Glad To Be Here

Had a fun day yesterday at 1Borneo with my family. The boys were absolutely exhausted from running and playing skitch except without the car. The tiles there are slippery, that’s why.

We had our lunch in Manhattan fish market (I didn’t physically went to a real fish market). If you haven’t been there, just some information here. The shop is basically seperated into two section, it looks like it has two entrance with the cashier and kitchen in the middle. We walked in from the entrance near to the escalator. The staffs were always at the entrance welcoming people but sometimes they neglected us in there, so I had to really call out to them to get their attention when we need some refill on the free flower ice-lemon-tea that we’ve ordered. Yup, you read it right, free flow! They call it bottomless! *grin* We had been stingy just to order one set of that add-on which include a bowl of soup of the day and one glass of bottomless ice-lemon-tea. The boys had some of the soup and lots of the drink!!

Little Mer was sleeping when we got there, and lucky us we didn’t order anything for him because it turn out that even the kids’ meal were in a bigger version that we thought it should be. So basically we had them sharing with each other. Even that they still didn’t finished their bow of big boat. Hubby was saying next time when we go there again, we’ll just order kid’s meal *grin*

Our order was platter for two which is really more than enough for two. It has prawn, oysters, fish and chips, and the squid ring. Good bargain actually. There were still lots of other choices in the menu but our stomach doesn’t allow us to try anything more after that platter. I was full till late in the evening!



In comparison to Fish & Co., they are almost the same, just that this tartar saurce got more garlic taste, and Fish & Co.’s fish seems more crunchy on his fried part.

On another account, the weather out there is going nuts these days, gloomy in the morning and it can get really sunny and hot starting at noon time, thus I always got my sunglasses ready, there are some nice one here to at Wayfarer sunglasses.

I’ve been busy playing secretary these few days for my dear hubby who will be coming back on Saturday. Meaning I’ll be moving back to my in-laws’ place for a week during those “home coming” time. Yes, I’ve been doing that ever since I’ve moved back to my parents’ home after the birth of little Mer. It is just so much convenient and comfortable for me to stay with my parents. No, I’m not saying they (my in-laws) are not nice people, it is just that mom’s cooking is the best on earth! *LOL*

So I’ve arranged that we’ll have dinner outside on Saturday after his arrival, have book dental appointment for him and have thought of some other things that he needs to settle while he is back here. I have also hint my boys that daddy is coming home and they are pretty excited about it. I remember Cal told me that he wanted to make a card for daddy and he wanted to write a little message saying “Baba, I want you to be here, don’t be in China, I like Baba to be here.”

Well, it sounded so pity that this little boy isn’t getting enough of his daddy, same goes to little Mer, he would let out a squeek, a happy one of course.

Boys will be boys, and surely they love their daddy just because he is who is he, further more they can play real guys’ thing with him, maybe have a spanner and oil here and there, mending their bike or something. I bet they’ll even love it more if daddy is doing some DIY thing which involve work holding (whatever that means).

Yes, I can’t wait to see their respond when they really see their daddy in front of them.

I’ve just help hubby booking a ticket and getting a quote for him from the travel agent for his near trip to Singapore. A return ticket for a night stay in Singapore would cost around RM1300. Not a bad deal, considering that he’s going to get a refund for those ticket from the company concern that he’s going to meet over there. And yes, he is coming back for the Raya holiday because it will be the national golden holiday in China, it’s going to be their National Day holiday! And we get to enjoy it together back home!

Initially we plan for a trip to Kundasang, but since not much of a respond and due to the uncertain weather change, we cancelled the trip and leave it to random choices when he is back. I know he’ll be busy catching up with lots of things back home, but I’m hoping for quality time spend together as a family.

Our plan is for me and kids to visit him before end of the year and spend Christmas and new year together over in China or Hong Kong. I know with the news about banned China’s milk now, I’ll need to be prepared with enough milk formula for the boys, get our VISA done and get those warm clothing ready. Fortunately our passports are still valid during the traveling period, else it would mean more money to spend renewing our passports.

