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Yeah, I was back in Malaysia for a 3 weeks holiday staying at my brother’s house
Yappi was with us for 4 days only, and back for work after that.



Departing from Haneda from 23:30 almost midnight..




Arriving safely and happily after 7 hours flight



It was good traveling on a night flight with a toddler  Coz they will most probably sleep through the night
Little-big-boss dozed off once he was on the plane and woke up around 1 or 2 hours before arrival

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Anyway, we have met a lot of friends.
Among them, we so happened to have one who runs a baby spa – Hippopo Baby Spa & Wellness
We never knew and we were very curious
I didn’t know that baby spa actually is already quite well known in Asia.. like what I’ve heard, there were already above 2000 baby spa running in China

And so, our friends, a married couple, who were so kind to have invited us for a try out with Little-big-boss



The play corner for the babies to warm up

We were like, wow.. what a luxurious space for babies..



I can say, this is Little-big-boss very first experience on a baby spa
Luckily we were taking baby swimming course back in Japan, which made him go down the water more comfortably in the spa



The Baby Spa
There were 2 big tubs (for 6 months to 3 years old) and erm..I think 2 small tubs (for baby below 6 months old).



He was happy



Yeah, very happy during the bath



While relaxing after the bath, it was time for a baby massage..



As expected, he is not used to and doesn’t like and not willing to let anyone he doesn’t know to interfere his life all this while kinda.. how can it be okay of having the staff to massage him..(→my doubt earlier)

Baby is supposed to lie down while enjoying the sensation of massaging by the professional there, but since Little-big-boss was not willing to,  we still tried a little while I hold him up..

Yeah, it didn’t work out 

I think he might thought that the staffs there were doctors 
he hates docs.. haha

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After the baby spa, we head to another friend’s place for lunch.

This friend is a Japanese who married a Malaysian-Chinese wife and stayed in Malaysia.
They opened a Japanese restaurant which specialize in FISH dishes  UOKATSU 



Happy eating food that he recognized

Well, we really really had a wonderful and fulfilling day and it was so great to have wonderful friends like them
Grateful thanks to:
Nick and Stephanie from  Hippopo Baby Spa & Wellness
Tomono-san and Winnie from UOKATSU

5 April 2014 – My fourth “hanami” of the year! at Showa Kinen Park, a very very big park!

This time was with Yappi and his friends

This park is really really big that in order to get to our lunch destination, the open field, we had to walk like more than 30 minutes in the park itself..
There were a few entrance for the park and the entrance that we entered was the furthest one..

Pretty challenging when you have a baby to look after while carrying all the stuffs and while you have a husband who went ahead so far away to take pictures
*Nah, just at some points He will be back to help




Well, we reached the open field,
and never thought it will be this OPEN

This tree was just right at the center where we meet with our friends

And we had lunch
We took a spot nearer to the kids playground instead of the sakura coz it was so crowded at the sakura area and we all have kids!

The day started very sunny and nice, but suddenly there were hailstones dropping onto our food!

Luckily the sun came back to us after an hour or so

After lunch, we had a walk around the park




Little-big boss giving a helping hand

Looking good

Kakko ii~ かっこいい～

Little-big-boss doesn’t want to walk sometimes..

Little-big-boss says, “I want a bike too!”

Little-big-boss got his wish!
*Borrowed from friend’s 3 years old son..

Daddy on the act!




Walking under the blossomed sakura is like a dream..

If there weren’t too many people..

Time for Little-big-boss to have a noon-nap on his baby carrier
while the adults keeeeeeep walking~




We walked around the park for another 1 hour or so..
and Little-big-boss woke up just in time for the boat ride~
We were on the lake though the picture above doesn’t show!




Time to head home before sunset.




A pic of my mom
taken while we were walking again so far back to our carpark..

580 days old
１歳７か月３日






Hanami 2014
→Sakura in Mitsuike Koen 三ツ池公園でお花見
→Sakura in Yumemigasaki Zoo Park 夢見ヶ崎動物公園でお花見
→Sakura along the Tamagawa riverside 多摩川の河原でお花見

2 April 2014 – My third “hanami” event, at the riverside of Tamagawa

with my MOMMY little-big-boss’s grandmama~

Grandmama and little-big-boss

Grandmama is here for only 3 months and literally became little-big-boss’s playmate






My third hanami,
and at last, the  full-bloomed SAKURA~
ザ満開

桜めちゃきれい～
What more can I ask for
I am too blessed to be able to witness this beautiful season, this beautiful trees

It was a peaceful day

Being on a weekday, there were not too many people

So calm, so tranquil..

