malaysia toll is actually doing good job improving the highwaya nd facillity. the R&R area is evolving to nice, clean place for people to rest and relax after long journey of driving. Tapah stop is one of the favourite stop place for journey south to KL. another place is newly discover is bukit gantang stop.(journey to north) they also sell fruits like jambu air madu and other tropica fruits. the atmosphere at night is very romatic with lights. also very windy there.

we have pleasure to be invited to the restaurant 282m above sea level to have lunch... spectacular view, overseeing petronas twin tower and other building/landmark of KL. Being the heart of malaysia, various company have their prestigious building tall and high up. here the restaurant is revolving. so i think it takes more than an hour to return to the same spot again. The buffet foos has malaysia food speciality, with the roti canai, and rendang and steam nasi pulut being the best. we enjoyed the food while feast our eyes on picturesque Kuala Lumpuroverlooking. Celine is probably too young to enjoy the scenery..haha..

KL Tower is actually 421m high.. higher than the 2 tall building that i ever been to! Compare to eiffel tower, which is 300m high, we have a bird view of paris city on top of the tower. Another tall building that i have been is the Munster in Ulm, Germany, the tallest church in the world, which is 181m high.

it is nice to be still able to approach the cows in such close distance.. that cow also very clever. it moves closer to us to be in the picture..haha.. it has lots of flies on its body. the tail is busy keeping the flyies away..haha..good chance for celine to learn the word cow and grass.

we have always want to plant a tree since celine was born, but were too busy when she was still a little baby. recently we reimplant the idea again and got a mango plant in the jelutong market. the tauke says it is "jukanan" mango.... very nice... so we give it a try.

on evening, we were very excited and plant the mango tree in our backyard.. here's celine also participating in the process. to plant a tree is easy, but to make sure the tree really gorw strong and bear fruits, it requires patient and also hardwork. just like raising a kids, or working. no short cut. so now we have additional interest to work on during our leisure time. exercise with celine and water the mango tree.   

it was a nice day. we decided to bring celine for a walk in botenical garden. coincidently we met chloe and mummy. So we let the 2 little girls play together and walk. it is really sweet to see them hold hand, everything is so pure and sincere.

the greenary of botenical garden provide us a good place to relax from stress and tension of life. celine was very excited running around in botenical gardern, chasing after the dragonfly while as enjoy the flower and trees and the chipping of the bird.

we saw monkeys running around and try to take pictures of ithem. Celine was walking towards one monkey and suddenly the monkey very fiercly moved towards her, but luckily papa grabbed celine up and scared the monkey away. naughty you monkey...

so we end our weekend outing after the botenical walk...

 

Children always loves playground, full of fun things and other friends.

I still remember Celine first attempt on the slides. her facial expression was funny-fear+excited. of course we help her to slide down gradually. eventually she learn the technique to slide herself down without our assistance.  Now that everytime she saw the slides, she will request to slide down on the slides.

second thing she learn is the swing. At fist, mummy carry her to sit the sing. eventually she saw other children was swinging independently, she also wanna give it a try. So i allowed her, but holding her hand to make sure she dun lost balance. Now that she can sit well on the swing, she will lean her body forward and backward to make the swing sway. Clever girl. But of course, still need mama supervision.

third things celine wanna learn now is to sit on the " jongkang-jongkit" but of course, this will require another party to paly with her.  i think she is wandering why sometimes she is high and other fren is low, and vice versa.

Read about a book today on children's sensor development. it is important for a baby to learn on balancing. swing and slides in the playground is one of the tools for them to learn to balance themself, and get adventurous.

"mirror mirror on the wall... who is the fairest of the all?"

My little princess playing with the mirror in Island Plaza shopping complex. Looking at her kissing herself through the mirror...

celine found a pair of black spec that suits her... and another "tortoise" helmet. With simple tools and toy, we fill the house with laughters.

recently notice that celine has engineering tendency of analyzing how things work and get things fixed. Probably the genetic from mama and papa... haha..

 

Now that celine can walk pretty well, we can bring her to most of the places we go. recently we attend wedding functions in cititel and equitorial, Celine was happily running around and making new friends with other little boy and little girl of her same age. i notice that she is pretty easy to social among the toddlers. So time to consider to send her to the nursery class for her to learn more things and mix around with her peer group.

To be happy in life, one of the things that a person must have
is a sense of gratitude and appreciation for others and things.
A person with gratitude and appreciation feels thankful for the
things she has, e.g. good health, loving family, comfortable
home, friends, and the love and kindness she receives from
others.

A person with a great sense of gratitude and who feels blessed
in life is always a happy person. She has a positive outlook,
love and respect for her own self and others. She is a caring
and compassionate person.  And she is liked and loved by her
friends and everyone around her.

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"Inspirational Quotations - Gratitude"
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Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you
and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those
around you.
- Eileen Caddy (American Spiritual Writer)

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent
of all the others.
- Marcus T. Cicero  (c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, 
Politician)

Gratitude is a two fold love -- love coming to visit us, and
love running out to greet a welcome guest.
- Henry Van Dyke (1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman 
and Writer)

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as
parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which
secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on
what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the
abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends,
work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us
pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we
experience Heaven on earth.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach (American Author)

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
- Carter, Elizabeth

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in
your life actually attracts more of the things that you
appreciate and value into your life.
- Northrup Christiane (American Medical Doctor)