My Little Princess: September 2019

Haze or no haze, the celebration will go on. That’s the annual mooncake festival in the girls school. As a vernecular school, promoting chinese culture has been in the blood.

We were welcomed by the food stalls selling sushi, char kuey teow, BBQ, satay and other delicacies. The girls chose satay, BBQ meat, sushi (for Mei Mei) and iced longan water to quench thirst and reduce heat.

Later we proceed to the cooling hall for performance. Though sitting on the floor, we enjoyed the performance in compliment by the cooling aircon

Finally, the air balloon symbolizes kong ming lantern that make wishes come true was let in the air accompanied by dragon dance.

Following, the same dragon led the lantern parade. The girls, seldom have the chance to join the parade, the girls never let go and quickly followed the parade.

It has been awhile we celebrated wedding outstation, some more of a close relative. We were thrilled when my cousin Vince announced his wedding plan in July and since then we have been make plans without the girls knowledge ( to avoid any overexcitement).

I’m pretty sure the girls has sensed something when we started to buy the new dresses, preparing souvenirs and packing. Finally, on 29 August the girls were filled with excitement when we told them that the very next morning we will journey out to Penang. Hmm.... isn’t this is more fun?

At 6am sharp, 2 cars ( my brother and we) were geared up for the journey. It took us 5 hours to reach Uncle John’s house and thanks to uncle’s hospitality we had a great feast of curry chicken, stewed pork, herbal stewed chicken feet, stir fry spinanch and smoked pork. Even Mei Mei had a second serving.

We spent a good whole 2 hours to exchange news and head to Uncle Paul’s residence (bridegroom’s father) to get the key to our homestay.

It has been a long day and what’s more to add to the plate- strong WIFI signal in the homestay! After a local delicacy dinner at the foodcourt, we called it a day. Can’t wait for the activities for tommorrow.

Our breakfast

The beginning of Day 2:

Since we have visited Penang recently, we wanted this wedding trip to be more easy and relaxing. We have missed the Kek Lo Si Temple the last trip so this is a MUST destination.

The girls never bored to cross Penang Island via ferry. The girls never feel boted with this 15 minutes trip.

Ferry Ride

Soon, from the car park, Kek Lok Si, stand solid on the mountain above us. Expecting to show the girls the path up with souvenirs shops line up at the 2 sides of the path, has been demolished and replaced by inclined lift. Sadly, i have to accept that technology is eating into our lives deeper.

While waiting for the inclined lifts, surprisingly the girls were seated quietly. Guess the weather has not been kind to us. Eventhough we were indoor. We felt the heat creeping into our body and eating up our energy.

Cut the story short, we reached to the top and instantly looked for the pagoda which Mei Mei was not quite keen. Instead she choose her seating place among the flowers and under the shed and starts to take pictures.

As the weather was too hot, the girls looked tired and dehydrated, we decided to head back to our homestay to rest since we are attending Uncle Vince’s bachelor night dinner.

Day 3: The Wedding

Before attending the Chinese tea ceremony, we visited St Anne’s church for a short prayer and some photo taking. Today our schedule is tied up with the wedding therefore had brought along colouring material that Yi Po had as presents to the girls.

Family at St Anne Church

Mei Mei preferred the wooden seats

Jie Jie at the fountain

Instantly, we rushed to church for solemnasation ceremony and next back to homestay for wedding dinner preparation. Anyhow, mommy and Daddy still have time to venture out for a tea break of rojak celup and laksa.