Pre-Christmas
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18 December 2010
We celebrated Christmas with Daddy earlier because he would be away during the Christmas period. We did old skool, we baked our own chicken and grilled our own steak, had salad and mashed pototoe and mushroom soup. The meal was simple and nice.
The kids opened up their Christmas presents and started playing with them. Rayner got his skateboard (those 2 directional boards, I have no idea what you call them) from Mandy and more beyblades from me. RayAnne got more Sylvanian Families toys from Mandy and me.
We baked cookies with Daddy earlier in the afternoon and spent the entire day munching on the home made oatmeal cookies. My love shaped cookies for Daddy.
Didn’t intentional made them out to be LOVE SHAPED….just so happen it became LOVE SHAPED after baking.
The kids had most fun baking……
19 December 2010
We were cycling in the park. RayAnne tried on Rayner’s moutain bike while Rayner had the chance to try out the new skateboard from Auntie Mandy.
The first picture is her on her little bike. She seems so over sized for her little bike. The second picture is her on her brother’s mountain bike. She mounted the bike and rode off with ease.
Then there’s Rayner working really hard trying to balance on his skateboard. Bumped into his friend at the park and his friend was kind enough to offer his tips and advise.
It looks easy but trust me, it’s really hard. Try to balance it while still moving forward is not easy feat but nothing too much for kids. Once they set their heart to it, nothing’s tough. They are much more agile and fast. Center of gravity is also much lower so it would be much much easier for them to master it compared to us.
Tomorrow Daddy’s going away. The kids have already starting missing him. He would be due back sometime 3rd week of January 2011. Yes, he’s going to miss RayAnne’s first day of Primary One.
Life is like this isn’t it, we are always happy when he’s back, we have a couple of day of family bonding….when you finally get used to him being around, he needs to go off again and we have to re-adjust not having him around again. Kinda of cruel actually but this is life.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Cameron Highlands – Day 3 (9-11 December 2010)
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Day 3 – 11 December 2010
After checking out of the hotel…..
Did I tell you that David loves this hotel, simply because from our hotel room, we could see our car and…..
he has 2 personal jaga…..hahaha…..making sure car car still there!!! hahahah
We made our way down Cameron Highland. The drive down and tougher than the drive up. We took the new road up because we were not familiar with the roads and decided to take the old road down so we could see other sighting along the way. And we came across this roadside waterfall which is so much nicer than those we walked so far to see.
The drive to malacca is another 200km……took us another about 3 hours to reach malacca.
The last time we were at Malacca, Rayner fell sick and we had to leave right after dinner. This time, we decided to try our luck again.
Our kids simply love reptiles and everytime we see reptiles around, they would want to go touch and feel them….this time no exception so we paid the guy RM 10 to let the kids touch and take photo with the snake.
And of cos, how can we leave Malacca without a shot of the Red House???
We walked around Jonker Walk/Street and bought some food stuff back home for my family before making our way back to JB for dinner then it’s HOME SWEET HOME.
Cameron Highlands – Day 2 (9-11 December 2010)
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We visited the Butterfly Farm…..entrance fee was RM 5 for adults and RM 2 for children
There were many many pretty and colourful butterflies in the farm. Rayner’s more daring and RayAnne’s a little more timid whenever a butterfly landed on them.
There were alot of other things at the Butterfly Farm…..eg. snakes, bugs, worms etc
After that, we visited a temple nearby, then we settle our lunch at one of the chinese restaurant in town. Simple food, even the Fuyong eggs and vegetables tasted especially nice.
We wanted to visit one of the attractions on the map, a waterfall. We tracked a good 400m of muddy and narrow footpath to come to a pretty miserable looking waterfall. Kinda of disappointing.
We tried another waterfall within the same area, much easier and proper path to walk but we were forced to stop half way because we felt it wasn’t safe to go any further, the group were wet and slippery and so we aborted the idea and turned back.
We also visited the smokehouse…..a place I fell in love with….
The place had a very homely feel to it, the flowers and the cottage houses and swing….I felt very attached to that place. We had tea in the outdoor garden area. The food was good and the environment and climate was fantastic.
My parents bought me to this place when I was a little girl and I had fond memories of this place. I was happy to have been able to bring my kids to this very same place 20 over years later.
Dinner was steamboat again, but this time, it’s at a chinese restaurant and it’s much cheaper. RM 50 for 4 of us…..
After dinner, we visited the night market.
The night pasar malam is pretty much like the singapore pasar malam. They sell mainly strawberry theme products. There are also things like honey comb, fried ice cream, corn, plenty of corn and lots of fruits.
After spending one hour at the night market, we decided it was time to retire for the day. Went back to the hotel, showered and off to bed we went. Tomorrow we would be making our way to Malacca before heading back home to Singapore.
Cameron Highlands – Day 1 (9-11 December 2010)
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Day 1 – 9th December 2010
The kids first time to Cameron Highland and my 2nd trip. David has never been to the Cameron Highland too, I went when I was around 10 years old with my parents.
We send off around 5.00am. David drove the first 2 hours into Malaysia and I took over after that for another 2 hours so he could rest before we make our way up the Cameron Highland bends.
After a million bends (we lost count after a while) and 6 hours later….
FINALLY……we arrive at our hotel…..
We checked into the hotel, freshen up and made our way to the Big Red Strawberry farm but it wasn’t strawberry season so there wasn’t any strawberries to pluck……I was disappointed!
Nothing was in harvest, strawberries were tiny, tomatoes were still green and so were the grapes…..
Since we were not able to pluck strawberries, we decided to still get some at the farm (those harvested by their workers).
Boy were the strawberries SOUR……and I have the photos to prove it!
After a tour around the Strawberry Farm, we visited to Boh Tea Plantation. The drive up was scary, the roads are just about the width of one and half car width and everytime a car came from the opposite direction, we have to keep to extreme left towards the bushes and the other vehicle had to keep their extreme left which was by the clift side to prevent hitting each other and at the same time careful not to fall over but it was all worth it, the view and the air was simply breathtaking……the air was crisp and cool!
Dinner was at the WaterCress Valley……
Nothing more warming than a nice and hot steamboat with cool air gushing in your face. Steamboat set us back RM70.
We decided to call it a night earlier because we were both very tired after the long hours of driving.
December 2010
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David came back from his Malaysia offshore job early december so we had a whole lot planned for the year end school holidays.
3rd December 2010
We caught Harry Potter, Deathly Hallows and Rapunzel at the movies. David watched Harry Potter with Rayner while I caught Rapunzel with RayAnne.
Enjoying our popcorn before the start of the movie. By the way, the movie was great, we totally enjoyed the movie.
Chilling out at the Tea Dot Cafe at the Singapore’s newest Serangoon mall called the Nex (I think).
4th December 2010
We made our way to Queensway Shopping Centre and got the Nintendo Wii. Daddy got it as a Christmas gift for the Rays. They spend the next day playing with the Wii.
After a good workout, it was time to put up the tree……you don’t see me in the picture because I was busy snapping photos.
A Christmas tree is never complete without it’s shiny STAR….
We are planning to go on a short get away since David is back. Nothing fancy because it was such short notice and air tickets have all been snapped up long ago. We wanted to bring the kids to Cameron Highlands. Yes malaysia again, not to mention I just came back from my department retreat (26 – 28 November 2010) which was also in Malaysia. Department retreat nothing interesting to update so I shall not eleborate more.
