Clud Med Cherating Day 2

Wow!

Zyan woke up himself around 7am!

Getting ready to enjoy his day activities at Clud Med?

No. He came to ask me to let him play ipad. *face palm*

Well, we went for breakfast, as he needed to be registered to the Mini Club Med before he can join the activities organised by the resort.

Registrations starts at 8.30, and activities will proceed on the rest of the day.

Also, there is fine dining option for dinner at one of the other restaurants, Rembulan. Fine dining needs booking to be done, and booking can only be made from 0830 in the morning.

How can miss this right? So obviously the kiasu-kiasi-and-kia-dunno-what in us say go and queue. LOL

Well, after Zyan was signed in into the Mini Clud Med, amazingly, the parents started to do work.

I mean work.

Eh! Holiday you know? LOL

Zyan said he only wanted to join the first 2 hours of the morning, and in the afternoon. I was supposed to pick him back around 11am.

By the time I went there (a little late), I saw him playing in the pool with the group of kids, and enjoying himself.

I knew that he won’t need me to pick him.

Similarly, around 12 noon, went to pick him for lunch.

He simply said, he would join the Mini Club Med for lunch.

So it’s left to the 2 of us for lunch ourselves. Fine.

We went over to the other beach, where the Rembulan Restaurant is. Had the lunch there instead. It’s a much quieter place compared to the main area of Club Med Cherating. Pretty nice too.

After lunch, went back room to rest before join Zyan.

Family event in the afternoon is foam party!

Wow!

When I reached there, the party was about to start.

All the kids were very excited. And we were treated to BBQ food as well.

Main attraction is still the foam party for the kids.

And they all went wild.

Zyan had lots of fun with the Mini Club Med.

Great! That was the intention for this trip anyway.

After he became the foam boy, and the party ended, he went swimming a while.

Event at 5pm at the pool.

Tug of war with canoe. Kinda cute.

Guess what, Zyan is the first to volunteer. As usual.

Fine dining was at 7pm. Went back to shower up, and changed for all of us.

Took the train shuttle again. Limited choice, so we took pretty similar food.

Well, the ambience is different from the main area. So it is quite a nice change for that.

Food was ok. Never expected too much, so it was ok.

By the time reach back the main area after dinner, the 9pm party was about to commence.

Event after event, so nice.

Today’s party was about songs. Songs from 50s/60s/70s/80s/90s/00s :P

The crew mostly just lip-synched. But they put in a lot of effort by pacing the performances, adding comedy to some of the songs etc.

Overall, it was still a very much enjoyable performance.

Brilliant!

And the tired boy, was tired.

Fell asleep quite fast after showering and playing a little of ipad.

Tomorrow will be another fun-filled day!

For him’

Club Med Cherating Day 1

On Sunday, woke up pretty early.

It’s time to go Club Med Cherating!

We drove out from home quite early. Around 5.30am.

While it is unlikely to have huge jam on Sunday morning for the Causeway, we rather not take any chance. Furthermore, was expecting to have certain wrong route taken along the way …

At Woodlands Checkpoint, very smooth.

In no time, we hit into Johor Checkpoint. Just as fast as well.

But I think after the checkpoint, missed some turn, and it probably routed a slightly longer way to get into the North-South Expressway.

Of course, we still managed to get into it.

The first part of the journey was to get o Yong Peng, somewhere.

Somehow, the GPS guided us to exit from the expressway. Hmmm.

And we hit into somewhat ‘normal’ roads in Yong Peng.

Well, in GPS we trust, so we followed to the GPS’ direction, and finally see some signs for it to head to Segamat.

Based on my memory when I checked the route, seemed good.

Only thing is, the kind of road makes you wonder if you are really on right track.

Pretty much, 鸟不生蛋 roads.

Trying to keep myself alert the whole time, with 2 sleeping beauties in my car.

Safety has to come first.

Most of the way, you don’t see anything, except patches of land on the left and right. From time to time, hit into some small village, or some industrial places.

Still, in GPS we trust.

Then the road leads to Gambang. Ahhh. Another familiar name from my memory of the route checked.

GPS is a wonder. Without GPS, I don’t think I will drive to Cherating.

And yes, we managed to reach Club Med Cherating around 11.30am! Wowee!!!

But too early to check-in.

So we headed out for our lunch at some nearby town, Kemaman.

Really small town. Of course, unfamiliarity forced me to search for McDonald, one of the landscape as told by the staff at Club Med.

Managed to find it, and we had our lunch there.

After lunch, drove back to Club Med. Explored a little before we officially check-in around 3pm.

