Celebrating mil's 57th birthday.

Dh and i kindda forced net(brother in law) and yana who was already tucked into bed to go out with us again after 1/2 hr returning from Petaling st. The excuse we gave was to accompany us to watch football games (Man U vs Chelsea)...well we really wanted to watch the game actually. We also left the twins in MIL's care and i think it would be a breeze to take care of them because Dh left his iphone for them to play games...and believe me that they can suck into games for hours especially Aniq. Maybe due to my strictness that i don't' give them the freedom to play iphone games everyday...well it's bad for their eyes and their language development.

Went everywhere till we found a coffee shop with lots of mat saleh in it so we assume it must had got something to do with football so we asked the kopi boy whether they will show the game. Then he said with enthusiasm plus hand sign saying No Game (cross his hands repeatedly) because of heavy snow (his hand turned into claw and scratched in the air representing the snow kept pouring)...lol...do we look like we don't understand simple English...lol

I was glad that the game was cancelled because i prefer to watch it at home, the most comfortable place for me. So Dh asked his brother whether he knew about MIL's birthday which is that day (well it was midnight so technically it's already the 20th). He said he knew but he had no plan about it but Dh had one. Initially he wanted to get a birthday cake at Berjaya times square at Cafe earlier on but my MIL was always there with him so no chance of sneaking around to do it. So all four of us were on a hunt to get the "nicest cake" they had on 24hr convenience store...sadly we only got 2 chocolate swiss roll that we combine together and stuck some colourful candles on it ...on the picture it looked like Christmas log cake actually, hehehe.

We got back to the hotel and went to my room to grab my videocam. We lit the candles just outside MIL's room and knocked on the door and my sweet Aniq opened the door. As soon as we dimmed the room's light, we sang the birthday song. And she was caught by surprise, still able to remain calm and smiling and quickly asked yana to hand her cekak rambut. Aniq and Aliah helped her to blow the candles at the end of the song...kepoh kids!

Dh gave her some money (as money can become the best/practical gift for some) for her to get a handbag that she always wanted to get. And she ended up of getting two bags the next day..and she looked happy...Misson accomplished!...a happy person on a special day!

Day 2 in KL

Breakfast buffet..the food is so mediocre ..nothing special really! A little disappointing i must say because we felt that their standard has gone down. We stayed in this hotel many many years ago and many many times and we loved their breakfast buffet. We also disappointed in their service...the remote control in our room was not working and Dh need to call 2-3 times for them to replace it and they gave us ironing board but the iron was not found in the room so we need to call again and the ridiculous part is that they don't provide toothbrush and toothpaste!! Angsana hotel and spa is 4 star hotel, mind you!! Even the 3 1/2 star hotel in Bangkok gave us all the necessities. Guess Dh and i need to try other hotel the next time to explore...oopps ..did i complain too much...ok ok let's move on.....

Posed infront of Berjaya times square...

The kids were having so much fun at the Indoor Theme Park. We spent 3-4 hours in there. Dh didn't took part in any rides because he felt he will get dizzy very fast and i quite agreed with him. I accompanied Yana my sis in law to ride the DNA Mixer (the most scary ride i ever rode) and the roller coaster...and i already seeing stars after that..i even vomitted because i took 1 hot mocha drink minutes before that. My younger bro in law didn't buy ticket so he didn't enter because he don't want to thus no one accompany yana to have fun. Despite being a teenager, luckily yana didn't want to ride anything else after that or else MATI GUE!! hahaha

My mother, brother and uncle in law joined us for late lunch after that. Actually Aniq wanted to go back into the theme park which we still can but i know that mil anxiously wanted to go Petaling st so bad in the evening. It's hard to get taxi with meter during that time so we decided to take train to go and it was our first time! It was exciting to explore their monorail...though it was a disaster but it was fun nonetheless...

After struugling to get into the monorail, we took KTM (i think... i mean the bigger train) but we need to wait for my 2 bro in law because they didn't able to get in the first time...need to try harder to get into the next one! So we posed for some pictures to kill time...

I didn't buy anything from Petaling st but we accompanied Bro in law to buy his shoes and shirt.

Went back to hotel around 11pm and rest but later in the midnight we had some surprise for MIL. (later in another post)

At Central Market. On our way to the foodcourt for lunch cause we were famished or maybe just me...yeah imagine breakfast at 5 am and lunch at 3pm! My hubby and the rest had prata at noon so they got better energy...

