After our last destination from Dolphin Lagoon, we left Sentosa pretty early at 4ish to The Merlion near Fullerton Hotel hoping to catch a sunset as all of us was dead tired from the walking even though Yours Truly would love to stay back for the musical fountain.

Throughout the day, the weather has been kind to us. Love it but hate it too!

It has been cloudy and not much ray. I reckon a blue sky would compliment a better picture.

Spot that checkered thing at the Merlion’s tail? They put that up with conjunction during the F1 night race held recently. Ugly isn’t it?

We managed to view the Singapore Flyer too. Spot the cranes on the right? That is the constuction of Singapore’s first ‘licensed’ Casino and I heard Movieworld will be there too. Woohoo!

The following pictures is shot using my faithful Sony T-10 as the battery on my dSLR decided to died on me.

Prince’s favourite Aunty. He will hold her hand while walking throughout our 5 days stay in Singapore. Good for me as I can have my hands free for photography. *kekekek….

We are called the ‘Sister-In-Laws’. Different mother, different father but share the same title called Ms & Mrs Neo. Rofl…. how on earth did I think of such a thing. Sot already!

For the fan of F1 racing, can you recognized this bridge? This route is part of the F1 night race held in Singapore recently. The route is still closed for public and is great for photography!

Someone is trying hard to balance 🙄

This wrap up our first day outing. We went home to SIL’s place and decided to tapau (pack) back for dinner as all of us was not only dead tired, we basically was totally D.E.A.D. Full stop.

Stay tune as tomorrow is another day we play tourist. This time, with different ‘tour guide’.

This post is the continuation from our walking and camwhoring on Siloso Beach before adjourning in Underwater World.

Turtles and Japanese Carp was seen swimming in the pond at the entrance to Underwater World. Kids was seen happily feeding them with popcorn. The greedy fish of course chomping down whatever was thrown in the water. I just hope they won’t die from high cholesterol. Talking about which, if I took too much of popcorn, the next morning you will see acne popping on my face.

The star fish pond at the entrance was a big hit among kids. This is my first time holding a star fish! The proper way to held them is putting them on your palm while the star fish still submerging in the water.

But you know, some people tend to get carried away with their camera. Abuthen? At least a snap shot of the face for remembrance ma.

Other than the Star Fish, Stingray and another aquatic fish is allowed for visitor to touch. That makes the trip even more interesting. Not much picture was captured as the lighting was very dim resulted too many crappy shots.

(This shot was taken by Eldest Princess using our faithful pns Sony-10. She got this shot so perfectly. I’m impressed!)

It was a quick tour as we have seen something more interesting than Sentosa Underwater World. I reckon the Langkawi Underwater World was much better in terms of corals, ocean and sea animals (we have penguins!) minus the 83m long moving travelator, of course.

We took a quick bite at the food court. The Singapore chicken rice is so good. Of course it has to be the red version. Until today, my Son still asked for the red chicken rice.

After lunch, we hopped on the ‘top-less’ bus ride to Dolphin Lagoon. Woohoo, finally I get a change to ride on a top-less bus! I wonder what will happen if it rains all of a sudden. Roof top passenger holding on a umbrella? Gee….

Anyway, we was quite lucky as the weather is just nice. The sun was overshadowed by the cloud hence I do get very dull pictures. (psstt… but can photoshop la)

Older and younger SILs. Fyi, SIL stands for Sister-In-Law. I have people asking me what is SIL, BIL, FIL. Now you know the answer? Cleber girl, cleber boy.

We reached 10 minutes before the show starts and since all the seats was taken, we have to squat (after 5 minutes, I sat!) on the beach. Not a bad thing actually since I have a better view and nearer to the stage too.

Someone once commented that the Dolphin show is not worth the money. I almost gave it a miss but since our Underwater World ticket came with the entrance to Dolphin Lagoon, we make sure we utilised that too. Well, for my opinion, I would say different people has different interest. Something might interest you and something might not.

Hey, I reckon the show is good! I’ll give two thumbs up since I have not seen a real dolphin at close range before.

And I mean, I am really close as I was squatting sitting right smack where the emcee was standing.

Some of you may notice the dolphin is pink. According to the host, they are born grey. As and when they grew older, their colour slowly turned pink. Hmm…. you know what I am thinking?

Singapore cannot afford to buy young dolphins!

That’s wrapped up our trip in Sentosa Island. Everyone was dead tired so I did not want to suggest to stay back for the Musical Fountain. We left Sentosa pretty early at 4ish to The Merlion near Fullerton Hotel hoping to catch a sunset, maybe?

Stay tune 😉

It’s been almost 7 years since the last time I stepped foot into Singapore. The main reason is because I was too kiam siap (stingy) to spend for the kid’s passport (RM150 x 3 = *ouch!*). But guess, sometimes our priority change according to our lifestyle. SIL’s HDB flat is still the same ole look except that she had refurbish her home theater carpeting to red. Awesome!

