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Monday, July 19, 2010

Away holiday-ing at Melaka =) from 16-18 Jul 2010

For some time already Ian has been asking for HOTEL so here is his awaited time for the whole family to go Melaka for a BIG house stay....we have been going NSRCC every Jul for past 2 yrs to celebrate ah gong's bday and this time dayi got a villa stay at A'Famosa and it was unbelievably cheap...there is animal world, water world and lots of fun at the resort but we read up on website that its not up to expectations therefore we came up with our own plan at the resort stay.....Ian has been bugging for hotel stay since a wk ago when mama broke to news to him and he hardly had much zzz the nite before and woke up asking if we were going for hotel....most delighted and looking fwd to the stay
Here we are reaching the Melaka town after 2hrs+ (Ian was most quiet during the trip as mama prep him that it would take some time before we reach our hotel!!) and we met up with ah mu, ah baa and dayi at Bei-Zhan (the most reasonable chinese food at Melaka) and we had lots of yummy food at this restaurant! Ian was most delighted to see his beloved cousins and dayi....

Here we are at Tesco doing some grocery shopping and some cooking for the nite's dinner....the kids were most happy to find each a mini trolley where they could place the stuff in....it looked like they are little adults doing their own shopping hahahaa.....most looking fwd to the BIG HOME HOME stay together for the next 2 days!
Here we are having steamboat at the resort while the kids had their fun at the sofa area and the adults could gather for some warm yummy food =) happy look on everyone's face!
And here's the rare chance for the 3 kids to have cheers with their milk bottles before they end the nite.....here's the meeting up before going to each zzz land! The villa is really nice with 4 bedrooms and it could contain 12 pple.....this time Ian was all ready to share room with dayi....he shooed mama away when dayi was in the room coz they are going to zzz land....1st nite was interesting coz Ian kept talking to dayi abt the stuff ard the room and kept dayi busy heheee and 2nd nite after mama gave instructions not to talk, he told dayi he can't talk else mama will scold....he was most obedient in following mama's instructions and in the morning he kept quiet on his bed as dayi was sleeping (or in fact peeping at him) he got up and down the bed, checking out the windows while waiting for dayi to wake up heheee...nice experience and he's all ready to have stayover with dayi! He doesn't quite need mama or daddy to be ard for sleep hhmmm

Well this trip was to celebrate ah gong's bday in advance and we got cake from Secret Recipe and the kids were most happy singing the bday song and blowing out the candles for ah gong....nice gathering ard the cake celebrating the joyous occasion! That morning we then adjourn to Mahkota for some shopping and the kids had so much fun.....we had lunch and then adjourn for some tea time at


A&W.....what a long missed food at A&W...the adults had the icecream root beer float while the kids had ice-cream in a mug =) missed the food since it has disappeared from Spore for the longest time!


After the tea break, we adjourn to the mall's cinema for the movie 'Despicable Me'....well well this is Ian's 1st movie and he was most upbeat abt it especially with ALL OF US! Here are the kids taking a shot with the 'poster' since we couldn't quite find a poster without alot pple crowding ard it....here is one of minions which is super cute in the movie....anw its really cheap watching movie in Msia and even kids are only RM$5, we shall do it again hahahaa....its quite nice having the 10 of us seated in the whole row with ah gong and po2 as well =) =) =)
Here's Ian seated beside dayi and he was most attentive during the show....he had his eyes wide open during the whole show and much instructions given to him not to talk too much (hahhaa coz we went Omni max before and he was asking non-stop and he could wait to ask questions after the show) and he was asking for more movies after this show.....a nice show in a society like ours that seem so void of love and feelings....well well now we know we could start bringing Ian to movies hhehee and dayi is most keen to bring him out for movie and stay over at her hostel =) and this boy is certainly looking fwd to more movies and stayovers! What a life for a 3yo huh....dun rem we got such stuff when we were only 3 yo!

After the show, we went to the Jonker Street and before that we hit to the local market which was introduced by some friends quite some time ago and we loved the atmosphere at the local market coz its the sort u could see the hawkers doing the stuff on the spot like this when the auntie is doing chee cheong fun on the spot and the kids couldn't get their eyes off from her cooking and we could just get food piping hot from the cooking....so we got lots of stuff for dinner and also some fresh fruit since its really cheap and attractive....just loved the market coz its the kind pple just bring their market trolley and grab the stuff they need yes even meat and fish.....its really near Jonker and its only open on Sat nite so we were just in time for all these actions....the kids have been here before but guess they will prefer if its air con hahahaa....guess we dun have such open market in Spore even so its quite an experience for us adults as well =)

And then it was walking onto the Jonker Street after our dinner at the market and it was quite a cool evening to walk and Ian with dayi as motivator he was walking on the street for quite a gd time and the kids were thrilled by all the toys and games available at the stalls coz guess we dun quite see most of them in Spore and it was like pasar malam but better since its walkway wo cars and they could see stuff upclose since the stuff were placed at their eye level

That ended the nite as we had to travel back to the resort as it takes an hr to go there....well we din capture shots of the later 'party' the adults had coz there were some durian stalls along the road leading to the resort so the 2 men went out 'hunting' for them and the durians were alot better than what we have in Spore....yumzzz....guess we could do this again when we get real cheap rates for the resort since both the kids and adults are happy lallaaaaa

The last morning, the kids shared a time of poppers which we got from Jonker and they were all so thrilled with the popping they could do on the ground and all were scrambling for more even tho we had 3 boxes of them, here are the 3 kids with each a box of poppers in their hands

Then we went on to check out and of coz a shot in front of the BIG HOME HOME and guess the kids were quite sad to go home and esp for Ian coz the other folks were heading straight home while our car is going for some shopping and lunch before hitting back Spore and on the way, he was asking why we must lve HOTEL and when are we going back and how come we dun see gor2 jie2 and dayi....lots of questions along the way and soon he was fine when we reached a huge Jusco


coz he was easily contented with 5 TAMAGOssss.....din know he was such sushi lover and he was just quietly tucking into his sushi spread one after another enjoying his meal while the rest of us just wanted to try more Msia stuff for lunch tho ah gong wanted Bei Zhan for cheap chinese food again but we wanted shopping as well haahaa and some fun for Ian

Its interesting how malls in Msia has this portion of playground where u could drop the kids for some playtime for some RM and the adults (or mummies) could do shopping, we have done it at Tebrau before and here is Ian happily playing in the area with his daddy and there were only a few kids and so he was enjoying the whole place on his own with the mobile cars, ball hits and slides....he has certainly cheered up after a gd meal and a gd playtime and soon he knocked out in the car so we could hit home quietly heheee altho he did have some playful moments with ah gong in the car before he zonk off....what a fun 3D2N stayaway we had and certainly fun fun for all of us and we could certainly do it again - cheap stay with cheap food and more movies and shopping hahaaha
Well thanks dayi for booking this stay and its certainly a trip for Ian to rem as it has his many 1sts....1st sleepover with dayi in the same room (altho he did once with dayi last yr at Bintan's Indra Maya) his 1st movie in the cinema and his 1st experience with the poppers! A trip to remember!

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