Putrajaya Floria 2011

Last Sunday, we went to Putrajaya for the Putrajaya Floria 2011 event. It's a flower and garden festival held at the Waterfront, Precinct 2, Putrajaya. Admission was free and so I thought why not? What made us interested to go was actually to see floats and the fireworks at the end of the float show.

The children were as usual excited to be able to go out. But were not so excited already when they had to squeeze among the crowd. It was crowded and everyone was fighting for the best view. The crowd made it hard to breathe and also made us sweat because of the heat. So that dampened the children's mood. The show haven't even reached to the middle of the show and the children already showed signs of wanting to go home. They were cranky and angry. So we left the place and already drove the car halfway until we discovered less crowd further down the lake! We quickly swerved to the roadside and parked our car there. We joined the less crowd there and continued with the show. The children were happy again. More space, more cooling and they don't have to fight for the best view because here we are right in front.

So I've learnt something from attending this kind of event is either you go there super early to get the best view or just go further away from the event where there's less crowd. Now what shall I do or where shall I go this weekend? Any ideas to share with me?

Float by YTL Hotel who won the Most Creative award.

Another angle of the YTL Hotel Float.

Johor's Float

Pahang's float. Pretty small right?

Terengganu's float. The winner for Overall Best Boat. Cantik ka?

The less crowd area where we stood. Overlooking the waterfront bridge too.

Tourism Malaysia. Nice colour.

Float of Perlis

Float by i-City - winner of Best Lighted. Think they must've stole some of their lighted trees and put it on the float. Haha.

Perbadanan Putrajaya..enough said.

Resort World Genting also took part. I recognised the logo first.

Brunei also took part. Think it's the only International contestant.

Float from Perak.

Ah this one I must surely say nice because from Melaka.

Let the fireworks begin!

This one looks like palm tree.

Top Ten Things I Wish I Could Do

I haven't done memes for so long.  I'm a little rusty. Usually I get tagged in Facebook and my memes are in there. Maybe this is the second meme in my blog? So here's my attempt and I hope no one will fall asleep. ;P Thanks MG from Mumsgather for tagging me. Here goes..

1. Be a SAHM (Yes, I do envy you SAHMs.)
2. Go on a holiday with the family. (So far I have not had a holiday with the family ever
    since I had Joseph)
3. Meet an old friend I haven't met for 14 years! (Correct me if I'm wrong..hehe)
4. Learn diving and obtain a diving license.
5. Bake anything on my own since helping mum to bake during secondary school don't
    count. Hehe.
6. Go jungle trekking.
7. Star watching and have professional equipment to watch stars. (Can't even see any stars
    here in KL lar...terrible!)
8. Be a supermum to my kids.
9. Ok I'm going to be a bit scary or morbid here for some of you but I wish I could bring
    my late father back to life. (Hope you still stay friends with me after reading this)
10. Going to the moon or space. (A bit far fetched but can this be counted ah?) Pandai
      berangan kan?

Ok I think there might be more but I just can't think of anything more at the moment. So from my list, I'm a right or left brain person huh, MG?

Now it's my turn to tag.

Jenny
Liew Kok Ling
Alice
Sunsetrose
littleComma

My Son's Ah Pak!

My two year old son, Joseph can speak a few words but still not in sentences. While I go to work, my babysitter will take care of him for me. My babysitter's husband is retired. So he will be around when Joseph is at her place. Joseph was taught to call him "Ah Pak" meaning old man. So he calls him "Ah Pak" or "Pak". It's funny how he pronounces "Pak" because as my friend said his diction is very good, he pronounces "Pak-k-k". Sounds like a parrot right? Hehe.

One day, I brought back some books borrowed from the National Library. As usual, I read to my children two books before they go to bed. I read to them a book about Dora, a popular cartoon character. As I turned the page to this page...

..he shouted MAP!!! We were surprised, yep even Elizabeth. I mean I have a Dora the Explorer VCD (it was a birthday gift from my dad to Elizabeth :) ) But they have not been watching it for some time. I'm amazed at his memory. When I was his age, I'm pretty sure my memory was as good as a fly's.

Then we came to another page and he shouted PAKKK!!! This time we were not surprised at first, we were puzzled instead. Eliza and I looked at each other giving a "what's he talking?" look. Then he shouted PAKKK!!!!! again. Louder this time sounding even more like a parrot. Luckily he didn't flap his wings hands but finally he pointed to this..