The food we tried was not that great but still good to restore our energies..

We went to jln masjid india and i saw lots of tudung selling at cheap prices(most of them selling at 5 ringgit)..but i just bought two. Mcm segan gitu nak shop lebih lebih depan mak mentua..hehehe

Also bought a Quicksilver gym bag (imitation version) at 10 ringgit! and tudung hanger which has 18 slots for me to hang my tudung for 12 ringgit! In singapore they were sold around $15-18 singapore dollars. Got the kids a watch each because they were getting bored just following us around and kept persuading us to go back to hotel.

Got back to our hotel before 11pm and glad that most of them were happy with their purchases.

Set off to kl at night.

Amt of calories, fat, carb are all stated on the wrapper ...how convenient..


We reached KL at about 5a.m and the bus stopped just infront of our hotel (angcasa). We carried all our luggages to the 24hr McD which was just nearby to stop for late supper/ early breakfast. We saw there were some other travellers with luggages and big bagpacks were there too to have their meals or to rest their heads on the tables....maybe waiting for dawn before proceed to their hotel, i guess. We bought 2 happy meals, 1 big breakfast for DH and sausage mcmuffin for me...the kids got 1 mini barbie doll and 1 battle force 5 car from the happy meals set and i knew with that... they won't be bored for few more hours....phewww...what a lifesaver!!

After our meals, we went to hotel and registered at the lobby and the front desk promised us to give us at least 1 room first for all of us to rest by 7-8am. Performed our solat subuh at 2nd level air-conditioned surau at 6am and continued waiting at the hotel lobby and the kids were still not sleepy...At 7.50am we got 1 room out of 3 and at 11am we got the second room and at 1pm we got our last room(mine) at last.

It's been 4 years since i had cooked ownself meal (steamboat way) at Seoul Garden so i kindda excited. And i know that the kids will have free meal for 2 adult paying on Sunday. When we arrived at 4pm, the front desk person also the manager asked whether we make any reservation...my heart sank upon hearing that even though it was merely a question....we said no with a heavy heart and the manager asked around whether they still have available table and we heard the letter y.e.s......YES!! I guess we learnt our lesson....

I was embarrased to see that other people loaded their almost full container that's boiling with soup with lots of green vegetable while we barely had any...hehehehe
At about 5pm, we called it a day after stuffing ourself and went out from there.

We walked around a bit and before we know it, the HI-5 show scheduled at 7pm is about to start. We didn't queued for it because the queue was insanely long. So we went to the level 2 and we had quite a clear view of the stage from the glass pane...the kids really enjoyed themselves. It brought me back to memory lane when my hubby and i once brought the kids who were 2 years old to watch hi5 exclusive show at Expo. I remembered how they dance with their small steps among the big kids while the HI5 performing.

It was a good sunday...alhamdullilah....and now on friday afternoon i'm already done packing for all of us to KL and we're taking the bus tonight.

Passport-checked
Money-checked
Credit card for the hotel-checked
Skincare essentials-checked
Makeup essentials-checked
Clothing-checkedOintments esp yuyi oil-checked
travel prayer mats and telekung-checked

*excited mode*-checked

lol.............

Day 3 in Bangkok

Went to MBK by tut tut...only 20bht.

A row of colourful lion's head.

Siam's ocean world.

Day 3

Since we feeling a little recovery from feeling sad, we decided to enjoy our day no matter what.
We went to MBK by tut tut for 20bht only...Imagine that! I noticed that everytime we entered to each shopping , there was a metal detector entrance door(something like that). I don't know what they hope to find but the security guards always let us pass by without checking anything even though there's a beeping sound...of course in our case cause we had our camera, video cam, handphone and etc...hhmmm....don't know whether it's necessary in the first place.

When we wanted to eat lunch at their foodcourt...we need to purchase coupons as money substitute to the food vendors. So leceh...especially when the kids already grumbling in hunger...But it was easily subsided when we put the yellow rice and curry chicken into our mouth because it was so delicious and it's Cheap!!....only 35bht.

