Star Cruise Libra : our first cruise! (Part 4)

Obviously it was not a nightmare, so I was like a walking zombie in the morning, while packing for the check out yet trying to keep the mood alive. Since the rings won't be back, no matter how much tears, let's not kill the entire trip because of this.

(Courtesy from 30quotes.com)

As much as I want to forget this trip, I still would like to pass on some final tips about the cruise for you, though. On the last day, the reception counter will be opened from 6 am onwards for you to proceed checkout and clear your bills. This is to cater the massive number of patrons on board hence, either you get up early and join the queue or, what I chose was to do an express checkout!  Just bring your Access Card and your valid credit card the day before the last day, the reception will accumulate your spendings so far and ask for an addition 25-30% deposit on top of your already spent amount. They will swipe your card and any excess will be refund to you 15-25 days later. Through your credit card bank of course.

If you don't mind to swipe extra beforehand, I will strongly suggest you opt for this express checkout to save your time and all the hassle. Of course, you must keep track of your spending so that you can check your bill easily.

Nevertheless, after they swipe your card a night before, you can still receive the final bill in the morning of the last day for confirmation if your spending is correct. If there is discrepancies, you can always check again with the reception.

Passport can be collected from the concierge after your breakfast and upon settlement of your bill. Simple as that!

Final pictures on board from the gala dinner. The only ones I have in my phone though.

We left the cruise and rush to the parking because we were super hot from the scorching sun. Thank god only my rings were lost, the car was safely park in the parking. So parking so quite safe though at your own risk. LOL!

Then we moved on to find our hotel for our last night in Penang. Yes, even the #ilostmyrings story, I still have another night to go before I am able to crawl to my comfortable bed and cry again. Sigh.

Our hotel is quite near the port with a very small entrance. You may missed it on your first round, so be prepared to drive around the alley for another round to spot the entrance. We opted something new and cheap with breakfast :Reunion Heritage Hotel from booking.com

If you are coming with friends and young couple, this is quite a nice option. But I have a #rascaltoddler with me and my mom, so deluxe suite is located upstairs with a super steep stairs, so this is quite difficult for us. This hotel is refurbished from an old kapitan terrace building in Penang. No lifts! Obviously!

I got a few pictures from the Google Image below. As I say, this will be perfect for friends or young couple. The room is very nice as well. 

The entrance. Obviously small. There is public parking which needs parking coupon from local Council and coupon only available from certain vendors or convenience store around. But you can always refer to the hotel as they have quite an excellent customer service I must say!

But being the hotel guest, you are allow to park for free at the car wash opposite the hotel. My car needed a wash so with a simple polish and neo clean for the interior it only cost me RM55. Excellent so though it's free my service fe the car wash was even better because I engaged their service! Lol! 

The steep stair case that I meant

 This is exactly how our room looks like! 

So, with an energy that never last kind or #rascaltoddler the stairs inside the room was a damn exciting toy to explore but gave both my mom and me a heart attack!

The room came with a small kitchen area that have sink and mini fridge. What this picture didn't capture was the cup and saucer provided for you coffee and tea. It was like an antique chinas! Love it!


The bathroom is the highlight for me. Everything is very antique look!

After refreshing ourselves, we went out for food hunt! How can you no way local food if you come to Penang, you tell me!

But Penang basically is a very busy island itself and parking space is scarce. So, here the tips for you if you are to visit Penang via self drive. Get a hotel that provide you free parking facility! After the drive from KL to Penang, I bet you do not want to drive around Penang looking for parking space when you do your food hunt!? Right?! Easy lah, use Grab or Uber lor!

Coincidentally, it was still a fasting month when I visited so Uber had this promo for all your rides for the day. We just took the foldable stroller with us and hop onto Uber for our food hunt.

Damn convenient because we just need to hop on and off without worrying where to park our car and best, with the promo, all our rides for that day were free!!!! Yes, FREE!!

Went to queue for the best cendol lor at Jalan Penang/ Jalan Besar. Just Waze can sampai already. Some say not nice some say nice. I just kind of like it, so queue la

Then we took the Uber to this Upside Down Museum, since we still have a couple hours to kill before our energy totally depleted for the day! LOL.

