Little Ze’s Birthday Trip to KL

Little Ze turned 4 in June. It was school holiday and we brought him to KL to celebrate his birthday with his great grandmother. 

As usual, we visited grandma when we reach KL. Both my boys loved to sit on her bed and entertained her.

This time, we stayed in a service apartment.

The facility and environment were quite nice. Just that the service at the front desk was quite bad. Here’s the view from our unit.

The next morning, after having our breakfast, my boys played at the playground with their grandparents.

Look! It was actually a dinosaur! But it was a friendly one.

Lunch time! The presentation looks great, right? Yes, not only that it looked nice, the food taste nice as well, with reasonable price! It was Yuzu Japanese Restaurant at KLCC. I love to dine there.

After some shopping, we went back to our apartment and ready for swimming. Oh, Little Ze was so excited about it! But then he started to worry because he thought that I did not bring his swimming trunk! (He helped me to pack the luggage a day before we departed.) But he did not know that I packed his swim wears after he slept. Tada! He was surprised when I shown him his swim wear.

How about Baby Hang? He was excited too! I took out his clothes and not even managed to get him wear the swim suit, he already couldn’t wait and intended to jump into the pool. OMG! This was Baby Hang’s first experience in the pool.

Little Ze liked to play in the pool when he was a baby but later he scared of it when he reached the age of Baby Hang. Then, all a sudden, he loved to play in the pool again. I would say he really excited about it. He saw other brother and sister jumped into the water, he never did it before but he followed without any preparation or instruction. Well, as long as he enjoyed! After all, this was his birthday trip!

After having fun time with swimming, we got to prepare and depart to the Overseas Restaurant nearby. Though it was very near to the place we stayed but it took us 30 minutes to reach there due to the traffic jam. Everyone was waiting for us in the restaurant. By the time we reach there, our birthday boy fall asleep.

Everyone enjoyed the food (yummy, very nice ‘char shio bak’) and chit chatting while waiting for our birthday boy to wake up. I tried to wake him up a few times but I failed. He was too tired.  

At the end of the dinner, I had no choice and I had to force him up. He was still blurred and not in a good mood. This was how the birthday boy blows the candles and cut his cake. 

Later, when his cousin Sheng gave him a present, then he slowly got into a good mood. Sheng personally chose this special present for Little Ze, as well as the cake. Oh, Baby Hang wanted to open the present too! Little Ze stayed awake after that because of the present. (That was what Little Ze told me secretly.)

Later we headed back to KLCC. We purposely brought him for his favorite gelato. When we reached the shop, they nearly closed the door as it was quite late already. After Hubby Jay talked to the staff, the kind staff served us. We were the last customer! See, how cheeky and happy Little Ze was! 

Oh, I missed the Pistachio gelato! Little Ze missed that too! (He just mentioned about it a few minutes ago... "Mom, I want the green color gelato in KLCC ...") 

This was the night view of Petronas Twin Towers.

 We had a very good night sleep after a long day.

The next morning, we had our breakfast with friend. Later, grandma came to the apartment and we took some photo together.

Before leaving, we had our lunch with grandma at Purple Cane Tea Restaurant. The food was special and nice. Every dish in the set we ordered serve with different kinds of tea each. I loved the ‘Purple Cane Tea Soup in Tea Pot’, ‘Potato Basket with yam, mushroom, cashew and vegetable ham with Jasmine Tea’, ‘Stir fried Kai Lan with pickled Chinese mustard in Puer Tea’ and glutinous rice balls in Rose soya bean. Little Ze loved the ‘Fried prawn with oats and Dong Ding Oolong Tea’.

On the way back home…

That was Little Ze's birthday trip to KL.

A week after Little Ze back to school, I asked Jess to bake a cake and a few cupcakes for his friends in his school to sing birthday song for him. This was his first time celebrating his birthday with classmates.

Yummy… Orange Poppy Seeds Cake. The main cake was for the teachers and the cupcakes were for Little Ze’ friends.

That’s not the end of Little Ze’s 4th birthday celebration! Stay tune for his small party at home!

My Wonderful Journey to the Central for the Lotus Sutra Exhibition

Opps! Its been quiet for a while. Not too long, just more than a month. Haha… 

May be some of you might wonder what happened  to me within this period. Yup, I was busy preparing something that was not too big but not too small either. (SHHHH … for those who already  knew about it.)Definitely I will share it, but not now.  Today, I want to write about my short and packed but wonderful trip to KL over the last weekend. We achieved so many things in just a 3D2N trip with 2 kiddos! 

The main purpose for this last minute trip was to attend The Lotus Sutra Exhibition held at Wisma Kebudayaan Soka Gakkai Malaysia in KL.  The Lotus Sutra Exhibition is an international exhibition and Malaysia is honoured to be 11th country in the world to host the exhibition, which is a precious heritage for humanity that promotes peace and harmonious coexistence.  It started on 12 May 2014 – 11 May 2014. 

I think if I miss out this exhibition, I will have to wait for years and years, unless I pay and fly to other country to attend the exhibition. Therefore,I tried to arrange to attend the exhibition but keep on delaying due to some reasons and obstacles. Luckily, the exhibition was extended for one more week. And YES! We made it!   We, including a friend of mine, Jess. 

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Our journey

Day 1 (11/05/2014)
On Sunday morning, after loading our luggage, we started our journey. Along the journey, Little Ze and Baby Hang were awoke, enjoying the movie The Journey. Around noon, we stopped at Ipoh for our yummylicious brunch. We had Ipoh Ho Fun, soft-boiled eggs on toast bread, Hakka mee, homemade mua chi and famous coffee! 

Baby Hang had his very first outside food, ho fun! He enjoyed it very much!

