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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Braided Annabelle

She is very happy today because Aunty Joyce helped her to tie her hair, and she is very happy about her new hair style today!

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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Daily…

Annabelle so happy today because today Mandarin spelling she got a great marks!IMG_4409
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Issac is having fun with his new toy which from school too!
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

KL Bird Park Revisited

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This is not the first time we come to KL Bird Park, but it is the first time we came together after both Alvin and I were separated. It is odd but I try to be myself and do not want to think too much.

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The children were enjoying their day out. What is the most happiest moment when both of your mother and father are together with you enjoying the fun? This is our family photo together.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

SY2 Chinese New Year Gathering

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Today is Prudential Taman Sea Branch Chinese New Year celebration, there are Lou Sang, Lion Dance Ceremony for all the Agency Managers, Unit Managers and all the Quality Agents.

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I too joined the joyful and prosperous occasion. We joined with the rest of the team and all of us are getting a big Ang Pow for our ‘Hoi Kong Tai Kat’.

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Monday, February 3, 2014

Catholic Memorial Pilgrimage Centre 3 Feb 2014

IMG_0233 It is the 3rd day of Chinese New Year and I was forgotten it was whose ideas is that to visit this holy place. And it is really new to me as well too as I was never heard or gone to this place at Kuching past few years ago.

Mount Singai, situated between Bau & Batu Kawa, about 550m high, is located about 40 minutes drive from Kuching. This is where the Catholic Memorial & Pilgrimage Centre to be found.

We reached at the foot of the Mount. Singai and it is located in the village, there is a small stall selling coconut drinks and other soft drinks.

IMG_0182Going to this special place is like a renewal of faith. Not only one needs to walk uphill for more than 30 minutes, when I saw the steep timber staircase with most of the walkways are covered by moss, my mind was thinking like, “It would take all my energy to climb up to the top, oh dear…”

With Daddy and I were taking care so many children with us, as Brother Andrew and Minah did not follow us due to his health, both of them waited us at the stall at the foot of the mountain. We often stopped to catch a breath and take photos along our way up to the mount.

Plank-walks and staircase were built at some of the steep places thus provide convenient to elderly visitors. Halfway up to the Centre is a clearing providing a good view of the Kampung below and also Batu Kawa township in the distance. There are altogether fourteen station of the cross along the track.

IMG_0183But once we get to the centre the feeling of fresh air and lush, green scenery that surrounds the place greets you with a calm and peaceful feeling. All you hear is the sound of the small jungle creatures that was left to live undisturbed.

The area surrounding the Catholic Memorial Pilgrimage Centre is also a good site for Jungle trekking and also wildlife sighting.

There are abundance of fruit trees, palm ferns, wild flowers along the path and also wildlife. A jungle path leading to the top of Mount Singai located just beside the Longhouse.

A brief history of Catholic Memorial Pilgrimage Centre. Over a hundred years ago, a small Catholic Chapel was built among the Bidayuh on the slope of Mt. Singai, Bau, Sarawak in 1885.

IMG_0248Today this majestic ancestral home of the Bidayuh of Singai is no longer inhabited following the migration of the people to the surrounding lowlands.

The site of the first chapel at Mt. Singai however has been turned into a Memorial and Pilgrimage Centre with the building, completion and blessing of the Centre in November 1999.

The Centre has attracted a lot of Catholics and other Christian Pilgrims and has become very popular with the local Catholics and other Christian denominations and those from other places, so much so that the existing living quarters, especially the washrooms and toilet facilities could no longer cope with the increase in the number of visitors there.

IMG_0254Today the ancestral home of the Bidayuh, other than devoted Catholics and other Christian denominations, has become a popular weekend destination from the urban dwellers nearby especially Kuching, and also a tourist attraction.

The centre now has new Church which a 300 maximum seating which in the form of the Bidayuh Ceremonial House, Baruk. Below it is an open air prayer space with wooden seats.

Other facilities including dinning cum community hall, hostels, chalets, public toilets, washrooms, caretaker house and ten doors longhouse. We took some time visited the areas and took some photographs. It was really amazing that I can’t imagine there is a holy place like this at this height of the mountain, and it is really took great faith to build it.

IMG_0294 After a while, we started to come down from the hill through the same stairways again, this time was faster compared to our hiking up to the hill.

On the way down hill, we have more time and energy to see the surroundings of the hills, the jungle was so virgin as untouched. We were almost exhausted when we were at the foot of the mountain again.

Overall, it was a great experience to us!

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Jong’s Crocodile Farm Revisited 2 Feb 2014

CYMERA_20140202_101655Almost every year we would visit Jong’s Crocodile Farm whenever we come to Kuching. This year also the same, we came back here again for I can not recall for N times already.

It is a must go place because the children love to see the crocodiles and animals! Apart from crocodiles, there are also numerous rare species of birds and animals found only in the Borneo Island.

We can have the enchanting experience of walking freely among the monkeys, leopard-cats, sun bears, bearcats, pheasants, civets, barking deers, sambar deers, turtles, fruit bats, monitor lizards, pythons and even southern cassowary.

CYMERA_20140202_102628One and only known Crocodile Museum in Malaysia. You will come across the museum as you enter from the entrance.

The Museum accrued not only the Skull of the legendary Bujang Senang, but have records of most of the historic men-eater crocodiles in the region.

Visitors will also get to see gallery of historical photos, close-up on crocodile's eggs, crocodile skeleton replica and also it's nest.

Here we can experience feeding live crocodiles at our daily feeding demonstrations located at one of our many saltwater crocodile ponds!

CYMERA_20140202_105537Watch, with your own eyes, majestic crocodiles leaping several feet into the air from the swamp! Get up close and personal to feel the gush of wind coming from their massive bites and the splashes from their giant leaps.

The Arapaima feeding demonstration is located at the middle of gigantic Fresh Water Pond, where the Arapaima and more than 15 other species of freshwater tropical fishes habitats.

CYMERA_20140202_104606Visitors can also take a rest here in the gondola like stage after while watching the fishes feed. With the Arapaima swimming around in the pond & water lilies floating around, it might just bring some relaxation through the natural Zen.

We did not take much photos as we have came here numerous time before. Just a few group photo shots and big close up shots on the animals.

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