It cost about RM24 for Malaysian and kids below 4 is free. You are required to take off your shoes and placed in the locker. Don't worry about not able to take pictures because it says "museum". The place provide service to take pictures from your phone for free. And they took many many many for you. Here's all I have in phone. Some are duplicates though! Pardon my fat legs lar, I didn't expect to take pictures lehh so I dress as little as the public permits for fat people because the weather was so hot!

This is one of the picture she listen and join us doing crazy stuff! 

Spider melody

Sorry if my fats cause an eye sore to you. ROFL

That's a wrap for this super long delayed post about our first cruise guys. Hope you do read from Part 1 to this part. Obviously very long winded from me. 

My last verdict, despite #ilostmyrings story which indirectly caused the trip to cost me a bomb, this cruise is pretty fun experience for first timer. Will I try another cruise again? I think I will but definitely not choose a cheap cruise. You'll get what you paid for so if you are expecting a super good cruise, you should expect to pay a premium price. Though it will take me another few years to join a new cruise mainly because need to wait my #rascaltoddler to grow up abit for her to join more activities on board, and should definitely book another cruise with elders in the family. All food and activities are already planned for, so it is such a fun family vacation I must say.

Hope my tips and reviews give you some insight of this cruise. It is not a bad choice after all!

Pen off for now! 

Star Cruise Libra - our first cruise! (Part 3) & #ilostmyrings

Image courtesy from Google Image

Tears tears go away

You remind me of my pain

You remind me of my past

You remind me of my rings

(Poem originated from https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/tears-tears-go-away - with my own twist)

Now comes to Part 3 / Day 3 of the trip also #ilostmyrings day

Chinese breakfast on Day 2 was disappointing so we were smart enough not to repeat mistakes twice. And since dinner from western menu was superb that night, we decided to go for western breakfast. The buffet spread did not have much variety but they cooked their egg to perfection. There will be an egg order chit for you on the table so you can choose type of egg you would like to have and have it as many as you want. Not Asian enough so I didn't take picture of my breakfast la. 

Vaguely remembered, we went to the pool just me and my girl having a blast with the cooling water. No, she had a blast while I eyed her like an eagle. I'm usually not superstitious but not sure why that morning I had this weird feeling. Unfortunately there was no designated kids pool. On the pool deck there were 2 adult pool which was 1 meter & 1.5/2 meters depth. Both pool have a higher beam which the water level only at your ankle level for adults. That's where younger kids can play. But there is no safety rail from this area into the deeper pool. So you can imagine with an active toddler who loves water play so much, all my energy was drained eyeing and catching her.

Picture courtesy from Star Cruise Libra

There the lighter blue beam in the pool. 

There is a Jacuzzi under the tent you see in the pictures where it can only fit for not more than 5 adults. I didn't get to enjoy that Jacuzzi because it will be nightmare to bring that toddler along. I had hard time trying to drag her out from the pool. Only her favourite cartoon Pororo can bribe her!

Poor toddler is too young to join most of the activities on board. But I really reckon to family with bigger kids. The service is not complimentary but for kids, you can enroll them into the kids club once you on board for the first day. It is a paid service for RM150-RM200 if I am not wrong, your kids had a complete activities for ALL days! The activities includes games and cooking classes. They even organize a pajamas party on the last night for the kids! Jealous much!

If you have younger kids like me, the only activity you can do is going into the nursery. You can leave your kids there (if your kids are independent enough) for a fee of RM20 per hour and there was a nice teacher Joy (a young nice lady) playing with your kids. But my toddler was too young to be independent, so I end up sit inside the nursery for an hour. FML

Dora was playing on the tv

The nursery

Unfortunately there was no other kids of her age in the nursery, so she end up playing only with Teacher Joy, did some coloring artwork and nibble on some snacks from Teacher Joy.

I need my caffeine fix after that, so we had a couple of selfies while waiting for my mom and friend back from their Krabi tour.

