Thor Fishing

Auntie C loves fishing. She doesn't use a rod or nets, she uses a tin can as a reel and casts her line the way Thor spins his hammer before flinging it. So I call her method of fishing 'Thor fishing'.
Auntie C got Ean interested in fishing.

Ean was responsible for this reel and was told to take it home to get it cleaned to prevent it from rusting.

Auntie C and kids fishing at the jetty

PD Waterfront

A great place for collecting rocks ,

rock lifting

and swaying your arms in the breeze

Worlwide Cultural Swap - packing the parcel

 We used plastic bags and an electric sealer to organise the items

our pressed national flower beach collection

 Gong Xi Fa Cai

I didn't know parcels had to be wrapped in brown paper and tied with a string. Luckily there was a bookshop next to the post office

Uncle Bookshop said he would wrap it up for us.

After weighing, lots of stamp licking and address writing, the parcels were sent of to the other exchangees.

5 inch

JY has been taking modeling classes. Her take on how she went from cake decorating to catwalking here.
My take? Well, let's just say we were faced with a roadblock and for weeks we lay idle in PD. JY dabbled in jewellery making, painting on canvas, shoes and tshirts. Until one day we came across 'Amber Chia's modeling agency' on a billboard in Seremban, we checked out the academy in JayaOne, signed up for the course and started the very next day.

JY had to learn to sashay down a catwalk on 5inch heels. She was given this pair (pic above) and was told to practice 2 hours daily. She was taught proper posture and different catwalk modeling styles.

In no time JY complained of blisters on her feet caused by the PVC straps cutting into her skin.  She needed new shoes.

 I recalled reading an article on this shop in Tmn Midah that made dancing shoes and what could be more comfortable than shoes made for dancing. And should be able to last longer too!
We made a visit one afternoon. JY tried one out and declared them to be the most comfortable shoes she has ever worn.
DH gave the thumbs up and JY got to have her first custom made shoes.

Choosing leather.

JY chose lamb skin in black.

Then choose the type of heels and design.

JY chose thicker heels for more support and a double strap with a covered back for the same reason. Her heels had to be 5inches and strappy for the runway.

                              

Measuring the width of her feet.
JY was told to come back for fitting in a week.
If JY intends to do catwalk modeling professionally she would need 4 pairs of heels in black, white, silver and gold as well as a pair of boots.

Fai's Beach Cleanup

Fai initiated his own beach cleanup.
He piled the litter neatly and was really proud of his efforts.
Thanks for cleaning the beach Fai!

Termites!

Look what greeted us one morning when the kitchen light was left on overnight.

A spider having a morning snack

Close up of the moving carpet

We fed the boys' pet scorpion with the live ones.

Spot the remains of its previous meal - a beetle.
The scorpion didn't get to eat the termites though as it sleeps throughout the day and the birds happily made a meal of the termites

Worldwide Cultural Swap

We are participating in a project that requires us to send parcels of stuff that is unique to our country to other familes  around the world.

Our collection from the beach to be packed into parcels for 5 families in our group.

Pressing flowers from the garden with a little help from Han and KISS

Our National Flower was a must

Included in the parcel, besides, shells, corals and pressed flowers, was a RM1 Malaysian flag bought from a bookshop, a bookmark made by weavers from the MahMeri tribe from GeraiOA, Malaysian currency, stamps, AngPao packets, batik cards, keychain from Sarawak, spices (bunga lawang and cinnamon stick) and a bottle of minyak angin.
Our parcels will be heading to Georgia, California, France, South Africa and UK

For more info on this project, click here