Being in a foreigner’s land, we were busy playing tourist and SILs & BILs is our tourist guide. Without wasting much time, on the first day we drove to Sentosa. 5 adults, 5 children and 1 infant squeeze into a car. Unbelievable! The first attraction is to hop on the skyride and come back down to the foothill by luge.

Kids queuing up for the skyride

Off we go, up up to the sky! (SIL shot this using my Sony T-10)

I thought I was brave enough as the ride looks kinda… nothing. But I was wrong. I was so wrong!

The rides was indeed scary! Scary cos our legs are dangling and there was not much safety precaution around. I was holding on REAL tight to the bar. (Check out the kelong in the background. Chun to max!)

The only time I pretended not to be scary – one hand up and the other still holding on to my dear life. kakaka. I cringe when I look Baby Princess. See that? One slight slip and …. you know what’s next. *glup*

Luckly I pass my camera to Daddy and he was brave enough to swing here and there to take pictures. I think I was cold like a stone the minute I sat on the ride.

At this instant, all I did was holding on real tight to the bar. No more goofing around for the camera. I have to squeeze my toes really hard so that my slipper won’t slip. Real heart throbbing, man!

Was definitely relieved once we stepped foot on ground and we hurried to the part go-cart, part-toboggan luge.

Model: BIL and nephew – The luge is a gravity ride with a unique steering and braking. It is kinda safe for all ages as long they are strong enough to pull the steering handle for braking.

Well, the photographer also need to apply some special skills to be able to stop at the curb to take pictures like this. I know, self praise is international disgrace. *evil grin*

I will update this post with few more photographs took by SIL using my PNS camera at the ending point of the track. Some very hilarious pictures.

Updated:  The rest of the shot here was taken by SIL using my Sony-T10

This track is towards the ending point where Eldest Princess got stuck in the middle of the bump >.<

After some wiggling, she managed to freed herself.  Smart girl!  Spot her helmet too >.<

Baby Princess’s helmet also not much different >.<

Next attraction would be the underwater world. We took some bus ride and some walking thru Siloso Beach and decided to stop to camwhore a bit. I can’t resist such things!

The moment I saw the ‘O’, I have so much idea in my mind. Sad to say, none of the kids is co-operating with me. You know, I have to yell at them! Oops! Now SIL know that I am such a cuckoo mother that get upset when kids doesn’t want to take pictures according to my way. *buried head in hole*

That is what I am talking about. The many ideas of ‘O’ and it’s superbly fun! I don’t understand why the kids doesn’t want to co-operate with me!!!

To be continue in next post on Underwater world. Stay tune!

This is the 2nd time Daddy pack us all in his luggage during a business call with more of his business partners, Principals and his Boss doing the same for this is not some doggy hotel that we are staying in Port Dickson. We are talking about the Avillion Port Dickson who is famous of their water chalets. Daddy got me all excited when he told me about the chalets.

We was supposed to leave for Port Dickson on Friday but since Eldest Princess have some commitment in her school and can’t skip classes, Daddy went alone as he has got a meeting in the afternoon. Daddy drove back to fetch us at 10.00pm and by the time we reached Avillion, it was almost 11.30pm. We was more excited than tired when we step foot in our room.

Four poster bed. No way! Look at the linen. It looks like someone just did some ironing on it. I can’t wait to roll on the bed!

Son trying out the durability of the bed 😉 Far behind is the kids bed.

Son was shock to see himself surrounded by water when he rolled up the bamboo blind. This is so awesome! I can’t wait for the morning to be here. We then took a stroll around the poolside since all of us are fully awake from the excitement.

Can’t help laughing at the white umbrella in the foreground. Daddy ended up playing pool (mini snooker) with his business partners and I tried to shot some night scene but failed miserably. Went back to the room feeling so dissapointed 🙁 .

The next morning after a scrumptious buffet breakfast, Daddy left us for his 9am meeting again. It is going to take the whole day! I so hate that when I have to run after the 3 active kids all by myself.

Been there, done that. It’s me again hiding under the shades playing ‘Baywatch Babe’ aka lifeguard. Kids spent two hours dipping in the pool, which is a good thing.

We camwhore a lot by the pool side.

I have to get Sasha bla bla bla to put the above two pics into gif file to save the bandwidth. Thanks Sweetie for your help. My kids has grown comfortable with water now. Previously they are not that brave to dive in the pool like that. Hey, jumping in the pool is considered safe as they did not dive head down so I just let them have a little fun. No harm since we are on a holiday.

While kids was screaming their head and lung off, I entertained myself shooting here and there.

