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PiggyBeng actually left for Manila on Monday morning for a 3-night, 4-day events. As my MIL is still around, I decided not to return to KL and stay around Penang.

So far everything looks ok and Darrius was fine throughout. He has been quite a good boy when I tried to tuck him in the past two nights. Even tonight he did not make any fuss and slept after I fed him his milk. He has been sleeping through till the next day too without waking up for milk now for the past few weeks… which is really a blessing! I have been keeping my fingers crossed that nothing drama happens when PiggBeng is not around after the previous case.

Looking forward to PiggyBeng’s return tomorrow… he got us some goodies wor!

Now, this mommy can blog all she wants till the sun rises!

This is the season dad-di loves most… cause he gets to eat his ‘king of all fruit’! Since I have dad-di’s genes, I’m too going to love it too!

According to dad-di, this year’s harvest was not as good as the previous years. As it has been raining quite often, it actually dampen the entire crops. Dad-di said that once it rains, the fruits will all turn tasteless and they will lose its flavour and value.

No matter what, dad-di will still want to get a few bites if he do spots the good ones. Normally my Ah Kong will bring for dad-di some really good ones from his friend’s orchards but so far this year, there hasn’t been any…. so dad-di decided to try his luck elsewhere… And like usual, he always gets those value for money kinda stuff just like last year….

And….

Can you see how ‘high’ I am feeling when these kings touches my lips?

 Ooooooooooooooooooooolala!

This weekend will definitely have some more when dad-di is back from Manila…. So, before the season ends…. do go grab some!!!

Oooooooooooooo! Did I tell you I lurveeeeeee weekends? I can go kai-kai, walk-walk to so many places! Guess where did dad-di and maa-mi brought me to today??? Building sand castles on the beach! And I really enjoyed myself!

First we went shopping at kah-kuk, then dad-di brought us to drink kut-kah (coconut) juice in town. It soooo yummy! It has been a looooong time since we last went there. The kut-kah juice was sooo sweet and refreshing especially on a hot day like today!

Then daddi drove us up to Tanjung Bungah and tried to search for a suitable location for us to go as the afternoon sun was extremely hot. He has to check out a few places to see if there’s any area where we can get good shaded place for me to start my castles building projects.

Initially he stopped at this place just opposite the Tropical Spice Garden but the area do not have much shaded areas and the dirty water from the hawkers above was somewhere on the sand… so we left. Then we came to this really cool place… just a few metres away from Shamrock Beach (previously known as Miami Beach - a Tsunami hit area). There were not many people around and the place is quite clean though it’s a little rocky.

When dad-di first let me stand on the sand, I was quite taken aback! It felt weird! I’ve never stepped on sand before and I actually refused and wanted dad-di to lift me up!

Then maa-mi spread out my castles building tools….

Dad-di filled up my little boat with water so we could wet the sand then he helped me to build some castles but I was too busy playing with the water…

And the sand were sticking all over my top and water wet my pants so maa-mi stripped them off and I was totally naked except with only my ‘quite’ full diaper on! Anyway, who cares right? As long as I can enjoy playing with my stuff!

See… that was why I love weekends! Hope you have a fun-tastic weekend too!

Like any other weekends, we never failed to drop by one of the shopping mall within this tiny island. This week is no exception. We were in Queenbay Mall again (was there the last 2 weekends) as PiggyBeng wanted to find a matching pants for his suit.

We had a late breakfast so we did not thought of lunch till it was like almost 1.30pm. So we walked around the basement to check the various restaurants out but either they were over crowded or so empty that you have the suspicious that the food are not worth trying. Then we came to Pizza Hut (suddenly I have a craving for pizza and thought the pasta will be perfect for Darrius) and though there was a queue, we thought if we come back later, the queue would have ease off a little. So we decided to wait for a while and let Darrius has his ‘running around’ session first on the 2nd floor before heading back to the basement.

