Lucky Cat

Yesterday, woke up very early.

4.30am woke up already, have to get ready to accompany Karinna to hospital.

She had a surgery to be done on her left wrist, which had been plaguing her for a long time.

Actually not much to prepare, just habit to wake up earlier than required. Also, had to wake the son around 5.40am to get him ready for school.

They usually take a longer time to get off the bed … … you know … …

Zyan was woken earlier at 5.30am.

Karinna had prepared her ‘luggage’. I just got my laptop ready that’s all.

Left home at around 5.40am, and arrived the hospital before 6am.

She was required to do the admission at 6am, then the operation was scheduled at 8am.

Sleepy ….

Got the admission done, went to the room and waited for instructions.

Then the nurse came to bring Karinna to the OT at 7.30am.

I just stayed in the room and read newspapers.

Then I remember, the parking is quite expensive. Shifted my car to Novena Square, a little cheaper.

Gotto save some money … :D

Went back to the hospital room, and took out my laptop to do a bit of work.

Karinna was pushed back to the room at 11+am.

She was under GA, so looked a bit groggy. Then her left hand had no feelings.

Good time to pinch and poke her left hand. Hehehe

They had to lift her hand in upright position, like always trying to volunteer for work.

Like 招财猫 like that.

Aunt Agony at work ...

 Then her lunch came. She was hungry. Food was so-so, not that bad.

She couldn’t finish it, so the rest of the food went into a garbage tummy. No prize for guessing.

She continued to sleep a bit here and there, while I was working a bit here and there.

Then at about 3pm, went back home. Coz have to bring Zyan for his violin class.

And after his violin class, we came together back to the hospital to keep the queen company.

Thereafter, went to buy dinner for Zyan and myself, and coffee for Karinna. By the time finished eating, brought Zyan back home for the night.

The next morning (which is today) then went back to the hospital to bring her home. When I reached there, she was already changed to get ready to leave. However, had to wait for administrative paper work to be done before we can leave.

At the end, only left the place around 1130am. Went home just nice for lunch.

So the Lucky Cat has to stay. Not sure how it is going to be done, but I guess something will work out? *shrug*

Come to think of it, I quite pai mia.

Already have to bring my dad to hospital visits every now and then. Then last 3 months, had to bring Zyan to hospital to fix his fractured elbow. Now I think will have to go with Karinna for her follow-ups.

Anyway, as long as everyone is ok, that is fine.

Legoland Again

Last Friday was the last day of school holiday in June.

We decided to bring Zyan to Legoland. Yes. Again.

Left home around 9am. Traffic to Legoland was good. Afterall, it is a week-day morning. At Tuas, I would think it should not have traffic jam.

We headed to the Wet Theme Park. Zyan prefers the wet park. Have to make good use of the Annual Pass that we bought.

Since it is the wet park, we left most of our important belongings in the locker, including mobile phones. Didn’t get to take any picture at all. LOL

But hey! It’s a good time spent for Zyan. He had fun playing the rides and such. Some, with us, the don’t-really-wanna-play-parents. :P

It was adventure for him for more than 3 hours.

Leaving Legoland

Weather was good. No scorching sun. When we left around 1.30pm, it looked like it was going to start raining. Drizzling when we walked towards our car.

As usual, JB trip cannot do without going to Bukit Indah AEON area. It’s the place that we are (now) more familiar.

Went for lunch at some coffeeshop that we passed by few trips back.

Well, can only say it’s cheap and pretty good.

We did promised Zyan for a movie the last time we came JB from Club Med / KL, so catching a movie in JB had to be done.

Time to go AEON.

Buying tickets are now machine operated, buy yourself. There’s 1 small manned-counter, but told us to get the tickets from the kiosks. Not sure why also.

Anyway, we got the tickets for Incredibles 2.

After the movie, it was already 6+pm. Drove to the opposite side of the mall.

Karinna wanted to eat the KL Hokkien Noodle. OK with me.

Also went to the Ming Kee Confectionary to buy stuff. One of the usual places we visit when we are in Bukit Indah.

