Trip to Kukup, Johor Part 1

It's my dad's nan2 de2 off day on weekend. So we decided to make a trip to JB.
I brought Jared back to Sembawang to stay overnight after his violin lesson..and the next day they came to pick us up at Sembawang.

Kukup is about 80+km from JB town...it was such a long ride under the big hot sun..
When arrived, we asked for a boat trip..and they brought us to the fishing farm...and that's the only fishing farm we visited...there was a guy there to show us the fish, jelly fish..he2 tun2...

I don't know what he2 tun2 name in english..Jared said is blow fish..and daddy agreed..heh..
After that we drop by at jiu mu's house..and my dad house in jb.


a lot of travelling..but not fulfiling to the soul...cos not much shopping..only bought same pineapple, banana, ikan bilis and keropok..

Oh yeah, disaster in the car...Kaylen vomitted all over my mum...and luckily she brought along my set of clothing..else she got nothing to wear..hehe..

Getting on to boat

Taken by Jared

The kelong

The jellyfish

Trip to Kukup Johor, Part 2

Thats the he2 tun2...jared asked for closer look but don't dare to touch it..


Close up of jellyfish

On the boat again

Taken by jared again

At dad's house playground...Kaylen was so daring to swing in that unprotected swing..Jared run far far already..he was scared..

And Happy 21mth to you gal..

All about me..the mummy's slimming journey

Heh, this post is all about me..hehe
This was me 13 Mar10, my dad's birthday 2 wks before I starts slimming..HUGE!

~8wks later...though have not reach my targeted weight cos we just had to many celebration leh..like Phuket 2kg gain, birthdays and the karus before dear left..faint..

Trying out the dresses..the last I wore this was when Jared 18mth we attended daddy's col German's ROM at chinese garden..then was like 3yrs ago!..

I told june i hope to look better when I attend HH's wedding..and here's me..quite happy with the result lah..But still a lot more to go..sianz..

Today 5June 10 at waraku 10 wks after sliming..not much result for the past 1 mth..Haiz



The next target is to give daddy surprise when he back in Sept..hehe.

Today is the day...

Dear daddy wake up around 3am to get ready to leave..

as for me I was dreaming.and the dream was so clearly..I brought Kaylen to US, but without visa *faint*..causing us run up and down to convince ppl to let her get the visa..heh.

and then I was already sian about everyday half to take bus to work..and to make things worst just before I left house, it started to rain sooo heavily...But instead of sad, i feel funny lah..
and another good news for the day..Finally book my first PV job with pei chun..1.30 to 6pm 6July..aiyo only 4.5hr ..We need to clock 60hrs lor.

My aim is to clock 30hr before daddy take over in sept. Then I can safely find a job elsewhere..also hopefully I wont use up so much leave so that we can still plan for a NY and SLC trip in Sept.

1 more day..

Tomorrow is the last day I could enjoy having chauffeur to work everyday..

Waking up only at 7am and bz with my own stuff and get ready to bring Jared for his school bus at 7.20am

But after that, for everyday in the next 3mths I need to wake up at 6.15am for 966 at 6.45am..haiz

Hopefully I can lose more weight since need to walk 10mins to the bus stop every morning..hehe.

Really sianz

I didn't know how the last time I managed to survive through 8mth (with 2 mth holiday in US though) life like that..and carrying a big tummy..and the Mas Selamat has made my life even more difficult. Traffic jam all the way, causing comp bus cannot reach on time..and I need to walk from office to Marsiling MRT..etc etc

Hopefully time will pass faster this time round..

The worst thing is the kids have not even clear all the clothes from the purchase 2 yrs ago..and now daddy got to shop more..faint

I'm the only 1 who has clear all the clothes from US..except 1aerospotale yellow t shirt, which is now still too small..hehe..

Can't believe daddy bought the few clothes for me, including tommy brown t shirt, abercombie blue t shirt, and many more aerospotale t shirt..and I only managed to lose some weight to fit into them since last mth..The clothes was bought 2yrs ago!!!!..hehe..

Now sianz cos still no plan to visit US yet..if there's a date set, I think I'll pretty look forward..but not now..heh

Honeycomb cake

[considered a success, since there's tunnel ..which I got so surprise!]

Recipe from Jo Deli&Bakery

INGREDIENTS:
Makes one 8" round cake


210g sugar
240g water
80g butter
6 eggs
160g condensed milk (no condensed milk at hm, replaced with evaporated milk)
180g all-purpose flour
2½ tsp baking soda

METHOD:
Caramelize sugar over low heat in a saucepan until it is golden brown. Stir at all times.
Add water to the caramel. Be careful as the hot caramel will splash when water is added. Continue to heat until syrup is homogeneous. Remove from heat.
Melt butter in hot syrup. Let syrup cool down completely.
Preheat oven at 180 degC. In a mixing bowl, lightly beat eggs with a hand whisk. Add condensed milk and mix well.
Sift flour and baking soda into another mixing bowl. Pour (4) into flour and mix well.
Add cooled syrup into batter. Pour batter into a greased 8" x 3"(H) round cake pan. Leave batter aside for 5 minutes to enable baking soda to react prior to baking.
Bake cake with bottom heat only for 1 hour or until skewer inserted to centre of cake comes out clean.
Leave cake in pan for 5-10 minutes before turning it onto a wire rack. Let cool before cutting.