We got some slippers for the kids and some clothes for me. At last i got a pink blouse finally and it got princess iishh like sleeves and i love it. Aniq kept wanting Ben Ten stuffs and Aliah on the hand as usual wanted Disney Princess stuffs. So they kept pointing here and there ...saying this and that....i easily got a headache due to all the commotions.
But anyway it was a beautiful and windy day and we really enjoyed ourselves. But in the same time, i wish a wee bit that we could stick to the original plan .....haha

Day 2 of our Bangkok Trip

Pentiful multi coloured taxi..they are all fitted with meters. Nevertheless, some unscrupulous drivers will refuse to turn on the meter and quote you a flat, inflated price. I think this particularly happens in certain tourist areas, especially infront of hotel's entrance. Usually we get out of the taxi and flag another one down if the requested amount is just too much.


Love this picture and Aliah's headband...their clothes excluding their jeans were bought the day before and i would suggest for people not to bring their clothes to bangkok because the tees are quite cheap over there.

At the side of Singapore Embassy, we took some cute pictures despite the horrible incident.

Dh is still brooding/shocked over what happened and he wanted to show it on camera despite the yummy rice he had on his hand...sedih2 jugak...makan nak sedap jugak...issh iisshh.

Since we can't carry out the plan i drew for the second day in Bangkok, we decided to chill in our room and sang out loud while listen to the tracks in our hp. So hubby cried his heart out to Sang Sudu!

Day 2

When i woke up in the morning ..how i wish that whatever happened last night was just a nightmare but i was slapped into reality when i saw my hubby's sad face...well he's been crying. It's been a while i saw him cry like that. Told myself that i will not shed another tear because it won't do us any good if we think too much of it....so i comforted him into thinking that maybe this could be a blessing in disguise...eg. that we are not destined to visit Dreamworld this time and bad things could happen ...stuff like that.

So first thing first...we went to nearest police station by taxi and a quite handsome police officer(sempat kau linda) took our statement...when he heard that our bag was stolen at Central World, he told us he could not act on it because this police station does not cover that area and we came to the wrong station. So i kindda beg him to just write the report because i don't really care for the investigation and i just want to proceed to Singapore Embasy with a police report. After a short pause, he agreed. Even though he talked to us in a slow and different accent that hard for us to comprehend..but i appreciate that he was being kindda nice to us.

So after we got our police report, we walked around at Indra complex hopping to find a photo shop to take passport size photo as requested by Mr Chee (Singapore embassy guy). But let me tell you that it was hard to find one because all shops were close to each other and my eyes grew tired easily from searching photo shop. So we gave up and called Mr Chee to tell him that...and he said it's okay..maybe he can try to do something about it.

We took taxi again to Singapore Embassy which is 10-15mins away(less than 100bht). At the entrance, there was this Chinese looking lady (actually a Thai) approached us and told us to write our name in the log book. Dh surprisingly saw our name already written down on the book and he asked the lady about it...and she told us that someone returned the bag with passports and then realised that we are the owner of the bag and passports. But unfortunately Aniq's passport remained missing...could the thief hurriedly took the money and the Aniq's passport might slipped out due to that?? i wonder and Only God knows.

So we still paid 360bht to Mr Chee ...better than paying more than 1000bht right? The frustrating part when Mr Chee told us to come back tomorrow because the server was down for quite sometime. He told Dh that he can come alone tomorrow for less hassle. So we took taxi back to our hotel and since it was such a long day, we just took our dinner and returned to our nest. Bought some snacks and some drinks from the Family Mart at lobby's floor and relax for the rest of the evening. We even sang out aloud to lift up our spirit and i wished that the next day would a better day for us. And it was, btw....

Day 1 at Bangkok..inclusive 1 tragic moment..

Suvarnabhumi Airport (Bangkok new airport) Thailand

Checking in.

Loves loves loves the variety shoes displayed there..




This is the last happy moment of the day before we realised that hubby's sling bag was gone..i shall reveal all later.....what really happened on day 1.....

Day 1

Reached Singapore Airport by taxi which cost us around $23-25... at about 8 plus in the morning. We took our simple breakfast first at Kopitiam before check in.. Told the AirAisa counter staff who is a malay lady about our first time flying and asked her to advise us what to do roughly even though we already knew all the stuff she told us...but i would say the malay lady was polite and gentle to us which i appreciated very much...I've heard from my friend that the staffs are very unfriendly but that didn't happened to us....hhmmm....weird

She even told us that the plane we're going to take is smaller than the regular one...which i don't mind at all and she seated us 3 by 1 even though i would prefer 2 by 2 seating. She told us to book our seat next time because their seats are easily occupied even in non-peak period so it's best to play safe if we don't want our kids to seat by themselves,....oh no..no...we don't want that to happen, do we?

