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On hot hot weather in Malaysia,

Yes, water playing days non-stop

At PJ Palms Sports Centre in Petaling Jaya

The water slide

SPLASSSSSSH

He was having so much fun and like so familiar on the slide with lots of stances sliding down until he got to an accident bumping on to a kid who kept blocking the way down at the exit of the slide..

His parents were no where to be seen! He was a foreigner who doesn’t speak English, which he didn’t seem to care for my warning till the unfortunate accident resulting Little-big-boss got hurt and bleed on the his lips..

I was trying to avoid this and been very careful guarding Little-big-boss and my nephew, making sure nobody was down at the exit again trying to climb up from the slide..

The slide was a curved slide where you can’t see actually if anybody was blocking when you are up the slide.
I warned and made sure the kid was not near there.
I can’t watch 2 ways up and down at the same time.

And there when the accident happened The kid was back at the exit!

I know it was also my responsibility to let this happened!

But I still need to make this statement!

Parents out there, please do look after your children, especially when they are in the pool and watch over them not only for their own safety but also others. And plus, so that they don’t break the rules and disturb other children playing at the same place

My case here,
he is your child, he doesn’t understand English, Malay and Chinese in Malaysia and doesn’t seem to listen to me. Do all these make enough reasons for you to even have to guard and guide them

Other than that, we had fun
This place was quite nice with restaurants surrounding the pool.

Website: http://www.pjpalms.com/
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Next,
At LOST WORLD of TAMBUN in Ipoh

I went back to my hometown, Ipoh!
The town, a valley that surrounded by mountains!

We went to the LOST WORLD,
a theme park with water
which located just under the mountains

Yay! Under the big raining mushroom

With his big cousin brother, Yang gorgor

On a big float

The warm water pool

My sexy little man






This was actually quite a fun place especially with small kids

They have a big water park area
They have a big dry theme park
They have a petting zoo park
They have a tiger valley
They have a hot spring spa 
etc, etc, etc~

Though we ended up the whole day just in the water park.. (a few rides in the dry park..)

Would love to explore more the next round

Website: http://sunwaylostworldoftambun.com/

 20150720
 1051 days old
 2歳10か月18日 / 2 yrs-10 mths-18 days

Throughout the week, as mentioned on my last post, everyday was a pool day for us.. 

We are lucky enough that on one of our pool day, we were invited to a very very nice pool
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The rooftop INFINITY POOL

Isn’t this epic 
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What a day to be relaxed on a pool like this 

..as if a mother can relax that easily where she was responsible for the children safety! 
Little-big-boss and his cousin brother, Yang.
Especially in a pool!  haha

My kakkoii baby  haha
The view of the city from the pool was marvelous.
City but not in the middle of the busy surroundings or tall sky scraper buildings 

I am very glad that Little-big-boss is getting comfortable in the water, in deep water 
It’s cool looking at him swimming so freely and cute to see him poking out his head from the water very frequently to get air
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He jumps very confidently..

Though not penetrating into the pool smoothly, but splash flatly onto it  Ouch!
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Little-big-boss’ pool friends of the day 
Cousin sister, Little Clara  (together with mommy)

And cousin brother, Yang gorgor (bro) (together with my cousin, the host lady )

And with little baby Carlson too  (Little Clara’s brother)
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Thank you for inviting us, couz! 

To this amazing pool of your hubby’s condo! 
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While we were chilling down in the pool on this hot hot weather in Malaysia..
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Yasupi papa is chilling down on hot summer in Japan with his new machine!!
The ice scraper machine 

Yasupi papa had been envying us having fun in the pool without him..
so he sent me these pics to make me feel the same..

 20150718
 1049 days old
 2歳10か月16日 / 2 yrs-10 mths-16 days

This year trip to Malaysia, as usual we one family came to Malaysia but the daddy was just here for 5 days.
Me and Little-big-boss is staying for a whole long month 

Well, we haven’t been to anywhere particularly..

EXCEPT the pool! 
Almost everyday! after daddy has gone back to Japan, we were in the pool 

Yes, he jumps to the pool like a swimmer 

He was in a baby swimming course since 1 year old 

He can stay in deep water without support, without struggling now 

He has grew to be quite comfortable in the water..
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That he likes to be tossed up high 

Higher..

Again and again..

And never gets tired of it..

Tossing photos credited to my friend, June! who took these perfectly

With the company by little baby June
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He goes on to a baby surfing board too 

He kinda gets excited on the unbalance board 

Surfing photos credited to my friend AnnEe with her two little twins as our pool friends too on that day!
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My little surfer 
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Thank you June for the invitation to your pool!

 20150712
 1043 days old
 2歳10か月10日

The koi pond covered with fallen Sakura
(Click image to enlarge)






 20150403
 943 days old
 2歳7か月1日

 Sakura, the early blooming.
 Sakura, the full blossom!
Sakura, the full blossom still!