The 烧包 is one of the interesting find we had some time ago. We’ve been coming back here many times already. :P

Time to go back Singapore.

Traffic was ok, until reaching Singapore customs. I think it took about close to an hour to clear Singapore customs.
Long or short for a Friday evening? I am also not sure.

Well, it’s a good family time for the day.

And yes, it was my birthday too! J

West End Boy(s)

School holiday is a headache, when there’s no after-school care to send kid to.

Can’t be planning full holiday days for activities every day.

Well, at least there was a Club Med that we went earlier in the month., and next week school is back!

Had intended some time ago to bring Zyan on other outings around Singapore, of course.

Last week, decided it to be Singapore Discovery Centre. I myself have not been there before anyway.

Had originally arranged for 2 other kids to join in. One of them cannot join, due to attending some camp; another cannot join due to grand-parents want to bring her out elsewhere.

So it was back to father-and-son bonding. *vomit*

We went in the morning. When there’s such activities, it’s easy to wake Zyan up. When it’s school time, getting the cane out can help. LOL

We reached there just before 10am. Singapore has free admission, but not all activities are free though.

Just nice, 10.05am has a Safti Bus Tour. We hopped on it, just looking around the place. I’ve not been to this part of Safti area, as it was more for the Officer training.

I was not an Officer during army time.

Kaypoh kaypoh look see only. Anyway, only around 15mins of bus tour.

Only thing is, only 2 of us in the bus. Yes, son and me, plus a guide (and driver of course).

When we came back, we walked through the exhibition. Played some games here and there at the exhibits.

Of course, the whole place is about Singapore, and a lot on defence related stuff.

Took our time to walk the place. By the time we finished the place, it was time for lunch.

Just usual canteen food stuff, nothing fanciful or great. Convenience is key.

supposed to be a reporter

battlefield commander!

Then we went for the 4D Simulator Ride. Just a 5 minutes ride.

Actually, I think it is not worth it.

No wonder not many people know and want to visit Singapore Discovery Centre.

Something is lacking. Crowd. LOL

There are a few more places there.

Army Museum, closed for renovation.

Crossfire Paintball, no one playing today. Probably need to arrange ownself with a group to play?

Pedal Boat, only operational on weekends and holidays.

Therefore, after the 4D Simulator Ride, we went off from SDC.

Kinda early to call it a day for Zyan. Search places around the west side.

Asked if he wanted to see tortoise museum. Sure! :P

Drove to Chinese Garden. Yes. The Live Turtle and Tortoise Museum is at Chinese Garden.

But when reached there, saw that the roads that go into the area were all closed.

Found a temporary carpark nearer the main road. Parked and walked over instead.

At least it is still operational there.

Quite a nice place to walk around Chinese Garden, especially when the weather was not scorching at all this afternoon.

Paid the entrance fee for the Tortoise Museum.

I don’t think Zyan is a tortoise lover, but I am sure he was having fun feeding the turtles and tortoises.

Then again, what is the difference between turtle and tortoise?

Beats me man. *ouch*

Google knows: https://www.diffen.com/difference/Tortoise_vs_Turtle

After feeding, we walked a bit more around Chinese Garden, then made way to the temporary carpark.

Had a short snack time at KFC before heading back to the east.

Last stop: Parkway Parade.

Was a last minute decision to go there.

Had wanted to check out some laptops. Loitered a while at Harvey Norman. I roughly know which laptop to get to replace some of the office’s laptops. Anyway, no hurry. :P

Also did some errand at the money changer there.

The recent Club Med and KL trip used up quite a bit of MYR. Time to replenish a bit.

That’s a day of activities for the boy.

For the man, tired.

Penny Bites

Just when I was about to reach home earlier today, my helper called me.

Cannot catch head or tail what she was trying to say.

When I got home, she told me Zyan got bitten.

By Penny of course.

And apparently a little bad, as there was quite some blood.

He was holding onto tissue paper wrapping on his left toes.

He wasn’t really crying, but can see the agony on his face.

