Penang Trip - Day 2

2nd day dinner venue. A bak ku teh restaurant in the shopping mall beside our hotel. Food is ok....but we still think that the outside bak ku teh will be better.

Exterior view of our hotel.

Low tide.

The seafood restaurant opposite the hawker centre that we find it expensive to try, although it does have a nice view of the sea as you can see it is situated on top of the sea....

At the seaview opposite our hotel.

Outside the hawker centre.

The nice hawker centre nearby our hotel, where we have our dinner on our 1st day and supper on our last night in Penang.

The shopping mall beside our hotel.

The Penang Laksa

The chendol.

Nice traditional and famous chendol and penang laksa.

At the Kuan Yin temple.

At the seaview near City Hall.

We change our daily breakfast at the hotel to only first 2 day so that we can get to enjoy their local breakfast outside. Today is the first day of our hotel breakfast, and actually it is still not bad lor...heehee. We start our sightseeing after a good breakfast. We took a cab to City Hall there and from there we walk to the Kuan Yin Temple then took a walk around the area.

Then about lunch time, we head to a shopping mall - Prangin Mall (the only one we saw which is where the chendol stall is located) to have lunch in an aircon area as outside was really hot. We just pick any of the restaurant to eat then we do some shopping in the mall before my dad went for massage, and both Shawn and me have our haircut while my mum take care of Daryl first. Then when we are done, it my mum's turn to enjoy her hairwash. In fact, we enjoy our stay in the salon as the hairstylists are rather friendly. They are the one that tell us to try the chendol at level 1.

It was raining when we head back to hotel to refresh ourselves. As the sky look gloomy, we decided to give Batu Feringgi Beach a miss and have our dinner nearby the hotel in case it rain again.

Penang Trip Day 1

Night view from our room.

Day view from our room.

Daryl enjoy playing and relaxing on the lobby sofa.

At our hotel lobby waiting for check in.

A tired and hungry Daryl.

The tim sum spread.

Our tasty Tim Sum Breakfast at Bali Hai.

We are all very tired as our flight is at 7.25am where we have to reach airport 2 hours earlier so basically we all wake up before 5am. Poor Daryl was as tired coz after he wake up at 5 am plus, he cannot get back to sleep. To make it worse, Jetstar seat was so crampy thus not comfortable at all and furthermore, the journey was only about an hour.

A good deed

We are going back to my MIL house for dinner today, so as usual, we will head home first before picking Daryl from the nanny.

As Shawn was held up by work, I walked back home from the bus stop opposite AMK Hub. Half way walking, a little boy who is crying and shouting for daddy, ran passed me. Thinking that maybe he was naughty and the parent were just ahead of him, I did not really bother. But later, I realised, the boy was actually 'lost' and was looking for his daddy when I saw an old man tell the boy to go and wait for his daddy under the void deck as it was drizzling.

I decided to help the little boy. I went over and ask him if he have his daddy or mummy number. But he say he do not know and he say his mummy is now in office working but he do not remember her office number. Then the panic and frighten poor boy ask me "aunite can you help me find my daddy? I cannot go home without my daddy." Then I asked where do he stay and he told me. So I tell him, I will bring him home and hold his hand hoping to comfort him so that he will not cried so hard.

Suddenly, a group of teenage boy ran over and say, that the little boy father is over the other side looking for him. So we walk over the other side to find his daddy. With a teary eyes, the little boy cannot see probably and when I ask if that is his daddy, his cute little reply is : "wait, let me see first." Then after he confirm it his daddy, he ran over and keep saying : "I am sorry, daddy." And his daddy ask him to say thank you to me first.

Why is this inside this blog? Simple reason - I just want my children to know the joy of helping people. I may not have done much for the little boy. But at the very least, I comfort him alittle by helping him and holding his hand. Also, I prevent him from falling into any baddies hands. Lastly, I am a mother, so I know how anxious and worry his parents will be. So keeping the little boy safe and comforting him is the least I can do.

This is the 2nd time I help a lost boy. The last time was when I was still pregnant with Daryl.

My little terror, shall you read this when you grow up, remember that mummy only wish is for you to grow up to be a kind, helpful and useful man, who is alway ready to lend a helping hand within your means as it never hurt to help.