After our brunch, we continue our journey. Luckily, both my kids slept during the drive. I could have some rest!  

When we reached KL, we went to Bangsar Village.   I had my chance to shop for my nursing dresses while my friend caught up with her friends. My 3 mans? They had their window shopping at LEGO shop.  

Later, we shopped at Village Grocery and had our late lunch/tea break at Ben’s General Foodstore. 

Then, we headed to have dinner with our friend, CYang and his family, who will host us for 2 nights. Almost every restaurant was fully booked due to Mother’s Day celebration. CYang brought us to a food court to have dinner. Though that place was not air-conditioned, it was not too hot. It was not hawker food but ‘chu-char’. Very nice! We enjoyed the food so much. My Little Ze loved the fried noodle so much! Oh… I was so busy tucking in the delicious fare that I forgot to take some photos of the food. 

We visited our grandma after the dinner. 

Well, we managed to get to CYang’s place by 11pm. And this was the first time, the homemade sausages that we brought traveled for so long on the road with us in the cooler box. Oh gosh! My 2 kiddos were so excited and energetic. I took quite some time to let them sleep.  What a tiring day!

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Day 2 (12/05/2014)
Good morning! Our breakfast!

After having breakfast, we depart to Bukit Bintang. We went there not for shopping but for the exhibition as that’s where Wisma Kebudayaan Soka Gakkai Malaysia is located. 

Finally, we were there at The Lotus Sutra Exhibition with our kids.

For those who have kids, you’ll know it’s not easy to bring kids along to an international exhibition! It was a great challenge for us! We made it. Baby Hang slept in the middle of the tour. Little Ze made some noise once in a while. Luckily they had a section specially for Kids whereby there were activities to draw his attention for a while, in order for me to have a chance to concentrate on the exhibition.

This koko very patient and nice. Great job! 

I felt so delighted and satisfied.  Both my kids were very corporative as they let us  take our time to view the exhibition.

We finished viewing at 3pm in the afternoon, Gosh its almost  4 hrs already and we had not taken our lunch yet. Weren’t they being Great?! And I must thank my Hubby Jay for being so supportive for arranging his time and purposely driving us to KL for this exhibition! You are Great, my darling Jay.

Opps… It was raining heavily when we depart for Pavillion and the roads were jammed. We detoured to KLCC to have our late lunch at Yuzu Japanese Restaurant. I was so happy because Yuzu and KLCC were actually  not in our plan. This was like a bonus for me! Yummy! Look at the photos…. 

Jess caught up with her friends and she met us later in the night. After Yuzu, we rushed to uncle’s house. The 2 kiddos took a bath then we had dinner with family and our beloved grandma to celebrate Mother’s Day. She was so happy to have her great grandchildren with her. 

We hang out at our cousin’s house after the dinner. Oh gosh, our kids went crazy. They were running here and there. But most important, they had fun! 

Great to see them sharing and play together!

Oh! You sweat like me!

Baby Hang: I come, I see, I conquer!

Again, we were back  late at night. The kiddos were utterly exhausted and they slept after I prepared them for bed.  We planned to rest too, instead we chit chat till the wee hours.

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Day 3 (13/05/2014)
It was our shopping day! We planned to leave KL and back home by 3pm BUT….

Have a guess what time we leaving. Hehe…

We had our breakfast quite late as my kids slept in. Partly also because we spend some time to pack our luggage trying to squeeze in more items so that we have space to shop more. After breakie, we visited grandma again. We spend some time with grandma. 

Later, we headed to IKEA. Yes, IKEA again! Oh dear, it was so crowded as it was a public holiday. Furthermore, some of the sections were under renovation. It was a bit messy as they rearranged their place of display. We had to stop shopping half way as my Little Ze keep grumbling he was hungry. Actually we were hungry too! But, when you see the crowd at the cafeteria...! Felt so reluctant to go in but no choice. After a long queue, we quickly finished our food and continued our shopping. When it came to paying, there were long queues again!  We wasted our precious time, nearly an hour just to queue to pay…sigh! 

That’s not the end of our trip. We quickly make our way to The Curve to a shop called Art Friend. Oh, I went crazy! I was so excited as I waiting for so long for that. Always heard blogger and crafty friends talk about it but I never been there. However, it was so late and I only manage to stay there less than half an hour. I just managed to buy 3 things. I told Hubby Jay I want to visit AF again!

Since it was time for dinner, we hang out at Pho Hoa Noodle Shop. Pho Hoa is one of my must-go food outlet every time I am in  KL ever since 10 years ago. I love their noodles, Vietnam coffee and avocado juice. Baby Hang was tired and fell asleep. See how I had my noodle.

I fed Baby Hang, Hubby Jay fed me. Then, Hubby Jay offered a new interesting way of  ....
See how I had my noodles with soup while Baby Hang sleep on arm. Isn't it great!
Modern Cleopatra!

Took a photo before leaving KL.

Well, we departed at 8.00pm! Yes, so late!  So we reached home about 12 midnight.

For this trip, I considered it as a good one. My kiddos were very corporative! We achieved what we plan to do; we reached the place we plan to go; we shopped what we want to shop for. Frankly speaking, this time I did not buy much. Our car was really full but only 20% of them were mine, the rest belong to my friend.  Hehe…That 20% of them already made me happy enough because they were what I was looking for! Well,I’m looking forward for another wonderful trip to KL for shopping… Haha!

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To know more about the exhibition, please log on to The Lotus Sutra Exhibition's webpage.

Lotus Sutra Exhibition Makes Historic South-east Asia Debut. Read here. 

There was a small section exhibited the artifacts discovered at Lembah Bujang in Kedah, Malaysia. Sound familiar?

Want to know more about what had been exhibited? Take a look on this video.