Talking about passports, for those of you who are holding an American passport and looking forward to travel in other countries, maybe you should check out this site call American Passport Express, which hep in processing passport and VISA.

As for me, I’ll just stick to my Malaysian passport and finger crossed that I get to visit America at least once in my life time.

And he accidentally caused the death of two! Poor thing!

That’s what happened on Saturday evening and yesterday. Little Cal has discovered this temporary pond made by our car tyre, it was full of tadpole! They must have turned to tiny toads and he found them too!

He was just so curious about them, he tried to touch them, scare them but he was so kind he wanted to add some more water in the pond and also shoved off some dirt to make a bigger space for them. He even wanted to show his Kung-Kung about them, so he brought one over to my in-laws’ house on Saturday evening. That poor toads must have been dyhydrated and die after that.

Little Cal didn’t realise he caused the death of the toad and he still goes back to that pond and examined them. But I’ve warned him not to touched them again after another one die. He must have felt terrible and kept on denying that he is the caused of it. He told me he only touched them like butterfly kisses.

The good thing living in rural area huh!? That much he has the chance to learn about small creatures like tadpole, that much of experience that he even played with them. I’m glad that we are not living in a big city that he doesn’t have the chance for all these fun stuff.

We love mayo! Egg mayo, tuna mayo, even just mayo with bread. I didn’t know that the boys love it so much that they can just eat like that. Little Cal got a strange way to eat it, his request was mayo with pepper in his bread! And he finished it like it was really tasty!

I’ve just reserved another empty bottle of mayo, just getting prepare to do some alteration craft on it, or maybe just some decoration on the bottle and it can be a very nice container for gift. It is a very good way to reuse empty glass bottle. It is what I call green gifts. I have actually several empty mayo bottles!

In order for me to get rid of the paper stick on the bottle, I let it stayed overnight in some water and the piece of paper just peel off by itself! Don’t even need to rub it.

I’ll just need to think of what to put in there.. smarties? Some little chocolate? hmm..

Had some craft time with the boys today. At first it was only with Cal and I was pretty happy with it, ‘cos he listen to instructions and know what to do and what not to do. At that time, little Mer was still in the room with his trains and automobiles, playing alone (it is what he is best of). After two cards, little Mer came out of the room and I’ve invited him into the craft session (major mistake!!).

After telling him that he can stamp some words in his card, he demanded more, he wanted to stamp basically everywhere in his card!! The next thing is he wanted to cut up the stamped image! Boy oh boy! What follow next is I have to quickly distract him and get everything into my craft room again (we were doing it outside in the porch area).

Still, the result is pretty and satisfying except of the hiccup.
From this:

To this:

Not bad huh!?
By the way, there is this site that offer Ferrari parts together with some other merchandise, check it out!

We had a blast last night in the Headquarters of the State Library with cool crown Uncle Button and Bookworm Auntie Suzie. The children are absolutely hilarious and really excited to meet these two special guests from West Malaysia and the US.

The program started off with Ms Bookworm telling stories and singing songs, playing tricks and magic! Then follow by Uncle Button, the clown. Oh boy, the children just love them!! Most of them sit in front, right off the stage on the floor. They were very interactive and attentive as well. There were this brave boy that got on stage helping Uncle Button in getting his stuff which fall on the floor and he ended up on stage co-hosting with Uncle Button. It was hilarious, he is one bright kid and who are not shy of talking out loud.

The children had free goodie bags after the show and hopefully that creates the love of reading in the library too. They got pencils, pencil sharpener, eraser, ruler and Tiger biscuit, but nothing about the library or anything that attracts them to the library! I was surprise to find that.

They are going to have another show again on this Saturday in City Library, Kota Kinabalu at 9:30 am. Be there if you want your kids to have some great time with Auntie Suzie the bookworm and Uncle Button the clown.