The hotels is surrounded by lush of greeneries. There is shrubs here and there. They give me a real tranquility feeling. I managed to shot a humming bird with it’s flapping wings. Will post them in my next post as I think it is special.

Four peacock suddenly appear from no where. The above must be a female peacock.

Now you should be able to tell which is male and female.

Last night I tried to take the signboard but all the pictures turned out blurry. Blame it on low light.

Yes. And the photographer too! *sticking out tongue*

I was squatting there for almost 10 minutes trying to get a near-to-perfect shot if I can. One of the night guard with walkie talkie came up to me and asked what am I doing. Duhh! Cannot see meh! A woman squatting there with a camera must be taking photograph la. Takkan lah I squat there to shit. I just ignore him and pretending looking at the camera display screen. Not really pretending la. Trying to be ignorant and at the same time, I was really looking at the display screen deleting all 20 pictures! Bah! Still prefer the scene at night with all the spots light shining on it.

Oh, oh, oh. Did I forget my job as Baywatch Babe? I was too engross taking photographs and by the time I take a peep at the kids, this is what I saw:

Must go over and piak his butt. Boys being boys. He had fun asking everyone to slide under him. Gosh! Two hours (10.30am) had passed and the pool area is getting hotter. Was supposed to adjourned to the beach but we got lazy while stopping by our room to collect the beach toys.

The kids had a shower. Yes a shower! Don’t miss this part on the shower room. They are so awesome!

Picture this, you are in your room with the window ajar and is able to see the bathroom. And when you go nearer…

… it is a open space shower room. See that sky? Awesome isn’t it?

One is in the tub, another one taking a shower. Right opposite the window before the brown rail is another open space where you can see the sea water. I never allowed the kids to open the window. *gulp*

After the quick shower, we had more camwhore session at the balcony.

Can you spot the Astro satellite dish? All rooms are equipped with Astro (certain channel only). Isn’t that awesome? (Sorry ya, watch too much Kung fu Panda)

Baby Princess trying to impersonate us hence now you see why she had ‘Aunty’ poses. Cute!

Next itenery would be the kids room. While walking towards the kids room, I tried to capture few more shots. With this, hopefully I can change most of your perception on Port Dickson’s beach.

Not even a single debris, tree branches or dead seaweed on the beach. Can you believe that? This is so awesome!

View from the patio overlooking the beach.

Around the hotel is very very cosy. You will feel very relaxed.

A steel bench under the hot blazing sun. Who the hell would want to sit there? More for decoration purpose. We spent the next one hour in the kids room and shortly, Linda (Hubby Boss’s wife) came and join us with Xavier. psstt… they are Caucasian. Another opportunity for me to brush up on my photography. Linda commented that I am good. I reckon she had a beautiful son. I’ll post the pics up in another post. I have posted the photographs up.  Do check them out.  I had a good chat with Linda over lunch. We talk a lot about our Hubbies. We are both living in each other shoes and we know exactly how we felt when our Hubby is often out of town.

Ding dong, ding dong the time is probably mid afternoon when Daddy finished his meetings. We was definitely tired as Daddy and me konk’ed out while the kids dunno what they do that few hours. I bet watching TV plus eating lots of tidbits. And when we woke up about 5pm, the kids want the pool again! OMG! ….

Off we go again to the pool. I shoo them to the beach shortly after that cos I haven’t take any pictures of them at the beach and I have few project lining up too.

We both get a new tankini swimsuit after our previous trip to Pangkor Island. Reason was because I have put on weight and my previous tankini pants makes my tight look so fat. Women are vain for a reason. No? With the tankini skirt, at least they hide my ugly looking fat tight. I feel more confidence walking around in my new tankini. Really!

Baby Princess rushed over when she saw us posing at the camera again. It is not my intension but the pics all turn out that I was not looking at the camera. How crappy!

I can float! I can float!

Tree Pose – Previous tanned marked is still there.

We left the beach at 6.30pm as we need to get ready for dinner at 7.00pm with Daddy’s other business partner. We’ll come back to the beach again tomorrow I assured the kids. Funny how I don’t see any sunset at all. You mean the sun doesn’t set in Port Dickson? *tsk, tsk* During dinner, Prince make a new friend with Jonathan just because he had a Nintendo game! Well, good thing as we are able to bribe him like, “See, Jonathan put on his seat belt” and he quickly put on his seat belt too. Or when he refuse to co-operate we will threaten him, “Later I ask Jonathan not to friend you and share his Nintendo game with you.”

Back from dinner, we all have a good night sleep except for Daddy. Gee! He continue drinking and entertaining the business partners. The next morning I ask if he drank. He said they had whiskey but not for him. He ordered a Milo instead. Wakakaka!

And guess what?

