ASHR Kumon

Prady got her 3rd consecutive Kumon Advance Student Honor Roll (ASHR ), last week at Hotel Istana Kuala Lumpur.

What is ASHR anyway ? Ok .. let me explain , Kumon is a center where they teach Maths & English beyond the student learning grade. Ex. 5 year old child able to solve mathematics meant for std 1 or 2….

In order to qualify for the roll , the student must able to do maths 3 years beyond their school grade.

But this year , the honor list qualification become tighter where students must be 5 years beyond their school level to qualify for the roll. I’m very proud my daughter, she is in primary 1 and yet able to solve std 6 maths. Multiplication and division of fractions.

Her Graduation Stage





Family Photo after the ceremony




With her medal and certificate




Some of the ASHR receipient




With her Kumon center principal



Our 3rd Business Trip to India.

Complete our 3rd trip to India last week. As usual the trip in meant for business but manages to allocate a day to visit Lord Venkateswara at Tirupathi. A gruesome 5 hrs waiting time for seeing HIM. What a “tharisanam” ….. Enjoying every second looking at HIM…. That’s why some locals not really care if they have to wait for whole day ….. but we don’t have such luxury time there ..so a 300 ruppes special queue yet took merely 6 hours ….


This round half of the purchase was made at Chennai Pothys , Saree's , kid dress & some Punjabi dress. Another half at another whole sale shop at Pondy Bazaar.

Both of us tired of non-stop purchase & select the best to suit our local Malaysian taste.

I will say this round the dress are more nicer and more northern style salwaar suits.


A typical south Indian breakfast set ….. idli & methu vadai … costing ~ 63 rupees …. Rm 3.50. Not cheap though , but that is normal , a liter of petrol is sold for Rm 4.90 !! .....

A trip to Penang Hill

1st May, labour day holiday ...... bring my children's to visit a place which was kept secret till arrive there  .... Penang Hill ... a place for everyone to make a visit if they were at Penang. The hill was closed for the public for the renovation work for almost 2 years .... It was officially open for public last month .... and we thought want to visit the place after a 10 years gap !! ..... it was a nostalgic moment for me and my wife ... a place where we use to date before our marriage ..... but before that ... take our lunch ast Nasi Kandar Kapitan , their popular clay pot briyani and chicken tanddori ......

As anticipated, the place is crowded with people, everyone want to experience the new hill train ans so do us .. queue ~ 40 min to reach the departure area ..... it was a new experience ... the train is very fast it only took us ~8 min to reach the hill-top .... it used to take ~ 20 to 30min with an exchange train at the mid-station. The new rail system pass the mid station and direct to hill-top.... kind of disappointment, where you really cannot enjoy the scenery ...... anyhow everyone enjoy the trip .....

Me, my darling, my son and my daughter on the canon .........

 

 

2nd Year Memorial Prayers

Last Saturday was my father’s 2nd year memorial prayers. It was done simple at home. Morning went to Sivan temple at Penang for a ‘moksha tibam’ and follows by a ‘archanai’. Noon, do a small prayers at home with a vegetarian food offering to my father.

“ We miss you dad..…… Its been 2 years since we loss you ….. but your smiling face still mingling in my head daily. Forgive me , If said anything wrong or act wrongly towards you…..and I know , you will never feel angry towards us …since it is not your nature…to hate us. You feed us …take care of us … until your last breathe …how can I repay you …… It was a memorable day when we spent the whole day alone , talking about your past experience in Terengganu oil rig, when I bring you to medical check-up at LWH hospital. I never realize, that will be the final sharing of your experience with me…..pls forgive me father ….. I love you dad …. “

G-Hotel Family Re-union

G Hotel Penang organized its staff family day at Batu Feringgi beach recently, my name was given by Saanta and we went and join the gathering. The food is nice with BBQ as the main course. The mutton & chicken taste fantastic. As usual the rain spoiled the whole evening, Any how ..thanks to Saanta to invite us ....

Taiping Zoo

As promised, I bring my children to Taiping Zoo last weekend. The children seems enjoying the whole trip. Not to mention the tons of question my son and daughter post on the animals... why ? what ? how ? .... tired of explaining to them .... The most interesting question by my son ... " Why the elephant keeps on swinging its trunk , is it won't hurt the elephant ?"

Its raining on and off thru out the journey .... any how , have complete the 'task' successfully :)

Some photo's...

Its school leave again !

Its school leave again ! .... Tonnes of proposal comes from my both children's ....

List of the proposals :-

1) Genting highlands
2) Camerron highlands
3) Shopping & Movie
4) Singapore !!

Wow ! ...nowadays children's are well prepared for the holiday ..... I suggested to bring them to Taiping Zoo , both of them agreed , not a new place for them though .....

My son wanted to see dinosaurs in Taiping Zoo ! .... alamak ....where to find dinosaurs la ??
Daughter as usual want to see .... lion & tiger .... probably will look for a elephant walk ..not sure if the zoo still providing that ...