My hubby and I took the new fast route, the new Desaru-Pasir Gudang highway from Ulu Tiram. The journey was cut by 30%. Originally, from Ulu Tiram to Desaru its 97km, but with the new highway its been cut to 54km. The  ride was smooth, fast and scenic. Its truly scenic as the route cuts across a few unknown large rivers and I get to see oil platforms. Hehehe.. yes I’m a bit weird but being brought up with heavy marine industry as one of my interest, I was chirping with glee when I caught sight of them.

Initially dad wanted to check out Tanjung Balau Beach. We did reach Tjg Balau.The resort looks promising and the amenities were surprisingly good. However, the beach is below my expectations. Having brought up almost with a visit to the beach almost weekly, I was dissatisfied with the man made looking beach. The waves were too choppy and only thing anyone could ever do during the Monsoon season with the red flag firmly planted to the ground is either to play sand castle or to surf (at your own risk).

However Tjg Balau has their own surfer rescue life guard, complete with the surfboard and is always ready to save any unfortunate(stubborn) souls who cross waves with the notorious sea.

After the short visit to that place, we once again headed out to our favourite place to swim, Batu Layar. It’s quiet, clean and the toilet is in much greater condition than the rest of the paid toilets found further up. It’s Mutiara Bay. Lovely friendly locals who charged a reasonable price for the usage of their facilities and parking space. It’s kept clean so visitors would never have to worry about their packed food being attacked by unwanted pests.

Since the location of the place is not that open into the South China Sea unlike to Tjg Balau and Dessaru, its a much safer place to swim. You may try your luck at fishing but the best I’ve ever gotten from there is just a baby grouper and Unga Tanda. But be wary of where you swim as some places has rocks and corals located in the waters.

Apart from it, everything is enjoyable and great.

My elder brother and family is here. My youngest brother, who is a brat, is finally back home after two years of MIA. The rhapsody of voices belongs to my elder brother’s little ones and for some who are small, the sure pack up a loud voice.

The youngest is currently sleeping, a heavenly relief as he is down with a slight fever. Toddlers with fever are never a good company. *nods*

Tomorrow the adults here would be out of town and serving the country by voting for our political parties. It is compulsory to vote for all legally adult Singaporean. Thus, tomorrow I have trudge the whole ICQ buildings of JB and Singapore.

I am thinking of making another cake other than the red velvet cake I made the other day. After looking at the delicious looking hand-dipped birthday berries, the temptation is hard to resist. Hmm.. wonder if I have enough ingredients *scurries off to the kitchen*

I am very sad to hear of his passing, yesterday morning around 9am. Unfortunately I wasn’t lucky enough to follow to the burial as it was held yesterday at 4pm or so and I regret that to the core. I love my uncle deeply even though I never once showed it well, although I think he knows the part he has in my heart.

I can’t say anything much since I am currently loss at words.

May god rest and bless his soul.

Went to Grandpa’s, Mak Long Jah and Mak Busu’s house in the first day. Second day was spent in the car, visiting my brother and his family at Kuala Pilah. We had decided to head off to KL however after taking a look at the jam, we turn tail and headed back home to JB.

Third day was spent visiting my Grand Uncle, Cik Lala, Cik Bulat and Cik Ani. It was great fun mingling amongst my darling relatives especially those whom we rarely meet. And lucky for us, there wasn’t any traffic jam in and out of Malaysia and Singapore. Wee!!

I am still waiting for the pictures to be uploaded since most of them was snapped by my aunts and cousins.

I had panicked on seeing my dad lying flat on the ground and scrambled to pull the bike off him as it was crushing his leg. Luckily his leg was fine and the only injury he had was on his ribs as he fell hard on his ribs.

Thanks to my daily stretching (not on those fitness equipment), I was agile enough and the strain that would normally left a person with strained or twisted ankle or knee didn’t affect me. I had to thank the locals who were having breakfast at the nearby kopitiam as they had helped me carry the bike off my dad and pushed it off to the side. The bike chain was off the track but they easily kicked it in.

Anyway dad is recovering right now and I’m putting off any further rides or deliveries for him.

We headed out at 10.30am or so and went via the highway from Perling and exit at Kulai since I found the ride on the Plus Highway was very monotonous and boring. The traffic on Kulai Plus Highway was packed with heavy vehicles and speeding demons, all intending to head back north from their holiday.