Can you imagine if there is a tsunami now. *yikes*
It has been raining since 7.30am!!!! Gawd damnit! So early in the morning. We waited for the rain to stop but it wouldn’t stop! We have no choice but to used the umbrella instead. All our plan has to cancel. After breakfast, we managed to visit the hotel’s petting zoo for a mere 5 minutes and it rains again!!! Spent the next few hour in the kids room again. OMG! At 12 noon, decided to check-out and head to Seremban for the beef noodle. That’s all for the 2nd day. There is nothing we get to do at all. What a weather!!!

We will definitely come back to Avillion Port Dickson instead of going to Pan Pacific Pangkor. Haha! Not double standard but going to Port Dickson is nearer than going to Pangkor Island.

Backdated post.

We had a marvelous time staying in Pangkor Island Beach Resort (formerly known as Pan Pacific Pangkor).

Upon arrival at the resort, a warm welcome comprising of some hula-hula singer greeted us. The adult was served some cordial drinks and the kids had grapes fondue. Lucky kids!

Kids was squirming the moment they saw the beach and pool from their hotel room. I took the kids out right after we drop off the luggages in our room since Daddy need to have a quiet time to finish up his ‘homework’. Furthermore, Daddy is supposed to be working. We are the one tagging along 😉 .

Every beaches has it’s own specialty. In Pan Pac, the beach is filled with lots of tiny crab. And I mean really a lot! It is quite entertaining watching the crab pushing out the round sand and soon it formed some star like thingy.

Whenever we go near, the crab will hide themselves in the hole. Seconds later, they will resurface again. Baby Princess refused to walk on the beach because of this so I have to carry her into the water. And at the sea shore, we could easily gather lots of lala (clam) by just digging our hands into the sand and came out with a fist full of lala.

We truly enjoy ourself – the white sandy beaches, clear water even though it is not crystal clear, the buffet spread is so scrumptious and the kids never had enough of the pool. Me, on the other hand was not happy hiding under the shades playing ‘baywatch babe’ (aka lifeguard!). Boohoo!

Natural Body scrub

One minute he is relaxing. Another minute…..

Must be something that he saw in the water. I was yelling, “Wei, watch out my camera!”

He scares me with that stare! I could easily fallen in love with him.

A few photographs here showing off the beauty around the resort. I am still trying to figure out why does the foot prints seem like bulging instead of cave-in. Crappy!

While waiting for dinner, the sun starts to set. I took this at 6.45pm from my hotel room’s window.

I was quite lazy to go down to the beach again. But the more I look at the sky, the more I beh tahan. So I drag Daddy to be my photographer even though he was a bit reluctant at first. I really drag him! This should be a great opportunity to have myself shot in some yoga poses in silhouette.

But then…gawd knows what happen. My mind went totally blank. I can’t think of anything that comes out nice in silhouette. While I stand there scratching my head, he lost patient and shot the kids pulak. I’ve previously posted all the silhouette shots. Check them out. They are awesome!

Ok. No more pictures already. I shall cut my long winded story short. If you are looking for a place to just relax, this is the right place. We will be back to Pan Pac Pangkor more often cos we have fallen in love with the resort.

You know, sometimes people has got weird cravings for food for example sour, sweet, spicy, yada, yada… but the weird me has got cravings for picnic! To add in the weird stuff, I wanted a picnic specifically in TTDI park and starts calling up SIL (they stay nearby) for a picnic but too bad, they has already got plan over the weekend. Well, since Monday is a public holiday, maybe I should bring the children to Pulau Ketam (Crab Island) since I’ve been wanting to go there for ages. Now my last victim would be my neighbour aka younger Sister.

Since the green light is on, excitedly the next morning after breakkie, it took us only 10 minutes to reach the jetty in Port Klang.

This is how the jetty looks like from the departing area.

Tickets are sold at RM7.00 per way for adult and RM4.00 for children but we conveniently forgot to buy the children’s ticket. *ngek, ngek, ngek* Ini Sitiawan mali punya style.

The boat is definitely much lower than the one in Pangkor Island. I am feeling like I am sitting in a submarine and almost submerging.

Well, it does really looks like a submarine as what Eldest Princess reckon. They are air-conditioned too. But if you opt for something cheaper and more adventurous, you can try the old-fashioned boat.

Great for photographers that doesn’t mind to get wet. Well, if luck is by your side, you may spot a school of dolphin swimming alongside the boat. I.am.not.kidding.you! All this while, I thought the journey to Pulau Ketam is similar to Pangkor Island, cruising through the wide sea but hey, this is something new to me. We are actually cruising through mangrove.

Jetty in Pulau Ketam

The journey by boat to Pulau Ketam is about 45minutes ride. Not bad since it is an air-conditioned boat. Upon reaching, my children thought we are in Pangkor Island visiting their Great Grandma. hehe…. guess all fisherman’s village looks the same.

