Green n' Red Plant

Oh my, it has been two weeks since the school reopened yet I'm still struggling with the workload! Our very first planting was done during the school holidays but now only I have the time to blog it.

As it was a two-weeks of holidays, we brought the girls to Science Centre in Kuala Lumpur. Please refer to the blog if you missed it :) http://hanyi88.blogspot.com/2012/06/dinosaur-live.html In the meantime, I bought some holiday workbooks for both girls as they requested. Yup, they finished it within the time frame.

Our holiday project was planting!! I, myself was never good in planting so, we decided to plant something easy. Something that grows easily and grows up fast! Growing beans will be fun! As I have said that I'm not a green hand, I'm confused with the beans!! Should we use green or red beans?? Ooppss...there are two kind of red beans! In the end, we bought some green and some red beans, tried to grow both beans.

Provided the girls with some cotton balls, papers, pencil, colour pencil and bottles. Again, we reused the mineral bottles as our pots for the plant :) Drawing pictures of beans, colouring the pictures (indicating green and red beans) and writing down the name and date were fun as they were so excited over the project! Ooppss... wrong spelled name there..hahahaha..now only I realised!

As NingNing is still learning to write, she only drew and coloured the beans!

Both girls placed the cotton balls in the 'pots' while I pasted the picture that they had drawn and coloured. Then, they carefully placed the beans according to the pictures. Watering the plant was the last step.

The next day, the girls were so anxious to take a look at their plants. They were overjoyed when they saw the tiny bud grew out of the beans. Again, they watered the plant and put it aside in the meantime trying to finish their holiday workbooks. On the third day, they were even excited to see their plants growing into seedlings! Simply love hearing them saying "WOW" and laughing away. Then, NingNing tried to give the plants more water in order to let it grow taller. Luckily, SyuenSyuen stopped her and told her that they only need a little of water every day.

So, every day the girls will water the plant and of course all the "WOW" was always been heard and they were so looking forward to take a look at the plant every morning! NingNing was very contented with her green bean plant as it grew really well (she put lots of green bean in!!) hahahaha...Both girls were so happy when their plants grow real tall!! What is there more than seeing both girls grow up happily!!

Compared to the green beans, the red beans grew slower but still it grew! Thus, the girls learned that the green beans grew faster than the red beans and they both needs air, water and sunlight to grow! I was thinking to plant spring onion the next time. Hopefully, it will be a success too.

爱，要及时！

外婆离开了我们已有73天，还是很想念外婆。回想起那段外婆入院的日子，心里还是很心酸。那时，我只知道我不能“遗憾”所以，我择时放下我的工作和孩子，独自一人回家乡。在医院外婆一身扎满了喉管，医生为她注射药物好让外婆好好地休息。每一天来回医院不觉得辛苦，只希望外婆能够好起来。大家都很乐观也互相鼓励及安慰对方，但。。我知道也感觉得到大家都做了最坏的打算！大家一直说服自己，不停地为自己洗脑，不愿让负面的想法及举动出现。在爸妈和亲戚们的脸上，我看到的只有忧伤，但是没有一人落泪，大家都很坚强！

害怕外婆没有动而造成血液不循环所以我和小弟轮流帮外婆按摩和说说话。虽然外婆无法回答我们但是我知道外婆是听得到的。那按摩的感觉我还记得，手脚都是冰冰的，那是有史以来第一次也是最后一次帮外婆按摩！每次按摩心里都在想“不应该是这样的，外婆应该是健健康康享受着按摩，地点和时机都错了！！”很后悔没有好好地为外婆生前做过什么！

刚巧在我和小弟帮外婆按摩的时候，药性过了，外婆的眼睛睁开了一下，手指动了一下，我和小弟很兴奋，立刻跟外婆说“阿嫲, 我是阿钰，我回来看你，你不用怕，没事的”阿嫲看一看我，无法回答无法说话的她，眼泪直流，我再也忍不住了，我也落泪了。。不想让家人，让阿嫲收我影响，我冲去则所，偷偷地哭，收拾好心情再回到ICU看看外婆。外婆尝试把喉管拔掉，妈妈立刻阻止，看了真的叫人鼻酸。

好多年没有和妈妈同睡，但是那几晚我和妈妈都没有睡好。我知道妈妈根本睡不着，我假装睡着了，目的是为了偷偷地看看妈妈是否会偷偷地哭泣。自从外婆进院，妈妈没有睡好也没有吃好。妈妈是我最担心的，怕她生病，怕她撑不下去，怕她伤心过度。妈妈因为超劳过度曾晕倒过一次，还撞伤了头。我一直很留意妈妈的一举一动，一直留意着她的身心。一切都稳定了，我便返回怡保。我天天还是会打电话给妈妈问问外婆的情况但是外婆的病反反复复，时好时坏，大家的心情就像外婆的病情。一时是希望满满的，一时是忧愁不已。

