Funny Didi

28/1/2016

Chinese New Year is coming soon..

So, Daddy would like to buy his favorite stuff for the year..

Daddy: Let's go and buy Tiger. 

Didi: You want me to follow?

Daddy: Yes.

Koko: I didn't want to go.

Didi was very excited. He is usually not very excited as he would prefer to watch cartoon at home with Koko.

While leaving the house -

Didi: Daddy is going to buy Tiger. Tiger in Winnie the Pooh one, right?

Daddy: Har? 

Didi was so happy laughing there..Tiger in Winnie the Pooh... 

Guess which Tiger is so important for Daddy to go out and buy...

Primary One.. milestone into real world..

This is the collage photo that remain after all my 2015 photos were gone. Lucky me.. For him as a memory in future..

My funny boys..

Boy vs Girl

Mummy: If one day, mummy can't walk, will you help mummy? 

Koko: Yes, i'll help.
Mummy: Help mummy wash buttock, pom pom, carry mummy... (testing him as he is always feel 'dirty' on his own buttock)

Koko: Boy cannot see girl buttock. I can't help you to wash buttock.. (shock me with his answer)

Mummy: Har, then how? Everyday Mummy helps you, then you're not going to help mummy in future?

Koko: Hmm.. ok ok. I'll close my eyes and help you. (showing his action and close his eyes)

Taxi ride

Didi: Why Daddy not yet coming home?

Mummy: Daddy missed flight, has to stay in HongKong for one day.

Koko: Why Daddy didn't take taxi?  (Dad always go to airport with cab)

Mummy: HongKong is very far. Cannot reach and no taxi will bring Daddy. 

Koko: If take taxi, one day already can reach home. No need to stay there. 

Hong Kong story

Mummy: Do you want to go Hong Kong? There is Disneyland, see mickey mouse..

Didi: I want, I want.

Koko: Hong Kong got Kaiju one. Very scary one. (Pacific Rim - the influence)

Didi: Ooh.. But Daddy is in HongKong. Got Kaiju or not? 

Koko: Wow, Daddy can see the robot fighting. I want to go Hong Kong to see Kaiju.

Butcher story

Butcher is one of the word that Koko needs to learn for his spelling. Last night, when we are revising the book, I asked him 'Do you know who is butcher?' Apparently, the teacher didn't explain to them the occupation details. So I said 'someone who kill the animal and sell them. Did you see, when Mummy buys meat, someone is there to cut the meat?. That's butcher.' Koko was stunt, and suddenly he cried.

KoKo:  "I don't want the animal to die. It's not good to kill animals. Why they kill the animals?"
He kept on crying and crying. I'm stunt now.

Mummy: Did you eat chicken?.
Koko: Yes. I don't want the animal to die.
Mummy: If nobody sell chicken, then how are you going to get chicken to eat?
Koko: I don't them to kill animal.
Mummy: Then, you don't eat chicken or meat. Nobody going to sell chicken anymore.
Koko: I'll eat vege only, but they will still kill animal. (still crying very lot)...

Since yesterday, Koko insisted on vegetables only. When we reached the hawker stall and he saw his favorite chicken rice, he forgot. Daddy then told him, 'chicken is meat. Do you still want?'
Koko stared at it. Then said, 'Ok, i don't want.' He just ordered a porridge, assuming no meat in there.

Before he ate anything, Koko will ask what is the ingredient use. Flour, ok.. meat, no...
We're wondering how long is his persistence and whether we should support him? No meat?? Hmm...

Orange Chiffon Cake

Feel to make this again.. finding time now..

Time for money or Money for time...

Which choice will you make? If you have enough money, probably you'll want some extra time. If you have a lot of time, probably you'll choose to spend the time to earn some money. For example, you want to buy an oven. Will you just go to an electronics shop and ask about the item and buy it if you're satisfied? Or will you go around to several shops before make your decision? Probably you'll end up buying in the first shop at the end, or probably you'll have a very good bargain on the second/third shop. You'll take 1 hour if you buy it from the first shop or you may take 4 hours for the survey done in several shops.

So far, I'm chasing on the money with my time. Currently, I have been thinking, is it worth the effort of spending so much time just for the money? Should I just use the time to spend with my kids, do my gardening or even just to read a book? Is the present or future is more important? For future, if we don't have the money, we may not be able to enjoy the things that we wish for. If I spend the time to chase for the money now, I may be neglecting the present time that I have. Tough question!! Balance, or yes..easy to say than do.. 

Late Sunday lunch

Ong Cheng Huat Seafood at Bagan Lalang..many should have heard of this place. First time hubby brought us there. We reached at ~1.30pm, it was a late lunch for us but still ok as we got a late breakfast too. A small ally heading to the restaurant but you'll need to be careful when you make the turn as you may hit the other car from the opposite direction. 

Standard ordering of food.. fish, popia, clam/mussels, fried noodle, 'little chick'.. Service is very fast. Food is not bad too. 

Didi said must snap him 1st.. 

Koko enjoying the herbal tea. 

Fried beehoon for 2 persons (RM7), Popia(Rm6/piece), Steam fish tail (RM27) 

Fried little chick (RM10), clams (RM12)

Good late lunch to last till dinner. Price is ok, food is good. Environment is the typical Chinese restaurant, no air-con. Just one thing to my surprise, it didn't serve rice. You can only have fried noddle which this is not the typical chinese way..

Food in Kuching

We tried this restaurant at the famous TopSpot area.

Many choices and pricing is reasonable. Place is very packed with customers. Drink is expensive though..

 Kek lapis-layered cake, many types, many colours. Price range from RM10 to RM50/60.  We tried on 3 shops (Mira, Dayang Salleh, Cythea-a residence house) and decided Mira Cake House is cheap and good. 

