Aunty Mariam & Uncle Johann organized a boat trip cum picnic at the Coyote Lake park last weekend. It wasn’t easy rowing a boat in choppy waters but we all had a blast. Everyone chipped in and brought all kind of food .. we had nasi lemak, sambal tumis, mee goreng mamak, epok², bbq seafood and even roast some s’mores. The best part was offcourse playing with Bossy ball, tug of war and throwing water balloons at Aunty Mariam.. she was very sporting!

Since it was close to my birthday and my parents weren’t planning on a birthday party for me this year, they decided to “tumpang sekaki” on this event and brought along a birthday cake and we all offcourse sang the customary Happy Birthday song to me. Thank you my friends, aunties and uncles for the wonderful picnic and the pressies.. when is the next hiking trip ?

I went exploring in my backyard recently and look at what I found under the rocks… bugs!! aaaahh! All kinds of bugs from the slimy slugs and earthworms, creepy centipede, roly poly pill bugs, snails and pesty termites. I guess I don’t have to visit the nature museum anymore .. just look under rocks and there’s lots more to explore. wow!!

But no worries, the termite control people will be stopping by our house in July when we’re back in Singapore for the holidays. Have a great summer holiday everyone!!

I’m a graduate now!! I graduated 1 week ago and it was a fabulous ceremony that brought tears to the eyes of my parents. We sang songs, recite duas, performed 5 little ducks skit and had an awesome potluck party. I can now recite 7 surahs.. not bad huh ? I learnt a lot at my prek on how to be a good Muslim.. this fall i’ll be in Kindergarten and I’m sure i’ll be learning even more and other subjects too since the school ends at 3pm (yikes!!) .

I hope you get to view the videos below.

We’ve been to Yosemite many times before but I have to say this is our best trip ever. We found out that the best way to experience the wonders of Yosemite is on foot and cycling is great too. I conquered my fears and hiked for 5.5 hrs to the top of Vernal falls.. it was fairly easy going up but the descend was very tricky and slippery. My parents were very proud of me.

climbing all the way to the top of the waterfall

We enjoyed this trip so much so that we didn’t feel like going home. Click here for more pictures.

Inspired by my first ski lesson in Tahoe , I made my first book. Who knows I might be the next Dr Seuss .. my mom did say that I’m pretty creative and I did came up with all the sentences by myself (still need help with the spelling though) and I did the illustration too.

I brought the book to school for sharing day and read the book to my friends and teacher. For my effort, my teacher rewarded me with a goody from the treasure box, I chose a plastic snake.

I’ve been asking for butterflies since last year after being brain washed by all those butterfly pavillion commercials. My package finally came last week, 5 tiny , spiny and ugly looking caterpillars. At first I thought they won’t survive but look how much and how fast they’ve grown since I first got it. And boy, do they love to eat … their food look suspiciously like peanut butter anyone wants to taste?

larva at day 1


larva after 1 week
I sure hope they will grow into beautiful painted ladies butterfly as the package indicated.

I’m in Bear Valley again .. my fourth time here so I’m sure you can tell this is our favorite place for winter adventure. It’s not as fancy as Tahoe nor as scenic and has only one ski resort and a couple of eating places… it can get miserable some times but not if you’re like me who just came here to play, sled or just roll around in snow.

It was so cold yesterday when we arrived that our tap wasn’t working. The water had frozen and the maintenance guy had to use blowtorch to melt the water on the pipes. It’s been snowing the whole of today .. so much soft powdery snow that it’s hard to even make snow balls and snowman. So we just played around in the snow .. went sledding, draw smiley faces on   snow covered cars and took a bus ride to the ski resort . I wasn’t interested in skiing I just went there to go on a bus ride actually .  So that’s all we did for this trip .. now i’m back in the cabin watching kung fu panda… hiyakkkkk.