Bookworm in the Making

Last week I brought Monday to a book store. I'm so excited to see he has strong passion for books and I hope this passion will become his habit when he grow up. We entered the book store and I let him go anywhere he wants in the book store. He  confidently walked from shelve to shelve to 'choose' the books. He took a book and placed it in the other shelve then get another book and did the same thing few times.  When he saw the books that we chose in the basket, he even put a book there. So sweet dear!

Monday loves books!

He may not be able to read now but I hope the exposure that we gave him will make him love reading.

Gift from Nature

My husband and I took a day off to go back to our hometown few days ago. It is better know as 'balik kampung' in Malay terminology. Though Wikepedia says that it is meant for festival season, actually it is beyond that. The term can be used for leaving the city/work and going back to our hometown for marriage festival, visit the sick relative or just simply visiting our parents. It can be many purposes for balik kampung but the most famous is balik kampung for celebrating festival (Aidil Fitri, CNY etc). 

I was so grateful that my mom's home is still blanketed by greenery plants and the air there still fresh. At night, you have to sleep with stoking otherwise it'll be very cold and you couldn't sleep well.

I took my time to explore what's in mom's garden and so happy to see that a lot of plants like lemon grass, chillies, brinjals etc grow healthily. They need not to be taken care of but they grow abundantly in mom's backyard. For village (kampung) folks, if they have any seeds from the kitchen, they usually throw it away to their backyard, then the seeds will grow as a plant.

Since those things (herbs) are very much used in Malay kitchen, I took the opportunity to stock up my kitchen. 

Laksa leave

Turmeric Leave

Alpinia Galanga

Lemon Grass

Ginger Buds

Kids Train Ride

Some time ago we sent our parents to a train station. We brought the kids into the train and Sunday was so happy and pleaded to follow them. We promised to bring him next time.

So, this weekend we fulfilled our promise and brought him and Monday for a train ride. It was just a simple thing we did but we were very happy to see that both of them enjoyed the ride. At first Sunday was quite nervous, he hold my hand so tight. Slowly he managed to overcome his fear. But Monday was more relaxed.

Sunday enjoying the scenic view of KL

We stopped and the last station of the LRT and took few moments to shop there. The picture below is so lovely and it means a lot to me.

Monday selecting a magazine for himself...:)

I'm happy mother, always and forever...

Happy Weekend

Monday is so pleased with Sunday's antic. Sunday never fail to entertain him.

How you weekend goes? Mine was usual but we had a lunch invitation by hubby's friend. She was delighted to treat us at a special place. It was a popular restaurant, we can see that people come and go. The food was very delicious (Malay cuisine) and the best part is it serves a variety of ulam and ayam kampung. Awesome!

The Fried Chicken

Then we also attended a house-warming party from our friend. He just bough an apartment and before he rent it our he invited us to the house. It is a newly developed apartment. Everyday I'll drive pass the apartment and now I'm proud to know that a friend of mine owned one of the units. Before the apartment was built, it was a village there. But the goverment took the land and built apartments there. I'm not sure where the villagers now but I'm pretty sure that they are not afford to buy or perhaps rent this apartment. The price is RM270k and above (sigh).

Uncle M's house

Home Coming Dinner

 

Hubby was coming home from his Induction Course last nite. I was on MC leave but decided to cook for him since he had missing my cooking for several days. Furthermore, its only my voice 'missing' ( i got sore throat and heavy flu) but not my cooking skill. But he said that the food there was delicious but they have to wash their plate and glass. LOL! It reminds me to my hostel days.

It was a simple meals - rice, ayam masak kicap, salted egg and vege soup with fish cake. Sunday (my 4-yrs old hero) only wanted to have  rice and the salted egg. Luckily the salted egg was not too salty so I'm still OK to give him a try. 

To hubby's surprise Monday (my 1- yr old hero) now can walk. When he left us few days ago, the lil prince still crawling and hardly walk. I joked " he tried hard to impress you dear". From his eyes I know that he's so proud with our son.

Till then....