NOTES:
For members or visitors who have seen and tried the previous version of honeycomb cake, you, including myself, might encounter problem of not getting 'tunnels', although there seemed to be no problem getting larges holes in the cake. So here it is, a foolproof honeycomb cake recipe. This recipe has lesser water, higher baking soda and higher egg contents compared to the previous version.
This cake is called 'Bolu Sarang Semut' in Indonesia while it is called Honeycomb Cake in Malaysia. The correct texture of this cake should be chewy or bouncy, and resemble tunnels extend from the base to about 2/3 the height of the cake (see close shot above).
Cake batter should be runny.
Please adjust baking time according to the characteristic of your oven.

Overall cake turned out not bad, even though I got scared by the lumpy texture after I mix everything..The smart me just let the mixture go thru the sieve again..heh..But next time must try with condensed milk, cos cake turned out not as sweet..

Interesting Conversation with the kids

Kaylen's 1st complain @ 20mth 24day

Daddy & me were watching tv in living room.
She was with jared in bedroom playing with toys.
Suddenly we heard her crying aloud..but since we were so used to them playing and ended w some fighting & crying..we took no bother..hehe..
Then suddenly Kaylen walked out of room..telling us this

Kaylen: koko dui1 wo3 (instead of tui1 she sounded more like dui1, koko push me)


Me at kitchen, washing dishes
Me: Jared, daddy is going to america, are you sad?
Jared: yeh, I'm so happy!
Me: Why?
Jared: Then I can play no need to do work
when I told this to daddy, daddy asked him, yeah, so that you dun need to play violin, and can write anyhow, because mummy will say it's ok right?
hah.

That's what happening all the time.

daddy wanted him to write real good handwriting with all the small letter align to capital letter etc..but I'm fine if the words does resembles, and as long as I can read.
And the next few mths is gonna be really challenging on violin practice..cos I cant even hold the bow correctly, and cannot even play a thing..haiz. But the rest of the home practise, like writing, doing worksheets and reading..no problem for me.

Universal Studio Singapore, 28 May Vesak Day

Jared 's reading update

@4 yr 6mth

-> Completed 3b peter and jane
-> Read 1st 2 page of 6a
Words that he cant read: her (he read as here, afternoon, Pam)

Jared driving

Backdated post for 18 May

We saw this at united sq, and jared keep asking for it..so since daddy leaving for US soon..we decided to let him play, cos very costly $7 for 10mins..

At first daddy wanted to be the driver..but I ask him why not trust of our son..so he said ok...

Then we also let Kaylen on it...the car before that the younger sis fight with the older bro to handle the steering wheel..in the end she need to come down, and cried big time..We were worried how Kaylen will react in it too.

And it turned out Jared is not a bad driver, and Kaylen had the potential to be our miss congenality and bye bye to everyone smiling through out!..hehe..Wonderful experience..

Since then we hardly see the car rental at united sq anymore...

Kite day

The last weekend be4 daddy leave for his US trip..we had arranged lotsa of activities for weekend..1 of them is kite flying..we always noticed an area at Sengkang got so many ppl fly kites..then 1 fine day while going for dinner from Sembawang during 1 weekend..We noticed there is an area with so many ppl flying kites too! It was such a beautiful scene.

So we finally go..but the waraku kite cant be fixed cos 1 part gone..so we bought another kite on the spot...but finally did not mange to fly..wind wasnt strong that day..and the string keep got entangled up...

These pics were enhanced with photoshop for iphone..like the effects a lot and also the easiness of using the application.

This is Jared @ 4yr 6mth after learning violin for 7 mth...seriously learning probaly 4mth..the 1st 3mth he was running around in the small classroom, and no practise at all at home.
Still some mistake ..and I had to bargain an iphone session for the recording of this tune..heh. He had a great time driving racing car on iphone after that..
and we don't know what's the song name..
Still thumbs up for Prof Thanh & daddy for the patience...next 3mth will be difficult period for me..I got to coach him myself..*faint*
p/s if I had a chance, I probaly won't send him for music course at such young age..and probaly should have let him do piano instead.But nowadays when I asked, hey, since you don't like violin, why don't we stop the class? His reply, mummy, don't talk nonsense ok.

Kaylen is 20mth old!

Taken with iphone..and beautify with facefinish..looks so much like dslr quality!


Talking
She is talking so much more.
Can answer a normal conversation but all in mandarin.
Hardly heard her speaking in bb language anymore.

Singing
Singing many more songs
latest is little einstein cos koko like to sing it. heh

Notti gal
Bite koko
Hit koko or anyone when angry
Doodle on koko book..
(my heart aches when i found her doodle on P&J 3A book, jared has never doodle on any books before since young)
Simple love to tear away library books or koko story books...

