Ole Ole Bandung - 3 ~ 6 June 2010

It has been quite a while that we have not gone for a holidays as a family. Hence a trip to Bandung would be a great idea - after all with the cheap tickets really helps.

So almost 20 of us decided to have a break by going to Bandung.

Our flight was on Thursday 3 June 2010, morning at 9.20am and arrived at 12.00 noon or 11.00 am Bandung time. The weather has been good to us.

Well pictures paint a thousand words. So I don't have to tell every details here except you can see how we enjoyed our trip there thru' these pictures.



The Excited group at LCCT after checking in about 7.30am.


At LCCT before boarding Air Asia. Asked the kids
to get this snap shot. This was first overseas flight
trip for Mimi & Adib.


Aizat sat alone on the other side.
Aizuddin supposed to fly with us but
because he's having his final exam
he decided not to join us.


Me and the 2 kids in the plane.


We headed straight for lunch immediately after
checking in our stuff in the rest house.
These guys waiting for the food to be ready.


Ikan Gurume Goring at Rumah Makan Sunda.


This place is quite cosy.


Lunch at Rumah Makan Sunda - good food.
First time makan masakan Sunda in Indonesia.


Group photo in front of Rumah Makan Sunda in Bandung.


Interior Garden at Rumah Ebo, Bandung. We stayed
for the 3 days. Nice affordable residence.


At Rumah Edo, Bandung - waiting for rooms to be ready.
Then our real journey begins ~ shopping..shopping & shopping!!!


Rest sekejap lepas penat berjalan dari satu
Factory outlet to another one.


In front of Donatello - one of the factory outlets
at Jalan Dago.


The kids had real good time shopping ~
unfortunately with daddy's money lah.


First day shopping therapy outcome.

On second day, we planned to go for a 3 hours journey from Bandung to Taman Safari Indonesia. Long hours in the van but well worth it.

Posed in front of Rumah Ebo before going the 3 hours journey
to Taman Safari Indonesia in Bogor.


Take a break at Cianjur Rest Area for a drink.

Once we entered the Safari, then the experience begins. Awesome place with open air zoo where the animals roams around freely. The children really enjoys this experience - so do the adults.

Aida feeding the Llama. Mimi actually seat beside Aida.
Both of them were feeding the animals.


Feeding the Camels from the van.


Adib, Aizat & Mimi - in front of the elephants show.
You can sit very near the elephants.


Having quick lunch that we packed from home.


Posing depan sign board - Taman Safari Indonesia



The White tiger - Acik mencicit lari sebab takut tengok
harimau putih ni.


Mimi posed with the baby lion - paid IDR10,000 for a pose.
Mimi is never afraid to take pics with animals - unlike her
brother and father as well hehee .



Mimi & Dania - with anak orangutan.

We spend hours in the Safari until its time to go back. On the way, we stopped at Puncak, a place similar to Cameron Highland - cool air and greenery all around. We stopped nearby a mosque to pray. This is the first time ever that I been to a mosques built on a hill top overseeing the whole valley. Really a great sight.

Me in front of the highest masjid in Puncak, Bogor.


The view from the mosque.


The stalls that sold fresh village produce. Kalau kat Malaysia
I dah beli dah bawak balik.

We started our 2nd day by preparing some breakfast on our own. So came out the roti canai segera, rendang daging, rendang ayam, sambal ikan bilis & sardin. Wow what a breakfast.


You see the pisang. It was left over after the animal
feeding at the Safari.

Then our 3rd day shopping begin. This time at Pasar Baru. Mak oi besar nya. It was a 7 floors of shopping complex with hundred of shops. You can't finish them in one day if you go from shop to shop. believe me.

Mimi trying to find dress that suits her. It's either its slightly
expensive or it doesn't fit her.


Of course lah, Ayah also want to shop for himself.

That night Abang invited us to have dinner at Kg Daun. It a place about 45 mins drive from Bandung. But due to the bad road condition and very narrow, we felt it was a really long journey. But the place is extraordinaire. Really a nice place and lots of people went there. You need to book first or else you can't find a place.

Since we arrive about 8pm and was dark, I could get clear pics. Hence to give you some idea of how it looks like, I've downloaded some pics from the net.

