Family travel
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Embracing nature
Going back to hometown means embracing nature. Being born in a little house by a river amidst the lush tropical trees, nature has always been close to my heart.
Here’s my recent trip to Lata Lembik, Raub, Pahang.
And here’s a view of Banjaran Titiwangsa (Titiwangsa Range) from Simpang Kallang, Raub, Pahang.
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Penang: from my son’s journal
I really thought that last Monday was a public holiday, so we stayed for the night (Sunday) in Penang. Truth, Monday was school day! Kantoi! Tapi dah buat surat explain to the teacher….
My son was really excited about going to an Island, so he took my mini notebook and wrote/drew things he saw.
No smoking. Not sure where he saw this.
Breakfast time. His dad and me seated together and him alone. Actually his cousin sister was seated besides him, but somehow he intentionally left her out.
List of food we ate during breakfast, complete with the table number 🙂
A list of places that he passed by and how many times.
(It’s a good idea to take note on how many longkang you passed by.)
Pulau Rimau ferry.
Marine life in Penang.
Oh! Penang got orca!
Our car.
Eh?
Hmm…
Ok, you may ignore the latter two; they were so not Penang! Hehehehe
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Blogging from Penang
Yassin wanted to go to the beach, so we went to Penang. Stopped by Lunas, Kulim to visit my aunt and uncle and later went to UKL, Kulim to visit our niece. Ada. Ada accompanied us to Penang.
Yassin and his dad on the ferry
Yassin and his cousin sister, Ada
Yassin trying to build sandcastle
He was too lazy, he drew instead!
Main korek-korek pasir
Yassin running and jumping his heart out
Me
This pictures were taken yesterday. Am blogging now from a hotel in Penang city centre and while waiting for hubby to take a quick nap before checking-out at 12pm.
Here’s a snapshot of Yassin today:
He took notes of what we did today and I have to refer to his notes before I could put up another entry. Till then, tata!
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Blogging from Pendang, Kedah
Went to visit dear mother in Pendang, Kedah. Took the chance to visit my cousin in Kubang Jawi, 40 minutes drive from Pendang. Yassin had a blast, befriended my cousin’s daughter Jiha and her cousin Nana, their ducks and cows.
Breath-taking view, you can see Gunung Keriang far back.
My cousin leading the way to his house.
Yay! Coconut juice for us!
My cousin preparing our drinks. His daughter and my son were looking in full enthusiasm.
Yassin peeking inside the ducks den.
A duckling!
Yassin holding a duckling.
Mama duck and her babies resting on the paddy field divider.
A cow!
What a bliss!
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Twigaholic
So what do you do with a bunch of twigs?
You can do wonders if you want. Like these:
Although I have two big trees at my front yard but there wasn’t enough supply to make the above. So what I did was, went to the park, KL Lake Garden to be precise, and collect dry twigs. I am very sure that DBKL wouldn’t mind as I was doing nature a big favour; recycling.
Cool projects, right? I bought the plain frames from Ikea (3 for RM5.90) and made the pencils stand out of tissue tube. Covered the bottom part with layers of masking tape. I don’t think you need instruction for these projects as you can already figure it out by looking at them pictures.
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Petrosains Muzika
Do you like music? You do, yes? But do you know anything about the science of music?
Not really, yes? My answer is ‘not really’ as well and that triggers me to learn more about it. So, yesterday I went to visit the latest exhibition in town: Petrosains Muzika at Petrosains, Level 4, Suria KLCC, Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur with my husband and son. The visit was great and we had tons of fun! Petrosains Muzika lets us mess around with music in ways we probably haven’t before; we can listen, see, touch, create and learn! Among exhibits we enjoyed include Speed of Sounds, World Music, Digital Piano Multi-Touch, Sound Spaces, Air Guitar, Never-Ending Piano, Vinyl Scratching, Giant Panpipes and many more.
Strum away the invisible guitar like Yngwie Malmsteen or Man Kidal!