The result follow by this activity was that little Mer wants me to bring him to see more clowns!

Well, I know I have two boys and what boys love!? Cars! Trains! Planes! Helicopters! My two boys just can’t get enough of that. They even pick books that talk about cars!
This morning little Mer went to school with his bag full of Thomas & friends. He sure won’t leave the home if I stop him from doing so.
It would be a dilemma for me if I bring them to window shopping and they passed by this toy shop, they’ll surely discover something that they like, either it is automobiles or Ultraman.
The other day we were having KFC in 1Borneo and Toy’R’Us is opening soon next to the KFC! Oh boy, I knew next time if we ever go back there again, I’ll have to be prepared!
I know they’ll surely love those remote helicopters and cars show in this site: Think RC. These rc helicopters will just captivate my boys’ eyes and if I don’t distract them for something else, they’ll surely whine about getting them!

I was almost late this morning, just because there are some nosy drivers out there who wanted to slow down and take a look at the car accident! Why can’t they just move on? If however you know those people in the accident or you wanted to offer your help, by all means pull over at the side, get down and do your charity. But if you don’t, just move on! You are causing some people to be late. The accident itself already causing traffic jam, what more with those nosy people around! Fortunately my patient limit is still there, else I would have honk the car in font of me!

I know Mid-Autumn Festival has passed (it was last Sunday), but my boys didn’t get the chance to really light up the lantern, because it was raining on Sunday night. What they did was to light them up yesterday, yup, it was even night yet, but they wanted to do that. Then this two brothers work together and enjoyed their lighted up lantern in a dark corner in the house, so kesian huh!?

After that was question time from Cal concerning the candle. He asked how come the candle didn’t light up if it is up-side-down.

Later last night he needs to finish off his school work and he was resisting to do that until I told him I’m going to hug him if he finish it. So he did! Straight away after that he said “Hug leh?” This little guy, I suppose I need to give him more attention and hugging in order for him to get things done. Sometimes it is frustrating when I really don’t have the time, or maybe just that I didn’t put enough time on him. Ya ya.. probably is my fault too.

Recently the boys seems to be playing together more rather than fighting with each other more, but still little Mer got scratched by Cal this morning on the face! The babysitter said fortunately is a boy :p

I received this tag from Osindak:

Here goes :

Do you remember how you developed a love for reading?
No, not really, am really getting old for this.

What are some books you read as a child?
I remember I started reading Enid Blyton’s books. Oh, and those pretty comic books.

What is your favorite genre?
Now!? Travel, crafts, cookbook.

Do you have a favorite novel?
Only one that I can remember.

Where do you usually read?
I’m dealing with books everyday, part of my job is to read them, but for those that I love, I normally read them at home and right after office hour.

When do you usually read?
whenever I have the time and mood.

Do you usually have more than one book you are reading at a time?
Normally that would be magazines!

Do you read nonfiction in a different way or place than you read fiction?
Hmm.. interesting, never have thought of this.

Do you buy most of the books you read, or borrow them, or check them out of the library?
You mean magazines? Of course I buy them, and even subscribing to severals now

Do you keep most of the books you buy?
Yes, they are precious to me, especially the scrapbook magazines, all the ideas are there!

If you have children, what are some of the favorite books you have shared with them? Were they some of the same ones you read as a child?
I started them new, not yet sharing my favorite books. I bought them board books, Harry and the dinasour, Thomas & Friends, books from Doulos, books borrow from church etc, they have a better collection than me, and bigger too.

Do you keep a TBR (to be read) list?
Nope, I’m a spontaneous reader.

What’s next?
More scrapbooking books.

What books would you like to reread?
err.. no idea..

Who are your favorite authors?
None that I can recall.

Well, since I deal with books everyday, so maybe I’ll just stop here, not passing on, but all of you who read this can have a thought about it.

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Happy Mid-autumn festival and do enjoy those mooncake of yours while lighting up your lantern.