So, we decided no more surprises after the usual headaches we used to have twice a year (none other than Mother’s Day and the Queen’s birthday). This time we made her sit down and wait for hours before we served lunch. What’s on the dining table?

Main course: Butter pork (no one bought chicken so we had to settle with pork), bak kut teh, canned abalones, sambal kangkung (was there sambal?), omelette with char siew (bbq pork), plain fried rice with onion.
Dessert: Vanilla ice-cream (by keller handmade)

The big chef for the day was *drum roll* Pei Yee. She spent more than 4 hours in the kitchen and came up with all the dishes in the main course list except for the fried rice. I specially requested that I would contribute the fried rice. I insisted this to be on the menu although someone else suggested that I should be assigned to take the Queen out for few hours so that the little chefs could prepare the food. The person who assigned this task to me cited that I could not even fry an egg! That was how the small surprise was being called off.

The bak kut teh tasted so ewww. I hate herbs. The butter pork seemed alright but the pork was too hard. The sambal kangkung tasted like sambal kangkung. The canned abalones were so salty!! The omelette tasted best for me! The ice-cream was not bad at all although the texture can be smoother. The plain fried rice with onion tasted like… plain rice with onion.

Happy Mother’s Day, my ma cha!! :-*

..the journey continues.

And.. *drum roll*
Our main objective for visiting the Agriculture Park was..

Come, come! RM3 per hour! RM1 for every additional hour.

We were so ambitious as we wanted to go cycling for 2 hours. Little did we know that it was so, so tiring.. we did not even finish the exact first hour, we probably did 50 minutes or so hehe.

All of us had to try on various bicycles to find the most suitable one for us. We got so fed up with Ling cha for taking such a long time to test!

Fuiyoh! Bergaya kan? Getting ready to begin our expedition!

Budak kampung at Taman Padi.

Ma cha ber-jiwang at Taman Padi.

No smile? Act cool?

Cycling uphill was a very challenging task. Everyone resorted to pushing their bicycles up :D

Cycling downhill was so fun!

After the bicycle expedition, we stopped by at Uncle Vincent’s house at Seri Hartamas to collect angpows!

Bottom, from left: Aunty and Uncle Vincent
Top: On the left is James (Uncle’s handsome boy #1) and on the right is Jeremy (Uncle’s handsome boy #2)

That was the end of my Chinese New Year holidays.. =(

As planned, on the second day of Chinese New Year, we woke up very early and journeyed to Shah Alam Malaysia Agriculture Park at Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam.

The night before..
Chin Pei Ling was assigned to get the maps done as none of us knows the way to Bukit Cahaya. She mailed the maps to me and I was supposed to print them out. I printed them when we got home from the late night movie the day before.
I did not really bother to look at the map – took a glimpse of it – felt that it was a little out – still didn’t bother – too tired, hit the sack straight.

Next morning, I was supposed to drive. So, I passed the map to Bit and told her to give me the direction. Halfway through, I decided to take charge. I still had a small portion of memory of the road to the Agriculture Park because my buddy, Woon Tian brought me there last year for the Skytrex Adventure. We finally reached the place at about 9:30AM. We got our entrance tickets, had breakfast at a Mamak stall there, and dashed into the Park.

Us on the tram that took us around the Park. We complained so much (about the driver) on the tram because we weren’t ‘served’. I mean, logically, there should be someone on board to introduce the place to the visitors, right? There was no stopping along the way as well except at the waiting points.

When the tram reached the peak, it made a U-turn and down the hill it went. Halfway through, we decided to get off when it stopped at a waiting point. We got bored sitting in the tram, going through the same journey another time.

The threesome doing their stuff.

The ganas one.

The naughty one. She secretly brought the pop-pops to scare the other two.. when they least noticed!

Me placing D-zai on the wooden bridge. Them getting ready.

I’m ready to press the remote now! Errr, not quite perfect…

Next shot!

Chin Pei Yee jangan buat muka! Yeah!

Macam boss.

To be continued..

The long holidays ended so quickly without me noticing.
Nevertheless, it was a fun one :-)

This year’s Chinese New Year was slightly different in that we did not do our usual extended family get-together due to our Aunt’s passing. However, we did our usual movie-day on the first day of Chinese New Year (an 11:30PM show) and this time we picked – My Astro 大日子 Woohoo! It’s a movie that will not disappoint you when you think of.. local production. We had lots of fun in the cinema. Mom began her laughing marathon as soon as the movie started. Ling cha and I went, errr?, staring at Mom.

Reunion dinner meal

Me and my Mom

Mom’s prepared to welcome the God of Wealth!

Two games of Grabbles after the dinner.
Malay version winner was.. *drum roll* ME!!
English version winner was.. *boo* I think it’s Bit cha, right?

Found this note stuck in front of CK’s desk when I reached home in the morning

Lunch at Pizza Hut *dipaksa bergambar*

Bitcha did not have a photo taken with the Birthday Boy as she was sitting at the opposite.. posing with her reflection instead

Our pizza! We did lots of Chinese New Year shopping after lunch..

..until we got thirsty and tired, and we settled at Mc Donald’s for ice-creams

Back at home, posing with the shirt I got him for his birthday!

Happy Birthday, Kong cha!