Is March 2011 d!!!! OK .. I promised myself to be a bit 'Hardworking' updating my blog.. cox m not doing it according to the track.hee hee.. My 'new year' always start at March..( as I noticed my previous blog ).. New Year always been the busiest months especially on Chinese New Year.. Busy with son new time table, than busy for CNY.. when I used to everything it is March d... hee hee...I think my new year begins in March.. haa haa...
Ok.. This year New year was celebrated at Sandakan.. and it was a rushing trip.. Than School re open, Sunday school re open, Violin class, karate class... and Patrick Altar boy meeting.. so on so on... new home work, new co cum... brass band practice ( preparing for sport day and CNY at Gaya Street )... fuh... Because of too much exposure to the Mr Sun.. my son jadi hitam manis... very tiring month to Patrick... huhuhuhu...
This year CNY.. we are not going back to hubby hometown, we stay at my place ( huahahaha ).. initially, we want to celebrate our CNY eve and 1st day of CNY at Tenom ( my birth town ), we also want to celebrate the CNY mass at St Anthony Church Tenom.... however, after Patrick finished his Altar Boy meeting, he told me he will be on duty on CNY Mass at SHC .. at first he said he will not on duty and he already told one of the older altar boy 'gor gor' ( big brother ) that he will not celebrate CNY in KK.. on the way home, he suddenly said 'I wish I can on duty on the CNY Mass... mmm... never mind la'.. this confession make me and his father felt sorry for him... then, we change our plan.. we decided to let him on duty.. and in other case my parent are excited of us going back to Tenom, cox we had talking about it ages ago.. they surely disappointed of our decision of not going back... so, to satisfied both side, we planned to go back to Tenom earlier... we went back on the 1st Feb, and come back to KK on the CNY eve ( 2nd Feb).. Mum have to cooked early or let say we celebrated an early CNY eve dinner ( duan yuan fan )... Mum has cooked 2 times the exactly same dish for us and the exact nite.. huhuhuhuhu...
Our journey to 10om started at 8 plus a.m., the road is clear cox less of heavy vehicle.. we travel through Tambunan road .. I like the feeling at Gunung Mas which is chilly .. we do stop for half an hour there, and Paul manage to take a nap soundly hee hee.... after the resting , we continue our journey.. we do not stop at Tambunan Nor Kenigau, cox Paul said we will stop by tomorrow when we return to KK.. and went straight to 10om .. I do not remember what time we reached there, but for sure it still early.... My Parent come to show the way, cox I do not remember which lane d... huhuhuhu.. My Father had stayed at 10om since his retirement, doing rubber tapping... and will come back to KK occasionally... my mum still working and will go to 10om only on weekend helping my father or kasih lepas rindu... hee hee... mum oso want to stayed at 10om after her retirement.. when we reach to my father hut ( actually its my grandparents house, but they renovate it to a small house, with electricity and water supply from the waterfall nearby ), we changed clothes and Patrick keep asking his grandmother to teach him how to do rubber tapping.. Mum like the pegawai hutan, teaching us how, then we tried take turn.. hee hee... we went to the waterfall nearby.. the water was so cold... I went to the water in split second, cox I cannot stand the cool.. it felt like my heart stop pumping when am in the water... Paul and Patrick enjoyed it very much... after the waterfall, mum bring us wondering the rubber plantation which belong to my uncle's.. and because of the slippery ground cox of the rain.. Paul kept slipping... pity him.. tidak biasa bah... hee hee... we went back to the house and bath... mum, busy preparing the dinner and I help a little ( washing hee hee yg lain tidak pandai... hee hee ) when the cooking is done, we gathered at the table and eat ( of course with Patrick guiding the before meal prayer ) .. my youngest uncle ( mum youngest Bro ) arrive earlier as us.. and he bring his fireworks.. and we enjoying viewing it though it still early for CNY...hee hee... we went to bed early, cox of the driving and kept falling down Paul slept early, Patrcik too... me try to sleep but often awakened, maybe because of new place, new bantal... haa haa... at 1 a.m. I heard mum busy in the kitchen, she was saying about preparing the yong tau fu at the nite before, so I assume she is starting on her yong tau fu then.. so I woke up and help her, my uncle too.. bising bah kami barangkali haa haa... end up mum doing it alone and me and uncle chit chatting... huhuhu.. mum finished around 4 am.. and asked us to take a nap,to gain energy... hee hee... at 6 am my father awake, so do my two precious.. m still malas mau bangun.. haa haa... we pack and went to 10om town for breakie.. cox is CNY eve there was student selling handmade flower to raise fund for their school... we bought to help.. went to Pasar.. many people selling CNY raw food, vege... than we, went to the 'Antenom musseum' situated near the Pasar.. my father bring us to the 'Stesen Janakuasa Hidro Tenom Pangi' to see the nice scenery... and we bid farewell cox we were going back to KK...
