My Heart, My Soul & My Love

    My Adam

    My Mia

    My Maryam

Eid Mubarak!

Hope it is still not to late to wish you all Eid Mubarak! This year's Eid we have additional member celebrating with us, our princess, Maryam Amelia.

Back to nature in secluded Janda Baik

We love nature and whenever we have the opportunity especially during weekends, we will escape the hectic life in city & spend our time together peacefully in places like beaches, rivers, islands, waterfalls etc. Recently we went to Janda Baik, a beautiful place with luscious landscape just outside Kuala Lumpur. It is approximately 1.5 hours by car and we stayed in D'Ark Resort. Upon arriving there, we were entertained with a gorgeous scenery along the way and when arrived there this lovely river awaits us right in front of the resort! It is relatively shallow and just perfect for paddling for the kids.

Breathtaking view as the background of the resort.

Clean, tidy and well maintain lawn at the entrance of the resort.

We came here without any prior booking (last minute decision..hehe). We were lucky that there were still available rooms & to top it up which was the best thing happened, our room was upgraded to executive suite! What a perfect start! In the picture below, our room is at the top level, the only stairs seen in the picture leads to our room. The view from the room is just lovely.

As usual, the kids love paddling in the water. Both of them are quite independent especially Adam. We only supervise them from distance.

While the kids enjoying themselves paddling in the water, I was bbq-ing the fresh fish that we bought from the local people nearby the resort. Yup, it's scrumptious! The kids love it when they came up to the riverbank for food.

Peacefulness...

My precious Adam and Mia.

Adam"s 5th. Birthday Celebration | Legoland, Malaysia

Last month we went to Legoland in Nusajaya, Johor to celebrate Adam's 5th. birthday. Since it's not that far from Johor Bahru which about 10-15 minutes drive, we decided to stay in Pulai Spring Resort. I'm so glad that Adam really had a great time there! Happy belated birthday son, we love you so much!

LOVE

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Me time with the kids

I hardly be in the frames with my kids and also my wife, that's why these pictures are so precious to me. Thanks to my wife for capturing these special moments of mine with the kids during our recent holiday in Langkawi Island.











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Vacation in Langkawi Island

Some pictures taken during our recent vacation in Langkawi Island, Malaysia to celebrate our 6th. anniversary. Yup, it has been six wonderful years with 2 gorgeous kids!

Happy Weekends!

May you have a wonderful weekends with your loved ones!

Our Love

P/s: Apologise for the lack of update in my blog. Been busy since we came back to Malaysia for good.

Fruit Picking in Millet Farm Centre, Oxfordshire

I think everybody loves spring! The weather is lovely generally (even though it is not always the case here in the UK because it's cloudy and raining most of the time*sigh*), fruits are riping and flowers are blossoming. One of our favourite activities besides having picnic in park around London, we'd also love to go for fruit picking. I think the fruit picking season begins with berries especially strawberry and raspberry and then in July normally the apple are gonna start to ripe.

About a week ago we went for strawberry picking in Millet Farm Centre in Oxfordshire. So that particular weekend I rented a car because that farm is only about 1.5 hours drive from our home, perfect for day trip. We got up early and packed up some food. The kids were excited especially Adam (of course!). We were not that lucky that day because the weather was not that good, cloudy most of the day and raining once in a while. But that did not stop us from enjoying our time there.

Millet Farm Centre is located in a big area in Frilford in Oxfordshire. It has extensive range of facilities such as farm zoo, fishing pond, playground, garden centre, craft gallery and restaurant which make it a perfect family weekend getaway. Oh the car park is also free! =D

This is a gazebo looking over the fishing pond.

The kids having fun in the playground.

This is how the strawberry farm looks like.

Adam knows well which strawberry to be picked out, the "nyummy"licious radiant red berries!

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We stopped by at the farm shop to buy some fresh fruits and organic products before going back home.

Alhamdulillah, we had great fun together. At the end of the day, we managed to bring back 2 full boxes of strawberries. Actually there were 3 but it was just so hard for us especially the kids to resist the delicious and fresh strawberries, so we ate 1 box during the picking activities...hehe...We will definitely come back here again for the apple picking season, most probably next month. Weehoo!

My Surprised Birthday Vacation

As mentioned in my previous post, it was my birthday last month & my wife surprised me with a lovely vacation which I only knew the destination when we arrived at the airport. Yeah, it was a secret! I was very excited when I knew that it was Majorca, a beautiful island located in Mediterranean sea in Spain. I was also quite lucky because my birthday fell during the long Easter Holiday & my wife planned it perfectly for us to spend a relaxed & enjoying week of vacation in that island.

We took midnight flight & it took just over 2 hours to reach Majorca. Then from the airport, there was a shuttle bus to the hotel waiting for us. The journey on the road took about another hour & the kids slept most of the time through out the whole journey. So we spent the first day pretty much on travelling. The hotel we stayed in was in Alcudia, an old town with some Roman influence which can be seen from the buildings around. The town itself is not that big and you can see a lot of people walking & cycling to move about in the area.

Oh before I forgot, this entry is gonna be loaded with lots of pictures because I took hundreds of pictures during this trip. It's just very hard for me to choose and those in this entry are some of my favourite ones. Another thing, some of these pictures were taken with my new camera, a birthday gift from my wife =) (another present is a gorgeous hand-knitted cardigan!!). She knew that I need a back up camera (just a point & shoot camera) especially when we are travelling with the kids. It is quite an uphill task for me to take pictures by holding my DSLR on one hand while the other holding the kids especially Adam & some other bags, toys etc. She bought me S95 which works like wonders! Very compact, practical (can use with one hand because it's light) & yet produces great quality pictures, almost as good as those produced by DSLR. I bet it might be hard for you to know which pictures are from my S95...heh...I think that's enough of me talking, hope you enjoy the pictures!

The beautiful sunrise at the beach

White sandy beach that stretches for miles

The jetty for boat landing to pick up passengers to go to few other beaches on the island

Our main activity there was just relaxing on the beach & joined the kids playing with the sand.

Just look at how happy that little cheeky girl...

She even slept with her swimming suit because she was just too tired of being cheeky...hehe...

We love the seafood there especially the paella. However it was quite pricey there.

One of the day, Adam wanted to get on a boat, so we took the boat service from the jetty to go to Formentor beach which is approximately more than an hour journey.

This is the Formentor beach, Adam's favourite.

He loved playing in the little pools between the rocks.

On other day, we went to Alcudia Old Town where you can see some of the remaining of ancient Roman building like this fortress that surrounds a church.

Amongst all, I think I like this picture the most. I just feel so happy seeing my family having a great time together while we were there. A great moment that we will cherish.

Finally, thank you so much to my ever so loving wife for the surprised wonderful birthday vacation. It's definitely my best birthday celebration so far & I truly loved it so much. Love you so much!