Where o where are the giraffes?

Giraffe? where daddy where?

wahh..hunky..bean like :)

We took bean to her first zoo visit tonight..Night safari tickets were buy 1 free 1 so $22 got both jin and me in (bean gets in for free!). we attended the night performance by some otters, racoons,hyenas and boa. The show was super boring with fake accents by all the zoo keepers. bei ta han! Bean could not see everything as it was quite dark - she seemed more interested in the crowd, she kept saying "hi" to everyone near her and clapped when everyone clapped :)

As the sky was starting to make rumbling sounds, we headed towards the east side of the park to look for the giraffes `cos we had been promising bean she could see them on the car ride over. 15 minutes later - we found them at the far far end of a very big field munching on their greens - separated from us by a little stream...dang, i was so hoping bean will see the giraffes up close :(..now we know why people pay lots for African safaris :p

Overall, our little one seemed to enjoy herself..she saw the msian tiger, lots of the deer family, zebras, a huge rhino, snakes and fish - and she was alert and curious throughout ..told Jin it's probably time for us to buy the annual zoo hopper pass :)

What crosses my mind every other minute?

....besides whether I put on or lost weight, the thing that always come up is if I should be a SAHM ..today Sophie went for a trial class at Julia Gabriel and it was so much fun,,and I know that she will benefit from it..but they ONLY have weekday classes..and how is a FTWM supposed to attend weekday classes with the little bean? grrr

Some pix of bean enjoying snack time at JG trial (my heart gave a small tug when I saw her sitting by the table, feeding herself..it's like..where did my baby girl go to?!)

And some random pix taken over the weekend - I love that we can now walk to Holland V for breakfast on the weekends. We includes Sophie ;)

Sophie says "Yaayyyyyyy"

Hide and seek with the 13 month old bean

Flying with turtles

We had a total of 350 pictures from our Sipadan - Mabul 4D5N dive trip. Here are my top 10 favourites :)

White tip shark and me

School of jacks

Sunset at Mabul island

Camouflaged - crocodile fish

Si penyu - one of the 20 over which we had saw

the Dance of the Divers

Humphead Parrotfish - amazingly weird looking

I love these kampung scenes

Mandarin fish - shy and gorgeous

Ghost pipe fish

and..the video of me flying with squirt the turtle...:)

Visiting Cameron Highlands after 10 years..

How time flies..the last time we visited CH was on a treasure hunt where I distinctively remember Khim and Mel "squabbling" in the car..now they are happily married with 3 year old TC and baby (boy?) on the way :). Coincidently, our trip back to CH more than 10 years later was also with Khim and Mel and the rest of the KL group. 8 adults, 4 kids and zero helpers..very proud of ourselves ;) *Keat pulled out at the last minute - the group was not too happy about losing the bbsitter!*

On the way up, we had a really good meal at Ipoh's Public restaurant - we ate huge har lok prawns, mantis prawns, yam basket, steamed white promfret, pig knuckles...the bill came up to RM800! jin said cheap by spore standards..dont think anyone else in the group found that funny..heehee

We were greeted by Mrs Chong, Hilltop's caretaker, upon arrival. She had tea, home made scones and strawberry jam waiting for us..very nice and I did not get a chance to take pix as they were eaten too fast. That night, we had steamboat - something warm amidst the cool clean Cameron air. After the little ones went to zzz land, we surprised Mich and SC with a bday "pie" which I bought all the way from Spinelli's spore :)

The next day, we visited the Big Red Strawberry farm where the little kiddos got to pick strawberries at RM20 for half a kilo. After that, we checked out the Boh tea plantation - nothing much to do there but gaze at fantastic views of rolling tea fields.

We had a yummy BBQ dinner , extra special cos we did not have to do the work at the grill ;). there was lamb, squid, sausages, corn, chicky wings, otah fish and fried rice.

The 3 days ended too fast..we took some group pix on the last day b4 heading down back to Ipoh for local hawker fare of ipoh kuey teow teng, caramel custard, pork satay and chee cheong fun. Time to go on a diet!!!