司马 stayca @ JB

while driver 司马烟头 (si-bei-yan-tao) and co-driver 司马乌绿 (si-bei-wu-lv) were strategically navigating the traffic at woodlands checkpoint in the early morning at 5.30am, 司马彡 (si-bei-san) and 司马甲丙乙丙 (si-bei-acbc = si-bei-act-cute-buay-cute) and the two little newly minted 司马s (yet to confirm their names) were happily posing for our first pic for this trip...  

cleared custom within an hour and by 6.15am, we were having breakfast @ Ah Piaw Wanton Mee Restoran... luv the teh but very much prefer the wanton mee just opposite home sweet home... 

purposely drove to KSL just to use the supposedly cleaner toilet... NOPX, it wasn't worth the RM$5 at all.. 

and chanced upon this 楼盘 which triggered my 疯言疯语 again... wahahaha... 😂😂😂

CY did his research and off to Giant which opens at 8am we went... we arrived at 7.50am and while waiting for the shutters to be fully up, we joined a few locals in their morning walk AROUND the carpark... wahahaha 

such cute trolley to the delights of the little 司马s and they were free to use with a fully refundable deposit of RM$20... 

we had the whole supermarket to ourselves at 8am... due to the exchange rate (S$1 = RM$3.26) advantage, it was really a case of cheap cheap cheap cheap cheap... 其实没东西需要买，但还是买了这个 那个... 

joke of the trip.... i tot i was buying Wrigley chewing gums, it was actually just mint candy... and i only found out when i very proudly gave it to the chuas, told 蔡妈咪 不可以吞哦, then angela announced, "姐姐，这是糖!" ... 😂😂😂

i also 扛了 10kg 的 kibbles 回来 cos it was just so freaking cheap at RM$84... 😂😂😂

明知道隔天就得开始减肥， 还是忍不住买了这四包 chocolate... =S... ntuc 最便宜时也卖一个 $4.50 (minimum 2), shopee 卖 $3.50 (minimum 10)... 这里卖一个 RM$6.88 (S$2.11)... 不买是笨蛋... 😂😂😂 

back to KSL to make spects （my #1 must do in JB) and while waiting for the spects to be ready... teos went for their pedicure 

while joyce & i went shop shop around... saw a 大耳熊... as usual, nothing needed to buy yet still ended up buying these 3 packs of snacks at RM$6.70 (S$2.06) because they were cheap cheap cheap at the DIY shop which joyce was doing her shopping in... 😅😅😅

spects #1 with blue + reading lens @ RM$223 (S$68.40) for viewing of endless video clips on facebook & youtube @ home sweet home... 😜

spects #2 with reading lens for screen work @ work... free because 1-for-1 promotion with spects #1

sunglasses #1 @ RM$98 (S$30) for all my sunny gai gais... 😍😍😍

sunglasses #2... free because 1-for-1 promotion with sunglasses #1... but i charge her $16.50... 😂

collected all 4 spects & sunglasses in less than an hour... super worthy buy... less than S$100 for all 4... 😍😍😍

then off for lunch @ 北京楼 that came up to RM$760 (S$233)... we 大吃特吃... 吃港式光面小乳猪，吃爱尔兰烤鸭，吃干贝鱼翅，吃芥末虾球 等等 等等... 

FINALLY it was 3-ish pm and we could check in to our 3-bedroom apartment @ Princess Cove that cost S$157 per night... 

Joyce & I took a room with queen size bed each while the teos squeezed onto the king size bed in the master bedroom because the little ones love to 挤挤乐 with their papa mama and refused to share bed with joyce & I...

took a short rest and back to KSL for the 3rd time, this time for the night market that's only opened on Monday (my #2 must do in JB) ... got caught in Ai Ling's video 'extorting' cash from joyce... i had went on this trip without any ringgit in cash... 😂😂😂

people mountain people sea ah !!!... i had fun 东看看 西看看 东买买 西买买... 

we even bought durians but had to finish it by the roadside as it wasnt allowed in our apartment...  😂😂😂

pop-popping with the gals... 

my #3 must do in JB was to eat LOK LOK !!! 

only regret; the food didn't taste as fantastic after 2 hours of 

兜兜转转 and there was so much food that we had to play 终极密码 to 'force - feed' each other... 

