Holiday in ‘Kampung’

‘Kampung’ means village in Malay language.

We were there from Friday 05June09 till Sunday 07June09. We left about noon from home and arrived back home late evening on Sunday. It was a short maybe when we planned for a longer journey, we might considered getting travel medical insurance.

We got opportunity to follow our polytechnic lecturer, Aunty Rose back to her hometown last weekend. It had been many years that we still keep in touch with her and her hubby, Uncle Singh. PaPa and Mummy knew them when their elder 2 kids were young and before the younger two was born.

It was a coincidence that our lecturer’s SIL (who stayed in the house with lecturer’s mother) was Miche. So, it was 2-in-1 trip.

We wanted Jeriel to experience life in the ‘kampung’ and he really enjoyed it. To make the story short, let Mummy list out what he did …:

• He played water balloon and water gun.
• He tried to get rambutans from the tree using a rack.
• He ate fresh durian …yup there were a few durian trees around the house and once the durian dropped; usually it would be opened up fresh to be consumed.
• He ate nice and fresh ‘Nyonya Chang’ made by Aunty Rose’s mummy. Yummy…
• He slept 2 nites in the tent we borrowed from Aunty Liz with PaPa.
• He helped Uncle Singh to bake Pizza using Aunty Miche’s new oven. Photos here…
• He helped to decorate 1 mini cupcakes baked by Aunty Miche.
• He saw a monkey climbing and plucking coconut. Jeriel was even given a coconut.
• Too many and Mummy hoped that Mummy didn’t miss out anything…
  

All the time Jeriel was spending himself outside running outside sooo freely. PaPa and Mummy got to change his clothes a few times until we ran out of clothes. Thanks to Aunty Miche who passed us some spare clothes for Jeriel. Jeriel would come in wet from top to toe, totally drenched as if he just came back from a swim.

Last minute, some of Aunty Rose’s brothers from outstation decided to come back for a weekend. The whole house was noisy like CNY. Imagine Aunty Rose had total of 11 siblings (8 brothers and 3 sisters). During that weekend, a total of 6 families stayed in that house including our family. This was just part of the family, not the whole family. It was a great experience. This reminded Mummy about Mummy’s maternal family side because PohPoh had 10 siblings and during CNY usually it would be a very busy, happy and noisy atmosphere.

Mummy had a great time chit chatting with Miche and saw all the 4 kids… Miche also baked cupcakes for the kids and for birthday too. Some of the photos on Miche’s cupcakes/cakes…here and here…

We came back with some food including 2 durians (yes the whole car smelt of durian) and 4 ‘Nyonya Chang’.

On Monday 08Jun09 night, within less than 30 minutes, Jeriel, PaPa and Mummy finished up eating both durians at one goal. Yummy….

Thanks for having us there…it was fun fun….