A trip to Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam

Everytime Bukit Cherakah or Taman Cahaya Seri Alam is mentioned, it reminds me of an incident which I had experienced during my study years. It was way back in 1988, I was working on a standard 6 group project to do some research on the park. All 3 of us were riding a bicycle and when we reached at 'Taman Haiwan' suddenly my bike chain got out of it's place and to make things worse we were riding down the hill. So we were pretty fast and with the bike being out of control it was a nearly death experience to me. I was at the front and all of my friends were shouting at me to press the break. It was so fast and I thought I was gonna die if there was any vehicle coming up the hill. Suddenly I saw this tree, at that crucial moment I thought if I couldn't stop the bike, let the tree stop it. So I turned the bike and headed for the tree. It worked, I was saved by the tree....thank god...since then I never set my foot on the park until 'Today'...

After 21 years, here I am back to Taman Cahaya Seri Alam, parents, sisters and my family were having a trip to the park, just to spend weekend together. Somehow everything seems smaller and nearer. The ticket price is 3rm for adults and 1 rm for kids and elderlies. At first we were traveling on the bus, I was a bit puzzled of why there was no tour guide to inform on each park that we passed through. It went on till the end non stop. Finaly it stopped at the 4 seasons house and all the passangers got off. At this point still there was no words from the driver.

Queing up for the bus

We didn't go straight to the 4 seasons house, instead we had lunch picnic first. After finish eating and everybody is stuffed, we walked to the house. To enter the house, again we need to purchase a ticket, 3rm for adults and 1 rm for kids. It was so damn cold inside and the season is summer. Very nice view and quite packed with visitors. We managed to snap some photos and hurried out.

Just look at this niece of mine, and her high heels!

Having picnic lunch

Still a long way to go but my boy sleepy already

Arrival to the 4 Seasons House, catching up breath while I get the tickets.

Heading to Taman Haiwan

From the 4 Seasons House to the Taman Haiwan realy looks near on the map, but the reality is about 10 minutes walk. Quite far. Children keep asking 'Are we there yet?"

That's it, no more walking for me!

Poor mom

Top up time!

It started drizling and yet we still haven't reached the Animal Park. Lucky there was a shelter on the way, we stopped for a break and continued walking for anoher 3 minutes

My parents, the loving couple, still walking hand in hand

Before we part, we had another round of evening break. Thanks mom for giving us the treat. Overall it was enjoyable and we had tremendous time.

Earth Hour

Earth Hour is over, I believe many malaysians had participated well in the campaign.

As for my family, I had prepared a special dish for dinner. I made my first ever chicken grill. Actualy it was my first attempt in using the oven. It never been used since we purchased it right after moving in. Anyways it turned out OK. A bit overcooked on the outside but juicy and tender in the inside.

My early planning was to have a candle light dinner or maybe dining outside in the gazebo but none of it happen. Abang said it wasn't suitable for the children to have dinner in the dark and to have dinner outside was just too much. I guess the best thing was to be on the road during Earth Hour.

Well even though it didn't turn out as planned, we did go outside after dinner just to watch how the event was taken by the neighborhood. I could see few houses that used to have their outside light on every night was turned off that night. It was a good feeling to see how we as malaysian could take part in showing our concern and fight against global warming. After all it was for the good of our next generation, our children.

Weekend Outing

The kids were just recovering from flu and mile fever. It has been almost a month since we brought them out sightseeing. We didn't go very far though, afraid that Miqhail would feel uneasy due to his cold.

Actualy this is the second time that I took Miqhail out for a walk. He still not quite used to having to walk in a shoes. At first he didn't want to walk at all. Always wanted to take the shoes off. After a while he could walk a bit faster just because we kept waving goodbye to him for leaving far behind.


Abang persuading him to walk

Getting used to walk with shoes on

Not very long after that he started wandering around the mall not afraid of anything. I had a hard time catching up with his pace. He would stop at nothing. But once he got attracted to something, he would stop and stared for a long time.

Especialy when he met other babies that quite the same age. He would try to make contact with the baby like touching, pointing and at least smile at them. He would do this while mumbling as if the other baby could understand him.

New Job, New Challenge!

Well well what do you know!, it has been 2 years and 7 months since I left Nitto Denko which I had served for 6 long years. I never expect that it's time to leave IJM.

Another challenging carear coming my way and this time back with an Insurance company in Cyberjaya. I started my professional carear with an insurance company in the heart of KL named Malaysia Nippon Insurance for 2 years. And now I am given the opportunity to become the Lead System Administrator in Prudential Services.

Seiries of interviews attended since February 2009
1. 5th Feb - Lotus Notes Developer for Manulife Services
2. 9th Feb - Sat for the assesment test
3. 10th Feb - Received call from Manulife saying that my application is put under KIV (in other words, I didn't get it)
4. 24th Feb - Lead System Administrator for Prudential Services
5. 5th Mar - Second interview in Prudential Services
6. 12th Mar - Received call from Prudential saying that I got the offer!

I thank god for giving me this great carear path and I shall not take it for granted. I had worked for it and enjoyed from it. Hopefully I could cope with the new environment and manage all the tasks that I am put responsible, InsyaAllah.

Miqhail's favourite spot

These days I observed that Miqhail has a favourite spot in the house. Two spots actually, one is at the front door and another is at the cupboard.

Every day after fetching the children from the nursery, before I could close the front door, Miqhail would rush to it first. He would take out any shoes that he could find and try it out. No matter its a high heels or a flat slipper of his sister. Sometimes he even brings the shoes inside the house and walk all over the house.

Another favourite spot of his is the cupboard where I put all the bags after coming home from work. He normaly would go to this cupboard after I had closed the front door and he couldn't play with the shoes anymore. He would head for the bags instead. He would cleverly open the cupboard door and take out any bag that he lays his eyes on. Normally my red bag would be his target. There was a time when all my make up kit inside the red bag dropped on the floor and broke.