Happy as a bee.

I had a pleasant weekend, so pleasant that I was telling myself "what a nice Monday today is" and more shocking that I held my hubby's hand and tell him I had a very happy weekend and almost saying "thanks for that, my darling"! That will shock him so much that I think he will piss in his pants. No la, don't do that to him, as he has only one miserable slacks to work and he's wearing it when I was saying that to him.

So, what was in the weekend that made me so happy, huh?

The weekend actually started on Friday for me, staying at home, professing tender loving care to my 3 brats. The fragrant aroma of char-siew really made all of us hungry at home, and I waited for the boss to come home to have dinner together. Ala.. he called at 7.30 to tell me his colleague is leaving and they were going to have yum-seng session woh... how upsetting.

So, anyway, he came home after midnight, I was showing him I wasn't the type of person he can bully, and he left me alone to sleep.

By next morning, all was forgotten, and let it be a good day. We went for breakfast, came home and had some rest while I get some ironing done. It felt good that everything was in order. I made some simple lunch and everybody off to bed. By 3pm, his boss called him and asked him if he wants to join him to go climb hill woh.. bugger, see him every Mon to Fri not enough, Sat also want to kidnap my boss away.

But my boss knows the house rules.. he conveniently reported to him during weekends, he has to listen to me! Else, big wok.

So, we did some hanky panky stuffs while the kids slept, and get everyone ready off for dinner outside. Initially, wanted to dine at SF Steakhouse to utilize some unused vouchers, but later, changed our mind. Settled for my favorite Chillis, and it was a very pleasant family time dinner. Hubby especially loved their "Kids eat free" and the bottomless drinks. Yeah, the bill came to RM80 but it stuffed us all full to the brim and the food was delicious, as always.

The next day, hubby had to attend a meeting in the morning and we stayed at home, me making some MLM stuff food supplement drink for breakfast and cooked lunch too. Made the boys do their homework and by the time the 2nd one lost his attention span, I made the eldest boy complete some "tuition" homework (tutor: me). Felt so good to have enlightened him in devising his own Mathematics formula using algebra... treat x as the price of the teddy bear you want to find out and thus, x-9.50=11.95, find the value of x! He must be confused like hell!

We awaited for his guests to arrive for his little party birthday celebration at 4.30 and they were punctual. Gee.. I think they must be pestering their parents to go go go..

It was such a windy day, little A insisted that we all go out and fly kite. Boy! Were they thrilled! This is the kind of city kids that we get. But poor daddy, while trying so hard to make the fly go high up in the sky, he accidentally twisted his ankle and gosh, it must be real painful. He is still limping like Will Smith in "I am legend" when he was walking for his dear life from the scavengers. Funny, why that would remind me of that scene looking at how he walks now.

There were 5 adults and 12 children for the little party and we took them all up to play some indoor games at first. All wet and outdoor plans were taken out from the itinerary as the clouds looked like it was going to pour anytime.

We had a game of passing the ball, all 12 children in a circle. You sure know the game, right? Whoever holds the ball when the music stops have to be penalized. I told the kids they can sing, or dance, or act or play the piano or just do whatever they want. The first boy,7, acted as a little monkey, so cute. The 2nd boy played the piano, yeah, he's good! The 3rd one was my little girl, one of the youngest there and she cried! haha.. that was really cute, she ran over to me and hid her face in my chest and cried like "I'm soooo innocent!!"

With children, a game can't last too long, and soon, I was thinking of introducing another game to them to keep them occupied. But the sky looked like it had cleared up and it was such a good weather to picnic out by the poolside and enjoy the outdoors.

Hence, we all gotong-royong took all the things and stuffs down to the pool gazebo and... the kids can't resist the pool! All were looking so longingly to jump inside, what with the only kid there seemingly to be so happy playing in the water, like saying "i'm having so much fun, you not coming in, what a waste". It broke my heart to disappoint these kids, so I went back up and took clothings and towels for them to change into and gosh! they disappeared into the pool in lightning speed. It was really fun. I had so much fun myself.

We then ate pizza and grilled chicken wings, and sausage and fishball and tidbits, with the flow of drinks and vitagen.. you can imagine.

