Miki invades Penang – Pesta Flora Pulau Pinang & Botanical Garden

Looking at my picture albums I realized that we have done so many activities in our spare time but none has been featured in this website. I was browsing my own blog just now and felt really nice having to walk in our own memory lane, so I guess despite some stories being long over-due I would still write about all of them anyway…

OK not all… just Miki related activities… Mummy-Daddy related activities tak payah la noo? haha..

Anyway, comparing to his parents’ childhood, Miki sure has one that is very interesting. He gets to go to so many places and see great many things, no wonder he is so smart unlike me when I was his age…
Miki is a cute IPhone -tapping, Youtube-subscribing, nature-loving kid that hangs out by the pool while  I was a comot hingus-dripping, teddybear-playing, dramaswasta-watching kid that hangs out by the pokok jambu playing with dirt… His Daddy on the other hand, has no memories what so ever about when he was 6 years a below. Lagi dasyat siot!

Several weeks ago, we went to Penang Botanical Garden. Although my family lives in Penang most of our lives and I could have sworn I fed the notorious Botanical Garden monkeys when I was a kid, but once I was there with my husband and son, aku pulak yang hilang ingatan tak ingat lansung apa-apa pasal garden tu…

Anyway, while we were there, they were having Penang Flora Fest 2010, and although the fest was nothing compared to Putrajaya’s Flora Fest or MAHA but it was nice nonetheless.

I saw the most glorious bonsai of plumeria (dwarf frangipani) in my entire plant-noticing life. Apparently there was  a competition on bonzai plants of all sorts…

Dwarf plumeria that’s not so dwarf I am telling ya…..

That’s one huge bonzai plant eh?

Wow.. I didnt know raspberry can go through bonsaification? heheehehehe

Above pic is also of something new to the big bad jakun me… it’s a pot of mixed carnivorous plants that you could keep to feast on insects in your home. I could have bought this if only Azman gave the slightest encouraging look at me but he didnt because HE WAS CHASING THAT LIL MONSTER MIKI ALL OVER THE ISLAND!!!

Miki was totally anak kambing terlepas kandang. And anak kambing yang lapar ice-cream pulak tu… First he chose an RM2 ice-cream only to let it drip a few drops on his hands and he started to go-  “eww ewwww menitik!! menitikkk!!” sambil tergedik-gedik kegelian..eiii aiskrim pun ko geli? Masa ko kencing pancut kat carpet Mummy haritu ko tak geli!??????

Then he threw the RM2 ice -cream on the ground.

Don’t let me start with  – “When Mummy was your age Miki……..”. Well even if I did he wouldnt bother to understand, that’s why he screamed for ANOTHER ICE-CREAM!!!!

*stress sampai beruban*

To distract him, we showed Miki these:-

monkeys at Penang Botanical Garden, But he was more interested in this:-

NO! Not the macha in blue! THE TRAM! Miki has this weakness towards vehicles of all sorts, he is kinda obsessed with them and given a chance would’n mind riding on the RM2 per pax tram 30 times in 30 days in a row.

See? Tergedik-gedik kegembiraan…

The tram took us around the aged and magnificently beautiful park! But to tell you the truth, if you appreciate nature like we do, the tram wouldn’t do the garden any justice. You have to walk and let your feet touch the grass in hilly side, touch the cool refreshing waterfall and smell the monkey poop.. NO I MEAN THE FLOWERS!

I don’t know whats the name of this tree.. but it’s weird and cool!

Happy Miki and Daddy

After the tram ride, like I said just now, Miki wanted to ride on it again and again… When we said no, he remembered his earlier meroyan about the spoiled ice-cream and wanted a replacement.

See below picture how he was was terkinja-kinja tanpa kesabaran menunggu ais-krimnye yang kedua…

Yay! This time only RM1 teeth-rottening treat in a cup!

Love you spoiled lil Miki… I’ll continue with Penang trip part two.