Too bad for Koko Collin his Kan Pa/Kan Ma had already left for KL on the same day too. Anyway, still got KuDeh Wei and Ah Mai Pei Yee to play with!

Here are photos of stuff we did in Sitiawan during the CNY period!

GOAL!!!

Wanna play?

Ah Mai's got skilz!

And that’s called finishing the day with a BANG!

We’ll conclude our CNY Photo Diaries tomorrow with more fun stuff that we did in Sitiawan before heading for home. What did we do?

Check out tomorrow for the conclusion of our CNY Diaries!

…my BIRTHDAY CAKE! Woo Hoo! Well, it was actually a pre-4th Birthday celebration…but I don’t really mind at all! By the way, it was a cake of my own choosing, OK….Papa insists he had no influence whatsoever on my decision…

Enjoy photos of my simple pre-birthday do in Ipoh!

I huffed and puffed and..

Trust me..it is NOT easy cutting a football cake!

WAH!!!!

Eyes on the ball...eyes on the ball...

Can't keep my eyes off the ball! (Papa has taught me well..)

Hannah: Sigh....boys....

Then we proceeded to open some presents…and look what Papa and Mama got for me!

A mini guitar!….NOT! According to Papa, this is not a toy guitar, but is actually a real musical instrument called the UKULELE. Whew, that was a mouthful.:-P Anyway, Papa says he will try to learn how to play this as soon as he can and then teach me…:-D

I’m so excited because this UKULELE seems to be able to draw lotsa attention wor!

Oooh...nice strings!

And of course there was more play time…like this new box of jigsaw puzzles…:-D

And that’s a wrap of my pre-4th birthday celebrations!

Shortly after, my cousins Ethan and Hannah followed their parents home. We also packed up and left Ipoh towards our next destination during this CNY period…

Where did we go? What did we do there?

Find out tomorrow!

The Chinese New became more fun in the afternoon when my cousins Ethan and Hannah came over with their Daddy and Mummy to play with us!

After dinner, we all took a stroll over to Kinta City, Ipoh where they had a special lion dance performance…

Unfortunately, the plan kinda backfired because when we arrived the crowd had already taken all the best positions to view the show. Some more the noise was too loud and deafening! Caitlynn went immediately into her “Scared, Scared” mode….while I just closed my ears shut!

When we came home, a surprise was waiting for us all! A chocolatey-goodness birthday cake was brought out to pre-celebrate Ethan Koko’s birthday!

The birthday boy!

Day 2 of CNY started off with more silly and happy family photos!

And how can I have a reunion with Ehtan Koko without a pillow fight?…

Oops…since this is a family-friendly blog, I have decided to censor out the violence of our pillow fight…:-P

So who won  in the end? Who cares?! We were both hungry already! Let’s EAT!

So what did we eat? What happened next?

Stay tuned for tomorrow when all shall be revealed!

As usual, since it would be too long to blog every single detail of our CNY escapades, we will break up our CNY holiday wrap up in FIVE different parts – load them up with photos taken during this festive season.

Our Photo Diaries begins a day before the eve of CNY….

It was quite a journey from our home to Ah Ma/Ah Kong’s house in Ipoh. Funny, it didn’t feel this far before. Probably because we travelled in the afternoon this time. Papa decided to veer off the highway after seeing a stretch of cars not moving at all ahead shortly after the toll. Alas! The coastal road was just as bad as we crawled and crawled and crawled along up towards Ipoh.

I had also lost count of how many times or how many different kind of drains I had peed into during the journey. In a way, I was quite thankful we took the coastal/trunk road so Papa could very easily stop by the side of the road for such toilet emergencies..:-P

It was already evening and we had not even reached the trunk road yet. So Mama suggested that we stop over for dinner at this place called “Crossing Jungle” or Hutan Melintang. Surprisingly, they had quite a few seafood restaurants. Strange for a jungle to be popular with seafood, dontchu think?

Anyway, here’s where I stop babbling and post our photos taken from our dinner in Restoran Soon Kee..

By the time we reached Ipoh, it was already quite  late, but we’re happy to have arrived safely!

Fast forward a day later where Ah Ma and Ah Kong prepared some simple dishes for our nice little family reunion dinner – and I have to say all the food looked and tasted really yummy!

Check out my super appetite!

nom nom nom...

And that’s the end of Part 1! Stay tuned to see what happened during Day 1 of CNY tomorrow!

Seriously, I had no idea how much impact this delicious drink called MILO had on the entire country!