Then we cleared the table, gathered round and lit up the big Ben 10 cake and sang Happy Birthday song to my son. A small little party like this is always much more pleasant and fun than a big gang of people with only some shallow conversations in between. So much for the day, and that derived such good mood today for me.

In fact, today's his actual day of birth 8 years ago, and for a short moment in time, I looked back at the day he was born and smiled to myself what wonderful gifts God had given me and I thanked Him for that.

As goolypop said, can't wait for next Sunday to come, yeah! How's your weekend been?

Quirky ad

Overheard on the radio today, an ad from a property developer

"Find your dream house", "find your happy ending"...

... wait a min...happy ENDING?? *raised one eyebrow*

Not sure about you, but I would think, however happy it can be, I don't want to find my ending yet right now. Choi! choi! choi!

Good luck to that developer!

Tag: A tribute to my parents

I got this tag from Jo-N sometime ago..
.. write a tribute to my dad in conjunction with Father's Day to be posted on this page and similarly, a tribute to my mom as well for this page.

It took me some time as I thought in length about what I will write for my dad and mom. And I can't find the words to it. It'll also be a pity as they never do know much English, never surf the internet, never uses the computer and I thought it will be weird for me if I declare how much I love them over here while they are in the absolute darkness about it. This just goes for me la, ok, not to piss some of you who think otherwise.

Even then, if I profess how much I love them in their face, it wouldn't be as much meaning as to really finding the time to spend with them.

In fact, I hereby admit I have very much failed in my role as a daughter, much more so as a daughter-in-law. That's because my dad, in his 60's and not spending his rest of his later half of his life as he should be, happily, without stress, with his darling (my mom la, of course), and his children and grandchildren. I am so sorry, I really cry everytime when he tells me he feels bored when he's back home and the home is empty, and how much we knew a home is not a home without our loved ones, don't we? *sob* *sob* (excuse me while I take a tissue and blow my nose first... pfftttt....) *

.... and with and my *ahem* beloved parents-in-law... I am so sorry that I am not the daughter-in-law that you wanted, the kind of wife you want for your son.

Hey, this is easier than I thought. Writing confessions much easier than writing tributes. And I feel so much better after dumping it all out. Sorry for the diversion of traffic.

Anyway, thanks for reading. Please leave me comments that I am a good daughter and considerably nice daughter-in-law too, though not perfect and tell me the usual not to blame myself, yeah? I won't mind hearing some compliments or two as well.. :D

Else, I might go into serious depression mode and pretty bad side effects hoh?

Glimpses of Science Center, KL

Hands up, those who haven't been to Science Center! The one in KL la, not Singapore Science Center, ok? Don't even know there's one in KL? Don't know where it is? tsk tsk tsk *shake head*

Heheh... caught you again for the 2nd time (probably).

A week before Father's Day, we celebrated Dad's Day by going to Bird Park and Science Center. Both fathers are here (mine and my hubby's la, we only have ONE father each, ok?)

On Sunday, right after breakfast, zoomed we went straight to this nice place. Objections over-ruled. That's how we treat our old folks. hehe..

(My father demonstrating how to hang oneself! Haha...)

The entrance, better than paying for the Aquaria.

Just in time to watch a diver feeding the fishes. Little A was so stunned, he said worriedly "he can't breathe lo?" I suppose the diver could have heard it, he showed him the oxygen mouthpiece through the glass, that was such an eye-opener for him. (Mommy, I want to be a diver when I grow up!)

After the entrance, we were greeted with a little mock-up of a tropical jungle. Have visual and sound effects also. The first time, the children were trembling all over and hang on to us as much as possible. Now they know it's fake, they couldn't be bothered anymore.

The Center has various sections similar to other countries' equivalents. And it consists much of touch and feel experiments for visitors, young and old. Some are just mainly decorative pieces and panels of explanations. That is little bit boring but still, good for killing time and knowing something informative, don't you think so? It's never too old to learn new stuffs, though we could have learned that ages ago and forgotten all about it.

The Jadual Berkala, once THE jadual to know by the tips of our tongues. Now? Don't ask!

I like this... can't elaborate why.

