colors and water splashing everywhere.

Zooming in on...

More up close now. The kids enjoyed the climbs and slides, while we heart the giant "water-bomb" from the shark's mouth up above. Well, nothing specifically different from Sunway Lagoon theme park actually, but it seemed more like a vacation to us and the kids with the hotel stay and long car ride.

Our belongings, our camp.

Lunch of wafer and hotdogs. These are sooooo delicious. Hearsay the nasi lemak is good too, just don't try the chicken rice.

And that was all the pictures I have taken for the water theme park. That's because I chucked the camera into my bag and went to enjoy myself with the kids liao. There are more to the park than just the above, like the mega slides, the beach with occasional big waves and the glacier river with waves. As I've said, it's nothing much extra from the Sunway Lagoon, but it was equally fun.

We were blessed with a very very nice weather for the whole day, and that made spending the time from 10am up till 5pm more bearable and leisurable. The kids just can't stop going over and over again on those rides and surfs. As for us, we got tired of it after a round or two. Hub was crying like a baby that his head was turning after 2-3 rounds.

And meimei, she's just a daredevil! Jumped excitedly when she saw those mega rides and trying to stand up real tall to pass the "You need to be this tall to ride" tests. She loves the family ride especially, and after 2 go(s), she joined the rest of the kids for that over and over again. What a value for money for their entrance tickets!

The tired faces say it all...

Children taking a rest while watching the screen up above, waiting for our drivers to arrive.

We went back to the same place for dinner, after checking out the other outlet for food and it was full house. Well, no complaints since the food was good.

My auntie with my cousin sis and her son, who joined us from Kuantan for the night and the time at the water theme park, left with my mom before dinner.

As for CK, they packed up after dinner, getting ready to depart early the next morning to Redang. How envious!

The next day, it was all sunyi-senyap like that, after the 2 days of noise the children were making. It was a lazy morning, with toasted sandwiches and milk for breakfast. Then we walked over to the Adventure Park across the road again to let the kids sharpen their balancing skills again.

There was a snake show inside the jungle farm, but seeing the fees for that, skipped!

The plank which moves. It takes a lot of balancing power to be able to walk over to the other end. Goolypop, I think you better not try this.

Without any pressure from anyone else, we can take our own sweet time to walk across. Especially meimei who dared not try it out the first time round.

She wanted to try this out too! Very brave of her indeed! But as she was shaking like a jelly after a few steps, I had to lend her a helping hand and helped her across. Didn't get to take her pics.

After her turn, she told me to try (maybe she thinks I can't do that!). And she offered to hold the camera and take my picture instead. How nice of her!

This reminds of of Ip Man 2.
Like, we are not supposed to walk on those things, really.

Meimei wants to try out everything!

On all fours!

Then I showed her the proper way to walk across...
with hands on the hips liddat.. laan yauying...

Didi whispering to his sister on his "plan" to go from one side to the other side, not wanting to let me know how.

And they put the plan into action.

Papa lend a helping hand after several failed attempts to carry the plank.

The accomplice walking over to join him now.

Uh oh... going to fall down any moment now.. help!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, made it. Now put the plank over the other side now.

Check out meimei's left hand! Easy access for her.

These are priceless! Teamwork at play. The grins on their faces.

OK, walk over to the other end and that's it.

Little tarzan learning to swing.

Back to the starting point..

Meimei moving to join the waiting guys..

And finally a group picture, without the mom!

It was said that the top part of that tree is already dead. And the "globe" looks so interesting.

Back to the hotel room.

Feeding the fishes before packing up to head home.

We had wanton mee with suikao for lunch at one of those shops in Gambang town and departed home at around 2+. Reached home about 5, all worn out and lazy to do anything else, for the rest of the day and the day after. Life's back to the norm, enjoying the rest of the school holidays at home now.