Back From Holiday... But Is Busy, Busy And Busy...

Arghh... Am finally back from my holiday. It's a tiring yet fun to go for holiday for almost 1 week. But now back to work I have a many backlog workloads to clear. Hmm... wondering when I can finish all these.

On top of all these, I still have a few pending blog post to write - on my wedding anniversary, my visit to the 1st Malaysia Baby, Children And Parent Expo in Mid Valley, the KL International Motor Show which is held in PWTC and also about my recent holiday to Singapore, Batam and Johore...

Ohh.. Gosh.. I think I'll need more than 24 hours a day!!

Am Back And FATTER Now!!!

Ok. Am back from my short holiday... Oh gosh!!! Am 2 kgs heavier now. I think this is because we are having a really good time staying at my uncle place. Imagine we just eat and sleep and "occasional" swim at his place.

There's a swimming pool at my uncle house and all the kids really loves swimming there. When we first reached his house, we took a short rest before started our first swimming session. Basically, we swim there whenever time permitted.

Back to the topic why am heavier now. All these actually start from the moment we arrived at my uncle house. My uncle is really generous that he offered us some good food when come to makan session and there is tonnes of foods in each of the "session". 

When we first arrived, it's already tea time. My uncle have prepared some food for our tea time. There's a wide variety of kuih and roti canai. Even for drinks, we get to choose from coffee, tea or milo if we want.

Then for dinner we brought us to a restaurant for a so called simple dinner. Well, it's not really a simple dinner when we arrive there. He have ordered so many food that we got to stuffed ourself with food. Even so, there is still some leftover.

On the following day, he bought a wide variety of dim sum for us to choose from for breakfast as he know we'll be busy swimming with the kids in the morning. So he leave the food on the table so that we can eat it after our swim session.

At noon, he bring us to a famous duck rice restaurant for a lunch. Again, he ordered many foods that we took a long time to finish it off.

For dinner we went to some famous seafood porridge there. The porridge taste good. The only downside is TY is sleeping while we are having dinner. So I got to carry her in my arm. Sob.. Sob..

After the dinner, there's supper at around 11pm or midnight. There's biscuits, mooncake and tea while I surf the internet with my macbook at that time.

The following day before we leave his place to go back to KL, he bring us to eat the bitter gourd soup and some other food as well in a restaurant. More food stuffing in our tummy before we leave. Hahaha...

In some way, I felt like as if am in a food paradise while staying at my uncle's house. But now I'll have a hard time to shed off the extra weight... 

UK Farm At Kluang, Johore

My eldest sister get to know of UK Farm from one of her friend in Facebook. Since it's on the way to my uncle place, we decided to include UK Farm in our travel itinerary.The road leading to UK Farm is not tarred road. It is those plantation road. From the main road, you might have to drive for about 2 kilometres or so on those plantation road before you reach UK Farm.


The modified mini bus that toured us around
the farm

Anyway, to continue from my previous post, my parent, my sister and everyone is waiting for us to arrive at the reception area. My sister selected the RM 30 day tour package which includes a set lunch which I busy taking photo with the UK Farm mascot. After ticket is purchased, by about 11.30am we started our day tour around the farm with the mini bus accompanied by a "tour guide".



Photo session with the mascot of UK Farm

We started the tour to visit the goat farm. I never know that even effort is needed to prepare the goat food so that the goat get sufficient nutrition. What surprise me even more is that the grass for these goat in the UK Farm is actually imported and specially flown in from US. In other words, the grass that the goat eat in UK Farm is actually so much more expensive that the 2 packet of nasi lemak that I ate at the Pagoh R&R before I come to UK Farm.

At the goat farm, I can have a close view of the goat and feed the goat with the grass. I get to hold the baby goat too while TY looking at the goat curiously.