But you can tell, Pulau Ketam is much smaller, more quiet, very relaxing lifestyle and not a single car can be seen. Bicycles are all over the place. I think I’m going to love this place.

We started photographing the moment we step foot on land.

I have issue with my hair that day so you won’t be seeing my photographs. I’ll leave the story for other time. Hmm… on second thought…. this one is still quite acceptable.

Suddenly, we are lost of plan. What are we supposed to do in such a quiet  Island? Nothing! There’s nothing you can do except loitering around their village. You can rent a bicycle at RM5 for the whole day. That should be fun. I’ll come back for that other time.

It is sure a very hot day and no, I did not buy that umbrella hat for the kids. A relative bought that for them. Looks fugly but cute on them. lol

No prize for guessing correctly what they are doing there. Just observing some baby crabs crawling on the mud.

You better think twice the next time you eat crab and pregnant lady too.

We started our loitering. Just some look-see, look-see stuff. We should have rented the bicycles plus the hot sun is not helping at all.

Walking is very safe. All you need to do is watch out for the bicycles. There are not a single car in the island. And so we walk and walk and walk. No kidding! Just keep on walking! Bah.

When you think the umbrella hat is cute, watch this.

Thanks to Kimmy the photographer who caught the picture just in time. The wind blew Prince’s hat away. Hmm… wonder what is their face express like. Let me zoom further in ah.

Look at the shock on their face. Poor boy.

See, now he is so sad. What a day. Nah, who wants to help him retrieve the hat?

Reward will be given tho.

Ok la. No more hat. We continue walking and walking and walking and reach a sundry shop. The first thing we do is buy drinks with lots of ice!

It has been such a long long time since the last time I drank from a plastic bag. It does bring back some childhood memories.

So what we did again? Nothing! Just walking! And snapping and more walking!

You can tell that this is a very old signboard or rather the kindergarten has been in existence for a decade now.

One of the owner dried 4 sea horse outside their house. This can fetch a good price at the chinese medical hall.

Once upon a time, my Grandma’s house has wooden door like this. I’m talking about the brown one.

We keep on walking and walking and came to a restaurant. We sat down even thought we are not hungry yet. But I think all of us was so bored and so hot and some relative was grumbling, “You never tell me the place is so hot!”

There are more food on the table. I just choose two of the best to post them. So we just ate and call it a day. But, but that was something like one hour ago when we just set foot in this island! No wonder people has been saying something like “go there makan then come back.” We bought some hae bee (dry prawns) and tiny anchovies. I love those on fried rice.

Then i spotted something nostalgia again.

During our time, it used to be a pacifier. Now they replace it with some dodgy cartoon character.

Err… I make it look so obscene hor. Come, come, cuci mata sikit. Come look at the pretty flower.

*ngek, ngek, ngek*

… story continue from Part 1 here

We was kinda disappointed to found out that the Strawberry season has just over. Our hope of letting the kids hand pick the Strawberries was dashed, not to mentioned the hand pick of cherry tomatoes and also the carrot. I think November/December is the best month to go. We proceed to the hydroponic vegetable plantation.

My Mom never encourage us to eat hydroponic veges. You should try to understand how a hydroponic works. All the chemical in the water and such. I rather consume veges that grows on natural mineral from the ground minus the pesticide la, of course.

The farm is really a beautiful sight with all the greens.

Each time I asked Prince to take a snapshot, he keeps on stretching out his arm. Either he is mimicking me or the scarecrow. I will have to ask him to stop or else all the photographs here will have him looking like a scarecrow.

I love this family shot, minus me *sigh…

Don’t ask me how it happens. Out of the blue, no. 1 lifted no. 3 tight and then no. 2 follow suit by lifting up no. 3 foot. The slipper sure spoil the picture but look at them, they are so crazy, so happy, so silly, so full of me 🙂 .

Want to know something? If not because Prince wanted to get a bite, we would have miss this vegetable farm cos it is situated somewhere up on the hill. Even though it is not that high up, we (the adults!) was pretty tired chasing after kids in the strawberries farm. Yea, laziness is such a disgrace sometimes. Shame on me.

Passing thru the vegetable farm, we are at their cafe. Lots of food stuff made from strawberry or rather have strawberries in them. For example the strawberry shake, waffle, fried strawberry ice-cream, salad bar, icicles, you just name it they have everything there.

Deep fried strawberry flavoured ice-cream

It sure looks very appetizing to see her drool like this. Priceless!

pssst…. off season strawberries are sour. Very sour indeed!

After the quick bite, we headed downhill again. On the way down, we took more photographs.

I can’t recalled the name of this farm. It is quite big though. Most of the picture you saw here is shot mainly here.