Then from Kulai onwards, we took the old federal highway and enjoyed the scenery. I managed to terrorise the locals at almost every point and would have stopped and bought all the munchies I could take at every village I had been the rider.

We stopped at Ayer Hitam Pekan and had lunch there. I get to enjoy a lovely plate of Nasi Briyani Mutton at Rm6.50 and chit chat with the locals there. The shop is located on the right street side after you had turned left from the 4-way traffic light junction with the pump station on your right. Friendly chaps the whole lot of them and once our stomach was full, we headed out again.

We headed home using the Parit Raja–> Parit Betak (Raja Surani exit)–> Parit Maridono (Parit Martajam)–> Pekan Nenas–> Home. I love this road!! It is the only one that has loads of river, just scenery and it reminds me of  the days of when I was younger.

Anyway the torrential rainstorm caught us wet at Pekan Nenas. It left me shivering cold once I reach home. The lightning were striking beautifully over our heads. The wind was strong enough to drag us to the side. It left trees upturned and huge advertisement boards collapsed (even at Perling Show Village). We even had maneuver our way along a few upturned trees that had blocked our way.

No doubt we were left wet, soaked and shivering but it was fun and an enjoyable ride!!!

The sister is always trying new things and in the same time messes up everything that I have cleaned. Her favourite is dinner or lunch time. It is my favourite time with her since I could enjoy watching her eat everything and anything on the table.

However there is a downside. She loves eating as much as she loves feeding the floor. Eating time is always followed by a bath after that. After that, it is a breeze.

The younger brother is a darling. But he loves attention and would get irritated whenever nobody entertains him which inevitably irritates everyone with his crying. It grates on my nerves sometimes since he would cry whenever I am busy with work and no one would bother to entertain him as they too have their own responsibilities. His appetite is something to reckon with. He drinks milk, a healthy portion of 4 oz, at every 2 hrs even at night.

It is a good thing my house has my parents, my younger sister and the parents of the kids. Everyone takes a part in taking care of the children as it is a 24/7 job that needs full commitment. I should know since by the end of each day, I felt as if i had just conquered the Juggernaut.

Already two kids are already running lose and driving everyone to buy anti wrinkle eye cream due to the high frequency of frowning. I wonder how my mom reeled all of my siblings (with me inclusive). We were never that angelic when we were younger…

Seriously I am dead tired. My brain has not stopped working for a few weeks in a row and last night I almost fell asleep during my accounts discussion with my darling. Amazingly when I tried to fall asleep lastnight, the one most important thing that I needed eludes me, making me a walking zombie this morning.

Plenty of eventful things happened this week and the whole tempest left my head spinning and took a major chunk of my heart out. There were laughters and there were lots of heart pain but that is a scenario I do not want to repeat to anyone.

I did watch Shrek Forever After last Thursday, the first screening of the show. It was fun-tastic and since it was a weekday, the cinema was almost empty. Even though it was almost empty, our roaring laughters made up for the empty seats. I love Puss In Boots since he is soooo cute and managed to be chivalrous even when he had sported a huge pot belly and not to mention manipulative.

The movie really made me realise to appreciate and love the ones whom I still have. It also managed to make me shed a tear or two when Shrek confessed that the best thing he had ever experienced was to fall in love with Fiona all over again. It was truly touching. And yes, this is the movie not to be missed since it is the finale of the whole saga.

The day was so hot that I couldn’t feel the air-con. The bus became stuffy, Mr Sunshine was still smiling and the passengers became restless at the massive jam that had formed when the bus reached Angsana. When the bus finally came to the Danga Bay stop, needless to say, the cause of the jam was due to ignorant inconsiderate drivers who had parked their vehicles on everywhere and anywhere of the area, even at the center of the lane!!

I had expected the Jom Heboh to be very grand with lots of time worthy booths and expo. However I only found same old stalls that can easily be found at any Pasar Malam. There are the normal stalls that sell Crocs fake copy sandals, normal accessories items, clothes and finger foods.

About 5 mins of further walking, I finally managed to get to the heart of Jom Heboh. Uhh..Hmm… Well… It was noisy. It was wet. It was… It looked like typical Kampong Theme Park.

Well in the end I manage to get only Fernleaf 3x milk for extra calcium for Rm10 600gm and of course took a side walk down the park and snap some cute shots of Amamam Princess. Not all the pictures are here though.

It took me an hour to walk around the booths before my patience wears thin and my ear drums starts to ring. It was that loud and stuffy!! It was a good thing I took a public transport back home.