When Papa found out about this MILO Van redemption thingy, he was all crazy about collecting the entire series….and thanks to some additional proof of purchases from Ah Ma/Ah Kong and Joyce Ah Kor, Papa managed to secure enough points to redeem all SIX vans in this redemption promotion.

Problem is, the entire country was just as crazy too as the stock of vans were all gone within weeks…so late submissions from Papa had to be processed at a much later date and we only got the full set of vans some 3 to 4 months after the forms were submitted.

It was kinda crazy like two vans would come on one month and then we had to wait for another month before the next two vans arrived and so forth. Hee!

But anyway, when all the vans arrived, Papa seemed the happiest…okok, maybe Koko Collin was delirious too because they added on to his vast collection of road vehicles…sigh….I wonder why they even bothered to pack the vans in those nice glass boxes because Papa and Koko Collin tore them out so quickly to get their hands on them.

…so Papa went on and on about his old schooldays when he had to line up together with the rest of the students to get a cup of Milo from these vans… and today, both Koko Collin and I may not have even seen such vans around, but we can always ask Mama to make us some Milo anytime of the day! Yay!

Well, at least with so many toy cars around the house, I still had the chance to play with these Milo vans every once in a while.

I thought this was the cutest.

Do YOU all also have that Milo craze?!

I enjoy every second of the time spent in Papa’s car. That’s when Caitlynn and I pick up plenty of valuable lessons like singing, talking and of course…driving!

Yup, when I pick up my toy frisbee, I will engage myself as the driver too, following the hand motions of Papa at every turn. So when Papa says he’s turning left or right, I would be able to learn immediately which is left or right too!

When Papa waves his hand at our friendly neighbourhood security guard, I will also do likewise.

When Papa turns on the signal switch, I will also do likewise and make a similar sound.

I would also constantly have this debate with Papa on which one of our steering wheels is more nicer?  Papa would tend to say his has a horn, and I would say mine is more colourful…hee!

Now, hopefully after clocking some useful hours of simulation driving this way, I could convince Papa to let me have a  go at the real thing someday…hee!

After some two weeks + of tear-less days in my kindergarten, I have finally managed to collect my thoughts and reflected on the positives and negatives of kindergarten…

The GOOD:

- It’s only half a day!!

- I get extra “hug hug kiss kiss” from Papa when he drops me off.

- Angie! My ‘big sister’ that looks after me!

- Teachers are pretty nice.

- I think I’m actually starting to enjoy drinking water!

- Mama’s sandwiches! Yummy!

- Big field with lotsa toys!

- Everyone seems like like my name-stitching on my bag! Hee!

The BAD:

- It’s still SCHOOL!

- There’s homework! Sigh.

- Bad day when I vomitted in class. Good to note they have spare clothes on standby!

- Still cannot understand why school is much more than just ‘not crying’ Sigh.

- Food served is not really fantastic…

- The uniform…sigh. Actually I think the T-shirt version is pretty OK.

- Still no close friends..:-(

- Mistakenly took back a water bottle that looks like Caitlynn’s…hehe….

Although it was not my first time attending our church’s Sunday School, it was definitely my official year as a registered student there.

My first day was like two Sundays ago, just before the Chinese New Year holidays. Still the turnout was pretty scary…by my standards, since I really have this phobia about crowds. It didn’t feel too scary at first…probably because I managed to drag Papa to sit in the entire group session…hee!

Koko Collin seemed OK by himself…we were sort of separated by some drawn lines – the boys sat on one side and the girls on the other. After the praise and worship, there were some games, which were strange since only some of the volunteered students took part. not that I’m complaining….I became somewhat comforted that Papa was still with me…hee!

We were then ushered by our respective teachers to our smaller groups…I was in the group for those aged 3 and below. By now, Papa started to stealthily disappear. I really didn’t notice he had gone till after the class was over!

I seriously think nothing much was planned for that day since the teachers simply gave us some toys to play with, some colouring activities, etc. I didn’t even receive my attendance book that day. Hmmmph.

Anyway, I think my first day in Sunday School was on overall, a success because I didn’t really cry that much compared to Koko Collin’s first day last time. Hee! Although I still felt very scared and shy inside.

So far, I think I like Teacher Hannah best…probably because she spent the most time helping me with the playing blocks. Also maybe because the name is similar to one of my cousin’s name..:-P I also allowed her to carry me to keep some of the toys after the class.

These are some photos of my first day in Sunday School…

Teacher Hannah helping me to handle the pencils...:-D

Koko Collin also doing some colouring in his class...