Paddy field visit 30-7-2022

 

After the MCO, all of the activities are back to normal. The day care center is also organizing some activities and inviting the parents to join for the activities. Here comes the Paddy field visit. It was the first time that children are visiting the Paddy field and stand a chance to walk into the field to learn about the Paddy and experience the landscape.

 

Those days we use human to fertilize the Paddy, that was very time consuming and high labour cost. Today, farmer use Drone to fertilize the Paddy.

Throwback 37km cycling on 16-5-2022

 

It was a raining morning and it made me lazy to go out. With the push from my friend, Tai Hong, finally we made the trip successful. The weather was just nice for cycling. Chilling weather. We begun our journey at 8.30am in the morning. We went through the bicycle trail all the way from Penang 3nd link to Karpal Singh Drive. Along the way, the view is so beautiful and less people. Thanks to the rain in the morning. After reaching Karpal Singh Drive, we have to moves out to the tar road as there is no more bicycle track. It is about another 5 km to pass through the old Penang Ferry Terminal all the way to Padang Kota Lama or we call it Esplanade, some call it old Gurney Drive.

We enjoyed the seaview, The Cenotaph War Memorial and the newly built Esplanade Sea Wall Heritage Trail as well as the Cruise ship stop by the Port Swettenham Port.

 After about 10 minutes break, we begun our journey back to 2^nd Penang Bridge, Jambatan Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah. This time we tried to use the tar road to speed up our journey back to the origin destination. It is very unfortunate that we were riding against the wind. It took me harder to push. Tai Hong was great, he is a sports man. He helped me by riding at the front of me to block the wind. However, I was too “lembik” to catch him. End I have to low down my body to reduce air flow resistance and allow me to ride faster. End we made it to head back to our car at 2 hours with average speed of 18.5km/hr

Throwback 7-5-2022 KL trip

Seems like I have a lot of pending dairy to be recorded.

This is only a simple last-minute trip to KL. The purpose is to bring my children to expose to the University that both of us has been to. To let them have some idea how a University looks like and where their parents stayed and studied before, how it looks like. Hope that will build up their interest to go to the university in future. As the time is closer to their age in going to the university, we will bring them once again to the university together with the student and refresh their memories.

First, we went to Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM. The place where both of us have lots of memories. The Foodtech Faculty, the graduation hall and also the UPM facilities. It is hard for them to imagine the school is so huge for them that the require to take bus from one building to another. There are a few football fields in the university, hostel, post office etc. Compare to their school has only 1 field.

 

Next, we went to the next-door university which is Universiti Tenaga Nasional, in short is call UniTEN. This is the place where I have studied in there for 4 years to become a Mechanical Engineer. From the entrance, you can see the Library which is very huge, then followed by the Administration building and the 8 labs. We also went into the COE, College of Engineering. The place where I spend the most time learning Engineering subject. And not to forget to visit my friend’s F3 prototype model at the COE lobby. The children experienced to set into the F3 car. The tour continues to visit the Swimming pool, multipurpose hall, hostel, mosque and the romantic lake as well as the hotel inside the University.

After the universities visit, let them enjoy some good food during our life in Serdang… Never forget the Satay Kajang. Tapao the Satay and heading to our Hotel. It is just so delicious! Invited my best friend, Ying Jui to our studio unit stay. This is the night where we have non-stop talking. This day, I also learned that white wine and dairy cheese are perfect match. Unfortunately, he did not stay over. Will plan for the next trip to ensure that he can stay over to chat until the next day morning.

 

On the next day, a plan for small break away to France Village at Bukit Tinggi and Japanese Garden. The high expectation of the destination has really disappointed us with its poor maintenance of the small township. The France village suppose to have France feel, but the place has been localized to Raya music, Local food and poor maintenance of building. The only best part is the entrance for photographing. The Japanese garden was close to abandon. After a few snaps and it was the time heading home.

We will plan for a much more meaningful trips on the next round visit to KL. As there are a lot of places that we should bring our children to experience, and see by their own from the knowledge that they have read from their schooling text books.

 

During the met up with Ying Jui, we tried an idea to exchange goods so that we gave a new life