TY looking at the goat curiously

 

TY is feeding the goat

We then proceed to the ostrich farm with the mini bus. The tour guide told us that some of their ostrich is flown in specially from South Africa. The ostrich have a very nice fur and it looks very clean too. Here, we get a chance to feed the ostrich too. The grass is provided by the tour guide as all these is inclusive in our day tour package already. The ostrich feed on the grass rather fast. What I notice is they'll only feed on the leaves and leave only the "branches" if you get what I mean. 



It's feeding time!!!

After the ostrich we visited the "passion fruit street" and guava farm thereafter. I "harvested" some passion fruit there and ate some of it on the spot. The passion fruits tastes really good. It's tastes a bit different from the passion fruit that I tried before. The guavas from the farm tastes very sweet too. Anyway, we are only allow to eat a few of the free fruit on the spot. The rest of the fruits that we "harvest", we can choose to get it weighted and pay for it at the end of the tour. 

Passion fruits that I managed to "harvest"

During our tour, we stopped over at the chalet and have a look at it. The tour guide let us visit 1 of the chalet there. Overall the chalet is clean and neat with all the basic amenities like bathroom and TV. But if you ask me if I'll stay there, no I won't. Don't ask me why. The chalet just doesn't look appeal to me.

Inside the chalet...



Next in our itinerary is the bottle feeding the baby goat with milk. If we did not take the tour package, the milk would cost RM 3 per bottle. All in all, we should have around 12 bottles to feed the goat. But I think we get more than that. Hahaha... The tour guide keep on refill the bottle for us until he himself have lost count, I think... :P Anyway, I think the goat is really hungry. It keep on want for more. That aside, the children really have fun bottle feeding the sheep. This includes my little TY as well... 



Bottle feeding the goat session. TY's unlce is helping her in

bottle feeding the goat.

After all the tour, it's started to rain and we reached the reception area just in time to avoid ourself getting wet by the rain also for our lunch. The lunch that includes in the tour package is the pre-pack lunch set. We just pick want we want to eat and the waiter will just heat the food with the microwave. Overall, it's not the best food but then it's not the worst food too. I ate the rendang chicken rice set. Taste not too bad. There's passion juice drink too which I personally like it. There is also cake made from the goat milk here. The kids on the other hand get to eat the ice-cream made from the goat milk too. 

We are given a paper fan which is said to be the DIY souvenir from our tour package. Kind of disappointed with the free gift but then again, hey I paid only RM 30 and am expecting to get more than this? :P

Anyway, towards the end of our trip in UK Farm here, I bought a small bottle (300ml) and also a big bottle (1 litre) of the goat milk after the free milk testing session. The goat milk taste good too at least to me. It doesn't have those heavy goat smell if you get what I mean.

Overall, I have quite an enjoyable trip with my family there.

A Short Breakaway...

I have been so stressful with my working life and decided that I should go for a short holiday for de-stress. That is why I have decided to go to visit my uncle in Johor Bahru since it's a public holiday for Selangor state on 27th August 2010. It have been ages since I last visited uncle. That is why I get my parent and my siblings including my nieces and nephews to join me in this short holiday. More people, more merrier, isn't it.

Me and my eldest sister have actually planned that all of us should leave the house and start our journey at about 4.30am to avoid the traffic jam as it's a public holiday for Selangor state and we forseen that there might be heavier traffic on the road. My sisters and parent leave their house at the planned time while I actually overslept. I only wake up at about 6.00am when my daughter is asking for milk. We hurried wake up to get ready and by about 6.30am we start our journey.

We was in a rush to get to our destination place as soon as possible as my parent and siblings have almost arrived. During the whole journey, I just keep laughing and feeling ashamed of myself at the same. I would have missed the flight if I take plane.

We make a quick stop at the Pagoh R&R for our breakfast. We take a quick walk and settle with a stall selling ready packed nasi lemak. Each of us can finish 2 nasi lemak within minutes!!! And not to mentioned, the nasi lemak really taste good. Or is it because we are too hungry at that time? :p

Anyway, we reached the first destination of our trip ~ The UK Farm at Kluang, Johore at about 11.30am. By then everyone have been waiting for us there for almost 3 hours!!!