A New Park!

There are still many pictures from our previous adventures waiting to be updated in here. I will, definitely! But as for now let see what we're up to recently while I'm still in the 'updating' mood =)

So, last night we went to this new park. Dad and mom were having this hmm sort of casual dinner party there at the park with the state rowing boat team and some government officers (I guess they must have won a competition or something, hence the celebration). What dad didn't realize that some people brought their family along, and only after he got there with mom after like an hour, he quickly gave me a call and asked me to bring along the boys. It was a very last minute thing, and I already made plan to work at the other house so I expected that we're gonna be there just for awhile say like half an hour the most just to show our faces. BUT it turned out to be longer than that and it was actually pretty fun too!

I nicked this pic from my office network coz I don't have a recent day time picture of the park. At the time the picture was taken, it was not completed yet. This park which is called Taman Jubli Emas (Golden Jubilee Recreation Park) is constructed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the reign of the 27th ruler of Kedah, Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah. The Sultan now is 80 yrs old. The 20-metre high landmark constitutes of 5 'keris' (a type of Malay traditional dagger) which symbolize the Sultan's 50 years in throne. The royal 'Tengkolok' a type of Malay men's traditional headdress is placed on top of the dagger's handle and it's one of the main royal costumes. Anyway, enough of the introduction, let's go to the fun part.

This is actually a funny picture coz the boys were squirming about some smelly bugs. Farhan squashed one coz it was flying near him and his hand smelled horrible after that. So these 2 fellas started to check their clothes too.

A random pic of Ezzat.

Mom in black and white, enjoying her food. They put up a screen with a projector that showed the Olympic - badminton - Men single, final game between Malaysia and China. China won. Nevertheless, our first medal.

Some random pictures of Farhan.

Oppss, the show has started!

Some cool music started to play, a mix of traditional malay songs, classical & modern. And our Mr Emir here started to pretend his conducting the show! He even got a balloon stick as the Baton.

Emir was really having fun last night, he conducted, he danced. Check out the video. It's pretty dark in there but you can still more or less see him in action.

Mr Farhan seems to be pretty serious in here. He complained later on that he has tummy ache. Poor baby. First the smelly bug, then tummy ache.

The pictures here are not that great, my camera is partly to be blamed. But anyway, I love the lighting effect - the pics are blurry but still colorful.

These turned out to be much better. I took them with mom's camera.

Time to go back. Mr Ezzat is getting restless. Actually it has already passed his bed time. And this boy always sleeps on time!

But before that, one final picture of the Mukthi's fam (Farhan is not looking so good though). Blink! And off we go.

And here's another video, this time with a bit of lighting. I like the song. Enjoy!

Through the Lens - Close Ups (part 2)

2005 - Kota Damansara

Through the Lens - Close Ups (part 1)

3 years ago, I lost my laptop. Someone broke into my car and took it. Yeah, I was careless enough to leave it inside the car. Gone with the laptop were hundreds of pictures of the boys that my family and I took ever since they're babies, plus my eye glasses, pen drive..actually everything that were inside the laptop bag. Anyway, recently while browsing through my brother's computer, I found out he actually keeps most of the pictures that he took!! So here they are, just to share with you all.

2005 - Kota Damansara, Apartment 107

Tok Wan's Orchard (2)

Here are more pictures from the trip. And the same video, only this time it's from Youtube coz it has bigger screen.

Here's dad / Tok Wan again, working real hard. During Japanese occupation during WWII, tapioca was the main source of food here as rice was scarce and very expensive back then. There are abundant of tapiocas here in this orchard.

What shall we make this time?

The jungle as our backyard.

Emir was doing his bit.

Tok Wan's Orchard

I forgot about a short visit we had when we went to Tok Wan's orchard a few weeks back (Tok Wan - nickname for grandfather). I just remembered about it when I took a look of some pictures taken with my phone. I recalled the date well because that was D-Day Uncle Dan was supposed to go for his BIIGGG ADVENTURE too - on May 9th. He didn't go until the next day though.

Farhan didn't want to go because he was really into cartoons that morning. So it was only me, Emir, Ezzat and Tok Wan. Tok (Grandma) was doing her gardening, and besides she was never really into stuff like this. Tok Wan took his really old van (see pic) and it was one hell of a ride in it, just imagine being in a tin box which is drivable.

That van is probably older than me.

Anyway, when we got there, the place was covered with wild bushes as tall as Emir, so dad decided to give it a trim and we just spent most of the time wondering around the house and didn't dare to venture far. And I've only been here twice since dad told me he bought this place last year.

Dad at work. You can see some tapioca trees.

Still busy trimming.

Wo hoo ma, look at what I found! A banana flower!!!

Sweet!

Mangosteen is one of the local fruits which one can find in dad's orchard, apart from durian, dokong, rambutan, and banana. I saw some tapioca plants too the other day. Here's a cute little mangosteen which unfortunately fell down before it got riped. Riped ones will have deep purple skin and that's really sweet and nice.

From the balcony.

During high tide. Dad's gonna built a jetty here.

Can we go back now?

Youtube is not cooperating today, and I'm not sure the quality of the video by Blogger. But here's a video taken while we're there. Can you spot a lizard on the tree?