Under the beautiful tunnel of sakura trees

Feeling so blessed to be in this beautiful part of the world

To be able to enjoy the mother nature of the earth is my happiness

To let my child to be part of this world is my joy

The old, the young, we share the world

Feel the air of spring

Feel the wonders of spring


Well, look up .. where ever you are..

before you regret 

There are wonders everywhere






577 days old
1歳7か月0日






Hanami 2014
→Sakura in Mitsuike Koen 三ツ池公園でお花見
→Sakura in Yumemigasaki Zoo Park 夢見ヶ崎動物公園でお花見

31 March 2014 – My second “hanami” session of 2014  to the mini Yumemigasaki  Zoo Park~♪
*hanami=sakura admiring event, sakura viewing, etc

This time was with my mama-friends from little-big-boss baby swimming class  

Babies all about the same age




3 days after the first hanami I had, obviously the sakura bloomed fuller here 
still not the peak yet though..

Little-big-boss at the tower

I think the sakura at the back was probably the biggest and fully bloomed sakura over here

A kiss from my little-cutie-pie




And then, we had lunch A hanami picnic lunch

Basically, we brought our own food except for Yuuki-chan’s mom, the biggest and luxurious of them all
The first 2 pics from left was Yuuki-chan’s bento and the other 2 was little-big-boss’s

Everybody, LUNCH-TIME~




After lunch, it’s play-time~

Little-big-boss walks around by himself a lot..
Like, he seldom look back for his mom..

And now he has friends!

A “girl” friend, Yuuki-chan

A “girl” friend, Yuri-chan

As if they are dating each other..
As if my little-big-boss is double-dating the girls..

Nah..

Here’s a “boy” friend, Hikaru-kun

They look so sweet holding hands and hugging each other though

Little-big-boss with Yuuki-chan and Hina-chan

Cuteness

Playing around the sakura tree





Playing freely

Act like a soccer player
Little-big-boss loves playing ball nowadays, that he will go all excited and shout out “bo-, bo-” whenever he saw a ball on the street, at the park, or anywhere
(the ball in the pic belonged to someone else though)




Time to go for the animals in the zoo!

This is a very small zoo park which is free of charge, just nice for little babies to explore without being too exhausted

Though small, though they do not have elephants, giraffes, gorillas, lions, tigers, all those big animals..
they have zebra, monkeys, red pandas, donkey, flamingos, and all the smaller animals

They have penguins too

Didn’t take much pics of the animals except this

Take a look at this blog post which shows more of this zoo park → http://gootre.blog.so-net.ne.jp/yumemigasaki-zoo

Somehow, I have more pics of the fake animals..
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Riding on a panda (Θ∀Θ)

..on a rabbit and on a squirrel

Before heading back,

Selfie Take 1

Selfie with Sakura Take 2

Going out with kids, not to forget to wash their hand after a day playing outdoor

And, time to head home




575 days old
1歳6か月29日






1st hanami 2014
→ Sakura in Mitsuike Koen 三ツ池公園でお花見

The Sakura’s season is the best part of spring in Japan .

Spring when the weather is getting warmer and such nice view with white and pink trees everywhere 

Love this season
Love this weather
Love this beautiful flowers.

Well, when the Sakura bloomed, it’s hanami-time
(Hanami = admire the Sakura, Sakura-viewing party, etc

I went for a few places for this hanami event with family and different friends.

First, on 28 March 2014, I went to Mitsuike Koen, a big park which that has 3 lakes inside located in Kanagawa prefecture with one of my mama-friend (friend with babies).

When I first arrived here, there were still no sakura blooming to be seen..
I knew it was a bit too early but never thought that it would be like so.. so not even one to be seen from the entrance..

No leaves, no flowers? 
Too bad, but we enjoyed the park very much anyway even without the blossoms 

Playing around while waiting for my friend~

Walk..

walk..

walk..

Play with sand..

Play with the rock..

Play with a lil’ big brother..
Lil’ big brother was being so kind and cute




And my friend came 

Ami (nickname) and Kocchan (nickname)

And we had..
LUNCH  straight away!
Very very nice picnicking in Spring 
The breeziness, the warmness after winter,
it’s just.. nice



The babies will never sit still for long..

