That time of the year

We travelled up and down the Crocker Range over the weekend.

To rediscover my kampung boy instincts...

To catch up with my kampung frens...

And to fill up with these stuffs...

the King

the Queen

dan lain lain.

Blessed

A colleague recently commented... "Waaa... you know ah, Malaysia is so blessed. Do you know that there is disaster all around us... storms in the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand... earthquake in Sumatra... and nothing in Malaysia (except corrupt politicians la). And we have so many races living together in harmony."

Ya hor.

Imagine losing your entire live savings (house, car, land, properties...) in an earthquake. And as far as I know insurance don't compensate for those stuffs lost due to "natural disaster". Only then will we realise that worldly possessions will ultimately perish, like what the Bible has been saying since two thousand plus years ago. Just that we often forget that part.

Disasters as a reminder of the futility of chasing material stuffs? Maybe hor.

Ryan got some new toys

A gift from Ryan's Gong-gong while searching for a keyboard (the boy's been dragging my USB computer keyboard everywhere). Can go hunting lo!

Keyboard for little boy. Found this after much searching around the toy shops in KK.

And soon later discovered a really good-bargain full size keyboard in Servay supermarket. Grrrhh...

Church at the beach

The church had the Sunday Service in Tanjung Aru beach today. It was the Family Fun Day Celebration. Picnic, food, fun.

It's been a long long time since we last went to the beach. Ryan was overjoyed of course. We got lost locating the Pantai Dua in Tanjung Aru, so was a bit late... the worship session already started.

Ryan was more interested in the fun stuffs.

There were games for kids.

Ryan was too small for the SuperCrew's games. So he went to play masak-masak with a little girl in a yellow tent. But cool little girl didn't want to play with him.

Games for adults too.

The Big Eagle Catch Chicken game (when was the last time you play this?). See the grey-hair folks enjoying themselves... it's never too old to play :-)

The passing balloon game...

The hoola-hoop game... And many other games but I didn't take photo la.

Good food of course... the church ordered 2 roast lambs!

A cool dip in the sea for little boy.

Balik kampung

My daddy brought me back to interior Sabah last weekend. We went balik kampung early coz wanted to avoid the Hari Raya exodus.

It's been a long time. The city is not good for little boys. I get caged up in the house all day. That makes Ryan a dull little boy.

Where else in the kampung...

... I become the center of attention

... I get to manja with my Gong-gong
... and not get scolded for making noise in kampung church

... I get to enjoy natural spa...

... scream at the dogs
... play with sand
... run around naked in the field (hey don't think I am gonna show you the pic)

It good to touch the green green grass of the kampung.

Why do people choose to live in the city anyway?

Amah came to visit me

Amah came from Seremban to visit me over the weekend.

I woke up early (a bit earlier than normal la) to fetch Amah from the airport. Then we went for the very popular kon-lau-mian with chu-chap shop in Tanjung Aru for breakfast.

Wanted to go to the market to get nice nice fish. But it was already almost 10.30am, so not much nice nice fish left. We bought some fruits only la to make fruit juice (did you know that apples and oranges in the market are much cheaper than those in Giant?).

Then we went to the library to borrow some books. I made so much noice that the librarian scolded me. So bad, they really don't give face to little boys.

On the way back, my daddy decided to stop by to visit the big ship that was parking near Likas Bay.

The last time I went up the ship was like two years ago. I was very little then. Can hardly remember what it was like. Couldn't even run around that time. Just remembered that it was very very very hot inside.

Me little boy has gone up the plane, and even the ship. Lucky leh.

There were many books on shelves aboard the ship. Wasn't too hot this time, even though we went at noon. Sea breeze was very strong.


I wanted to buy a Pooh Pooh book with crayons in it. But my daddy said cannot coz I will colour the house instead. So my Amah bought a picture book for me. My daddy was very happy coz he found a good bargain. He bought a Philip Yancey book for only RM 8. Later he asked a friend to buy a few more to give to people.

So happy I went shopping on a ship.
The next morning my daddy woke me up very early to go to the market to buy nice nice fish. I was still blur blur when Amah held my hand to the market.

Yes they did found a couple of nice nice fish, like the seven-star-garoupa, and gigantic tiger prawns.

Later that morning I slept in church. My daddy and mummy were very happy coz I did not attract attention from my usual running around and screaming. They said it was a very successful strategy. From then on they would wake me up at 6.30 am every Sunday so that I would sleep in church.

Die lo.

National Day phoneshots

Since it's a holiday, I went to yumcha at the shop with my parents.

And then went to see what everybody else is doing on National Day. Peace (I haven't perfected the peace sign yet).

Modern kids

Forget about bedtime songs and lullabies, the iPod reigns!

Desperate

Protesters Threaten Bloodshed Over Hindu Temple

Sigh. Some people are just so crazily desperate to take back Selangor, or to maintain ISA, or whatever. Whatever is in their mind during fasting month, peace and love is definitely no where to be seen. So much hatred, tak batal puasa ka?

Did you participate in the 40 days Fast and Prayer for the Nation?

My first passenger

Pooh pooh.