Sarawak laksa. You can find it almost in all of the kopitiam.  

I love this. Lui cha.. the rice is superb, but not the green soup. I should have ordered the non-bitter one. 

At the 101 Premier foodcourt. Cha kuih..ask for salty one. The sweet type is not very special.

The sweet Cha Kuih, foochow noodle and black bean soup.  

Forgot what's the name of this noodle. 

Kompiah..

Kuching..going home...

Last day, before going home, the plan was to buy the kek lapis from the shop across the river and then came back packing and go home. Driving around 20minutes, we reached the place. Then, hubby suggested that we took the boat back and he'll drive. I said fine, if it's cheap. I weren't really expected it to be so cheap for a boat ride. Thought just opposite the river. Many locals are using the boat as their transportation across the river. It's only RM0.50/person. There is no satefy feature at all for this boat ride. I told hubby to wait and see us until we reached the other side. Anything happen, he has to jump into the river to save us. :)

We reached safely after 5min boat ride. 

A quick swim before hubby arrived at the hotel. 

The last destination.. Sarawak Tua Pek Kong. Seeing this place almost daily but didnt drop by. 

At Kuching airport..going home..

Kuching..3rd day

So, we decided Semenggoh Orang Utan will another round of visit in the morning. After breakfast, we quickly get into car and start driving to the place. No rain and good weather. We're hoping to see many of them out this round. As we learnt from yesterday, they will take around 15-20min to get the orang utan to be down, so today we reached there at 9.30am, 30min late from the original feeding time. Thought that we'll not need to wait for long to see many of them. Unfortunately, when we reached, most peoples have started to leave and again there were only 3 of the orang utan. Since we're late, we waited till end of the show. Basically around 10am. Still only 3 of them. We're curious and have a chat with the ranger. Now, there are only few of them in the jungle as most of them have been sent away. Seeing 3 of them is considered a lot. 

This is how all the peoples gathered around to look at the orang utan.

Orang utan on the tree swinging down to get the food. 

Didi loves to photo with the pepper tree. He'll run and stand there waiting for the photo to be captured. 

After that, we went to check in to Hotel Grand Margherita. Once in the room, as usual the boys had located the swimming pool area. Insisted so much to get to the pool. However, we said we'll walk around for awhile to see the cats and then only back to the hotel. Photo session with the cats monument around the hotel.

 Around the Waterfront area 

The boy gets grumpy as not allowed to be in the pool, sitting down alone by himself. 

Some cats at the waterfront side. 

After dinner, we went to visit one of mall. Can't remember the name. We found some interesting art exhibition, the largest jean for Malaysia Book Record. 

Art display in the mall.

 

Hotels in Kuching

Hubby and I love this place very much. Basaga Holiday Residences. The environment is very calm, cool and relaxing. Lots of trees and very quiet. The entrance to the hotel is a small alley and you may just miss the turn if you didnt notice the signboard near to the road side. At night, it's a happening place and seems many local folks came over to enjoy the food at the restaurant area. Pool is always shady all the times, unfortunately the leaves keep on falling down to the water. I think hubby booked this hotel at ~Rm140+ price. If we came again, this place will be the choice.

Pool side, view from the room. 

The verandah in front of the room. Room is fine, equip with basic necessity. 

Bar area for breakfast.  They provide a breakfast set for each person and semi buffet of bread toast, cereal. drink and fruits at the bar area.

Front view of the hotel 

Plants and fishes surrounding the building

Grand Magherita is the other hotel that we stayed in Kuching. Paying extra Rm200+ as we thought want to enjoy the swimming pool and nicer hotel. However, we don't really enjoy it so much compare to Basaga. The front desk gave us a smoking room and when hubby released about it, he was informed that all rooms are fully booked. Since the air-con is centralized, the air circulation is bad especially if there is someone smoking in another room. Location is good for this hotel. The hotel is at the town center. Cat monument is exactly in front of the hotel and Waterfront is just 5 minutes walking distance. Kid pool is reasonable but the playground is only located outdoor. It was raining almost whole day when we were there. So, the kids were stuck in the room. 

Hotel view from opposite the river side.

Kid pool with playground next to it.

Kuching..2nd day

 2nd day, our plan was to go to Pekan Serikin. It took around 1hrs drive from Kuching town center to this area. I'll say it's consider isolated and you may be wondering if you got the right way as you're driving towards the direction. The road pavement is very bad along the way. Tar road but with holes, typical road in Malaysia during raining season. We are only there for ~30min or probably less as we started to drive back once it started to rain. It's a long lane with stalls selling many stuffs. I can't find many with traditional things, majority are commercial stuff - clothes, caps,.. which we don't feel excited about.

Some of the things found in this market. Most are repeatable.

On the way back, we dropped by at the Tasik Biru. Nice view of the lake.

Photo by Koko..Didi was sleeping on my lap in the car. 

After lunch, we were rushing to meet the Orang Utan on feeding time at 3pm timeslot. It was raining but still lots of people are around the area. We only managed to see 3 orang utan - 2 big and 1 little baby hanging on the tummy. Hubby and I were disappointed as we remembered when we visited this place in 2004, there were many of them. Thought probably because of the rain, we'll come again tomorrow morning. 

 Standing under the rain to see the orang utan up on the trees. 

Luckily the rain stopped and we manage to visit Kuching Waterfront at night. It's a happening area with many children playing around. We met a whole bunch of Unimas student dancing preparing for their convocation. It was fun as some of them were in ghost/monsters costume running around trying to scare the audience.

Sarawak Cruise boat at the Waterfront. 

Astana

DUN..Dewan Undangan Negeri

Unimas students dancing around.. 

Toys, items for kids selling at one of the corner 

Finally, a glass of cold drink at the hotel to end the day..