About a week after the peak blossom, it was time to bid goodbye to the Sakura 

Though the Sakura was starting to fall, they still make a beautiful view ever

If some breezy wind comes by, it makes it all amazingly pretty for a O-hanami day
with the Sakura falling gracefully down to the ground assembling the falling snow

We called it “Sakura Fubuki 桜吹雪”

Too bad I didn’t get to capture the moment of the falling Sakura with the breeze

But I guess it worth more to feel this amazing moment before anything else 

I have this Little-big-boss, who starts to recognize Sakura more than he did last year

Had fun just as much with the Sakura

Looking like a Ancient Chinese poet..

Observing the Sakura tree

As if, he was getting so comfortable with the Sakura tree 

As if, he had befriended the Sakura tree

Yeah, as if..
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For the Sakura or not, I like this place even for a walk quite much

It is along the river, and we were on the higher ground

With the view of the metropolitan city of Tokyo

Some playgrounds just on the lower ground

It’s great to have this kind of place just nearby

Despite that we’re now living in a concrete city 
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Some snapshots with the Sakura before farewell

The happy shot – holding hand pose

The loving shot – carry up and hug pose

The weird shot – ..Spiderman pose?

 20150406
 946 days old
 2歳7か月4日

We went for a family trip
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Car trip, 3~4 hours all the way to Kusatsu Onsen Resort 

One of the most famous hot spring’s resort in Japan

And this trip was for Mother’s day

Had a walk around this big hot spring water field located in the center of Kusatsu.
This field is the main source where the hot spring water degree got adjusted before being conducted to every each of the Onsen Inn in Kusatsu 
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We were just the right timing to be able to watch this team dancing @ Nettou Yumomi Dance Contest 熱湯湯もみダンス選手権 in 草津温泉!! The Shyurai dance　襲雷舞!
Very impactful, full of energy, and damn cool!
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Time for a little noon-nap in our Ryokan, Nushiyu Ryokan ぬ志勇旅館　
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While Little-big-boss was having his nap,
we, Yappi and I went for our st bath in the onsen of the day on the “private family onsen”
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When we are back, Little-big-boss was up 
Playing “hai~, cheeeeezu” camera with a bottle-cap opener
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Before dinner, we had our  nd bath in the onsen of the day~
with Little-big-boss and grandma along this time in the public open-aired onsen

Little-big-boss followed mommy to the women onsen, so daddy was alone

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A quick bath followed by..

A DINNER-time~!
Our ryokan gorgeous dinner set

The man that only favors in eating the chawan-muchi (Japanese-style steamed egg)

  and the fruits that night
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After the king-like cuisine dinner , we went back to our room, had a rest, changed to yukata
and head off to our rd bath in the onsen of the day~
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In the changing room taking off..
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My little sexy man

The hot spring water in Kusatsu is another wonder of nature!
You can really feel the quality of the hot water here, which are so soft and silky  

Though the open-aired onsen was a public onsen, somehow we were always there just by ourselves

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The next morning, we went for our th bath in the onsen
before we had our breakfast at 7:30 am!

The breakfast

The man that favors only the half-boiled egg and some rice that morning

The son-in-law and mom-in-law
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After breakfast,
It was time to pack..

Though time was running fast,

we had real fun
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Hope mom enjoyed this trip as much
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“LOVE Kusatsu LOVE 草津”
The cute manhole in Kusatsu .

20150510~20150511
980 days old
2歳8か月8日

Sakura, the early blooming.
Sakura, the full blossom!






My 4th round O-hanami!

A leisure one

Driving around the city ,
looking at the Sakura trees along side the road ,
and stopped at this wonderful Sakura trees spot,

Ni-ka-ryou-you-sui, Shu-ku-ga-wa-ra
(宿河原、二ヶ領用水)
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These baby pink trees

They are just magically amazing

It is really a blessing

To be able to witness these beauty

And that we could be one of the luckiest being ever

20150401
941 days old
2歳6か月30日

Last post: Sakura, the early blooming.

It was the FULL BLOSSOM~
at Tamagawa riverside

O-hanami (お花見)- 2nd round

This round we were just here unplanned
It was just because of this riverside is so near,
and it was just because the weather was too good to be missed 
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Tea-time picnic

Chicky cheese cake for a little tea-time picnic

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Befriend with the Sakura trees

Up on a full blossomed tree

With mama~

We were here with friends actually
the park under the Sakura trees

20150301
940 days old
2歳6か月29日
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O-hanami (お花見)- 3rd round

2 days after the 2nd round,
still the peak of full blooming
at the same spot, Tamagawa riverside.

This round was planned earlier
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Lunch-time

O-hanami lunch picnic this round~

A simple packed lunch

I know that I’m repeating,
but this is really a heaven being able to have a life surrounded by these heavenly trees
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And again,
we were actually here with friends  bigger group.
The “mommies and babies” friends 
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Playtime~

Breeeeaathe in..