We entered Gate44 at 10.15am and waited for our plane which supposed to go off at 10.55am. I lost my Bodyshop lipgloss along the way but Aniq found $2 note...(still making a loss since my lipgloss cost way much more than that...lol).

We reached there at 12.30pm bangkok time (singapore time is 1.30pm) just an hour difference.

Took a shuttle bus to the Airport. Aniq and Aliah were thirsty and kept pestering me so we quickly go to the nearest store and bought 2 can of water and 2 small packs of Oreo and we were robbed daylight when we paid 315bth for it..(Around $11-12)..i guess we were too powered by hunger and thirst till we can't use our brain to do simple mental sum...

Anyway...we went to level 1 to take taxi-meter to our hotel and cost 430bht(inclusive of 50bht surcharge)..the journey is about half an hour long. Good news is that we were upgraded to family room type which consist one king size bed and a single bed. The bathroom was so spacious and not to mention that the hotel has this family mart which open 24hrs on the lobby so it's very convenient...in case we are thirsty or hungry in the middle of the night.

Went to Maedah's restaurant for lunch which serves malaysian/Arabic/Thai food and after eating there few times..i would say their food were all not bad at all.. we ordered 3 plates of rice, sweet and sour fish, garlic bread and potato omelette and it cost 535bht altogether...

After our delightful lunch, we went to Pantip Plaza just to look around but since we don't intend to buy anything from there, we move on quickly to Platinum Fashion mall(my fav mall of all). It is the largest wholesale clothing mall....usually you have to buy more than 3 apparrels to enjoy the wholesale price or else they would sell you at retail price...that's how it works over there.. After that, we went to Pratunam complex and most of the shops were closed already by 8pm so there's nothing much to see...since we were all famished and had not taken our dinner, we walked our way to Central world which is nearby..

And that is where all the drama happened....I remembered that we took like forever to track down a halal restaurant called Eat's my world so the kids were getting grumpy...i brought them to ice-cream parlour and sat there for a break and ordered 2 cups of yogurt ice-cream for the kiddos. After goofing around with our camera, we made a last search and finally we spotted the place. There were 2 restaurant looked combined together but actually seperated by a divider...and we sat at the wrong place till a thai lady in tudung spotted us and told us nicely that this place is not halal...and ushered us to the right place...Dh and i were laughing for making a fool out of ourselves...that is when Dh unknowingly put his sling bag at the sofa beside Aniq together with our purchases..and to think that the sling bag was stolen under our nose without us realising it is simply heartbreaking...well for me...i don't even know that Dh took off his sling bag that time. So when it's time to pay for our meal...i guess you all know the gabra look on our faces when we realised Dh's sling bag was gone..i mean GONE!!.

Immediatetly, my legs were trembled and i was speechless, my tears were running down my cheeks non stop action...it's like i couldn't believe what had just happened. The sling bag had our 4 passport and our money(13,000 bht which is about $500 sing dollars) Already told Dh to seperate the money in 2-3 different places but i guess my words fell on deaf ears. Luckily i still have my own miserable amount of Thai bht money in my pocket and with that i paid for the meal...

The girls in the restaurant were very sympathetic of us and with their help, the security officers were informed of the situation and we made a report at the Information Counter....I cried all the way back while holding Aliah's hand. We informed a hotel staff and he called Singapore Embassy for us and Dh talked to this officer call Mr Chee and we have to meet him the next day at 4pm for issuing travel documents and it would cost 360bht for each person.

After bathing and putting the kids to sleep, Dh and i cried quietly on the bed...i told myself not to blame Dh because i believe he wouldn't want this to happen on purpose and he was distracted by the kids and he didn't realise what he's doing till it's too late....i prayed to allah for his mercy and take pity on my kids...and even cried on my sejadah...i also called my mum and told her what happened and again i cried...my mum sounded worried when she heard my voice.

I went through a number of stages when i realized the passports were missing..panic, fear, anger and finally acceptance. Everything happens for a reason....But i would still say this ...biar seribu kali hilang barang...jangan sampai hilang anak...cause they are the real treasure of my life. And somehow i feel comforted when i think about it.... so this is how the Day 1 in Bangkok turned out for me...scary huh...