I did some shopping here after observing their prices. The strawberry jam – cheapest price I saw RM6. Cherry tomatoes 5pkt for RM10. Pearl sweet corn 5 pcs for RM10. Even in Klang pasar malam, they are selling at 3 pcs for RM10. I think it is a very good buy. Not much choices for fresh strawberry since I hardly saw any. I just simply grab one big box at RM10 for the sake of buying. You know, going to CH isn’t complete without buying the strawberries. So yea, even though the sizes is quite petite I just bought one box. My initial plan is to buy about 6 boxes for my fondue party. Looks like the fondue party will have to wait.

Driving back to Tanah Rata, part of the sky turn orangy.

My first attempt shot of the sky in a moving vehicle. Not bad yea?

Our steamboat dinner:

See that? Charcoal! We ordered food for 3 person at the price of RM45. They have prawns, octopus, jelly fish, tofu, beancurd sheets, meat balls, fish balls, chicken, pork, noodles, vermicelli and lots of greens! That’s all about it. A bit over priced but at least we enjoy the meal in the cool climate.

Well, something surprised me tho. While I was half way saying grace, Prince intercepted and he said something very touching. I tried to recalled what was that but sorry yea, my memory failed me again. Teheehee…

Something like… “thank you Daddy for bring us to Cameron Highland. We are very happy….”

We headed back to the hotel at 8.00pm. The kids have a roll in the bath tub, busy spitting custard apple’s seed (we bought that from home not from CH), munching Twisties and watched three quarter of Terminator before all of us peacefully drifted to dreamland at 10.30pm.

The next morning we check out from the hotel before catching our breakfast. We tried to look for the carrot farm where you can hand pick them. Lo and behold…. I think I’ll have to drag along my eldest sister in December. At the meantime, no carrot pic though.

We stopped by Smokehouse to take some photographs. Err… they all turned out quite crappy.

Something or someone is always not right. For example Baby Princess. She kept on running away from the camera. Or either that, she refused to smile.

… sometimes showing us the ‘half-dead’ face.

… sometimes the dSLR makes me look so fat.

But with Eldest Princess, everything is just a breeze.

Crappy pic again. The shadow is not supposed to appear on her face. Ah, well…

Last stop would be the tea plantation before we headed home. We stopped by Bharat again. The kids is sure happy to run around the tea tree. Lets leave the pic to do the justice.

No. 1 & No. 2 was seen running down hill. I’m waiting with capture no. 3.

Did you see anything wrong in this picture? Where is her slipper???!!! I think she can’t catch up with the 2 eldest and decided to abandoned her slipper. Don’t ask me why she is on slipper. She just loves slipper!

And then, they was singing some big aeroplane and small aeroplane song in Mandarin and was seen going round and round.

errr… crappy right? This is just a tea plantation not some playground or anything! I can’t imagine why they enjoy themselves so much here.

“Ok, time to go home!”

And she slip her foot into the slipper and pick up another side of her slipper. She decided to walk all the way to the car in that manner! Gosh, she always did something crazy to make me faint!

All in, we had a great time in CH even though it is just a short trip. And we ask Prince if he wanted to visit CH again. His answer is………………. NO! Why? Because this little boy has carsickness on the way up and down CH. Coming down was bad for him cos he threw up twice. Daddy say we should go back CH in December. I ask, “How about next year December?”

We made a short trip up to Cameron Highlands on a weekends just to chilled a bit. It was raining by the time we reached the Boh tea plantation in Bharat. Instead of stopping for tea and scones, we continue driving up to Tanah Rata where our hotel is. Well, it is stated on my reservation paper that check-in time will be at 3pm. But you know, some hotel never really bother about the time. Once the guest is there, they will allocate a room for them. But Heritage Hotel is different. 3pm means 3pm. Not negotiable at all. Well, since we have 2 hours to kill and our tummy is grumbling, we have to brave through rain and storm for some chicken rice. The chicken was left in the cold weather and has turned dried but when someone is hungry, everything seems so delicious.

Good thing the rain has stopped by the time we finished our lunch and we headed down to Bharat again to the tea plantation which was about 10 minutes drive only.

Blessed our Lord. Without him bringing the rain, I won’t have a nicer picture without the mist. While waiting for our tea and scones to be served, we camwhore a bit. And I mean not only a bit. A lot tho! Ahem, so Ladies and Gentleman…. you know my style la. This post is again being spammed by me with lots of photographs.

My son turned out to be my back-up photographer this time. Hey, he has got potential you know. I think I will teach him the SLR skills instead of pointing blankly with the PNS. And I wonder how he does this. The image is very clear but the background is totally over exposed.

Seeing that shots, Daddy is quite jeles and trying to out beat the Prince.

Scones are over priced at RM12 for this 2 miserable scones.