1st attempt of chocolate chip cookies baking

These are hand mould de....hahaha....coz lazy to use cutter lor....then as I bake these batch later, so I bake for a longer time but only once, so it is softer then the 1st batch.


The only bear shape in the heart shape, coz I give up using the bear cookies cutter coz it is harder to remove the dough from the cutter lor....I bake this batch of cookies first and twice so these batch are harder than the 2nd batch.

Finally I found a cookie receipe online and decided to try baking it. Got all the ingredients on Friday evening from Phoon Huat then on Sunday, I finally try making and baking it during the afternoon while Shawn look after Daryl.

The result was not as ideal coz the cookies are not crispy as per stated in the receipe. Shawn say it is not sweet enough, my BIL also say it is not sweet enough and not crispy, and my colleagues who tried say sweetness is ok, just that it is not crispy enough.

Johhny's boy - Scott's 1st Birthday Party

We went to another 1st Birthday party in the afternoon again. This time is Shawn's army friend Johnny's son - Scott Birthday.

Daryl was attracted by all the balloons in the house. He keep trying to take and move those helium balloons weighted on the floor. Then later, he was attracted by Scott's baby cousin, a 6 months old baby girl and he will kuai kuai stand by the side of sofa where the baby girl was seating with her mum, looking at her and sayang her.

He will even call Johnny's mother ma, when we asked him and I think that make Johnny's mother rather happy. However, he refused to be carried by either Johnny or Hong Lai and he will cried until so ke lian when they does carry him.

Again, he was happy and smiling when he saw the cake, especially it was a baby Mickey mouse picture cake. But he cried when people are singing Happy Birthday song, coz firstly, we let him stand on the floor then secondly, he saw Shawn standing far away from him. Then he started to smile when Shawn move to stand beside him and we carry him up. Funny little boy.

As usual, we let him eat the cake and drink some of the lime sea coconut dessert, which he seem to like and enjoy. The joke of this event was that one of Shawn's army friend, whom I meet for the first time, tried asking Shawn in softly if I am expecting number 2 but stupid Shawn just replied : "No, she is FAT!!". However, I overheard it and I went up to Shawn hit him and say "You are not slim either lor". Muahahaha

We went off when Daryl started to fuss as he was tired and sleepy.

Daryl is partially toilet trained

Daryl's nanny told us weeks back that she have stop wearing diaper or the cloth diaper on Daryl during the day time at her house. But she will on and off let Daryl sat on the potty to pee or poo or when Daryl indicate that he want to pee. By the way, she also mentioned that Daryl refused to stand and pee lor.

We also realised that Daryl will point to his diaper when at home with us, and when I asked if he want to pee, he will nodded his head.

So this morning, I decided to let him go diaperless to try him out despite objection from Shawn who worried that Daryl will pee or poo on the sofa. Again I was right to insist, coz Daryl will really tell us he want to pee by point to his birdie.

However, as his nanny was using the traditional potty which is higher than the potty I bought, Daryl, does not like to seat on the potty at our house. So no choice, I put the potty cover on our toilet bowl which will make it easier for Daryl to sit and indeed, he is willing to seat on it to pee.

All went smoothly on his diaperless project until after Daryl finish his porridge and my mum spotted him trying to gek sai. We quickly bring him to the toilet and let him seat to gek. However, perhaps, his poo is too hard, so he is unable to poo out, thus he started to fuss and refused to seat any longer. So no choice, we carry him down and wear back his pants with diaper.

Then, shortly after he was playing with my mum, he suddenly managed to poo out and my mum saw the hard little poo in his pant and we quickly carry him to the toilet and remove his pant carefully. The pant was soiled but luckily, as his poo is hard and the pant was rather tight fitted, it did not fall out and did not make a mess on the floor, phewz. But being his mummy, I have to use water to wash his pant with my bare hand to wash away the soiled part before we wash it with the rest of his clothing.

Anyway, this little project on diaperless seem successful and I think we can really start to let him go diaperless during the day when we are at home. But still, he will have to wear his diaper when going out until, we are 101% sure he is fully toilet trained.

Nevertheless, we are proud of our little terror little success and we must proudly declared that ALL CREDITS GOES TO HIS NANNY!!!! We can see that our expenses on his diapers are reducing.......and we are more than happy that we can save alot of money since he is partially toilet trained.

The Hokey Pokey Dance

Daryl favourite song and dance. See how he enjoy turing round and round.