Welcome to Kg Daun, Bandung.
(pic download from internet)


Naik bukit nak sampai to our hut no 21.
(pic download from internet)


One of the huts in Kg Daun - very beautiful with village setting.
(pic download from internet)


Beautiful waterfall at Kg Daun. Very natural & refreshing.
(pic download from internet)

It was an experience having dinner at Kg Daun. I believe it's Sunda local delicacies.


Bi, Me & Cik Hindon - muka2 lapar tunggu makanan.


Group pose at Kg Daun, Bandung before the food arrive.


Arrays of foods at Kg Daun - about 45 mins. drive from Bandung.


Makan jangan tak makan sebab semua dah lapar.

We have to leave Badung on the 4th day. Flight at 12.00 noon. Hence everyone has to be read by 10am to leave for the airport.

Last group photo before we left for the Airport.


At the lounge - took a rest before departing home.

Goodbye Badung. It was a great trip for us as family. We really enjoyed our trip there and thanks to everyone for helping us to experience a great shopping adventure there. Maybe next trip we go somewhere else. Adios!

Pokok Pisang Pelik

Pak Teh ada sms pada pagi Sabtu lalu. Dia kata ada pisang pelik kat kebun depan rumah mak. So dia suruh bawa camera untuk gambar pokok pisang tu.

So terpaksa lah saya cari camera kat rumah. Selalu nya Mimi yg pakai camera yg baru dapat tu. Tapi bateri nya lak takde. So saya decide nak singgah kedai sebelum ke rumah mak.

Sampai jer kat rumah mak, terus lah pergi kat kebun tu carik yg mana pokok yang di kata kan pelik tu. Carik punya carik.. baru jumpa. Pokok dia tak lah besar sangat macam biasa. Cuma pokok sederhana.

Tapi bila nak ambil gambar, camera lak tak berfungsi walaupun bateri baru. Alahai lah nasib..
Anyway lepas Zuhur Zalma datang dengan family. So saya ajak lah Ika & adik pergi tengok. Ika pulak ada HP camera so dia lah yang ambil kan gambar-gambar ini.





A'ah lah.. pokok nya berbuah pelik sikit. Selalu nya pokok pisang berbuah dari hujung nya dimana pelepah daun tumbuh. Ni tak pulak. Buah nya mula bercambah dari tengah batang nya.




Dah lah tu, buah bercambah dari bawah keatas. Yakni jantung pisang nya bukan tergantung kebawah seperti biasa tapi keatas. Cuba tengok gambar bawah ni.






Walau bagaimana ini memang pelik bagi saya. Pokok pisang yang berbuah terbalik keatas dari batang pokok nya.

Tapi kalau kalau masak nanti, nak di makan ke? Mana tau kan... buah yang pelik-pelik ni mungkin ada kelebihan nya.??????

Acik is 14 years Old Today

12.12.1995. It was the day Adib a.k.a. Acik was born. That was 14 years ago. And today he is officially 14 years old growing up as a handsome teenager. As a December born child, he is the last one to celebrate his birthday. Boys his age already celebrated their birthdays early of the year but Acik celebrates his almost a year after them.


Well from a usually small and short boy, he is now growing up - slowly but surely. In no time he will be as tall as I am.


And tonight Cik Hindon & Teh invited us to her house for dinner. It was in conjunction of Juke, Zetty and Zara coming back from London for holidays. And since most of us will be there, I might as well celebrate Acik's birthday as well. Kill 2 birds with one stone as they said.

His 14th Birthday cake!


My growing up handsome teenager.

Family Day at Port Dickson 2009

It has been more than a year since we had our last Family Gathering. Hence it is about time for us to have one. Pak Uda from Labuan mooted this idea of having a "time out" for the family to take a break.

Zalma than started to look for the place and Port Dickson came into mind. So it was a Banglo house that we had rented during the last gathering somewhere at Tanjung Tuan area. It was an old banglo house but big enough to fit about 30 of us altogether.

The Banner that welcomes all of us to this year's
Family Gathering in Port Dickson - with compliment
from Uncle Nazmi.

Everyone starts arriving after 2 p.m. Me and Nenek arrived slightly before 4 p.m. Acik & Mimi came along but Angah didn;t because he is in middle of his SPM. Along also is preparing for his University's final exam. Well that doesn't bother me to have good times.

Once everyone was around and had their lunch cum tea, we started to have Games. What else, right? No games no fun. And usual, I was the one who everyone expected to organized it. And that's no prob for me. It's a jiffy.