Guess we were lucky as we did not have to wait too long before we were shown to a table by the entrance. So we sat down but no one came to serve us. As we are hungry, I decided to serve myself by getting the menu from the counter. After going through the menu and ready to order (some 10 minutes later), there is still no sign of a waitress or waiter. So I raised my hand and gestured to the Manager (I think he/she looked like one) as he/she has a different uniform. Hastily he/she came over and we qucikly gave he/she our orders. Then he/she told us we have to wait for some 18 minutes for our pizza to arrive.

Waited for another 5-10 minutes and still no sign of our orders. Then a waitress came and she sent our soup, drinks and garlic bread to the table behind us where the couple sitting there has not made any order yet. So, I quickly call the waitress and told her it’s ours. After we finished our soup and garlic bread, there’s still no sign of our pizza. Even the couple behind us decided to leave after drinking the soup as no one went over their table to take their order!

Finally our pizza arrived (PiggyBeng was very pissed off then) but there’s still no sign of our pasta. Darrius also gone extremely cranky and he refused whatever thing I was trying to feed him. There were a few more people who came in and sat at the tables behind us but left too! Then there were people who jumped Q and went to get themselves seated! The whole place was so chaotic but only a miserable 3-4 waiters and waitresses are serving…. on a weekend and during peak lunch hours. Even the table next to ours were not cleared after the diners left like some 20 minutes ago! Apalah! Fast food? Never at Pizza Hut!

So, I think this will be our first and last time going to Pizza Hut @ Queensbay Mall!

Today is the 5th day of the 5th month on the Lunar Calendar and Chinese around the world celebrate Duan Wu Jie (Dumpling Festival or Dragon Boat Festival) in honour of a famous poet, Qu Yuan.

To all readers….. Happy Duan Wu Jie!

Check out my Duan Wu Jie’s surprises…

Maa-mii did not bring my 4-wheeler along when we went back to gong-gong’s house as there were too many things maa-mii tried to stuffed inside dad-di’s car boot.

I was left with so little toys (so sick with the toys maa-mii brought along) that I often roam the house touching poh-poh’s things. Gong-gong felt that I was too bored and he decided to get me something to keep me occupied so I don’t disturb the things around the house… hehehe
Taaaaaadddddaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…………………..

My very own tricycle

We went for an early Father’s Day celebration… at Hotel Continental again! hahahaha! You must be wondering why we love going there? 2 times within the same week some more! Well, besides it’s air-conditioned, the food is quite ok, value for $$$, friendly staff as well as good service which always drew us back. During weekend, they do not have the Asian buffet spread but Ala-Carte Western meal with unlimited serving from their salad and dessert bar.

Actually, I have wanted to go to Breeks at Queensbay Mall but we were afraid we could not find any parking lot as it was a Saturday after all where that place will normally be soooo jammed up with the weekenders. That was why we decided to go to Hotel Continental instead… and we were glad we went there…

Fried Rainbow Trout for PiggyBeng

Steak in Black Pepper Sauce for me

There wasn’t that many people and we were served with our orders within 10 minutes. Darrius was having another yummy session wallopping up cakes, cream puffs, jelly and watermelon…. forgotten to snap his cheeky face… all the pain gone coz can go kai-kai, walk-walk!

And not forgetting… wishing my dearest PiggyBeng, my beloved Dad and all the daddies out there a…

I did not get to sleep much since Thursday night after Darrius’s thigh got all swelled up. He developed high fever throughout the night and did not subside till we got back from the paed on Friday, which was almost 5pm.

Darrius did not sleep too well the entire night as he can’t move his leg and can’t go on his favourite sleeping position. Everytime he moved, he will cry in pain and all the waking up made him even more cranky… but he still refused to sleep/nap after his breaky and lunch. Only after he had the pain killer from the paed, he slept for about 30 minutes as his swelling got better and can finally stand and walk.