They eat and play 

Kocchan walked away holding her food 

After lunch, we went for a walk around the park..

Walk, play, walk..

Rest..

Climb..

Watching the ducks..
Little-big-boss will go saying out loud “da~, da~” when he is near the pond..

Making faces~ Uuuuu~ bler~

Climb, climb, climb again..

Hold hands 

With the little babies~

While we walk, at last we found some Sakura that blossomed
Obviously different types of Sakura blossomed on different time 

The Sakura in Mitsuike Koen 

A different type of Sakura from the above 

All 4 of us 

Sunset.. time to go home 
572 days old
1歳6か月26日

Oh yes! Spring in Japan = Sakura season!

Everywhere you go, you’d see Sakura 

Whitish, pinkish trees all along the street, or just one in the middle of the greens symbolizing “I am the Angel” 

or a garden which is not so green but pink!
Just like the one we went  The Shinjuku-gyoen (新宿御苑)     

Roof of Sakura~ (Someiyoshino, 染井吉野)

ROOF of SAKURA~!!! (Someiyoshino, 染井吉野)
Imagine white pinkish tree in a garden! Doesn’t it makes you feel like a wonderland some may dream of? 

There are various types of Sakura. The very common one, the white pinkish sakura that you always see is called Someiyoshino (染井吉野). The roof of sakura in the 1st and 2nd pic is Someiyoshino and this type is always grown along at the side of a street or river shining all over  

While the above sakura is all PINK!, I think this is Yokohamahizakura (横浜緋桜).
Nice staying alone in the middle type .

Sakura grow straight from the trunk too!

Sakura snapshots with little-big-boss 

Little-big-boss first time O-hanami, 初お花見 

Love 

Love love 

Waha 

“Mommy.. if you keep on like this, daddy is going to be very jealous..“

Yeah, somehow Yappi and I didn’t take any pics together on this event..

But they did~  

Little-big-boss and Big-big-boss~ 

He was happy after all  Slept half of the trip waking up fresh again to enjoy whatever that is happening. 

Whereas for us, we forgot to bring our baby carrier and we haven’t got a stroller yet..which ended up that we have to carry him barely the whole trip  *sore hand*
Anyway, this is when we decided to get a stroller at last, yay! 

We reached here early in the morning, when the place was still very quite tranquil and peaceful, breezy and calming

At noon..

This is the behind-the-scene of every beautiful sakura picture you see that your friend might have been uploaded on Facebook, etc these days. haha 

And by noon, we went home 

               

Ooh, I’ve got something to continue which is totally has nothing to do with the sakura’s story above!

I found something very funny and ridiculous that I wanted to write it down here.
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The latest Japanese language trend!!

This trend started this year and it’s a HIT on the internet in Japan.

They are words indicating when you are angry. The angrier you are, the funnier it goes..

Angry L1 – Oko (came from the word “okoru (怒る)” which means angry
Angry L2 – Geki (very) Oko (angry)
Angry L3 – Geki (very) Oko (angry) Punpun (steam up) Maru
Angry L4 – Muka (frustrated) Chakka (set fire) Faiyaa (fire)
Angry L5 – Kamu Chakka (set fire) Inferunooooou (inferno)
Angry L6 – Geki (very) Oko (angry) Stikku (stick) Fainariariti (final reality) Punpun (steam up) Doriimu (dream)

And this is how you use them,

Example-
“Oko na no?” (Are you angry?)
              
“My bicycle got stolen, Geki Oko Punpun Maru ٩(๑•ૅہ•๑)！！”

and so on..

Cute?  

知ってた？最近の流行りの言葉っていうか、ネット上でけっこう話題に？

怒りを表す言葉！しかもその怒りの限度によってどんどん変な感じに表現される。。

「おこ」
「激おこ」
「激おこぷんぷん丸」
「ムカ着火ファイヤー」
「カム着火インフェルノ－ォォォオオウ」
「激おこスティックファイナリアリティぷんぷんドリーム」

みたいな感じで。。

夫から最初に聞かされたんだけど、やっぱりくるってる～！と思った 

しかもたまに使われてる。。 感染される～！！！！

詳しく　→　http://moto-neta.com/net/gekioko-punpunmaru/

Marina Bay Sands – The night Sky Park ← previous post

Last day, the 4th day in Singapore  .. I’m taking ages to blog just on Singapore..

