Holidays Programme for Audrey

We have enrolled Audrey to the Holidays Programme organized by My Montessori started last week. It cost us additional of RM150 for 2 weeks programme, expensive or not? Yes, on top of her normal fees, we need to pay the extra amount for the programme. Usually I will check through the programme with her teacher first before agree on that. Just for formality, no doubt most of the time we got no choice but let her join the crowd.

And I find the programme this time is much more interesting. Last week, she has visited to Domino Pizza at Sg.Long, participated in fashion designing & mini marathon, went for a picnic nearby, made a craft for Christmas. Whereas this week, beside doing spray painting, she will be visiting batik and chocolate factory (Beryls) at Serdang. Mummy might be joining them too ..... hoping to get some cheap choc (tried tiramisu choc from Beryls, thumbs up).

See, she has painted herself and mei mei on a t-shirt after teacher's help to draw on it.

Craft - simple X'mas wreath

Star cruising again!

Around this time last year, we went for star cruise named Gemini. The experiences of cruising was greats until we went another round of it but this time, we took cruise Libra. Cruise Libra is slightly bigger than cruise Gemini.

Some of you might be wondering what is so nice about cruising which has made me adventure it twice.... he he. Well, I personally feel relax to go cruise and have few good points in mind to share with you.

a) Cruise will embark at few places depends on the route you join. You could enjoy few hours of local trip at each destination.

b) No hassle of room checking in and out when you travel from one place to another. For instance, we departure from PK to Phuket and then to S’pore, but we still sleep in the same room.

c) They sail while you sleep, so you could save some traveling time. When you wake up the next day, you probably reach another destination. Amazing right?

d) They provide foods to all passengers. You don’t need to worry about your meals thus no headache to search for food. What you need to do is just walk in the restaurant after glance through their menu of the day. We were given 3 choices of venue to have our meal in the past 5D 4N cruise. From international buffet to Chinese and Western restaurant, go to any of the restaurant, your stomach will feel satisfy. Besides the 3 normal meals, we were also being served 2 tea breaks and 1 supper daily. So all of us just makan (eat), minum (drink) and tidur (sleep) there. What a relax life!
e) There are a lot of free activities being organizing from morning till night. You won’t feel bore. Standard facilities are also available for you to explore.

Feel interesting? Ha ha ha….. you may want to plan the same for your family. Here I posted some photos taken inside the cruise, don’t be surprised most of it were food. Tell you what, I’m truly madly and deeply missing the pasta. It’s sooooooooo yummy!

From right : Our room with a porthole (additional charges). 3 happy kids. Shannen was enjoying cake.

From right : Both my gals like to play on the upper deck bed. They were making a lot of "whoa...." when they saw big ships passing by.

From left : this is the best pasta in town.

Now only I realized I didn't snap any food served by Chinese Restaurant :( , perhaps I was too hungry that time.

When we were at Harbourfront Terminal, S'pore, Virgo Star Cruise was parked beside us. We got the chance to view it for the first time. Comparing with Libra, Virgo is huge, awesome and astonishing. I told hubby this will be our target next year.

Fruitful Raya Holidays

I was enjoying my holidays and lazy to do blogging until today. No holidays trip but just stayed around KL to enjoy the Raya Holidays. Summarized on what we have done for the past 4 days.

Day 1 (19 Sept)

Cooked lunch at home. After afternoon nap, had dinner at mum place. Celebrated Jack's 7th years old birthday.

Day 2 (20 Sept)

Picnic at KLCC Park with few good friends (thank God no raining on that morning, in fact the weather was good, no hot sun). It was actually a reunion organized for a friend from Melbourne. Around 11am, we went to SS2 for lunch with parents and sister in law. Hubby recommended this restaurant (New Paris) of its famous and delicious food. Not bad, not bad.

After lunch, went to Tropicana Mall for shopping. Reached home around 4.30pm. Both my girls were sleeping soundly. Thought of cooking simple dishes for dinner but then hubby felt like going to Look Out Point for dinner. So we left home around 6.15pm to the place together with my sister family.

We reached there around 7.15pm and it's was so crowded. Due to parking on top hill were full, hubby got no choice but made U turn to park his car down the hill. So we (mummy with 2 gals) get down from the car and walked up. It was so exhausted even it's just a short distance (the road was very steep). Huh.... me got to carry little Shannen while one hand holding Audrey.

We already made reservation at Look Out Point Western Restaurant but no seats for us as it was so packed. I think they just simply took down our call for reservation but never reserve for us seriously. Em.... services was a thumbs down. Few other customers standing out there also making noise for the same incident. Without wasting time, I walked down to another restaurant, Gasoline to survey for empty table. Luckily they have a bigger space that can cater us immediately.

It was around 8pm, children started making noise for food. We quickly ordered something without spending much time to survey the menu. To my surprise, the food came quite fast even with the amount of people around. We wallop everything to fill up our empty stomach. Food is so so ..... I think it can be better if we come on normal day.

Oh ya, forget to report on the main attraction : night scenery. It's worth to travel 23km from my house for an excellent night view there. If you like to enjoy KL city night view with a cup of coffee or red wine, this is absolutely the right and romantic place for couples. We plan to come again next round for a better food (hopefully the other restaurant serve good food) as well as the scenery.

Day 3 (21 Sept)

We paid a visit to a recommended baby sitter's house at Sunnyvale (Bandar Sri Sg.Long). Most likely will send Shannen to her for baby sitting middle next month. We are quite satisfy with the cleanliness and environment of the house (not messy). Hope my little girl will cope with the baby sitter after one or two days cry.

We had tuna sandwiches for lunch as I planned to make Japanese Soft Cotton Cheese Cake in the afternoon. I had Audrey as my assistant this time. She helped to do the pouring of the weighted ingredient into the mixture bowl and did some washing for me too. The cake didn't turn out perfectly as it was too hard and not soft. I'm still figuring the root cause, anyone can help?

Dinner with my family members at a restaurant located right beside a Chinese temple, opposite Jusco Cheras Selatan. Another crowded place for dine in, almost full house even at 6pm. Foods are nice and cheap. Highly recommended.

Day 4 (22 Sept)

Home cook lunch for kids and hubby. After that requested hubby to send us (me and Audrey) to KLCC mall while on the way back to MIL place. Poor Shannen cried inside the car for not coming with us. I kept on teasing Audrey that she was lucky to come with me and insisted she must behave during the 2 hours shopping. And she did, good girl. We took LRT back to Wangsamaju and asked hubby to pick us up from the station. Audrey was excited to take LRT for the first time. Overall, it was an enjoyable times spent for both "kaki shopping" ladies.