back from malaysia

yoz i am back from malaysia!!!
well i must say it was supposed to be fun...
supposed to be la..
but somehow turned out not as expected...
mainly due to following reasons:

1) with the two little monkeys was indeed not easy!!! now i start to appreciate my church family... cuz with them around during church camp, the monkeys were like angels!!! cuz they helped me tame the monkeys... and when monkeys with familiar people, they more stable... My en was quite out of hand and rude during the trip esp in the last day... she showed me face and talked back to me rudely... she even asked the other tour member to give her sweet when she was offering her own son some snacks... i was so angry and embarressed about this.. when she got home, i lectured her and caned her on her palm, telling her firmly where was her mistake...

2) ok we did nnot bring enough money.. we didnt want to change too much rm... so turne out we were poor over there.. we never expected the meals there could be so expensive!!! a meal of mac dinner and a meal of 2 bowl wantan mee and a prata cost us 150rm in total! we nearly fainted!!! the classic joke here was we used up all our wet tissue and dry tissue! and last day after lunch when i needed to poo, i had no more tissue... and stupid msia restaurant toilet no toilet paper one... urrrrgggg.... so while pooing, i searched into my pouch and woo woo woo, thank God i had two USED tissues in there... phew... and ya, i used them to clean my butt.. what to do? i am not courageous enough to use kok's method.. (ya he used his hand last time when he encountered the same situ...)

that's not the end of the story... when i happily come out of the toilet, my gal said she needed to go too... so in we went... still happy that theres no crowd in the toilet when she suddenly said,'mama i need to dabian!' upon hearing that i was so sooo soooooo fused up!i sort of raised my voice said ,'how to dabian? y you want dabian? tao yan ley! no paper le la!!!' then there was an auntie past by (a stranger) and said (in fact sort of lecture),' y you scold her? kid want dabian let her da la! what you scold her for?' then she tucked me her well kept dabian paper wrapped in plastic bag...

i was so... so... ashame of myself and also embarressed and angry and... that really spoil my mood!!!! and guess what, i just found out that we could actually use our atm card to draw money there lor!!! STUPID!!!!

3) The food there was great (other than the first day meal)... but the time was short!!:( by the time i fed the kids, they were going back to the coach le!!! sad! i could only stuff whatever i could in my mouth and go...

4) the thing that made me really frustrated was, the itinarary of the trip... it was stupid especially the third day one... we were brought to visit strawberry farm and BOH tea plantation and bla bla bla then the last stop was cactus valley which when we reach there was about 2pm... we were told it would be free and easy time till 5.30pm when we would meet for dinner at nearby restaurant!! the guide told us that the pasar malam nearby would be opened around 4.30pm so we could go there see see walk walk... to me, in fact to most of us this arrangement was kind of silly cuz we had many young kids in our group!! the timing gap would be great if they could arrange us to go back to hotel for the kids to nap or what... but the guide said the hotel was too far and it would be meaningless to go back for less than an hour then come out again... then i requested if we could stay in coach to let the kids sleep but he said cant cuz the driver would be leaving the coach so it must be locked! thus the whole afternoon, four of us were in the cactus valley, under a tree, letting the kids sleep on our lap...so unglam and think people kinda gave us that kind of 'waliew' look... but wat to do? as parent (esp mummy) we couldnt care much... the children's well being is of priority!!!!

lesson learnt: if next time we are to go for family trip again, we will get more church people or more familiar people to go with us... and, free and easy might be better for us instead of package trip...

anyway, i still give thanks. i would say it was a nice experience for the children. they were very happy. and i personally love the strawberry resort hotel's room, though the climbing of steps were horrifying... esp with luggauages...
i would say if the trip was without the kids, it would be so much nicer for me.. but i think with the kids, though some bad encounter, i still enjoy myself! yeah :)

You can see the trip photo at facebook.