I divided them into teams and obviously all the Uncles will be the Team Leaders. They were divided into 4 teams, namely Team Pak Long, Team Pak Uda, Team Pak Dak and Team Papi. All were divided equally and have to be mixed into each other family.


Everyone is eager to find out what the games are?



Everyone listen attentively for the games instructions
ans who will be their team members.

And the first game is the "Teka Teki Lawak Jenaka". It's a game that each team has to answer all the Teka Teki or Quizzes.

Example :

Question : Gajah lalu titi patah, lepas tu kambing pula lalu. Apa yang patah pulak? Answer : Patah Balik. Question : Bila loceng bas ditekan, bas akan berhenti. Apa yang akan turun dahulu? Answer : Speedometer lah...

Now let see them answering it.


Team Pak Long.. thinking about the answers.


Team Papi.. trying to find the answers...


Team Pak Dak.. entah apa lah jawapan nya???


Team Pak Uda.. the winner for the first game.

The second game was the "Guess the pictures". I got the idea when I watch Ewah-Ewah in TV3. Since its a fun game, why not we do it, right?


Naza trying his luck to figure out what to draw from the list given.


Team Pak Uda trying to figure out what is drawn by Naza.


Team Pak Dak: What the heck is Uncle Nazmi's drawings?


Hidayat trying to show his skill in drawing.
Not bad all 10 were answered correctly.


Team Pak Long trying to figure out what Fazli is drawing.

Slightly before 7p.m. we stopped the Game for Maghrib prayers, Baca Yasin and Tahlil as well. What a better way than doing some prayers when we got to be together as a family.

After Marghrib, we started to do some barbecue.


Pak Uda preparing to grill the ikan keli.


The food and food and food which would filled up the table
or has it been cleared by the glutton.


Fazli, Acai & Opie helping out to grill the beef and prawns.




Pretty maids in a row.. or should I say Mak-mak Dara in a row

After having some foods, it time to have more games.
First it was building structure using balloon and masking tape.


Bukan senang woi nak buat...




You must have strategy to do it right!


And it must stand on its own and not supported
by anything or anyone????



I did some postmortem on each game. Actually I did all those games before and I knew the strategy and the morale behind it. Basically it's about teamwork, strategy, patience, and a bit of thinking. And I relate them to our real life. And how could we apply them.

After that we had the "Treasure Hunt". It's very interesting and it needs you to think about what is the things you should get.

As example :

Asam di darat, ikan di laut

Ditempat ini berjumpa lah ia

Masakan sedap hati terpaut

Dari tanah, keluli, aluminium pun ada

and jawapan nya ada lah ... periok!!!

Another one :

Yang panjang ada, yang pendek pun ada

Untuk merapi mahkota kepala

Kadang kala kutu menjadi mangsa

Tapi Mawi tak gunakan nya

and jawapan nya ada lah ... sikat!!!

Well it took me quite some times to do the questions in pantun style which sometimes rhyme and sometimes it doesn't. But who cares, right?

And all the teams have to start thinking .. of course..


Ha jangan gaduh-gaduh. Carik jer bende-bende tu cepat...





And all the answers have to be brought out to the front. Amazingly all teams answered almost perfectly correct.


And these are the things that have been collected as the answers.

Then we have the "Building structure using only straws without taps or strings". Quite interesting though.


Team Pak Long trying to build the tallest structure.


So is Team Pak Dak...


And Team Papi...

And the winner of the tallest structure that can stands by itself is....


Team Pak Long.. 1st place


Team Pak Uda.. 2nd place


3rd place goes to Team Papi

After the 5th Games, the scoring is as below:


The next day was a rest and relax day. After Subuh prayers the kids continued to sleep while me and my Mak relax sikit.


Reading newspaper after breakfast.


Pak Uda trying to bowl using buah kelapa.


Throwing loops.. not as easy as you think


Adik with the loops.. trying his luck


Playing the "real basket" ball using baskets.



After Asar most of us have to make our way home. I have to take Mak back home cos I got to take her to Hospital for her blood test tomorrow morning. So I got to leave early.

Well it was worth to have another Family Day this weekend. This weekend is well spent with people that I love and I cared for. Thanks to everyone who came and support our family togetherness. It's not everyday that we can get together as a family. We have mission to be together whenever we can. At least to tighten our family ties. Everyone is getting older by the day. Hence we need to enjoy the time left with us and with everyone we love.

Cheers!!!!