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THE NEXT DAY 

bak kut teh for breakfast 

so happy to see the pink in my hair... the wonders of the sun @ JPO 😂😂😂

had planned to buy this buy that since this year's bonus & connect were good good very good... but nothing at Michael Kor & Kate Spade called out to me successfully... the queue at Coach & Gucci were also too long for my liking...  

瞎逛之下买的必须品

pampered ourselves with Godiva before heading for the jam across the causeway back to home sweet home... which came up 2 hours ++ only, lesser than expected and i managed to get home with enough time to last minute clear all that i had to do in time for work tomorrow... 😂😂😂

we formed the 司马 family during the endless nonsense chat in the long drive to kukup super long long ago and had our first 司马 holiday in 2008 to Phuket & Bangkok ... let's not wait another 14 years for the next holiday oh... =) 

Ahh! Alien

my 蔡啊妹 aka 蔡三宝 had officially launched Booming Cherries a year ago and for the whole of this year, together with her team of teachers, has been conducting drama lessons in many preschools... she designs her own lessons, trains her teachers and prints, cuts & laminates all teaching resources all on her own... 

it has also been in her plan to produce a children's theatre show and i was so impressed that despite her busyness, this ambitious plan materialized with her hard & heart work and a bonus luck for having an equally amazing crew team to assist her... 😍😍😍

i think this is such a cool & pretty idea to section off the part of the black box that was not in use... luv the idea of having the audiences seated on the carpets too

to reduce cost, many things were borrowed... the swing chair was from uncle yc, front desk deco, lace curtains and centre round carpet were from home sweet home, lanterns were from school etc 

DIY spaceship constructed by her handy boyfriend who also took leave from work to be the soundman of the show... 👍👍👍

my most most most important job was to order lunch for every one and second most most important job was to make sure that the art materials needed to make this super duper cute spaceship with an one-eye alien was sufficient for every one who came to enjoy the show... 

turnout was lower than ideal given that it was Booming Cherries' first production... given that marketing & sale of ticket started only one month prior... given that many many were travelling this dec and given that many many more were busy with xmas prep or xmas gathering during this period of time... 

but i'm very confident that the next show will be a success when given ample time to do the marketing and sale of tickets because Angela CAN WRITE... the storyline IS GOOD, the cast IS GOOD and the support team IS GOOD too... and i'm not saying this just because she's my sister... i have high standard for paying tickets one oh... 

this team of amazing cast was so confident, so adaptable, and so creative on stage... i learnt so much just from observing them rehearse, modify their script and even change their dance moves minutes before the shows and during the shows!!! 

i didn't really understand what was 'Interactive Theatre Production' until i watched this show...  

the kids really had fun interacting and playing with the cast as part of the show... and Anson volunteered for the skipping segment during the second show... 

Ahh! Alien lasted between 50 minutes to an hour, depending on the creativity of the cast... 😂😂😂... 

then it was followed by 20+ minutes of craft time where everyone got to decorate a spaceship with an alien to bring home...

The highlight was being able to take pics with the cast... A big big THANK YOU to Julia, Cy and Yuan for buying tickets to come watch the show with their kiddos... 😍😍😍 

蔡弟弟们 & 蔡妈咪 came too... she was tearing before the show started... she was very very proud of 蔡三宝's  厉害-ness.. 

and we had fun taking pics with the elf-ears and fancy headgear that the crew was wearing...  

i asked mummy if she wanna take the headgear down after the pic or to wear it home... she chose to wear it home... wahahahahaa

A thank you message from 蔡三宝 to 蔡大宝 to end this post... 😍😍😍