回到怡保的第三天凌晨便接到妈妈的来电，说外婆已经走了。。。一大早回到办公室打点一切大小事务后便带着女儿们搭飞机回家乡。回到家乡已经是晚上11.30但我还是带着女儿们来到外婆的灵前为外婆上一炷香。妈妈爸爸和亲戚们都很好，我也放心了。在这五天内，许多的亲朋戚友都来到。南川师父来到念经说法给我们听，很感谢他们！老公也在外婆出殡的前一晚来到为外婆上一炷香。

火葬后，因需处理工作上的事务，我们没有逗留便返回怡保了。我还是很担心妈妈，妈妈跟外婆的感情最深，妈妈的生活作息都是围绕着外婆。现在，外婆走了，妈妈要如何适应没有外婆的生活？？妈妈除了工作，大部分的时间都是陪外婆吃饭和聊天。现在，妈妈不知所措，午餐时，平时到外婆家吃饭如今家已空荡荡。妈妈似乎迷失了方向。我理解妈妈的心情和感受。因此，我天天打电话给妈妈聊聊天，希望日子久了，事情淡了，妈妈会很好！

外婆就像一棵大树！每年农历新年，大家都会回到这棵大树下乘凉，聊天，吃吃美味的食物。大树把大家的关系拉得紧紧的。如今，大树倒了，往后的日子会是这样？？大家还会一起过农历新年吗？？

爱，要及时！下一分钟不懂会发生什么事情，好好地珍惜每一分每一秒，好好地珍惜身边的每一个人！时间不会为谁而停留，地球还是一样在转，爱一个人，不要只是光说，做一些举动让对方知道你很珍惜他。没空，没时间是借口，时间是死的，人是活的，人安排时间，不是时间安排人的生活作息。不要等到机会没了才后悔，不要让自己的生活里有“遗憾”这两个字！爱，真的要及时！

Dinosaur Live!

As it is school holidays and since our two girls love dinosaur so much, we decided to make a trip to the Dinosaur Live at Pusat Sains Negara, Kuala Lumpur. To make our trip memorable, we purposely chose to go there on NingNing's 3rd birthday!!

We had a two-days one-night trip. As we just needed a room to sleep so, this time we decided to stay in a budget hotel, Juliet Hotel costed RM98! The hotel was okay, at least it is clean! We had our dinner with a couple of friends and of course, the foods were delicious.

We woke up early the next day and we had very delicious nasi lemak! Missing the sambal already!!! Hopefully to go there again for the nasi lemak though it was a bit expensive, RM6.50 per plate! After the breakfast, we went to Pusat Sains Negara at around 9 a.m..and yes, we were the early birds, there were plenty of parking lots. But, by 11 a.m. the parking lots were full, with both side of the road fully parked by big and small cars!

We bought the family package, with two adults and two children aged between 3-6 costed RM42. It's really worthwhile, we spent about six hours there! I love the coral section, it's BEAUTIFUL! NingNing loves the aquarium section, with big fishes. Before heading to the dinasour, there were many sections for us to do experiment. It was fun! The sad part was seeing some children who doesn't know how to cherish public facility. Well, it was a perfect time to show my girls that we should take care of public facility. Here are some snapshot of it.

I think that my hubby loves the IT section the most! Seeing those old IT stuff amazed me too! Hehehehe...especially the BIG MOUSE!!

My favourite section is the music section, especially these stepping music with lights!

Then, we headed to the Dinosaur Live! In facts, I was mentally prepared as I knew that some children in there might cry and of course, this made NingNing felt scared and cry too! SyuenSyuen enjoyed looking at the dinosaur, seeing them moving with very real complexion and movement! Oh yeah, I remember vividly those eyelids that moving up and down, with the eye-ball looking so real! Amazing!! Well, this exhibition will be held until 31st of July 2012. For those who haven't visit, it's really worthwhile! Here's a few snapshot of it.

Then, we headed to the playground. We spent around 45 minutes there.

After that, we went to do some craft works. And of course, the theme is dinosaur.

The outdoor section is the Biodiversity Area and the insect area. Butterflies were everywhere. The girls were excited to see all the butterflies flying around them. Great experience for them!

We spent about 6 hours at Pusat SainsNegara before we headed home and had a little birthday celebration for NingNing at McD. It's was indeed a great day!