Can you see that "Ah Pak"? Eliza and me literally burst out laughing. We understood now. Kids are so clever in a funny way huh? Nobody told him that "Ah Pak" meant old man and yet he can link that picture to an old man. Believe me my babysitter's husband doesn't look like that at all. He has a head full of hair and it's not all white yet. And of course he doesn't have a moustache. Oh and he says the lady in the picture is Mummy and Dora is Jie Jie. I'm amazed again.

And why is it that children nowadays like to talk like an adult? Sometimes when I hear Elizabeth talking, I can't help but feel that she's a mini me. LOL. When we were kids, I don't remember talking like an adult. We just played it safe incase we get a tight slap from our parents. So we talked like how a child should talk. But yesterday, Elizabeth acting like a real princess said this,

"Wei, you see, I told you not to drive like that. You make my water bottle drop down! Must drive slower. Always like to drive so fast."

My goodness. Do I actually talk like that? Hmm..maybe I should talk like how a child should talk from now on. ^_~

My Terrific Two Year Old

On July 2nd 2011, Joseph entered the terrific two year old phase. It was just a small do with family. It fell on a Saturday and we were in my hometown. Mum didn't thought we were celebrating. She's still not in the mood. But I was thinking poor little innocent fella. So just got a cake, sang Birthday song and cut the cake. That's all. I haven't even got this little boy his present. Sorry dearie. Be patient.

Birthday boy's cake.

Fuuuhhhh! Blowing out the candles with the help of jie jie.

Yay! Everybody clap!

Now to cut the cake.

The kids 'attacked' the pieces of chocolate first.

And now they're enjoying the cake.

My handsome terrific two year old, Joseph!

I can't believe my boy is a terrific two now. It seems like it was just yesterday that I held him in my arms for the first time. Kids really grow up so fast! Now he can walk, run and jump. He can do more things compared to a year ago. So fast even it's hard for me to keep up. One of the funny things he does now is the way he sings songs. He can't sing the whole phrase in a song so what he'll do is he'll only sing the word or some words at the end of a phrase. LOL. Check out my videos to know what I mean. Hope you'll find it amusing. Sunsetrose, here's to your request! I hope you enjoy the most..:P

Happy Birthday Joseph. Mummy loves you so very much and looking forward to many more terrific years together with you! I will always be proud of you..:)

Hello again!

Sorry for not updating my blog for sometime. A bit rusty here. So just thought I might kick it off by saying hello again.

Remember I did a post once about Joseph wearing shoes a few size bigger? See here. Now he has done it again. This time with MY shoes.

Kids really love to wear adult's shoes right? Maybe it's easier to wear and they can run off easily.

On a separate story, Elizabeth just had her mini concert for her Junior Music Course in Yamaha. Here are some videos if you are interested. Sorry that you have to tilt your head in the first video. I totally forgotten that I'm not suppose to record it that way. :P

My Heart Still Aches

I don't even know how to start this post. I've been away from my blog because I've been too devastated, too down and I'm not in the mood for it. But a very close friend of mine suggested blogging about it might be a good way to express and maybe feel better after it. It has been 21 days since the passing of my dearest father. It's very hard for all of us to accept and even until now I can't believe that he has gone.

How do we all live without you, daddy? I am fortunate to have my children to dote upon. But what about my mother? She has been hit the hardest. I don't know how long it will take for her to recover. I don't blame her for she has lost her pillar of strength. Not a day goes by that I find myself thinking about my dad. How can we just simply forget him when he has touched our lives so much with his kindness and tenderness. I miss him so very much. I miss his smile, I miss talking to him, I miss his voice, I miss his cooking, I miss how he wave goodbye to me, I miss having him around..I just miss everything about him.

I am thankful that I managed to spend time with him before he left us. I also hugged and kissed him. The only thing I regret is I did not say "I love you, daddy" and I did not get to see his last breath even though we were all by his bedside. I also did not get to bring him to Penang. I hope you know how much I love you, daddy and I know that you are now in Heaven with the Lord, free from all your sufferrings. Life has to move on for us even though you are deeply missed. You are one tough person, daddy..battling it for 6 years. I know it's because you know mommy needs you, you want to see us longer, be with your grandchildren longer. I am very proud of you daddy and I will never forget how you've been the best father in the whole world to me. You've always been so caring, understanding and patient.

And even though my heart still aches, how I wish you are still with us, I have to tell myself that you are at a better place. I know you're shining down on us from Heaven. May the Good Lord bless and keep you till we meet again one sweet day.