This was bound to happen somehow.

Despite the numerous reminders to him not to disturb the dog, he was always full of mischief and want to disturb the dog every now and then.

Still, had to chide him for his own mischief, and now have to suffer the consequence of trying to disturb the dog.

According to him, he was using one of the dog toys, and hit onto the side of Penny.

So brave right? I also dare not do that now.

Serve him right or not?? Hmmm

And then the dog just pounced on him. Not sure why not his hands though, but bit his left foot.

He also cannot remember how.

I can understand that, as I was one of those come-over-person (过来人). LOL

2 little red dot-bites on top, and minor cut on 4th toe

Deeper cut at bottom of 4th toe

So helped him to the toilet and washed up his wounds.

Took a look.

Two small dot-bites on top of the foot.

Fourth toe is the one that got bruised. One side of the fourth toe had a small cut. The bottom edge of the fourth toe had a deeper cut.

I used a napkin to wrap and tie around his left foot, to help stop and soak the blood.

He looked somewhat ok after that, albeit a little pale.

Let him played some ipad and he momentarily forgot his pain.

My niece came over my place to pick up something. She was afraid of the dog also. :P

As long as ignore the dog, and don’t disturb her, life should still be blissful. Take note!

At dinner, Zyan said he has no appetite and went to the bed and rested.

After my dinner, went to check on him. He still got up and wanted to watch TV.

So I applied some oil onto his wound at that time.

Suddenly he felt like vomiting. And went to the toilet to vomit out.

Wow. I think might be related to the trauma.

In any case, brought him to clinic after checking out the clinic if they do cuts treatment.

They do, so brought him to get better disinfection and bandage.

I think when cleaning, it probably hurts quite a bit.

He didn’t cry, and screamed a little in pain.

No whining though.

Doctor said will need to change dressing every day for the next 5-7 days.

If really need to, then will have to stitch.

And so he is now an experienced bandaged ‘crusader’ of elbow and foot.

Club Med to KL

06 June 2018, check-out day for Club Med Cherating.

Our big piece of luggage was put outside the door at 8am.

Yes, so early. :P

Went for breakfast, then Zyan continued to join the Archery and Trapeze in the morning.

After packing some other miscellaneous stuff, just idled at the room.

Went to do our check-out around 10+. Need to do that before 11am.

After checking-out, loitered inside their air-con lounge.

Zyan joined back around 11am.

We still can enjoy the place till 3pm apparently.

Had more drinks in between before lunch.

Lunch was at 12noon. We went to have a bite before heading down to Petaling Jaya.

Had something to be done at PJ, as well as visit Karinna’s uncles near there.

All prepared to leave. Went to the car t start the engine.

Uh-oh!!!!

The car could not be started.

Jialat! Sibeh jialat!

Then I saw a staff walked past. I called Thomas for help.

He was at the bar counter earlier and we had a short conversation. He’s from Begium, and his wife is from KL.

Lucky for me, he helped me get the mechanic to check.

Seemed like the battery died.

Once they help me jumpstart the car, my car is alive again!

Yeah. Just cannot switch off the engine, else I would be stuck again.

They said at Kemaman, the town nearby where we had our McDonald on Day 1, has a lot of car servicing places.

Thus, we drove down there to look for shops that can check and replace the batteries.

Should have taken picture of the distress signals on the car dashboard. :P

The first shop we went to, said he didn’t have stock for my battery size. He was kind enough to direct me to another location to get the battery.

We went there, not hard to find with Google Map.

At that point of time, my car was ok. Even if I turned off the engine, and restarted the car, it was still alive and kicking.

Possibly being charged up for more than half an hour already since it was jumpstarted.

Battery was very energetic at that time. If after it cooled down, not sure what would happen.

Didn’t want to take risk, so changed the battery.

Damage was done at RM420. Oh well, some things cannot be avoided.

Once done, we were good to go on the road again. However, it was already past 2.30pm.

We had to drive to KL, which is 3hrs+ away.

Based on our original plan, we should reach KL at 4+.