Well…the taste? I didn’t want to say that it is very very nice. Well, it is nice but anything that you eat while it is still hot is always delicious. I’m saying this cos the scones is already overrated by patronage so I’m trying to keep it a balance here. Tehehee…

After the camwhoring and tea break session in the Tea Plantation, we check-in to our hotel and started our touring. My main purpose going up to CH is to let the kids explore the nature and did a little education as how veges, fruits and flowers are grown.

Basically, we stop at every plantation we saw hoping to find something different each time. Unlike Genting Highlands, kids was let loose and run wild at the Theme Park. In CH, the kids did what the other tourist does.

Eldest Princess is now the new owner of my old Sony T-10.

I have no choice as Prince wanted to be part of us. He is seen here using his Daddy’s Sony Ericcsson camera phone and occasionally took over my dSLR when Daddy is hiding somewhere no where to be seen.

Blame it on Global Warming, the weather is quite warm actually. CH used to be cooler than GH but now, it is the other way round. I still remember the last time we was in GH, we was freezing!

CH has turned too commercialized.

Home made icicles like this was sold everywhere at RM1. You know what? My city kids doesn’t know how to eat icicles! They keep on munching the ice from the top opening instead of pushing the ice from the bottom. Aiyah, where has their common sense go to? Baby Princess is even worst. She took the whole icicle out from the plastic! I almost fainted.

You should see Prince pretending eating the tomatoes. His mouth is so small, so sissy, I decided not to show you guys the pic. hehe…

Some of you might not be aware that Strawberry has season too. Best time to go CH is during Nov/Dec. This is what you get in May.

Unripe strawberries! But hey, this is my favourite shots of all!

Not only you see unripe strawberries, there is hardly any strawberry sold at the plantation. My chances of buying dried strawberries is dashed too.

Camwhoring time!!!

Son played photographer again and I told him to mimic my action.

See! Told you! His mouth is so small. Hehe… maybe he is not that vain like the Mummy. I think girls make a better camwhore than boys.

Baby Princess (read: Koala bear) wants to stick with Mummy again. *sigh…

This is not shot by me. I think must be Prince. So yea, this is his masterpiece again. I love the composition.

The dirty mug has turned out to be something beautiful.

… to be continue in Part 2 where we visited the hydroponic vegetable farm.

Every year without miss, majority of schools in Klang area will declare a day off during 8th day of CNY that is the Pai Tee Kong (prayer to the Heaven/Hell God). Since I have to take a day off from work to look after the kids, instead of staying home, we spent the holiday up in Genting while most school children around Malaysia is schooling. Woohoo! Which means no crowd and no room. NO ROOM? Yea, you hear me there. No rooms available cos it is also Valentine’s Day. Duhh!!!! Good thing Genting is only about an hour drive. So we make it a day trip. Save my $$$ too.

As usual, pictures started from Millennium Square (the entrance) at the Outdoor Theme Park. Eldest Princess was rushing to queue at The Spinner, the only rides that everybody hate

Other than spinning, The Spinner would occasionally oscillates and tilts that create a height rising up to 8 feet. It’s a whirlwind adventures that will take your breathtaking new heights of excitement! I just watch that crazy stuff spinning. *yawn*

Not wanting to waste my time standing there yawning while waiting for her, I go round Millennium Square admiring all the CNY flowers.

Isn’t God’s creation amazing?

Wait, I have more!

Such beautiful flowers. Of course I need to camwhore a bit.

Another rides that the kids will not want to miss out is the Rodeo Ride.

Prince is just accelerating. Those kiddie rides to him are nothing. Yet, he would just scream or making any accelerate action. *lol*

Eldest Princess was so sad that she had grew taller and is not allowed to go on the rides. Daddy distracted her by praising how brave she is going on The Spinners alone and that she is now a grown up girl. Her reply really got us by surprise, “Well, they minus my points too.”

“Why so?”

“Yea, now I cannot go on Rodeo Rides 🙁 .”

Awww…. that is something so sad to hear.

The next best item other than flowers to buy for your darling on V-day.

Isn’t that ‘sweet’ 😉 ?

Moving on, this is Baby Princess with her antic again. I’ll just let the pictures do the talking.

Well, to pacify her….

Tada! Kau tim!

I know I shouldn’t offer candy to kids as that will make them more hyperactive. So, I have my evil plan. Instead of buying sweet candy, I bought peppermint candy! Of course the little girl can’t tolerate it and spit them out after that. *insert evil laugh*

This is one of the attraction that I have not blog about. The Dinosaur Land.

As we were passing by the Go-Kart on the way to Dinosaur Land, Prince always stop here to watch the tortoise racers drivers.

“Boy, it will take many many years before you are allowed to sit on the four wheels.”

While waiting to board the boat to Dinosaur Land, we camwhore again. Basically I just want to give Daddy an opportunity to feel the dSLR.