Listen to World’s music by putting on the earphone and point the listening device to white spots. Can you guess what song represents Malaysia? Go and find out ‘coz I am not going to spoil the fun ^_^
You can listen to the panpipes humming by pressing your ears onto the mouth of the panpipes as well as play to the notes given by hitting the mouth with a club.
Vary the sound by just playing the strings instrument, or add woodwinds or brass or percussion to the Lahti Symphony. Better still, combine all together.
Listen to different quality of music samples from phonograph, gramophone, turntable (vinyl record) and CD.
I was lucky to be born in the era of turntable; my father had one. Funny thing is, as I recall it today, it was playing Boney M, many times over, to the extent that I could really remember the song by heart. Really.
Interactive information about Music & Seismology.
Virtual drum.
Do visit Petronas Muzika to experience all the fun. Below are details about admission hours and rates.
Admission hours
Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri – 9.30am – 5.30pm (last admission is 4.30pm)
Sat | Sun | Public Holidays – 9.30am – 6.30pm (last admission is 5.30pm)Rates
Children (4 years old and below) – Free
Children ( 5 – 12 years old) – RM3
Adults – RM6Booking Line
603-23318181Logon to Petronas Muzika and join the on-going contest. Answers can only be obtained by visiting the exhibition. Prizes include PlayStation3, Nintendo Wii and iPod Touch. All winners will also receive a 1-year Petrosains Membership. Closing date of the contest will be on March 31, 2010.
p/s Have you been to Petronas Muzika? Let me know what you think about the exhibition and what exhibit do you enjoy most.
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Taking time off up the tower
My body was aching and my knees hurt from the long sedentary position while working on illustrations for my book. The TV was on, the cartoons were screaming dingbodingboding, mishka mushka and other cartoony words, my son was talking non-stop and was expecting me to attend to him and answer all his questions. While figuring out answers to his questions, I remembered that I haven’t done my laundry. And then I remembered that I have typesetting amendments to make, drawings to illustrate, illustrations to draw (however you put it), yada yada yada, the list went on. My stress hormones suddenly went imbalance and before I snap, I quickly took a hit from my Delta 8 disposable pen and said to my son, ” ok, let’s go somewhere.” This is a way for me to combat the stressful work or environment. I’m not saying that home environment is stressful but I’m working from home, home is my office, so yes, sometimes it is stressful.
Even if we cannot afford to go for a good vacation, a trip to local attractions is good enough. My son had been wanting to go to KL Tower since last month and the last time we went, he was 3. He said he could not remember what was it like to be on ‘top of the world’ and in need to refresh his memory. So yesterday, up the KL Tower we went.
It was just the two of us; my husband had to go to work.
After purchasing tickets of RM66 for both of us (including pony rides, animal zone and F1 simulator), we went up the tower; straight to the observation deck.
I screamed from the top of my lung, “KL, we’re up here!!”
Well, not literally; just softly in my heart.
I snapped pictures of buildings and was like ‘whoa, this building is pretty, wah that one is awesome, ooooh what an antique building‘ and so on. From the look of Yassin’s hey-this-is-supposed-to-be-my-trip face, I know he was getting bored so I told him he could buy something before we went down.
“I want that Emperor penguin“, he pointed.
Yassin is a big fan of animals and you could see his drawings of animals that I put up in his blog.
So, off we went to the Animal Zone. Yassin was expecting Indian Rhino or Siberian Tiger…
…told him that the Animal Zone is not like Zoo Negara where big animals are kept but overall he was happy to see cute animals like marmoset, fox and albino baboon. There were snakes but I dare not take their pictures!
Later, we went for a pony ride and F1 Simulator. He was not allowed on the latter as he was 4 inches short!! But we got to take pictures anyway.
We felt renewed after the visit. I did my laundry, cleaned the house and cooked. Yassin continued with his daily routine, playing Marine Park games as well as filling his drawing pads with animal drawings. I continued with my illustrations.
And also back to figuring out answers to my son’s endless questions. But that is okay as I have 2 things off my list for the week.
