Cambodia Trip in January 2010- Part II

Mom and Dad had their dinner at FCCC, Riverside. The "MUST" visit restaurant when you are in Phnom Penh. A good night view of the riverside

Tri-shaw is a very common transport in Phnom Penh

Most tourists like to take this when touring Phnom Penh

Our breakfast at Sam Doo. A Hong Kong Restaurant we used to visit (almost everyday) when we were in Cambodia.

You can see lots of this in Toul Tum Phong

My boy in his usual stylo mylo pose

This man is the garbage collector . You can see lots of this in town.

Stylo-Mylo

They like to "jing-sik-jing-sui" (act stylo-mylo) some times. Snap these moment of them, at least they can see it next time.

this picture was taken at our previous house

he always like ti drink his milk while on his way to preschool

take this picture at Zoo Negara

Homework Time

They like to do their work when really in the mood. They can even sit still for a straight two hours to do writing, tracing, maths and colouring when the "MOOD" comes!

Trip in year 2011

Airasia opened the route to Japan recently. We had booked for our flight to Hokkaido next year in July. Well, again, it will be a "three musketeers" holiday ! Hubby is not following as he doesn't like to go with a tour.

Kids and I will be traveling with all my aunties and uncles , again. My aunt will be in charge of contacting the travel agency to arrange for a family tour for a 8-days in Hokkaido.

I am now brush up my skill in photographing and hope to snap nice pictures there!

Cambodia Trip in January 2010 - Part I

Read the news few days ago regarding the fatal accident happened in Phnom Penh during their Water Festival. I remembered I was once stuck in the "jam" caused by human for almost 2 hours for a only 15 minutes drive from the restaurant to my home.

There were so so so many people come out from the provinces during the water festival celebration every year. I got a message from my Malaysian "kaki" who is still working there. They also couldn't believe this can be happened as the bridge is so short distance and the crowd was too big. Even the police also couldn't move the crowd before the accident happened.

As promised (so many months ago), these are the photos taken during our trip back to Phnom Penh. 

Waiting for our flight at LCCT

 Arriving at Pochentong Airport, Cambodia. I have the chance to practice my Khmer language again after 4 years.....

 The scene is very very common in Cambodia. My brother was amazed when he saw this.

This is where we stayed. Jardine Bassac Serviced Apartment.

A view taken from the Riverside. Tonle Sap

My dad jalan-jalan at the famous Russian Market- Phsar Tuol Tum Pong 

Hubby and Dad enjoyed their afternoon tea at The Shop Cafe. They served the best patti in Phnom Penh. Hubby and I were the regular customers there every weekend afternoon to "tahn char" 

Quick Updates

Well, I could not believe that I have not been updating my blog for almost two months. I was so so so busy since mid of October. Here is a quick updates on what have happened in our family.....

(1) We went back to KL last month for a short vacation, mainly to bring the kids to visit the Aquaria and Zoo Negara , not forgetting my shopping trip;

(2) We moved to a new place as the previous landlord wanted to dispose his properties due to migrating to Australia;

(3) Busy with my photography course;

(4) The girl's school concert;

(5) Lot of work has to be done after we moved in to the new place.

I am now slightly relieved as most of the household stuffs are well kept and arranged in a good manner. We are all settled down and kids are enjoying their new place and new environment.

It's Fun

 They asked me to keep the box after the delivery of our new front loader washer. I agreed since I didn't let them play in a big box before.

 

enjoying their smoothies 

lil' Missy requested to cut a door and window. So, they read books and watched their cartoon from inside the box.

Friends

 To you, my little princess:-

(from left: How How, Jia jia, Davinder and his bro, Jusvinder)

This is the first time I invited her classmate to come over to our place. I bump into them after sending off my mum to the airport and hence, invited them to come over our place to play. I like this little boy as he has beautiful eyes and sweet smile!

A Birthday Gift

 Got a BIG surprise from hubby last night.............

When he arrived home at 12.05am from the airport, I saw this............

This is my belated birthday GIFT all the way from Coach, Pavillion.

Thank you Hubby for the birthday pressie!

Piano Lesson

I am taking the piano lesson at the moment. It was great as I can pick up the musical lesson at this age and also I know I can guide my lil' Missy on her lesson in future. How nice!

Pix

Some pictures taken with my new Canon DSLR. I asked my hubby to check around with his colleague where I can take up a short course on photographing.

Dinner @ Mr. Ho's Fine Food Restaurant

This is a backdated post.

Two nights before my mum went back, we brought her to try out the food at Mr. Ho's restaurant.

Well, too bad as i didn't snap any pictures of our food. I was too hungry and start stuffing my mouth when it was served!

My boy likes to pose nowadays whenever I take his pix

I love them

BIG kisses for his Papa

picture with grandma

my little princess

he enjoys is food throughout the dinner, from starter to dessert!

When My Mum Was Here

Apart from minding her grandchildren, my mum helped me with the gardening when she is here with us. I really miss her companion. We went yum char everyday after dropping the kids at school, having teatime treat together, she minds the kids when I do the cooking and she has the "green fingers" and likes to rearrange my garden.





my mum celebrated her birthday here



jia jia and how how love their grandma companion so much



my mum has the "green fingers". She is very good in gardening.