Fuuuuuuuuuuu~!
The bubbles

1 company

2 companies

Waaaaaaah~
*looking at the flying bubbles*

The little angels
having the Sakura trees watching over them
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  Some resting and snapping time 

Resting Little-big-boss

Resting Little-big-boss and mommy *pee-ka-boo*

Some candid shots taken by my Little-big-boss

Shot 1: The mommy

Shot 2: The mommy

Shot 3: The mommy and friend

Shot 4: The Sakura tree

He is getting so so so much better in taking photos..
The main objects all in frame and clear without much camera shake!
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Hard to say goodbye

Yes, it was hard to leave the Sakura saying goodbye at the end of the day..

But this little guy even more..

Hard to leave wherever there is a play-time..
(Been asking him to go home, and he still kept playing on this slope leaving us the last to go off..)
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Once he got on the stroller,

ZZZzzzzz






20150403
943 days old
2歳7か月1日

Sakura, one of the most beautiful flower of them all
Sakura, one of the wonders on earth
Sakura, which has only about a week life
Sakura, which is too beautiful to be missed

Here it is!
The spring!
The Sakura season
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Still in the early blooming~ 
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Ready to go for our first O-hanami (Sakura-viewing) at a nearby park
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Before whatever, lunch-time go first!
A little lunchbox for a little ‘hanami’ picnic

With Onigiri (rice-ball)

This is just a nearby park,
like around 8mins walk from our house

but we got to see Sakura

while picnicking!
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Playtime after lunch

Walking around with the toy dump truck
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Next, some bubbles-time under the Sakura~

One bubble

Scattering bubbles~

Focusing bubbles~

One big blow bubbles~

Go with the wind bubbles~
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Next, climbing-up-the-Sakura-tree

“Mommy~”

“Look!”

“I climbed the tree!”

Nah, it was mommy carried him up~

Yay~
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Next, sandbox-time!

Building a mountain~

This actually was a very nice sandbox~
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Last,
some running and jumping around the park!
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And so, this was the early blooming of Sakura

20150330
939 days old
2歳6か月26日

Ever since I have my Little-big-boss around, almost everyday we’ll be out having a walk or to nearby parks or tea with nearby mama friends

It’s just easier for me to look after Little-big-boss and without cleaning up and got messed up again the next minute
And of course it’s happier, healthier and much more fun for me and Little-big-boss himself

Yeah, we have to keep connected with the outside world through our sense not just through the screen




Anyway, when we were having our walk, there’s this old little cigarettes’ shop that we would stop by most of the time.

This shop is kinda unique

The uncle from this shop will always place something especially things that attract kids in front of his shop And they keep changing according to seasons and festivals

For example,

A table with some spinning tops
One of the old-time games



Kinda nostalgic to see this and heart warming to know there’s someone is trying to keep the old culture
Little-big-boss had fun with them

Kids play whatever is given, shall we let them explore before they got stick on the screen of some sort

There were colorful rubber balls in a pool of water too
Hold, roll, throw, pick the colors, any ways you wanna play it




At the same time, it was the 7th of July, the Tanabata festival
Uncle, the shop owner prepared some papers and pens there for people to write down their wishes, “tanzaku”

And we wrote down a few

Little-big-boss writing down some wishes too
He had a flu, so I wrote a wish wishing him for fast recovery



The setting for the festival



A wish for everyone 　May you all be happy always






1歳１０か月１６日
1 year 10 months 6 days old






After a month, when I came back from Malaysia, we came by this shop again

As usual, though I didn’t mention it yet, there are always some small animals displayed alongside too.
Fishes , scorpions , snakes, snails, crabs, tortoise, beetles and etc



In small aquariums and containers



The uncle here I think he likes kids to expose more to the nature, that he always talk and persuade Little-big-boss to try and touch or hold the little animals (the safe one of course!).
Little-big-boss likes to see from far, but once any of them is near him, he will move back and hide



Since he was afraid of touching any of them, the uncle let him help to feed the tortoise instead



In summer, there was a plant of Mimosa Pudica displayed over there too.
I think some of you may be quite familiar with this in your childhood
In Malay, we called it rumput malu-malu which means bashful grass
and in Japanese we called it Ojigi grass (おじぎ草) which means the bowing grass



And we have a new display this round!
“Rocks with drawings”
Creative and definitely one of an interesting activity for the kids






What even more surprising me was, the Tanabata display a month ago has turned to…

The Kappa family (*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)



And there were 2 families (*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)
It is a tradition to water the Kappa’s head especially when it dries up faster in a hot summer day



Here’s a display of Kappa’s faces



Feeling inspired, we got the base from uncle and started drawing our own kappa



Tadah~ the Kappa pendant



Hehe
Happy summer~

1歳１１か月１３日
1 year 11 months 13 days old