See? This place is a big playground for children, I tell ya. Cheap and air-conditioned. Nowhere else you can find such places in KL. Well, malls might be FOC, but it's so crowded, and stressed out keeping an eye on them. The children enjoy themselves here more.

This is another favorite. It displays the logic of physics very accurately, and never failed to make me lost in its weaving world as the ball goes around.

Science of the future world. This the future bathroom?

The lobby under the big dome. Can you see the vast place to run around? I would have liked to play kong kwan or catching here. Maybe hide and seek could be good..... revisiting childhood games we played.

Wall of Nobel Laureate. Can recognize anyone?

There are many pictures of illusions for your senses. Some are popularly known, like the young and old woman in 1 picture, and many others. Besides, there are many puzzles of bricks and pieces for you to trigger your braincells.

Apart from that, there's also a children's playground for babies and toddlers, a children's section for science exploration (there's a unique congkak there). Do I sound like their salesperson? No la, I'm not being paid to tell and promote this place. Just want to say, it's a good place to be spending time in.

Anyway, for some others, when their mindset is fixed that they are not interested and the place is boring, then it surely is. This the power of the mind. Period. (Who am I talking about? Can't tell la, nanti I kena dicekik before I can even say sorry.. hehe)

(Terrible hoh? Later, *snap snap*, picture up on the internet and blogged about and talked about, by bkworm or some others, then oh dear, I got to find some hole and put my head in it)

Wet dreams.

Woke up this morning, came out and saw my eldest son's pants on the floor. First thought that came in mind was "wet his bed AGAIN?"

Later my mom told me, she thought so too, so she asked him "You wet your bed again ah?".

He said "No-la, just a little bit only", she asked him how he knows then, he said "I have "kan-juey" (deng deng deng!!! eyebrows raised now!)

She took a look at it, touched a bit and yeah, confirmed he's telling the truth. And it was also like.. you know.

She asked me "So young can have wet dreams ah?"

I rolled my eyes wondering aloud myself too "How I know ah? Hmm...wonder what goes on in their little minds when they have wet dreams ah?"

hehe.. my boy, my boy.. wonder if it's his first wet dream! Seriously, I really do not know if boys at this young age do have... you know? Do you know?

I'm a very good heartbreaker

Today I broke 2 girls' hearts terribly.

You know very well how awful good I am right now at sniffing out freebies, thanks to my partner in crime.

I was at a beauty salon having another one of those FOC facial thingy, and from the very moment the session started, the girl was heavily promoting some basic skincare product to me. Too familiar with the drill by now, listening to all the problems I am facing with my face, which I might not even realize, and she has THE all time powderful solution for me.

Sometimes I am just amazed, she could tell by one look that I have dead skin cells stuck on my face, pores blocked like a very badly maintained toilet bowl and what nots, by just ONE look? Boy, she could be sending those dermatologists home and rot, why spend all those money studying and getting their degrees, huh?

Anyway, I'm not really dissing her la, life's tough, I know, she's just trying to earn some income to survive in this dog eats dog world.

So, for the whole of 2 hours, I was nodding, smiling, respectfully asking for more details, gracefully rejecting... sorry la, girl, life's hard. Hear the gomen's advice? Need to change lifestyle, tighten belt, know what that is? Ketatkan tali pinggang la.. not a necessity to spend over 1k on this treatment products for me to have those models' skins. Not that I need to attract men's attention anymore la, right? I have one beside me already, spare the rest for those who need them loh.

I can almost here her sobbing when I left her with the departing words "I'll go home and think about it, ok?"

Then while still hanging around some more, I saw some promotion booth on whole body perfect care, something like that la. KPC, stopped and looked at those materials, you bet one of those girls hurriedly scurrying to my side to explain all about their special promotions.

Studying their promotion flyers, I asked her almost every service or products listed in there. Most interesting was their "Breast Management Program". Manage your breasts woh... terror, huh?

She explained it's a technique to make our breasts firmer, by applying their special cream and the method of massaging. I asked innocently, so that means I need to take off everything for your staff to massage ah?

She smiled and said of course, aiyah, all girls, no need to be shy la. I said "no la, shy la, nanti there's a hidden cam and suddenly my face and boobs all over youtube, then how?" Of course, she guarantee that won't happen.