In Dinosaur Land, there is a Hanging Bridge. I heard Prince yelling at Daddy, “This bridge is moving!”

He is such a scaddy cat! Tough on the outside, soft on the inside. *ngek, ngek, ngek* Daddy have to carry him across. After seeing his Sister running about on the bridge, he decided to walk another half of the bridge to the other end by himself.

Only to be caught on film hanging on to his dear life. *snigger, snigger*

We went back to future. 2006 is not too long ago. Other than her facial appearance, the only changes is her long flowing hair.

Oh, and while editing the picture, I can see they removed the old dinosaur and replaced with a new one. That took me awhile to play spot-the-difference. *lol*

What is new this time in Genting?

The antique car is definitely an old rides.

Spot this!

A brand new antique car (pun intended) – New paint, new tyres, new pvc seat! Except I think the engine is still the old ones. So we was like taking the rides twice just because I failed to capture a better shot of the water fall.

This time, Son called his car a Falali. Wah lau! Ok la, an antique Ferrari.

I’ll just finish up the post with few more plants from the garden.

The kids love Genting and so do I, just because Cameron Highlands is further.

How to get to FGS Dong Zhen? If you are coming from Kesas Highway, turn in to Banting interchange which is on your left. Just keep on driving (preferably on the fast lane). There will be a sign board directing you to turn right at a traffic light junction towards FGS Dong Zhen. Now, this town is called Jenjarum which is before Banting town. You won’t miss the temple as the traffic and the crowd is horrendous!

We almost did not make it to the temple this year as we are too lazy to move our butt. *lol* But the kiasu’ism in me did not want to miss out anything. Well, going there for 2 consecutive years is like a record to me. See, told you I’m kiasu!

Fyi, the temple put up decorations based on different theme/attraction every year. In 2006, their main attraction is the artificial cherry blossom. Last year, they have this tall man-made pagoda. This year, I doubt it must be the giant rotating lantern.

Like I said earlier, we need someone to shove our heavy butt and by the time we finally make up our mind to go, I know we won’t have much time to catch the daylight. It took us about 30 minutes from Klang to Jenjarum. So it was 7pm when we reach there.

By coincidence, there is a dinner reception going on too. We managed to witness the thousands of helium balloons flying up in the air.

Once you are around the temple vicinity, you should start clicking away as the crowd keep on coming and leaving. You don’t really have a choice as where the photographer should stand or how your kids should pose. The crowd just don’t give a damn even if you are in their way of taking a photographs. You know how when you are about to press the shutter and they just walk pass right in front of your camera? Call it rude or what but it seems like everyone is doing that COS THE CROWD IS REALLY HORRENDOUS! Thank you. Did I get my message across now? Teheehee…

I remember when they first open the temple in 2006, the crowd is still bearable. We have plenty of time to pose and such.

Probably it is because we reach there at peak hour. So bear in mind. Reach there by 6pm and leave by 8pm. I think that is the safest especially if you have restless kids.

Looking back at the photographs I took in 2006, Baby Princess is now a toddler! Well, as usual Prince was running away from the camera. We have to coax him by asking him to show off a few kungfu movement. Gah!

Therefore, I set my cam on multiple shots and later, all the funny looking ones goes into the trash bin 😉 .

I would say the flowers they had this year is much more better than last year. Flowers is my weekness too *blush*

If you like photography or just a stroll, this is the place that you must not miss. My pictures here is probably 30% of what they had there. Really! I kinda wanna turn back half way since I don’t like crowded places and it is almost dinner hour and the crowds is really unbearable.

The wishing tree.

… and a red ones…

Prices of Vegetarian food and drinks are sold at double. Well, if you intend to do a bit of charity, why not? Anyway, they are not charging the public any admission fee. This is like give and take even though we are not Buddhist ourself. Another reason why we ended spending for food. It is simply because we just love vegetarian food! Oh, and the kids are thirsty.

City kids doesn’t know how to ring a bell. Or at least I know my kids doesn’t!

They tend to just shake the rope instead of pulling it hard. So this Mummy went over and show them. Low and behold, I accidentally pull it quite hard and the sound is so loud it gave me a fright too! That is quite hillarious when passerby gave me a stare. *lol*

I didn’t notice I’ve shot a blurred picture as above. Or either that, there are always someone standing behind us while we camwhore. So sad.

Well, I really wish to take more pictures but the CROWD IS REALLY 100x HORRENDOUS!

Hopefully this weekend the crowd will be lesser cos last weekend when I was there, it is the last weekend of CNY. We do expect some crowd then. If I’m not mistaken, the decorations will be there till end of this month. Anyway, if you can’t make it this month, you can always go there other time but of course, they will took down some decorations and the flowers will wilt.