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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Pulau Ketam 15 Sep 2013

IMG_2564We came back to Pulau Ketam again. Usually we would park our car at the Subang Jaya KTM Station and took the KTM from Subang to Port Klang, a journey of nearly an hour each way.

This time, we were bringing Kinki go together with us, thus we have to drive the car to the Jetty Point and parked our car at the parking area. We walked to the Jetty Point, the ferry leaves every 45 minutes to one hour, from 7:00am to around 7:00pm.

We took the speed boat, and it is a bit expensive than the normal ferry. But, the experience and feelings of the wind blowing to your face during the boat on their way to the Pulau Ketam.

IMG_2565 This time around, we stayed at Pulau Ketam Inn. The room is quite cramp but it is ok as long as they have air-conditioning.

We did not purposely make reservations up front as there is almost always something available. Just worst case scenario, is that we take the last boat back to Port Klang only.

Main reason why tourists visit Pulau Ketam is of course to enjoy a fantastic meal at one of the many great seafood restaurants.

IMG_2568 Usually one will find a big bucket full with live crabs in front of every restaurant during lunch time. If you are staying over for the night, make sure you head over to the restaurants in time as all the fresh seafood is often already finished later in the evening.

The islands' specialty is crab. There are a few restaurant on the island, thus we tried different restaurant during our breakfast, lunch and dinner time. The breakfast would be just ok only, but as the lunch and dinner, we were satisfying for the value for money meals. Of coarse, Pulau Ketam had become a tourists destination, thus it would be in tourists’ price too.

IMG_2573 The island is characterized by the houses built on stilts; it is a so-called water village. They are built in such a way that it almost looks like the houses float.

Pulau Ketam only consists of two small villages on stilts and not much more. The biggest part of the island is only accessible by boat because of the swampland and mangroves. Main activities are walking around in the village, or biking through the village on a rental bicycle.

We did the walking and had great fun. The village is not that big, but it still takes over an hour to explore the whole area.

IMG_2575 During the trip we took a few stops to enjoy the scenery, views or a snack that is sold at every corner of the village. We pass by the one and only bank in the island – Maybank. Kids were asking Daddy to buy for them the wind wheel to play.

We did visit the fishermen cold storage areas where they take off or parking their boats, and the place they cold store their fish after come back from sea. At that point of time, there weren’t anybody at the dock, we just sat at the area and see the views of the villages.

IMG_2579 During our walking trip we drove past a wooden fishing boat factory; the owner builds these wooden boats (almost solely) by hand. There also are two Chinese temples; Nang Thiam Keng Temple and Hock Leng Keng Temple and many small altars scattered throughout the village. Most other activities involve eating at the many seafood restaurants, where regular dishes are also being served.

Overall a good trip for both children, as they able to spend some valuable time with Daddy. I noted that he keep on looking at his hand phone…Well, just a short trip for both children…

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Our Alien Character Family

Tonight Issac got the ideas from Onom character. He drew our family in alien characters. This is so creative! He is creating something new!

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Annabelle helping her brother to post the characters. They are so excited!

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Issac drew daddy Alvin in blue colour, holding working bag and book; Issac in his favourite yellow colour, holding bottle and lollipop; Annabelle in maroon colour holding rattle and lollipop; whereby me is in pink colour, holding a bottle of spray cleaning bottle and cleaning cloth.

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Issac added one more character – Kinkin, the green dog!

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Finally, Issac added the Onom in the drawing. He is happy with his creation! I was crying as I watching them draw and so happy, I can feel their happiness. But at the same time I feel afraid too… afraid of losing all these happiness again…

Monday, September 9, 2013

未來

Dear,

「未來」都是由每一個今天所組成的;

每一個深情的愛,

都是由日積月累的相處所構築起來的。


余世达,我爱你。

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Annabelle Self-Portrait

Here is a self-portrait drawn by Annabelle. She loves long hair Girl so much! She even draws Kinki Dog face inside her drawing!

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Saturday, September 7, 2013

Sri Ayutthaya Authentically Thai Restaurant @ USJ11 7 Sep 2013

IMG_2498 It was a dinner gathering among the Chong Families, before our cousins Tong Keat’s wedding.

Aunty Mei Lin initiated the dinner. She leave the dinner venue to Aunty Jasmine to determine. Finally, Aunty Jasmine had chosen Sri Ayutthaya Authentically Thai Restaurant which is at the USJ11.

Daddy unable to attend the dinner as he is attending his boss’s son wedding dinner at Majestic Kuala Lumpur. He is going to help his boss in entertaining his corporate clients and consultants.

IMG_2442 And at the same time, his boss will be busy entertaining his families members and his some royal guests, because his son’s newly weds wife if from Negeri Pahang royal family, grand daughter something like that. Thus, Daddy will be busy with his events.

Mummy just dressed up both Issac and Annabelle and we go to the restaurant.

As we walked in, I was rather to surprise to see that the interior decoration was just simply awesome and it was certainly top notch!

IMG_2446 I think the furniture itself must be imported from Thailand, because can see the fine details on the designs, displayed until the cutlery set as well.

Especially, once you entered from the main entrance, it is designed in such a way that the whole dining area is sitting and floating on a koi pond which is surrounded the whole restaurant! It do amazed me!

IMG_2481Never think of this concept would appeared in a shop houses as what it is located now.

We were sitting on separately 2 tables – the Seniors and the Juniors table. Aunty Jasmine ordered the dinner. It was really a great time for us – aunties, uncles, cousins and siblings chit-chatting gathering session.

The food also nice too…

IMG_2472 We had tried some of the signature dishes as Crispy Chicken Thai Style (The chicken fillet were deep fried and as such very crispy, then together with their homemade chilli dipping sauce), Steam Fish Thai Style (The fish steamed with the Assam sauce with Thai Style), Butter Prawn (Fried Prawn with butter with the fried beaten egg, Kerabu Mango which is so spicy, Fried Sotong Thai Basil, Fried Asparagus etc but of coarse not forgetting Tom Yam Gong. All come with steamed rice. Our dessert was Chendol.

After both Issac and Annabelle had their dinner, they were just walking around and explore the restaurant. They were having fun in exploring too!

Overall is a fun dinner together for us! Enjoy it very much!

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Another Fun Saturday ^^

It is another Saturday as usual. We walked around Citta Mall after the children’s art class, and we snap some photos at the MBO Cinema.

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It was rain heavily today. We just take away Mc Donald’s fast food back home because we need to fetch Kinki back home from the pet shop too.

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What a funny face and cute dog! Winking smile