New Eats @ Peng Wah Restaurant

This may just be your ordinary Chinese restaurant next door but the dish I had was something new for me and to be honest was interesting the way it was made.

Oddly the place was not filled, perhaps we were too early in the afternoon.

We had the typical Yang Chow Fried Rice.

Ordered Steamed tofu in oyster sauce.

Here was the interesting dish. It does look like your ... again typical Hokkein Noodles but here's the catch, it's udon and not the regular noodle!

First Semester Academic Progress

It turned out to be a much better day then what I initially envisioned it to be cause it was my 1st academic and co-curriculum progress report day.

Parents were all early since we were there 10 minutes to 10am and had trouble finding parking. I know I did well but there's always that fear of meeting expectations.

We lined up at the corridor just outside our respective classrooms waiting for our turn. As my turn came, my class teacher Miss Sugu took us thru my report and we spent a good 30 minutes reviewing my achievements and accomplishments.

Daddy and I made it a point to meet my Bahasa, Art, Mandarin and Physical Education teacher to hear their feedback as well. The highlight was when we met the head of Junior school who recognized me by my name and instantly made daddy proud!

Back when I graduated from Kindergarten, daddy did mention that it isn't about the marks but the learning experience that matters the most and the man stood by that statement till this day. In a cynical world where parents push their kids expecting nothing less than 100% in all subjects, I'm happy daddy gives me the freedom to pace my learning and decide on my interest in co-curriculum activities.

My results were very good (literally) and he tried to work his way out with Play-Doh's. I'm expecting something big Daddy, not going to let you get off scot free that easily.

Vegetarian Weekend

Last Weekend was sort of like a full fledged Vegetarian fiesta with back to back dinner and lunch at restaurants around Kepong area.

Saturday night dinner was at the Vege Life Delight Restaurant.

Main courses were vegetarian clay pot rice ...

and sea weed fried rice. Of late I've been having a great liking for sea weed.

Highlight was this wheat grass, pandan leave and alfalfa drink. Very refreshing!

Sunday lunch was at the Jangsu Fusion Tea house. This was an interesting place simply because it was a Korean vegetarian outlet.

The entrance was very inviting with 2 lovely Korean caricatures.

Lovely atmosphere with equally tasty dishes.

Starter were simply Korean condiments. Well it certainly was meant to be eaten as it is but I used them as condiments to add the extra 'zing' to the dishes.

Lovely spring rolls.

Egg plant served in a mildly spice sauce.

Herbal soup and the rice for each of us came in this lovely ever silver dish.

Clay pot tofu

Sweet and sour mushroom

by this time, I forgot what this dish was ... :-p

Stir fried lettuce.

finishing off with these lovely sweet dumplings. By the time I was done, i was so stuffed, I needed a trolley to wheel me out. 

First Look

I'm not a great fan of the superhero genre but have taken a liking after strong influence from daddy. He in particular is an ardent fan of Batman.

So when this news hit the web, he was greatly seen jumping in joy. After the highly successful Batman series by acclaimed director Christopher Nolan, the reboot will be the responsibility of Zack Snyder, director of Man of Steel!

The photo above is a sneak look at the new Batman along with the new Batmobile as it will be featured in the upcoming Batman vs. Superman movie.

Wesak Day Wishes

Wesak Day for me, like previous years, is celebrated at the Sentul Buddhist Temple. We normally get there by 11am and stay on till about 1 or 2pm.

The day started off with prayers at home as we have a small shrine for the lovely golden buddha statue that Grandpa bought many years ago. Flower arrangements and preparing for prayers was my task and I executed them flawlessly.

The temple was crowded just as it is every other year but always in an orderly manner, managed well by the committee and volunteers.

I received the blessings of the priest with an orange string to my wrist.

Remaining of the afternoon was spent at Aunt's place before we headed out for dinner. I tried the 'Thosai Tissue', a little too sweet for me but loved the presentation.

Mother's Day Treat

Every Mother's day, I make a gift which is normally part of the art subject in school. This year it was a canvas handbag!

