Discovering Playgrounds

We discovered another nice well maintained playground, slightly further than the one that we went last week. We took her there to unwind after a whole afternoon of homework. Oh talking about homework, she has lots from her mental arithmetic class. I'm thinking twice if she should continue. Last week's homework was 5 pages of sums, with 48 equations in a page, total 240 equations, to be completed over a week. *PENGSAN*

Kids are kids, they need to play and let off the energy pent up inside. My girl has lots and lots of energy and we can't keep up with her. She's either physically active or verbally.  She can talk, she can yak and she can complain. She's complaining there's no place at home to run and she's right. Though we have a fairly big area but a home is not suitable for kid to run to their hearts content right ?

So, playground is still the best place. We took a walk uphill to the playground and along the way, the residents made us of the common area to plant some herb gardens, bananas, nangka and jambu. Very nice.

Armed with our sunnies, we walked uphill. errr.. i do look very big here...

Ms clumsy tots tripped and fell, and hubs was fast enough to catch a pic

 

mou see... mou see. just tighten the shoes a bit

 

see the bananas ? nice to be close to nature ya ? macam kat kampung.

 

amber . . oh amber.. yr moustache ruined a pretty picture.

 

the playground was at a housing area 700ft above sea level, adjacent to the Ulu Langat Forest Reserve. The air was crisp and cooling, plenty of nice houses here too.

 

she played on her own..

 

aahhh.. she's a happy gal

 

and we were happy too...we need some fresh air now and then, a change from our daily routine.

We'll be going outdoors with her more frequent. :D

Bukit Antarabangsa - Lightning Never Strikes Twice ?

Take a look at the picture below. On the left, taken last wk of Dec 08 and on the right, taken last week, ie 1st week of March 09.



Just when the cabinet announced RM70million approved for repair works and strengthening slopes at site of disaster, residents there sighed a big relief. Although I don't live there and I am not an affected resident, above right is what I see NOW, at site and I AM WORRIED.

- the magic blue sheets washed away. Scary huh ? I know, it takes time to rebuild the slopes, but can't RM70million buy you some sort of protection to the current bare slopes ? Mind you, it's raining cats and dogs every other day. Untimely April showers ?

- hardly a handful of people manning the site, unlike the early weeks where meals were provided round the clock.

- check out PT's blog, what's priority to residents and affected homes, may not be priorities to others.

I hope something is done soon before tragedy strikes again. Lightning never stikes twice but what about landslides and landslips ?