trip to kuala gandah

this trip was made a few days before raya haji. we just wanted to get out of kl for a short while. the kids really enjoyed the trip. irfan sampai dah seminggu lebih pun still cakap 'bestlah tengok gajah hari tu...". i guess we can always go the second time and this time pergi deer park skali.

 singgah kat burger king for breakfast

 dah sampai...time ni irfan still takut/geli nak pegang gajah

 masa ni dah ok skit...cari daun untuk bagi gajah makan

 dah berani bagi gajah makan tembikai

 alia memang suka bab-bab binatang ni

 tak menyempat gajah nak makan

 one of the many pose of alia with gajah

 bagi makan kacang pulak

 acara tunggang gajah..sticker for activity with gajah is control..kalau pergi 4 orang, 2 orang je dapat sticker tu..so mak bapak kena mengalah..bagi kat anak-anak.

muka happy lepas turun from gajah

 papa posing with baby gajah

 time mandi dengan gajah pulak...ni kanak kanak tak digalakkan...tapi papa kata alia tinggi so bole join skali..

 irfan nak nangis sebab nak mandi sungai...nak basah macam kakak jugak...so kat bilik air mama mandikan irfan skali

 dah mandi...masuk keta tersu tido all the way back.

kakak pun sama pengsan..

weekend at 1utama

the kids wanted to play here but i told them to wait for papa coz i'm not very sure of their safety here in terms of irfan being able to climb all the way up and down and whether you can just go off shopping leaving them here. i remembered DH told me that irfan tak dapat masuk alone once coz he's not big enough and alia's not there to teman him the last time. And there's no way i'm gonna wait for them at their cafe/waiting area for hours. so since papa was back for raya haji, apalagi, alia terus mintak nak main kat sini.

 we let them play for 2 hours, ajak keluar tak nak..then let them play for another hour

 because they are busy playing, we just ask irfan what bag he wanted for kindie, ben 10 or transformers? sebab suka sangat main, tak kisah pun tak dapat pilih beg sendri. bila dapat...terus nak pakai

 dah lapar...almost 3pm jom lunch

 still tayang beg lagi

 tayang lagi.... lunch was good, but serving size was big..siap tapau lagi

photos taken by alia

alia and irfan took a lot of photos in when we were in melbourne coz it was the first time the got hold of a camera. this is was when we walked to sydney road which about 700m from our place. Not a big deal for me but i guess it was quite far especially for irfan. in order  to keep him occupied i asked him to pose, play some silly games and showed them interesting stuff along the way. masa ni jalan lenggang kangkung and muka pun happy lagi.

this is when i was window shopping at the small factory outlet there...it's not easy window shopping let alone shopping with two kids tagging you.

so i ask alia to take some photos

 of irfan fooling around

i introduced to alia some vegetables especially those not available in Malaysia and ask her to snap those veges that she did not recognized

 ni masa balik..bag full of barang pasar. irfan mintak dukong but sorila ye...sekejap je, semput mama nanti

 still smiling sebab perut dah kenyang makan roasted chicken

 lemon tree..something that alia recognized

 one of the many photos of flowers that she took

 this is when we went to victoria market masa papa on call

 masa balik..irfan dah ngantuk

 apa kakak amik gambar irfan ni?

dah selamat tido....

photos taken by irfan

 these photos was taken by irfan during the last visit to senawang. it was a day before and during nazeef's aqiqah celebration. irfan brought the kodak camera and started snapping the moment we reached senawang.

 anees trying a dress

 nenny being a sport

 anees posing again

 apa amik gambar mama dekat sangat ni irfan?

 amik gambar harish plak

 the pengantin

 amik gambar lagi

 i like this pics

 amik gambar guest skali...irfan acted like a photographer that day...ikut je the real photographer amik gambar apa..of course there's alot more photos that were not clear...

lain kali bole jadi photographer ye irfan..

petrosains

we went to petrosains during one of the raya break. selalu bila nak masuk mesti penuh, so buat reservation dulu and have to collect the ticket half hour before the time allocated.

 bila dah dapat tiket bergambar depan petrosains dulu

 still outside..main2 dulu dengan their display

 ajar irfan main game ni

 irfan tak nak bagi chance kat kakak..dia sorang je nak main ni..last2 kakak try yang sebelah

 kakak dalam space suit? tak tau ape bende ni coz tengah jaga irfan time ni

 tunggu nak masuk helicopter simulation...

 gambar kat dinosaur yang menyanyi lak...irfan takut nak dekat

 main2 drive kete

irfan doing a 'mr. bean"

spa treat

this raya break i went to a spa to have a body massage. went to the spa above and try their massage, it was a bit different from the traditional malay/indonesian massage. halfway through the massage the masseur offered me to try guasa saying that my body has a lot of  'angin'. after some times trying to convince me to try it, (her trying to make me understand  and i'm trying my best trying to figure out whether she was speaking mandarin, english or malay), i said ok.
after some googling, this is what i found out about guasa  
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1207095/guasa_the_3000yearold_beauty_ritual.html

hmmm..red patches are signs of toxins released from the body...betul ke? and is there a  medical terminology for body which has a lot of angin? something to do with lymphatic system?  i didn't really enjoy the guasa experience as it was on the painful side and i ended up with a lot of red patches on my back. a simple massage would do. a hot stone massage would be better.

raya at kampung

raya kat rumah pak lang

 posing lagi

black and white theme to go with the classic background

 nak posing jugak kat sini. would you believe if i said this is gambar tahun 50an? hehehe

 apela yang alia pikir ni...

bergambar sebelum balik

kat kampung irfan dapat kawan his cousins and second cousins...apa lagi terus main kat luar....main kejar-kejar ayam

i think this is the first time irfan kejar ayam

tak kira panas...lari je...i think whenever they balik kampung they get a dose of kampung life like i did when i was small and staying with my grandma. it's not something that you can experience living in the city and i cherished that time of my life.