He was whinning away after he woke up from his nap around 5pm and insisted that he want to go kai-kai so PiggyBeng decided to take him out for a ride as well as going for our dinner… we normally do not cook dinner on Friday. After dinner we went to the new Tesco Extra to look-look see-see…

What surprised us was… that lil fella can walk, jump and run already when we were in Tesco! So, we gathered that Darrius’s best medicine is of course…. kai-kai, walk-walk lar! At home he complaint leg pain but when go out… no more pain wor!

No more leg phain-phain

On Thursday, we went out lunch with Darrius’s Ah Mah (grandmother) and Ah Chor (greatgrandmother), to celebrate Darrius’s Ah Chor’s birthday. This is the first time I get to celebrate Darrius’s Ah Chor’s birthday as the past 2 years I was in KL during June so did not get have any chance. Normally, there will be a big celebration with other relatives… but this year thingys has gone low key. We went to Hotel Continental as Darrius’s Ah Mah likes the good service there though the food is nothing to shout about but value for $$$ (only RM12 Nett per/pax) from Monday to Friday.

Darrius had a yummy good time as he gobbled down more than 10 slices of agar-agar (jelly), 5-6 pcs of fish sticks, baked potato and lots of other this an that!

Darrius enjoying his meal

The buffet spread is mostly Asian, with lots of curry dishes. Besides that, they also have a small Western corner where they served soup, baked potato, spring rolls (extremely yummy) and roast sliced beef/lamb.

My first serving

One of Darrius’s favourite is the dessert corner where there are jellies, kuih and fruit platters… which we had unlimited servings…
After lunch, I brought Darrius to the clinic to get his 18-month jab. Everything was fine until all these happened….

After my earlier post on the lil fella, we decided to bring him to our GP for advice since his fever has not subsided. When we went in, Darrius was so frighten that he refused to let our GP to even touch him! I guessed he was extremely trumatised by the experience at the clinic yesterday. Then our GP tried to take Darrius’s temperature but that lil guy screamed and wriggled so much… and turned so hysterical! Our GP was a little frighten so he told us to go to our paed instead…

Off we go to the hospital and was lucky there were only 2 other patients before us. We waited for about 20 minutes before we were called in. Again, Darrius was hysterical upon seeing the paed. The paed managed to take Darrius’s temperature and the nurses inserted a suppository and we were told to get the oral medication for the fever and pain killer. I told the paed I have difficulty adminitering oral medication to Darrius as he will either spit everything out or refused to take altogethere. So paed said he will show me the way after we collected the medication. It was not easy to feed Darrius… even the paed was having a hard time… PiggyBeng and myself have to pin Darrius down on the bed while paed tried using the syringe and pump the med into Darrius mouth… I think about half was spitted out… *sigh*

We went home and I tried to feed Darrius some milk before I let him take his nap. For the first time after so many weeks, he refused to take his milk! It took him a while to finally doze off but woke up in less than 30 minutes! He was crying and whinning away… wanted to play with this and that but not getting up to get those toys and got very agitated when we can’t figure out what he wanted… Then that lil fella said wanna go ‘kai-kai, walk-walk’! eeerrr…. can’t walk still wanna go kai-kai, walk-walk??? *slap forehead*

PiggyBeng was quite fed-up listening to Darrius’s cry so decided to go out… after finding that Darrius’s fever has subsided. (on hind side, I should have administer the suppository myself but was too worried if I can do it myself without the doctor’s instructions) Oh well, we went to have dinner and off we went to the new Tesco extra at Sungai Dua…

Darrius was so happy and was walking about like nothing has happened… no more leg pain (the swell was still there but I think after taking the oral med, it seemed to have relieved the pain). Still he refused to have his milk. It could be that he do not like the taste of this new milk powder which we just got for him to try…

There goes my plans for sand castles building on the beach this weekend… hope the lil fella will go back to his normal self tomorrow…. *fingers crossed*