I'm a full-time mummy

Ever since I started kindergarten at 6 years old, I have been attending public schools (main language is Bahasa Malaysia) and during my earlier years, I mixed around with a lot of Malay friends and even spoke Bahasa with my elder brother at home (he also attends public schools), even to this day. So Bahasa Malaysia used to be my main language other than Cantonese and later on English (brushed up more when I met my hubby then boyfriend through snail mails, I had to practise and brush up my English as he doesn't speak Cantonese) Anyway, I think it is fun to be able to practise back and sharing what I know with those of you who are interested.

And so, here goes our next lesson: WHERE IS THE RESTROOM / TOILET?

For those of you who are more often on Facebook, you can also find the tutorials on my Facebook fan page. I have created a "Let's Learn Bahasa & Cantonese!" album to store the phrases. Enjoy learning!

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During the recent Chinese New Year holidays, we went to Farm in the City (FITC) and we brought along a niece and a nephew with us. Our 3 kiddos love spending time with their cousins so we asked for our brother and sister in law's permissions to kidnap their 2 youngest kiddos so that we can bring them along with our family outing hahaha... 

We left from our place at 9-ish in the morning and arrived at our destination at 10.30am. Because it was still CNY holiday, there are lots of parking space available and very little crowd as well. Staff waited at the reception and greeted us with a warm welcome. We were ushered to the counter to purchase our family package tickets (RM109 for 2 adults and 2 children below 12 years old, free 2 pony ride for children)

Once we put on our sticker tag onto our wrists, we headed into the farm. Pictures below are some of the snapshots taken during our outing. Feeding giant tortoise, rabbits, guinea pigs, catching fishes, holding baby chicks, standing on ostrich egg, feeding birds, goats, fishes and many more, this place is fun! All 5 kiddos are excited and happily enjoying themselves!

Our nephew told hubby that he can stay on until 6pm (that's when the farm closes) but 2 adults with 5 kiddos, we can only managed to hang around the farm until almost 5pm. We were very tired and ran out of water supply LOL, left the farm happily and very satisfied and capped off the outing with a small tea break McDonalds treat.

Some proud mummy moments during the outing were:

• Our 3 kiddos braving themselves to touch and feed some farm animals (tortoises, monkeys, birds, goats, baby chicks)

• Watching our kiddos catching small fishes at the drains near the rabbits and guinea pigs petting area. They were so happy when they caught the fishes (which were released back unharm after that)
  

To sum up our review on Farm in the City (FITC):

PLUS POINTS:

• Reasonable entrance fees 

• Up close encounter with farm animals

• Lots of rest areas with benches and tables and shelters

• Lots of washing areas with proper sink (even child-friendly sinks) and handwash liquid for you to wash your hands after touching, petting or feeding the farm animals

• Stroller-friendly walkways

• Food to feed farm animals are FREE and provided by staff stationed at the enclosures.

• Friendly and helpful staff

• Refreshment areas are clean up promptly
  

• Lots of teaching and learning monents for kiddos - habitats, features, feeding, life cycles of farm animals, trees and plants.
  

BAD POINTS:

• I was not able to get to the fruits/plants area as there is no stroller path going down so I ended up resting at a picnic table at the archway of the fruits/plants area with our 1.5 year old toddler who is napping that time.
  

Definitely worth going back to again and again! Totally recommended!

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Our 3 years old girl drew this last week. I asked her to draw mummy, daddy, Benjamin kor-kor (means big brother in Cantonese) and baby Carolyn and this is what she came up with in few minutes time. Now, I never taught her how to draw so it was pretty nice and interesting to see her uniqueness and style. I like that her characters have eyes, nose and mouth, body parts, hands and legs, very much advance compared to her elder brother's drawings at this age.

** From left to right: Daddy, mummy, baby Carolyn, Alyson and Benjamin kor-kor. **

I joked to my brother in law about daddy's angry fierce face and mummy not having legs because she was being kept on her toes by 3 kiddos at home 24/7/365 so much that you can only see a trail of smoke from her running here, there and everywhere hahahaha..

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