You can’t check-in earlier, unless you pay for it. Not worth it for the few hours. Would have costed us around MYR500 just to check in at around 12pm, which essentially means just to have their lunch, and getting the room earlier.

After settling the luggage and stuff at the room, we went out to explore the place a bit more. Went to have noodle as afternoon snack somemore. Greedy parents. :P

Then went back to the room to rest.

Well, I was tired. Rested a little in the room. Karinna and I actually fell asleep.

Zyan, was playing the ipad while we were sleeping.

We had our dinner around 8pm at the Mutiara restaurant, serving international buffett. Fine dining is available, but has to be booked at around 0830hrs in the morning. And it’s usually full.

Anyway, for me, any food is fine.

I only eat to live.

After we finished our dinner, there is a show at 9pm.

Every night, they will have some event show. So we went for it.

The performance is from the hospitality staff, thus not expecting it to be professional performance.

But fun is the name of the game.

And I think they got it!

After it ended, there was supposed to have another segment.

They had this “Miss Cherating” event.

However, Zyan said he wanted to go back to the room.

Thus, we called it the night for Day 1.

Her Name was Precious

Before the last post, I remembered I wrote something about Precious last year.

Last year, when she showed signs of leaving ...

Now that I re-read what I wrote, hmm, quite the same. :P

And below is it, dated 31 July 2017.

Her name was Precious.

It was year 2002, an afternoon of Good Friday.

We drove all the way to Jurong West, to pick the little mini schnauzer.

She’s a barky lady, when we met her. And was barky for the most part of her life.

We decided to bring her home, and she was two.

She was our adopted pet.

Our first pet dog.

She was a little confused, after being re-homed to us.

She had quite spiky hair, looking a mess.

And lots of skin conditions.

We brought her to vet.

Cleaned her up, rid her of skin problems.

Trained her to sleep at her own place.

And made her do simple little paw paw trick.

Overtime, she got used to us.

She had been a precious baby.

Just barking all day when we were out for work.

Just barked a lot at night, just not to be alone in the kitchen.

A good doorbell she is.

Always ready when someone is at the door.

She had had ticks before

Being novice owner, we were confused ourselves.

We pulled and pulled something on her.

In the end, realised it’s just her tits

And not ticks. D’uh!

She had grown well.

Skin became much more silky.

Looked a lot prettier.

Always well-behaved.

Yet always the barky one.

She’s a scary dog.

One that is afraid of water.

She would scratch you all over when you put her there.

We know.

We had the fun of being scratched.

She’s a lovely one too.

When Zyan was born, she knew.

She would come peep at the baby.

Look for daddy and mommy when she thinks the baby needs help.

We can tell she’s protective of him too.

It’s been a long 15 years.

She was getting weaker, and weaker.

Her legs felt the strain. Couldn’t stand.

Her appetite was not good.

And she didn’t drink much either.

She just lied down there.

Watching things go by.

Waiting for time to pass.

When I looked at her, she still looked so pretty.

Pretty old lady.

It is year 2017

The time is near

For her to go

For her to say good bye

Her name is Precious.

Our little Precious.

Our Precious

I remember it was year 2002, somewhere in May.

Assuming my memory is superb, it’s probably a Good Friday holiday during that year.

That time, home had only Karinna and myself.

Think we were out somewhere in Bedok, while on way home, a call was received regarding re-homing a dog.

We stopped by at a bus stop along Bedok North Street 4, deciding whether to go to Jurong West to look at the dog.

And we decided to get her.

When we reached the foster home for the dog, that dog was bark non-stop at anyone who comes near the home. Essentially territorial.

Other than the barking, she is basically a scaredy dog.

And she is Precious.

We brought her home. Took her cage along as well. Can’t remember what other things.

That night, she kept barking whole night. It was a real sleepless night.

She had lots of skin problem. Brought her to vet to get necessary treatment. Fed her better nutritious dog food (so called), with lots of fish oil.

In the end, she turned out beautiful-er.

Skin problem was eventually resolved too.

I remembered once, after walking her, we thought we found ticks on her belly.

Tried to poke and tried to pull. Hmmmm.

In the end, we realised it’s her nipples. D’uh!

It was hilarious, and yet felt so sorry for the poor girl.

She is really sweet girl. Just greedy and barky.

When Zyan was born, and when Zyan started to cry, Precious would run towards us and ‘asked for help’ by barking at us. She would stand up onto the baby cot and looked at Zyan.

At that time, Sapphire, the other dog that we had a little later (died last year), was also good with Zyan. Just that, my memory says Precious is more ‘caring’ towards Zyan.

