Yup! Finally my two kids tinkered. I took out my Kodak camera which had gone kaput and enticed my 2 kids to take it apart. The initial response was less than warm. So I started the ball rolling, and before long, I had Daughter's attention. Son came to have a look after a while. He soon warmed up to the task at hand.
This was the end product after some initial hiccups. The inset was how it looked like in one piece. And it's not going back to being in that state again. The whole session was quite interesting. So, my kids tinkered a bit during the hols. LOL!
We were basically stuck in AS as Daughter had her theory exam while Son has his trials looming. But we met up with my MIL and a group of senior citizens.. made up of my ex-teachers and also church members from back home. We met up with them at
Lye Huat Garden and followed them for almost the rest of their tour.
There were 2 busloads of them, game to start their journey in the really wee hours of the morning and bumping from one place to another for the next 24 hours. LOL!
The
Paddy Museum was the next stop. Many of them commented that it was well worth the visit to see the revolving huge mural. This is one the few tourist attractions here that we are proud of. After the short visit to the museum, we stopped by Gunung Keriang for the crystals... but the ladies were not that into crystals.
What caught their attention was a stall selling some spicy paste... I think it was tomyam. The stall owner was one happy lady that day cos she practically sold everything in her stall! Add that to the herd mentality at work... it was a sure sell formula! That's the onslaught of almost 2 busloads of ladies... there were only a handful of men, you see. Don't know why the menfolks didn't join their wives!
After that Other Half and I took 10 (chosen ones, LOL!) out for lunch at
Huatang. We had to rope in the girls (Ling & Siah) to provide temporary taxi service. They came all the way to the Paddy Museum to get the extra passengers. 8)
It was nice to be
belanja our teachers and some of my friends' mothers (and father). We hardly get such opportunities. Many of them had a hand in my growing up years and they were people whom I looked up to.
Our final stop with them was Tun Dr. Mahathir's father's house. It's the house where he was born. I've never been inside all our years of living here. So this was a first for both of us. Everyone wanted to see how it looked like inside and the thing that caused some excitement was his 'bridal chamber'. There were photos of both of he and his wife when they were really young... they were a handsome couple!
The weather held for them for that one day... it rained the day before and it rained the day after and the day after..... God was good!
And on Friday, we drove all the way to SP, with a cake to celebrate Praba's birthday! The boys couldn't join us as they had a crash course in Physics with TP. So, it was an all gals troupe (Nancy, Ling, Siah and Daughter) who went. In the rain we went and we really caught them by surprise! Came back to Alor Setar and met up with our menfolks for a fish head curry dinner at
Orkid Tropika Cafe.
Well these were some of the highlights of the hols.. add that to
Siah's birthday, I'd say it was quite a good hols....
2 comments:
hey, that's my mum and pp's mum....nice surprise, i didn't know about the trip. Wish i was there too...:) I bet my dad didn't make it. His knee is bothering him nowadays.
pp's mom was not there. Jean's mom (and dad) was! Mrs. Ding, Mrs. Mah were there too! Yup.. your dad wasn't there. It was good to meet up with them. Yr mom asked us to take pics of the rocks for your boys... said they will like the place. 8)
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