Waking up and making up on the bed  

There’s a street with pretty shop-houses along the river at Boat Quay~
 

Waiting for lunch 

Had lassi while waiting..
When one having a lassi drink, you should know what we are going to have for lunch 

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NAN~

Curry 

And CURRY~

I forgot what curry though..

Curry at Maharajahan Indian restaurant at Boat Quay~

The boss of Maharajah  He has the look of a boss~ He was great 

Two lovey-dovey pigeons at Boat Quay.

Just happened to be there to snap this 

Panorama Boat Quay~

Click to enlarge 

This is my last post for Singapore on this trip.

2 days at Geylang, a nostalgia place which I enjoyed quite much though this place not too popular among my friends . All budget hotels gathered around Geylang 

Then, we had Megazip at Sentosa Island. That was great~ All the way from the mountain to the ocean 

Stayed 1 night at Marina Bay Sands hotel (the main purpose on this trip), mostly just for it’s infinity pool → the sky pool 
Had a romantic night  too at the sky park 

Marina Bay Sands – SkyPark, SkyPool !! ← last post

After experiencing swimming on top of the world at the sky pool, we went back to our kingly spacious room, took a shower and a bubbly bath, and changed

for dinner~ 

Snap-shots before dinner

Great night view of a lightened up city 

Dinner-time at Rise restaurant, an all day dining buffet style restaurant. 

SG$68 per person .. I don’t know whether it is a lil’ bit pricey for what it has or it is actually quite reasonable in a hotel like this.. 

The Sushi-plate  + 

The Chinese-plate  and Cheese Salad plate 

The serious-face eating all the plates~ 

After dinner, we then back to the top at the sky park breezy break~ 

The quiet sky pool at night  the pool is not opened at night though..

I forgot to bring my shoes to match the dress on this trip..
Sneaker x night dress   how is it  

Working seriously as a video-cam man the whole trip~

Our *dokodemo two-shot  

at Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Sky Park

*dokodemo = everywhere

 

My private videocam-man~

At last, the infinity panoramic city view Sky Pool  

This is one of where we wanted to experience after seeing some promotion articles from Marina Bay Sands hotel   though my passion was mostly for it’s sky park pool~ 

How fascinating~

As if, a piece of heaven looking upon the world 

My first experience in a pool on top of a city 

 

Was trying to take some pics on high shuttle speed..

Splassssh~

I love the ocean, love the nature, but sometimes a pool up above on a city could be very exciting 

As the sun goes down, the city started to light up 
Love the gradation of the sky 

As if there were no other people in the pool except he & she  How romantic 
in real, do expect loads more people..

As if, swimming on a cloud..

..2 guys.. sorry..no girls were around..haha

Have a look at the edge of the pool

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When you see the fact that it is fully concreted, just can’t help to feel a lil’ bit of disappointment.. though it is expected 

See post Marina Bay Sands Hotel room – Horizon Deluxe King 

Day 3 of Singapore ..my updates are so slow.. 

Anyway, in day 3 we transfered to Marina Bay Sands Hotel, which actually our main reason this time to Singapore  – for it’s infinity panoramic city view sky pool 

This hotel is known as a 5 stars hotel  

and I expected a more welcoming reception and a more luxurious lobby 

Never expected that a new, big known hotel lobby could be like a shopping mall full of people standing around talking loudly with no lounge or sofas visible for a rest.. the atmosphere here is just not so right for what to be expected..

A lil’ bit of disappointment here..

Anyhow, I was very much more expecting a great time at the pool though

Once we stepped in to our room, I can’t believe that I spent quarter of the day just wow-ing and camwhoring around the room..  

A whole piece of mirror on the wall – an impact once we stepped in

The room is huuuuuge 
Marina Bay Sands Hotel – Horizon Deluxe King (city view) room for a night 

The sea view might be great, but in Singapore, the city view could be more magnificent  especially the night view 

Love the big window  

Lots of mirrors – best when you have nobody to take pics for you 

 

 The room is really huge

The bathroom area is huge too

Glass partition shower room 

The bathtub is adorable 

Love cute bathtub  especially the retro one 

And, here’s my video camera-man and the video camera-man always 

 

Quarter of a day, we spent it on cam and vid-cam whoring just in the room