How We Sepnt Our Raya Holiday

Today is the second day of school reopen. Kids are back to their normal routine and my mum had gone back to Kuantan yesterday. Kids and I are a bit sad when we waved goodbye to her at the gate.

We spent our raya holiday in Brunei with my father and brother. We were helping my father tidying and arranging his house. Cooking for them and bringing my mom around in Bandar to "yum char".

It was a good and fruitful holiday!



this cheeky boy




jia jia posing like a samseng



my dad with his 3 grandchildren

Mum Is Here

My mum was here since last week. I was relieved from my duty and enjoying my "holiday" temporary. My mum is the child minder , gardener and my helper at the moment. One thing that trouble her is the knee joint pain. She has this problem whenever she is staying here because she has to go up and down many times a day. She is also the type of person who can't sit still watching TV . She must find something to do whenever she is free. I think I will probably redesign the playroom downstairs to convert into a bedroom, at least she can sleep downstairs next time when she is here. I am surely miss her when she travels back to Kuantan mid of this month.

By the way, I will be driving down to Brunei with her and my two kids next Monday when school holiday starts to stay with my dad and visit my brother. This will be my second time driving down to Brunei all by myself!

12th Year Anniversary!

I have been busy lately, thus , I really do not have time to update the blog. Busy with the kids as usual, busy with house chore, busy shopping for the new furniture and beds for the kids etc. Besides, I am busy "studying for examination" huh! Surprise? I was asked by my aunt to take up a insurance license to act as an agent. She needs extra license to represent two more insures , so, I was the "chosen one"!

By the way, hubby and I celebrated our 12th year anniversary last month. He had a business trip to KL and he surprised me with this at 12am on the day he traveled back from KL.








I believe I will be busier with the addition of these two new gadgets.

Thanks Hubby for the anniversary gifts!

It's Not Friend, It's Colleague

I was in a conversation with Jia Jia before their nap today. Our conversation goes like this:-

Myself: Jia, what did you eat just now? Did you meet papa's friend?

My lil' Missy has not yet answered but there is another voice saying this:

di-di: mum, it's not friend.

Myself:Not friend?

Di-di: ya, it's not friend, it's colleague.

Imagine, a 2.5 years old boy knows what is colleague means!

A Gift To Our Kids

This piano was a gift from one of my hubby ex-colleague. His family migrated to Australia last month and he asked the forwarder to deliver the piano to us. And because of this piece of musical instrument, my lil' Missy is attending piano lessons now. She has been going for 3 lessons and doing very well. The teacher was quite impress with her maturity too. Hubby and I were not aware she is interested in music too until we sent her to piano lesson. I accompanied her and was amazed of the concentration she showed during the whole 3 lessons. She is so keen in practicing , thus she is able to play the song " Marry Had A Little Lamb" with the right and left hand on her third lesson. well done, darling!

Hi there......

I have been neglecting this blog for quite some time. I am still cooking here....trying out quite a few dishes but just lazy to snapshot the photos to upload to the blog.

Talk about nasi lalapan. This is our latest craze. Hubby and I have been searching around the best nasi lalapan in town and almost we had at least once eating out a week.

Finally, we found out the best sambak cobek served is from Muara Restaurant and it serves the best lalapan in town.


I will prepare nasi lalapan next week for dinner and definitely share with you the ingredient and recipe in preparing sambal cobek. Stay tune!

Easy Way to Have fun

.........in the bathroom. I am very afraid of messiness but on the other hand want to let the kids to have great fun activity. Here I come up with this:

painting in the bathroom!





stick a few mah jiong paper on the wall




let them do whatever they like



once done, tear the the papers, get them to help in cleaning and washing away the colour


And they like it so much because they can have a water play after colouring

Taiwan- Day 8

We had few hours free and easy in the morning before heading to Taoyuan Airport. Hahaha....it was the first day I had a relaxed morning in the past 8 days, no rushing, kids woke up slightly late and had a relaxed morning breakfast. Mom and aunts all woke up very early and wanted to grab the last few hours shopping time. Si lai....

Well, I brought my kids to walk around the places near to our hotel after our good breakfast at Starbucks. Some of the sales persons asked us whether we are returnee from oversea. Hahaha...they thought we are Taiwanese return from abroad for holiday. Maybe they saw kids and I speak in English and Mandarin, "mix -mix"




my aunt with our tour guide, a very soft spoken Taiwanese lady and have been a wonderful tour guide. She is in her 60's but doesn't look like her age. That's why people said Taiwanese ladies know how to groom themselves well





di di had the chicken drumstick from his doting grandma. My mum has been a great help to me minding one of them when I was busy with another one. Besides, two of them are well liked by the elders as both are very well behaved throughout the holiday




dad strolled di di around the airport while waiting for the tour guide to help with the check in




mum, dad,kids and I


Bye Bye Taiwan, I will definitely come back to visit you next year!

p/s: hubby and I planned to bring the kids to Taiwan again next year. But this time, we will just spend few days in Taipei, makan-makan and "shopping".......