Birthday Month | Tiffz | Navy | Macallum | Gia Xiang | Handmade Notebook | Cars Cleaning | Spirited Away | PS5 & Switch - Plate Up !

Brayden 8Y9M13D

Bevlynn 4Y6M6D

This month is Jiu Mu's and my birthday month. 

First day, we celebrated Jiu Mu's birthday at Tiffz Coffee Gallery, Promenade. The place was a little difficult to find under the rain, but you have to look out for a back entrance to the building. The carbonara, waffle, pizza, burger were delicious. What stands out was their coffee art, each time different. They had won in some competition for the coffee art it seems. 

Next day, my family had planned a way~~~~ advance birthday celebration for me at Gia Xiang All Seasons Farlim. We were seated at the upper floor. We ordered many dishes; fish, chicken, pork, vegetable, etc... we cleared all the dishes especially the fish soup base. The bill came as a surprise. It was less than RM700 for two tables.

We decided to go to the nearby Coffee Bean to continue our celebration. We sang the birthday song, Bev and Bray blew the candles.  

On another day, Ann wanted to celebrate with me as well. So she asked me for lunch at Navy Specially Coffee at Arena Curve. The food were well portioned and taste was quite unique. A chat with Ann always calms me. In a short time, we spoke of family, children, school, work and retirement. There's always so much we can talk about. 

Next, we had invited Kai Mama to lunch at Macallum Connoisseurs Coffee. We were late to lunch, yet Kai Mama came much later. She went to the wrong location. She remembered the old location for Macallum and went there to find out that it has now been relocated. They re-open the restaurant with a different theme and decoration. The children loved the pasta, cakes, mushroom soup. The weekday lunch set comes with a good cup of coffee.

More activities as a family: 

1.  Handmade crafted notebook. Sea theme. Bev and Bray put on the sand and sea shells, painted it, finally putting their own personalized names on the book. They loved this activity. 

2. Cars cleaning. The children loved playing with water, bubble soap and climbing onto the car. They also played some water balloons. 

3. Watching Spirited Away. The children did not want to watch at first. They said "Mommy you have told the story to us, we already know the ending" I insisted in watching the movie together. In the end, after watching, they loved it sooo much. They asked lots of questions about the storyline, what were the characters doing... They remembered the characters names. I really loved this story growing up and I hope they would too.

(They loved the dustmite; especially when the dustmite where pretending to have coal fall on them so that they do not have to work)

4. Playing PS5 and Switch. We played the four players Plate Up! It is an interesting yet stressful game when the team consists of a 4 yr old, an 8 yr old and 2 adults. 

The 4 yr old started very well with some simple instructions - just talk to the customers. Then after a few games, she started to explore other roles in the kitchen on her own and took other other ppl's tasks (more like blocking everyone's way). She then found an interesting cleaning the floor job however she was too slow and when the floor got messed up too much, she gave up and went to clear the rubbish bin which became her favorite task. In one of the game, she happily glitched herself out of the building and got trapped in one corner, she was happy at first because there was no stress being there. A few moments later, she felt left out. Then, she got into action again. This time she use the phone to call many customers to come continuously. This made all other players panic and started to yell for her to stop. She felt misunderstood and decided to rebel by stop playing.

The 8 yr old was very active in giving opinions on how to play the game and suggesting for himself to be the chef to cook. After awhile, he got so good in his cooking, he waited for everyone to finish and watch when everyone struggles. He offered to help. But the little 4 yr old started messing up the pattern and he got flustered. Finally, when the 4 yr old made the calls with tens of customers turning up at the door all at once, he panicked and started to cook more.... but when we lost, he cried.

Adult 1 - RED : Started giving instructions even though didn't know the game too well. 

Adult 2 - GREEN : Listened to all instructions. Only focused on given tasks. In the end of the game, felt really stressed from playing the game.