After the little event encounter, would be 6+

The road to KL was ok. Very smooth in the first 2 hours.

The last hour was near Bentong towards KL. Wow. That stretch of roads are quite winding. And when hit nearer to PJ, can see some jams.

Alamak!

But lucky the jams were not that bad. Slow but still ok.

I only remembered we passed through a lot of toll gates. Pay and pay. :P

At long last, we finally reach our hotel around 6.10pm

Got into the room, and that makes us happier. Hehehe.

The room is very nice.

Had stayed here a few times few years back. After renovations done, simply looks good.

But we only staying 1 night.

Then I got a Grab Car to meet the uncles for dinner.

Gotto rest from driving, and don’t really want to stress myself with the road conditions.

Well, the 2 uncles still look good. Of course, getting older. Legs may get weaker etc.

One of them actually just had very high blood pressure the previous night, and went to hospital to check.

Didn’t need to hospitalised, but was under observation till wee morning hours apparently, till 4am.

Well, at least still fit to be allowed to go home.

Had chat with them till about 10pm. It was getting late, so we took Grab back to hotel.

For the next morning (which is today), had to go down to Jaya One near the hotel to do something.

From there, it’s time to drive back to Singapore.

Most likely, on the way back, we’ll head into Bukit Indah to buy things, and have some food.

At this point of time, my 2 companions are still sleeping.

睡到自然醒。。。

Club Med Cherating Day 3

No. This picture wasn’t taken today.

It was taken yesterday at Rembulan Restaurant when we had our fine dining.

Today, didn’t have much photo taken. At least not on my mobile phone.

Zyan was all ready for the Mini Club Med.

Program is pretty standard in the morning.

Archery, then Trapeze, then Aqua Fun.

Aqua Fun essentially means playing in the pool.

And Zyan was excited with trapeze, but he kept pronouncing it as tra-pu-zee.

Dunno why also. :P

He decided he will stick with the Mini Club Med till 5pm. So we would be free from his clutches till about 5pm!

After signing him into Mini Club Med, we went back to the room to rest a bit.

Then we took a walk to the other part of the beach to enjoy the Zen Pool over there. Zen Pool is out of bound for people under 18+, basically providing a quieter place for adults to chill in.

I actually fell asleep for a short while lying there

And they had some BBQ food from 12-1pm. Great, then no need to head back to the main area for lunch.

We had lots of different drinks there as well. Free-flow-club-med-style.

We went back to main area around 3.15pm. Took the train back.

Then saw Zyan and his Mini Club Med friends there at the train.

They were there as well. They supposed to have sailing from 2-3pm.

However, he said the wave was a little stronger, and probably choppy, so they did not get to sail.

Playing at the beach instead.

Well, too bad. But I think they still enjoyed the fun in the sun.

Went back to our room. Lazing around, and then went to pick Zyan at around 5pm.

Again, did nothing until it’s dinner time.

So you see, not much picture for me to take today. LOL

Dinner was ok. No fine dining though. Rembulan Restaurant was closed today. No lunch or dinner at that restaurant.

Dinner wasn’t too bad.

They had foie gras. :P

Yeah. I know it is sinful. Hmmmm…. Shhhhhh…

Won’t tell you how many I had.

Zyan wanted to join the Mini Club Med for a movie night. So sent him there at 8pm.

Karinna and myself just sat at the main area bar, drinking again, enjoying the songs they played.

At 9pm, as usual, the party show.

Tonight, the show focus was on circus act.

Really, staff of Club Med has to do lots of things. LOL. Pretty good!

Won’t upload video here. Takes a long time to upload with the internet speed from the room. :P

Again, when Zyan went onto the bed, he was fast asleep. Less than 5 minutes and he would Zzzzzzzzzz…

Tomorrow is a short day here.

Zyan still wants to join the first 2 activities of Archery and Trapeze.

Fine, as long as he enjoys it, ok!

We would have to leave Club Med Cherating after lunch, and head towards KL.

Need to do something there, before going back Singapore on Thursday.

It’s been good holiday at Cherating!

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’