All the celebration is about glorious food and the feast started on Saturday at Secret Recipe with my favourite fish and chips for lunch.

Sunday was exquisite Chinese cuisine. Ginger baby kailan and seaweed soup.

Honey lemon chicken, omelette and braised mushrooms. Happy Mother's Day!

Learning to use Chopsticks

Isn't as easy as it seems ... but I got a hang of it ...

Thanks to Aunty Skyfall Caroline for getting me the kids training chopsticks.

Smart Kids 2014

The Smart Kids has always been a must visit exhibition every year. It is the single largest event boasting a variety of kids related exhibitors from toys to books.

This year, due to the clash in event schedules I believe, the Smart Kids Fair was held at the extended hall away from the main PWTC building.

It's not as big as the Merdeka Hall nevertheless had all the major players from multiple industries exhibiting their products. The mascots were all in line greeting the visitors.

My personal favourite Elmo was also there.

The members from the Berjaya Times Square was seen mingling among the kids and leading them to the booth for some great deals on the entrance tickets.

I've always enjoyed the games at the Berjaya Times Square Theme Park and again due to height requirements, I'm unable to get to the heavy duty ones.

It was also a nice to see my Kindy showcasing the CAPABLE program which is their unique selling point.

Lots of games to play and prizes to win

This was a cool table with all sorts of games that you can simultaneous play. I was looking at daddy with cute puppy eyes, the man just walked away knowing I was pushing it in trying to get him to buy this cool toy.

 

Legoland had a bus exhibiting the park in Johor and the crew did a impromptu interview while I was busy checking out the exhibit.

The coolest by far is the booth by the National Museum. This section featured the junior archeologist tryout where the kids are to find for hidden treasures.

The batik painting was equally exciting.

An here I am making my own book mark from fresh leaves. I thoroughly enjoyed all the activities that they lined up. No wonder it was the busiest booth that morning.

I did pop by the Internal Book Fair only to be disappointed yet again. Collection of international publishers was much more but somehow I wasn't too pleased with the choices of books made available. Despite that I did get some for myself.

Nebulized

My chest flem needed to be cleared so I got on the nebulizer. It's a drug delivery service used to administer medication in the form of a mist inhaled into the lungs.

Beaconhouse Junior School Telematch

After a great deal of practice, every Friday to be exact, I was all prepared and excited for my first sports day in junior school.

It was held at the British International School. Beautiful place and the artificial turf was certainly a plus point. Should any of us fall, the impact would be minimal.

 

The school was located in Bandar Utama and had this huge underground parking. Could simply mean the senior students must be driving to school.

The swimming pool was another aspect of the school to be envy of.

I was an hour early and caught some of my teachers making lots of last minute arrangements for the big day. The welcoming committee was busy handing out the agenda and guiding the parents to their seats.

I was part of the Eco friendly green house. Going with our colour theme, we took on the Green Lantern avatar. Each of us had a bright head gear and our very own green lantern ring. Putting it on really gave me the much needed boost to seize the day!

The march past around the field was in so much energy and as we stopped in front of the VIP stand, we sang the green house song and waved our green flag. Rousing applause was heard in the background.

Obviously it made more sense for Hal Jordan to be there in person. For the non comic book person, Hal, a test pilot who was given a power ring by a dying alien, Abin Sur, and who became a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar organization of police overseen by the Guardians of the Universe. I must say, it's pretty complicated and took me a while to digest the details.

Game On! Lots of tumbling and twisting on the obstacle run.

The 2nd run was to 'dress' the person waiting at the end of the line before we run back to tag the next person. I got the easy one, putting on the hat.

As you can see, she was all dressed up and being the 2nd anchor runner, my speed made all the difference in nailing a winning spot.

There was lots of strategy planning before execution and I must thank each of my year one counterparts who made the race a memorable one.

The prize was given out by the Director of Schools and our principal, Mr. John.

My team won 2nd place from the 1st race but we had to settle for the consolation prize at the dress up race.

Part and parcel of being in sports is to endure some strains and pains. Nevertheless, I was proud to have contributed to Green house emerging 2nd place overall.