Ben 10 collections

On top of these stuff, he has a sticker book which consists of 500 Ben's stickers, pyjamas that mommy need to wash every morning since he wants to weat it every nite ( I think I need to get him another set, in fact I was told that 1 mommy bought 18 sets of Ben 10 pyjamas for her son)

In school, teacher called him Ben10 boy, that's make him even happier.

Hard work pays off

Jo1 standing on the 3rd from right.

Coconut

It was about bedtime, and I was making milk for my kids. Jo2 ran to me and told me that he wanted to drink coconut water. So, I promised him that I will buy it tomorrow since it's too late and all the shops closed already.

The next day, I bought 2 packets only since most of the time, Jo2 ordered and he don't really like to drink coconut water. To my surprise, both of them manage to finish 1 packet, and ordered again. This round, he said he wanted to drink it from the coconut, that's only consider as drinking coconut water.

So, did they ask for another round.

Answer is : no. I guess too much coconut water make them visit the toilets too regalarly until the wee is pure white!! (that's what they told me)

You are "Beary" special.

I received this right after I stepped into the house from work on Valentine's Day. It's a very simple red color paper plate with a bear holding a heart shape note stating : You are beary special. Very impressive art work done by Jo2.


We went to Miraku Japanese Restaurant for dinner, all of us enjoyed the food very much,and we were lucky to get a table without prior reservation made. Papa2jojo and I don't really celebrate this occasion, so we actually didn't planned to dine out since Jo1 has to go to school until 6:30pm. It's a replacement class for long holidays during CNY.

Back home, I got another surprise....

on top of that, my lovely daughter also said this to me:

"Mommy, I luv u very much. You are the greatest mommy. "

by looking at so many heart shapes on this paper, u can tell how much she loves Me...hahaha. And I bet it's come out from the bottom of her heart.

That's really make a "beary" special mommy in this special occasion.

CNY 2009 @ Penang

After all these years, I finally managed to persuade papa2jojo to take us to Kek Lok Si temple, he can take us to shopping malls and spend time there for few hours but not crowded places like this. We supposed Thaipusam celebrations @ town area has drawn the crowd away, we drove to the top where the Goddess of Mercy is located in less than 15 min.

Our first attempt was to let the kids take photo with their own zodiac. Later, Jo2 saw the ox and he said he MUST take photo with this animal, next he saw the tiger, next he saw the ... ...yup, we ended up took photos with 12 animals in Chinese Zodiac.

Her wish on the ribbon is "弟子 xxx,愿合家平 安, 万事如意."

We headed home @ around 9pm, I would say that we were lucky to escape the traffic jam. Cars queue all the way on the opp lane of while we were driving down.

CNY 2009 @ Taiping

As usual, my CNY is celebrated @ papa2jojo's hometown - Taiping. We had steamboat reunion dinner on the eve of CNY, all food brought all the way from Penang coz Penang wet market offers more variety.

Praying at the Taiping Buddhist temple is our routine on the first day morning of CNY after the greeting Ah Mah (my MIL) with 恭喜发财,新年快乐,身体 健康.

MIL with 4 grandchildren

Kids having fun at the Taiping Lake Garden

Cruising along Taiping Lake on the a motorboat

notice that there is a plaster on Jo2's thumb?? He actually burn his hand while playing firecrackers on the nite b4. I felt very sorry and bad for what happened.

Playing near waterfall @ Bukit Larut

Happy CNY

Wishing everyone a very HAPPY "MOO MOO" YEAR!!!

Phuket Trip

Another back dated post.

We went to Phuket from 24 - 28 Nov. I decided to take them for holiday since it's school holiday and I need to "babysit" them while my parents was on their annual trip to China. Both of them had a great time at the beach & hotel even though most ppl thought that Phuket is not so "suitable" for kids. We were kind of relax and enjoyed ourselves, no rush, no time limits, no shopping, no sore legs for walking too much with beautiful scenery, white sandy beaches ......Every morning, we slept until "puas puas" then only we woke up, got ourselves cleanup and then go for breakfast

Our first day there was wasted b'coz the flight delayed for 3 hours. It took us another 45min drive from airport to Bangtao beach, I took the kids to the pool right after we checked-in, and the pool is juz a stone throw away from our room.

On the second day, we were on private city tour around Patong Beach. Patong Beach is way more crowded with tourists and the beach is not so clean as compared to Bangtao Beach. We passed by a few elephant trekking place but decided not to go for the ride as the elephant is "not so clean" and looked scary to me.

from left: Viewpoint, Patong Beach & Patong town.

At night, we went to FantaSea for a cultural show, which I gave it 2 thumbs up. According to the driver, FantaSea is a "must go" place if you come to Phuket. We paid about RM550 for 2 adults and 1 child for the show and a buffet dinner (Jo2 is FOC b'coz his height is below 100cm). The driver dropped us there at 6:30pm and picked up at 10:30pm.
Jo2's comments on the show was "Wow, it's AMAZING."

At the entrance of FantaSea, Jo1 with the miniature, Jo2 looked scared to stand near the elephantThe 3rd day will be the highlight of all. We tour to Phi-Phi Island by speedboat, took about an hour to reach our first destination. Visited 3 islands and papa2jojo and I take turns for snorkeling at one of the island (since kids cannot swim well and it's too dangerous for them to go snorkeling in deep sea). This was my first snorkeling experience, coral and fishes in the underwater world are so beautiful.

only my kids weared life jacket in the speedboat
Our snorkeling spot

First touch @ Maya Bay

Monkey Island
stop here for buffet lunch

Jo2:"mommy.....fishy is tickling me, HELP."

Kids collecting shells & corals.

Jo1: "mommy, see what I got!!"
resting at the beach chair

Our final stop was the fun place for kids amongst. There, they enjoyed feeding the fishes with bread at a shallow sea, using the snorkeling mask to see underwater, drinking cold drinks and eating watermelon. Papa2jojo went for another round of snorkeling again when kids were tired playing @ the beach. ME?? I was resting under the shade that we rent for RM12 and enjoyed my sweet & juicy watermelon.

Back to hotel about 6:30pm, and we had our dinner @ Hotel bcoz we were too tired esp papa2jojo, he dozed off right after his bathe and kids watched TV and dozed off to their lala-land at about 9pm.

On the next day, it's another city tour again. We visited cashew nuts factory, a mini elephant park, and headed towards The Phuket Zoo. The entrance ticket included 3 animal shows - they are monkey show, crocodile show and elephant show. Crocodile show ended at 1:30pm. We left the zoo for lunch @ 2pm, it's a seafood restaurant operated by Chinese. The zoo itself has nothing to shout about, in fact I graded it as the the dirtiest zoo that I had ever visited. Luckily, all the shows were great and value for the money we paid.

putting his head inside the crocodile's mouth.

My boy is a Dino's "fancee" now, he wouldn't miss a single spot of Dino.

Our next stop is Phuket largest Buddhist temple. We walked and prayed around for less than an hour there and bought some souvenirs from the shop beside the temple. Finally, we left for Robinson in Patong Town and had our dinner there. We got a good bargain at Warner's Bro, bought lots of Ben10 stuff for the little boy. City tour is supposed from 9 - 6pm, we were so glad that our driver is willing to wait for us until 9pm, that saved us about RM55 for taxi fare from Patong to Bangtao.
Nice weather, but kids has very sour face for no reason.

Our final day in Phuket. We headed to Airport right after we finished our breakfast in hotel. The driver picked us up at 9:30am, reached Airport about 10:30am and had my shopping spree at the duty free shop (additional 20% off for airlines staff).

That's mark an end to my 5Days4Nights stay in Phuket.