Trying to convince me further, she said she herself and all others go through the same process before as well, I don't need to worry. I asked is the person massaging me a girl? Of course, she said. I replied, "aiyah, no fun like that. If guys, I might consider la." By then, I know I should cabut and run far far already, quit fooling around.

Jeez.. this time my back would surely kena big time. All the niamahs and foul words will be hurled at me (behind my back) and even sending me to hell, I think.

Am I good in breaking girls' hearts? Sorry la, my dears. When times get better, I'll come and drop by, let you swipe my card all you want, k?

KL Bird Park, Taman Burung KL

Please put your hand up if you had not been to KL Bird Park. OK, you may put your hand down now. Shame on you! (if you are a Malaysian la)



Funny why many Malaysians don't feel like pong-chan their own homeland's tourist spots, but when they go to Sinjiapoh or overseas countries, they pay lots of money to visit their parks. Well, perhaps mainly Chinese think likewise, I observe many other races still flock to parks and local tourists spots. Chinese prefer to walk around in shopping malls, no sweat, cool and free aircon, better like that.

KL Bird Park is claimed to be one of the largest bird park in the world, I think. Surprisingly, when I enter, I find the environment really pleasing to the eye and mood was up a notch higher.

We went in at around 3pm, and better still, the weather was really perfect. It was a bit cloudy and cool. Without the rowdy crowd, with the vast and safe area for children to run around, many trees to block the heat, and rhythms of the gushing water in the many waterfalls there, it's really quite a good place for families to visit, and a place to hold hands, walk around aimlessly, enjoy the company of your girlfriend or boyfriend.

I suppose it could be a good place to take wedding pictures too. Sorry la, if suddenly a bird decides to bless you with some of its precious droppings on your head or your wedding gown.

Nice hairdo. Don't be jealous, k?

I think I haven't seen a real peacock in full "bloom" like this before. It sure got me excited and it was so..... beautiful. Many people were ogling and staring hard at her.

"See what see? Haven't seen a naked ostrich before meh? I come and bite you if you don't stop staring oi!"

Waterfalls are all over the place *strip and jump in now... woo hoo!*

There was a bird show at 3.30pm, it was just perfect timing. Nevertheless, the bird show was about mediocre, good enough for the children, rather boring for the adults, I think. They should be showing some birds love making scenes to cater to this category of audience, right? Aiseh, what's the fun in seeing birds saying hello, or cycling, or throwing rubbish.. sien.

These flamingos had little A amazed. I suppose he thought it was really brilliant to be standing only on one foot when I told him about that. Or poor thing, can he be thinking what happened to its other foot, somebody cut it off? Can't underestimate a child's mind, they learned a lot while seeing with their own eyes. I think that's why I rather take them to these places than to shopping malls where I just stress myself out keeping an eye on them. Over here, I felt very relaxed and happy.

There was a nursery, and oh, these little ducklings are so... cute. They look much more adorable than their counterparts. Many little chicks were running and chirping in the little cage, while being molested by these visitors.

That's this incubation with eggs and little chicks just being hatched. Ohh... isn't that really kewt?
So do you still want to eat eggs again?? I'm an all time egg favorite, so yeah, I'm still eating eggs. Had 3 today cooked in barley drink. I'm not a bird lover, chicken is my favorite meat too, by the way. You can still say I love birds, since I love to eat the chickens, eh?

These boys and girls really enjoyed themselves feeding the parrots. With RM2, you get a banana and a cup of milk to feed them. It was really quite fun. I was having fun clicking away with my camera as well.

For an instant, hubby holding the banana had 3 birds on him, 2 on his head.. haha.. he sure hoped it didn't shit on him.

Such lovely colors on its feathers.

"Hey, share share la, tuk-sek-nan-fei leh"

OH, by the way, make sure you bring your MyKad, you have to show it to get the lower ticket fare. Only fair la, right? You go main main overseas countries, you pay higher fee while their locals get discount. Now, you can enjoy your privilege here too. So, why wait, go and main main in our own bolehland as well.

"See what see? Never see a hansem turtle before meh?