TGIF!

TGIF! I'm so looking forward to the weekend not just because it's any other weekend but come next week it's my turn to be on school holidays break. Yeah, I need a break too although I'm still together with the kids. :P I already don't blog on weekends so pardon me if I'm quiet next week because my blog will be on hibernate mode. ;) Please say you'll miss me..:P
Besides announcing to the whole world that I'll be on a break, I actually want to share about an event I happily went last Saturday. The Mothercare MCarnival event. How did I know about this event? I signed up for their e-Newsletter so I got an invitation through e-mail. I saw they had a bunch of activities lined up for the event and thought why not participate in it since it's the school holidays and I had some things to purchase too.

Upon arriving at the entrance, we were given a coupon to redeem free popcorn and cotton candy. It was not a surpise to see many people at the Mothercare store.

I just can't avoid this. It's too big and colourful luring my kids to it.

Children's pit stop.

This was what they jumped into straight away when they entered the store.

Look at the queue. I feel a bit dizzy just looking at this picture.

There was a clown show. The clown was really funny. The children and even the adults seemed to enjoy the show except for my children who were afraid of clowns! Sometimes their makeup freak me out too.

Once you purchase more than RM 200, you are entitled to enter this wheel of fortune activity. I was eyeing for the RM 50 voucher but instead I got the mystery gift. It was a toy train.

You have to show a proof of receipt to participate in the activities like this Fun With Face Painting. Look at how excited my princess was.

What is the face painter painting on her cheek?

Oh it was a flower and a butterfly. But Elizabeth told me that she wants to look like Marty from Madagascar next time. *slap my forehead*

I thought the kids were suppose to have fun with beading but instead the staff were already having fun beading it themselves and just happily hand the finished product to the kids who approached them. Oh well, it was pretty though and my daughter likes it.

Joseph enjoying the free popcorn. That's the only time he will stop running by putting him in that walker and feeding him popcorn. Hehe.

I like the colourful balloon arch at the entrance.

Finally the long-awaited free cotton candy because the person in-charge was on a break.

It was way past lunch time when we left the store and after a long deliberation, we went to Nando's for lunch. A favourite dine-in place for both hubby and I. We used to go Nando's even when we were dating.

Wait a minute! Were there actually chickens in Nando's?

No, the culprit was actually this Chicken Little.  

Joseph was uncontrollable and I looked apologizingly at the waitress as I dashed out the restaurant. =_=' Have a great weekend everyone and I'll be back!

To The Park We Go Again!

Since I was so mesmerised by the park's beauty in Desa Parkcity (from previous post), I went there again the very next day. Moreover the kids haven't been there. My brother in-law and his family lives nearby. So after paying them a visit, we dropped by Desa Parkcity to bring the kids before the sky gets dark. It is a beautiful park and there were so many people. Even dogs of all kinds of breed were there. Of course with their owners. We did not finish exploring every corner of the park yet, so we planned to return some day. It was a hurried outing at the park that day because we don't want to be home late for our home-cooked dinner. Enjoy the images!

Happy cousins playing together. Elizabeth wanted her picture to be taken. But where is Joseph? He was busy playing with toys.

Everyone enjoying the breeze and the scenery at the park. I spotted a poodle.

More dogs! Could be malamutes? Sorry, this is a bad shot actually but I just didn't have the time to wait for the perfect shot. 

Finally a chow chow dog from front view. I had to crop the picture because the owner's a** was like right in my face and I have no intentions to embarrass her anyway. Look at the spectators admiring the dog's beauty.

Doesn't this St. Bernard dog reminds you about the movie Beethoven? It was really huge.

Part of the reason why I can't take good pictures because I had to keep an eye on the children. I'm so paranoid especially at crowded parks. Joseph is still holding his father's hand in this picture. But not for long...

Once they caught sight of the children's playground, it was like all the gates of hell was open. LOL. Can you see my two little ones making their way to their destination?

They're getting away further already and I can see that my hubby is speed walking.

Now big sister is trying to stop her little brother from running away. She's always so worried of her brother's safety.

Elizabeth getting more adventurous and brave as she gets older.

Joseph ran so much that I had to put him on this metal hammock so that he would stay put for a while.

Elizabeth trying to pose like a model..hehe.

I haven't seen a swing like this before. Cool swing I'd say. The kids seem to be enjoying it.

Elizabeth wants a second go. Joseph already called it quits.

The treat of the day before heading home.