How I celebrate my birthday

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This year I celebrated my birthday more than 1 time. Firstly, at yi ma's house, celebrating together with yi zhang, whose birthday is very close to mine.

Cheese cake!





The second time, I celebrated it at my nanny's house.

Nice looking delicious mango cake!

Actually, there was supposed to be the third time when we were supposed to head back to Melaka last weekend.

But, it was not to be... the picture below tells it all. :-(

Anyway, thanks to all the pressies that I receive!

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Happy Birthday to ME!!

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It's my birthday today! I am now 2 years old.

Daddy and Mummy gave me this gold-plate coin, specially minted from Perth Mint.

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Perth trip (Final instalment)

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In the 4th instalment, my blog focused on Caversham Wildlife Farm, because it was the most interesting time that day. Caversham Wildlife Farm is situated in the Swan Valley, which is about 2o km away from Perth City.

Because it was not so convenient to travel via public transport, Daddy rented a car to go there.

Err... I thought that I should blur the plate number, in case you people use it to buy 4D. But then it's only three digits - so, ok lah.





Swan Valley is famous for its wineries. So, our first stop is a winery - Ambrook. There are lots of wineries there, but we chose Ambrook because the travel guide said that there is a free wine tasting there.





Well, it's not entirely free. It's only free if you follow up with a purchase. Otherwise, it's AUD2. Only wai gong knows how to appreciate wine, so we paid AUD2 for wai gong to taste wines.






As we all know, wine is made from grapes. But look at the plants below.





We have never seen a grape plant (tree?) like these before. Of course, I haven't seen quite a lot of things before, given my age, but then Daddy, Mummy, wai gong and wai po, haven't seen these grape plants.

So, what do you do when you see something special like this. Of course lah, die die must take picture.

Our next stop was Margaret River Chocolate Company. This time, more like it. There was free chocolate tasting and all of us have had a handful of chocolates, me included.

There are lots of variety of chocolates. Daddy and Mummy thought of buying some chocolates, but the price is really exorbitant.

We then went to Oasis restaurant for lunch. Given that it's pretty expensive to dine outside in Perth, the restaurant's lunch offer was really good value for money.

After lunch, we went to Caversham Wildlife Farm, which I've blogged in my previous entry. And that defined our fine day that day.

The next day, we went to Perth Mint.

The picture below shows wai gong, Mummy and me with two pieces of "gold nuggets". The one in wai gong's hand is Welcome Stranger (cool name). Weighing about 72 kg, it was the world's largest gold nugget ever been found.

Unfortunately, they were broken into 3 pieces due to unavailability of equipment capable of measuring nugget of that size at that time (it was found in year 1869 in Australia).

The largest existing gold nugget is Hand of Faith, found in 1980 (also in Australia), which is the one "in" Mummy's hand. It weighs about 27 kg, pale in comparison to Welcome Stranger.

Do you know how much is gold really worth today? According to the special scale in Perth Mint, I am worth AUD395,048 if I am made of gold. Daddy is 'worth' AUD3,034,528!

No wonder lah, this man went back to pick up the 'golden statue'. Given what gold is worth, who wouldn't!

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In the afternoon, we went to King's Park, which is another attraction in Perth. However, I slept throughout the walk in King's Park and therefore, nothing to blog to you. A mere mention would suffice.

And on the same day that night, we flew home to Singapore.

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Perth trip (4th instalment)

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This is my fourth instalment and by far the most interesting one.

Let me give you a hint why so. What is it about Australia that you must not miss? If you miss this, then you've not been to Australia.

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KANGAROO!!!!!

To see kangaroos and co, we went to Caversham Wildlife Farm in Swan Valley. The entrance fee per adult is AUD22 but for me, it's free of charge.

At first, Daddy and Mummy guided me to sayang sayang the kangaroo.

But, pretty soon, I warmed up to the very friendly mammals.

I like them so much and followed them everywhere just like a fan stalking her favourite celebrity.

Yes, I am a stalker, not any kind of stalker, but a KANGAROO STALKER.

See my video with a kangaroo below.

This kangaroo is special, because it's white in colour.

And when finally Daddy and Mummy decided to move on to other animals, I showed my displeasure.

Yeah... by standing in front of the kangaroo gate, refusing to go and wailing non-stop.

OK lah, after a while I gave up. But what happened next wasn't any short of excitement. An ang moh uncle brought out a black baby sheep out from its enclosure just for me to play with. See video below...

He even let me feed the sheep with milk.

Other than kangaroo, another animal that you musn't miss in Australia is koala bear. Yeah, the lazy looking but very very cute bear!

Of course, there are lots of other animals in the farm, but some of them are very common and can be found easily in tropical countries like Singapore and Malaysia.

But some others that are not so common to us include...

TASMANIA DEVIL

If you somehow find the name familiar but don't know where you heard it from, let me remind you through this picture.

Yeah, that's the Tasmania Devil character from Warner Bros who keeps spinning and spinning. Just like its cartoon character, the real tasmania devil is also hyper-active and kept running non-stop. Yes, running... not spinning.

Next... WOMBAT

which looks like a cross-breed between a bear, a rat and a sea lion. Is that even possible?

Next, LLAMA

which looks like a cross-breed between horse, sheep and camel.

OK, finally, a reptile - dunno what is it. It's nothing special. But because I touched it, then I have to blog about it. hehe.

I went home a very happy girl that day. I have no doubt that the kangaroos have left a deep impression in me, that I kept asking for kangaroo at night before I went to bed.

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Happy Mooncake Festival

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HAPPY MOONCAKE FESTIVAL.

Some people calls it MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL.

This is not my first Mooncake Festival, but this is the first time I celebrate Mooncake Festival with customary playing of lattern.

Ah ma bought my first lattern - a butterfly lattern operated by batteries Thank you ah ma.


So, on Saturday night, off I went with the lattern in my hand. You can see me grinning ear to ear.

Then, I met two jie jies who were also playing latterns under the watchful eyes of their parents... just like Daddy and Mummy.

The two jie jies were having traditional latterns, with real candles in them. How envious I was.

But then, true to the saying, the grass is greener on the other side, the younger jie jie said to her parents "Look! Mei mei (that's me) 's lattern has music in it. I also want!".

Hehe...

Wonder what her mother told her? The classic answer, "Never mind, just listen to mei mei's music, can oledi"

We later ventured further down and we met a larger group of people playing latterns. Now, they are more creative. Some used candles only and some other played firecrackers.

Hope you enjoyed your Mooncake Festival, because I certainly did.

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