This Precious had been with us for 16 years. Born in 2000, as we were told. When we adopted her, she was 2 years old. At 18+, she is considered to have outlived most dogs of her breed. Sapphire only lived until she was 15.

Precious welcomed Sapphire home, and sent Sapphire off when she was gone.

This time, the new adopted dog Penny would see that Precious is gone.

Precious need not suffer anymore.

She had been so-called bedridden since probably early this year.

She nearly cannot make it last August, but she was a fighter. Fought against the odds and managed to walk again last September.

Old age is something that is difficult to go against. When her legs got weakened again, she basically just lied down and couldn’t do anything else.

Pee and poo became a problem, and so she had to wear diaper.

Eat and drink will need some help from us.

Actually other than that, her head is still quite strong.

Signs of old age, and of a dying dog seemed to get more obvious.

Besides, there’s no quality to her life.

We brought her to the vet.

She had wounds on her due to body contact against floor, as she couldn't walk.

Telling her the last goodbyes, and to make her suffer less.

And so she goes …

May she rest in peace

Bye bye, the first dog in our life ...

More Compassion

While having dinner, I cannot remember what context the question came about.

Zyan asked me this: Papa, can you show me more compassion?

Wow!
What have I done?

Went off a while, then came back to him, I passed him this:

Karinna and him burst out laughing.

Bus Trip

Today, Karinna had some appointment the whole day, so left Zyan having only 1 target to pester, which is me. :P

Since Suntec has Consumer Electronics Exhibition, I decided to bring him out in the afternoon.

There was some rain around lunch time. Waited for the rain to simmer down before heading out to the bus stop.

We took bus 33 to Dakota, then took the Circle Line MRT to Promenade station.

Of course this is not the first time for Zyan to take bus and MRT ride anymore. So he still wants to stand and hold the hand rails wherever possible. Cheap thrill is like that 1.

From Promenade, we took slow walk towards the Convention Centre area. Seldom go there, felt a bit suaku looking around as well.

Well, good to see Suntec is quite crowded, and the shops are generally rented out. I have some small shares with Suntec Reit, so it is good to see high occupancy for the area. LOL

Anyway, bring a kid to such exhibition is not a good idea. He is not at the age to want to look at these things yet. I am not at that age also actually. Just passing time and enjoying the afternoon with son, and perhaps see what laptops to buy for replacement for office use.

I think the choice is still similar to what I bought few weeks back. Who knows? Next week is PC Show, but I think it would be the same … …

After walking through the crowds at Suntec, very tired siah. Walked over to Marina and had afternoon snack.

Zyan picked Chic-A-Boo Fried Chicken.

Shared with him a 2-piece meal, while resting our tired legs.

snack time!

Let him played at some playground before heading home.

Took the train from Esplanade back to Dakota.

While on the way to the train station, I told Zyan there is one thing we would do before going home.

Which is: To go to his Primary School, and let him learn to take bus from school to home.

Thus, from Dakota station, we took bus 16 to go to his school compound area.

Told him to make himself be aware of the route later for the bus home.

For bus to school, I think it is a little challenging for now, as the bus stop is a little further away from the school. Well, settle the bus home first. J

Intention is for him to take the bus, recognise the roads, and tell me when we are reaching the bus stop near home.

Only one bus from the school’s bus stop will reach near home.

I let him flagged the bus when it came.

Went up, took a seat, told him to try to look out ahead, and if needed, count the number of bus stops.

At bus stop near school

But he talks a lot. Keep talking to me instead of looking out. Occasionally will blurt out info as if he is an expert with taking bus home.

Told me about the bus stop’s number. I never bother with the bus stop’s number.

Of course, I am with him, so I would control to make sure we alight at the correct place.

Had to remind him to press the bell to signal to driver we wanted to alight the bus.

He kept having impression that he was the one that pressed the bell. I knew it was me. LOL

Anyway, first try. Gotto have a second or third try some other time.

We shall see.

我那美美的小脚

我那美美的小脚

受伤了

训练师说别太有雄心

抚摸头几下就好

偏偏我屁股痒

用点力让它躺下

它也配合我几下

几厉害一下喔

顿时想站起来

它反应超快

扑一下就咬到我的手

用力给了它一拳

它再扑向我的脚

一脚把它踢开

再吼住它停止

它可能以为我想压死它？

它定下来了

坐在那儿被骂

看一下

手没事

右膝盖有点淤青

左脚流血了

没什么大碍

可是

痛啊!!!

再骂它几次

然后敷点药

我那美美的小脚