Bad memory
Can remember any color yet.anything you asked her is Bai2 se4 (white color)..hehe.


Conversation
Me: I love you
Kaylen: Happy to you


Me:ni3 jiao4 shen2 mo4 ming2? (what's your name?)
Kaylen: Xiang2 yi4
*me shake shake my head*
Kaylen: Xiang2 ying3

We also heard her counting
twenty one, twenty two, twenty three....and so on..

That's cos koko like to count nos. like this too.

Happy Mother's Day 2010

A card he made for me.. he definitely could write better in chinese than me heh!


That's his proper drawing of me!..He can't really color properly yet, and refuse to attend art lesson..But i'm surprise I look good in this drawing..!!
Jared's drawing of me at K1 4yr 5mth

IPhone my mother's day pressie

Totally amazed, I can check mail, surf net, facebook,check recipe at my finger tip wow

Got it with comp's singtel offer..port in from other comp $300 off hp!..What a good deal to get it at $218, and mthly $28 per mth...

Then i got headache with the cover..found the cheapest after checking out a few shops at TPY..cost $8,..same thing can cost from $18, $12...

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Phuket: Hotel Burasari

The pool and its area..beautiful..but very small pool ..good thing is its shaded..so no worries of getting tan when swim in noon time.


2nd floor room are mostly elite room with the cloth...it look so romantic.



nice pool area

breakfast area is also very resort style..

The sofa bed, supposedly for Jared to sleep at nite..But it's always daddy who sleep 1st there with his dirty body..

Views from balcony..pek chek corner unit cannot see pool clearly..but its hot there..so we hardly spent time at balcony.

The room..Thai elite room..

The bed..super comfy..super big..3 of us sleep there still got extra space to turn.

The only complain we had was air con not cold enuff..Had to call them 2x on the 1st nite..to check on the aircon

Cost: $630 for 3Night

Day 3 2May Phuket trip

Today is a relaxing day no day trips to rush..just go according to the heart... So we woke up later than usual..had long breakfast..and followed by a long dip in the pool... We only left the pool when it's close to lunch hour, back to room and get changed..and get ready for our exploration around patong..

We walked all the way to Jungceylon..but Jared got angry & grouchy along the way, complaining its too hot and he is already sweating....Finally we reached Jungceylon after 10mins walk..had lunch in the foodcourt, we was pretty cheap..but not all the stall are good though..Jared fall asleep after lunch.. Instead of carrying him around, we found a place for massage..

Initially daddy and me were both doing foot massage (half hour for 180baht) but half way I decided to change to thai massage..so I get to do massage in a enclose area while Jared sleeping beside me on the other bed..Good feeling..but my poor bones almost get wrecked w the massage..hehe...

After we finished massage after an hour later, Jared also woke up from his nap..so we went walk around in the mall and carrefour..When its about evening time, we went out of the mall to explore again..and walked thru Bangla road where the pub action is all there..and finally we ended at Patong beach again!.. It was cooling in the evening..stayed there for close to 2 hour while waiting for sunset..Jared enjoyed playing in the sand..and even took off his shoes to walk on the beach..

There were many ppl parasailing..so very nice to watch... The sunset was so beautiful..and daddy went around trying with the camera..and showed me his work even w/o dslr..hehe.. p/s even jared knew i wanted a dslr..waiting for daddy to buy me hehe... Then we walk again to find place for dinner...while walking Jared started to grouch again complaining too hot and tired, but once u carry him, he will be all awake... Found a seafood stall for dinner, ordered some prawns, pineapple rice , steam fish, basil leave w chicken...and finally took the tuk tuk home with the exorbitant rate of 200baht for a short 5mins ride..

When we got down Jared said we should take the tuk tuk to go shopping and come back..hehe.. We took an early flight to home the next day. This was much an enjoyable & relaxing trip as compared to the Tokyo one without bringing Kaylen along..I love phuket v. v. much and hope to go back soon...hehe..

While we swam in the pool, Jared had picnic with the food we brought over..complimentary chips from hotel, seaweed..and more junk food..heh

The elite pool access room..very nice, once u step out of room you're in the pool already..pic taken by our Jared

Back to hotel room..his fav to soak in the bath tub with all the corals & toys..

Me at hotel lobby..so beautiful place...

Walking to Jungceylon

Jungceylon Mall


Jungceylon mall



At the beach again...beautiful! and Jared was so happy

Our feet on the fine sand

Like this pic a lot

Bye bye Patong..bye bye phuket...

suddenly so many ppl came to watch the last glimsp of sun, before it drop into the water! We spent close to 2hr at the beach waiting for this moment..heh

The last dinner at Phuket...we had some seafood..& basil leave with chicken..

Tuk tuk to go back to hotel..Look how happy Jared was!

Reached hotel..

Calling Kaylen..they talked for a while

Phuket trip pics