On the way back, Paul saw a sign board 'Murut Cultural Centre', and suggested to go there.. and we wondering taking pictures, Paul was amazed with the Big trees that used as pillar, and saying how they manage to find that many.. hee hee.. we stop at Keningau for lunch, and bought things at Cosway keningau... Paul said he want to try to go home through Kimanis road.. and we did it, although there was a small incident happen... hee hee... arrived home.. taking rest.. than get ready to have 'Duan yuan fan' with bro in law n his family at City mall.. and we have' Poon Choi' a traditional Hakka dish.. after the Dinner, we trio went to Tanjung Aru Perdana Park to see the dancing/singing fountain... that was our CNY eve...
On the 1st day of CNY,we woke up around 6 a.m., preparing to the church for CNY mass at 8 a.m. The altar boy asked to come early for final job arrangement.. and we were at church at half past 7... Drum beating was performs before the Mass begin, the Archbishop, Coadjutor and priests was sitting among congregation to see this.. Then, they went back to the Chapel to begin the procession in to the church.. the Homily was talking about 'abortion' and repent.. New year means changing in our self and repent our sins, not by just talking it and not doing it... a Chinese traditional way of worship God was performed.. then, blessing the 'kam' (mandarin orange), the bishops and priest distributing the 'kam' and they were receiving ang pau as well from the people.. A lion Dance performances was held at the Parish Hall... after Mass we went home, and waiting for our bro in law calls.. cox we are visiting them.. My husband have 3 brothers staying at Sabah.. because 3 of them marrying Sabahan's and staying here.. hee hee.. and 3 of them having different religion, but on the 1st CNY early morning, the 3 family have their own place to go for praying.. I guess we are the earliest to finish... and we went to the 3rd bro house ( he is the eldest here ) , giving ang pau to the niece and nephew.. chit chatting then.. we went home... that was our 1st CNY...
2nd day of CNY, we has decided to go to Kudat to stay over, but our bro in law was asking us to have a vegetarian dinner with our youngest bro in law ( he and family is vegetarian ).. then, we planned to go earlier so that we can return KK early too.. Having a breakfast at Tuaran, then we off to the road.. we were going to Tip of Borneo.. one of my friend Jane, mother in law was staying at Kudat... and every year this time she is going back to her MIL place, deep inside my heart m saying will I see her there.. and I am thinking of calling/sms her... but m afraid she is busy to visit relatives.. so I let it be.. when we arrived T o B.. I saw a familiar face, it was Jane husband Mr Chok.. and I saw Jane and the children... haa haa... what a surprise.. cox I just thought of her and here she is in front of me... after sight viewing.. Jane invite us to her MIL house nearby ( I think we passed it when we on the way to T o B ), before that we went for a drink at the resort of T o B treat of Mr Chok ( thanksss ) .. Jane MIL house is surrounded by a coconut trees.. they were doing coconut trees plantation.. we stayed a while than we went to Kudat Town for lunch... after the lunch we heading home, and stop by the roadway to buy local products ( peanuts etc ) .. and went home waiting for call for the dinner.. end up it was canceled... that was our 2nd CNY...
Our 3rd day of CNY was celebrated with Sylvia Voon.. after breakie and so on we went to her place at noon and bringing her out to Suria Sabah.. just for jalan2 and catch up.. the day after was Sunday, what a pity only 6 altar boys show up including Patrick and it was Archbishop Lee doing the Mass cox Coadjutor Wong was going back to hometown for CNY.. Patrick was asked to do the bell ringing during Eucharistic which excite him.. but mummy afraid of he will done wrong not following others.. hee hee... Jesus is holding his hand I think ( and I always believe ) and he done it nicely... one of the parents said 'your son is very lucky, cox they only let form 1 altar boys to do the bell ringing..and he doing it very good.. hee hee..( m so proud :p).. but in reply I said he was lucky cox not enough altar boy bah ... hee hee.. that was our CNY holidays ...
Pictures telling time.. :P
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Mum teaching us how to tap.. |
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Patrick and Paul enjoying the waterfall |
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Early Duan yuan fan prepared by my mum |
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In front of Antanom statue |
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at the Tenom hydro power station |
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Stesen Janakuasa Hidro Tenom Pangi |
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Murut Cultural Centre Tenom |
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Paul was amazed with the pillar |
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the 'Poon Choi' was look like this |
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Chinese New Year Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral |
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Drum Beating |
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'kam' distributing |
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Patrick and Felenne |
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Kuan Yee, Booh Xin and Felenne |
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at Tip of Borneo where we bumped to Jane and her family |
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us |
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Patrick surrounding by girl.. young and old (Jane's MIL) |
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Sylvia and Valerie |