From my laughter damn obvious I have yet to find out that #ilostmyrings

Only after like 5 minutes before ready to our Gala dinner, the saddest day of my life happened. I didn't remember I've ever cried so bad. So bad that I felt very dizzy I could not stand still. Then I realised the more I cry mostly affected were the people around me. I didn't care how much it cost to call my Husband, I still called him anyway. He was more shocked than me thinking not so much about my missing rings but if something bad had happened to us. Or precisely his daughter. Then it hit me so bad that yes, though the precious memories these rings have with me but I think it will be million times worse if something bad happened to one of us. It will be worst day of my entire life. So I calmed down..still went down and joined the dinner.

The rest was history though I did have some pictures from the sport camera with me, but quality was so bad basically it's blur and bad lightings. Pardon me as the entire night passed by vaguely. I did not enjoy any moment of it hoping it was a nightmare and it will go away when I wake up later.

Sigh.

I remembered crying myself to sleep that night.

Vaguely remembered I woke up and found my rings in my pocket.

Sigh.

Of course it didn't happened.

So if you ask me how was the dinner, I can tell you nothing. 

Star Cruise Libra - our first cruise! (Part 2)

Thank you for your continued support

in reading such a lengthy post!

Continued on my in depth review of the cruise. Day 2 on the cruise on a comfy queen size bed, but my daughter terrorised  all of our sleeps because she was crying every 2 hours interval due to her nightmares. Seriously, that's when I felt so regret even going for this trip!

We head down to breakfast after everyone was ready.

Tips No.6 - Choose your breakfast venue wisely 

The cruise provided us few breakfast options. Different restaurant serve different kind of menu (that's what we thought la) so happily we choose the oriental restaurant, thinking it's Chinese menu. To much of our despair, they serve Chinese yet western and weird nasi lemak with just sambal egg. I was quite disappointed with the selection because I was expecting some dim sums at least since it's Chinese menu Mah! 

(Picture courtesy from Google image)

Breakfast like this lor at least!

But...they did serve us pau and congee though but...the taste pretty bland. Inner voice quickly reminded myself to set the lowest expectation, so I just remembered to fill up my empty stomach. 

Apologies that the trip was weeks ago I don't remember exactly every details so I tried my best to put down as much information as I can. 

Our package included the city tour which requires you to assemble at a certain area and you are to present your confirmation ticket of the tour. Since we did the room upgrade the ticket went to our old room and we were all running up and down trying to avoid missing this tour. 

It was very drama because this was also the start of my sad story (#ilostmyrings story). And a cranky toddler on a hot sunny day despite being indoor in the cruise. I didn't get much sleep from the night before so, it was really not fun to start with. 

Asked my mom to pose for me, not bad eh


The brightness from the sun makes perfect picture but seriously freaking hot ah


And someone kong as she didn't sleep much due to her nightmares.

Tips No.7 - Get a lanyard and tie the access card to your neck!

Yes, I have to highlight the importance of the card. Because it serves as the key to your cabin (similar to your hotel room access card), also it works like your credit card for purchase on board. So the risk for losing this is someone may swipe it and you gotta pay. Thus, we had drama trying to locate the 'missing access cards'. But, if you are unlucky like me, just go quickly to the customer service and they will reissue another card at no cost. And the lost card will be barred to use. I only know by the time I came back looking for the lost card and one nice cabin crew told me. But the lanyard is pretty good way to keep your access card. So you can buy on board (fancy star cruise version) or you bring one on board. But if you are under a full package from your tour agent, this is usually provided for free!

Tips No.8 - Is city tour worth it?

As my tour provided complimentary city tour to both Phuket and Krabi, we followed as planned. But I personally don't think it's worth to join the city tour if you have been to both places previously. Because going to city tour in Thailand means temple visit and some cashew nuts factory which charge excessively for tourist. If you ask whether I enjoyed the tour, no I did not because of my cranky daughter, hot weather and walking up and down from the bus was painful. So what I suggest is, rather than joining the tour, once you leave the cruise, you can just book a car with a driver to bring you to specific places that you wanna go. That will make your city tour worth while.

However, there are also safe points to join the arranged tour. This is because you need to be back to the cruise on time. Like boarding the plane, the cruise will not wait for you. What the tour guide told us was, the last tour, one of the family was late and hence their luggage from their cabin were packed and left with local staff to wait for them. The cruise left without them! So at your own risk la.

Phuket town is more happening at night. Unless you wanna head towards Patong beach, there is nothing much going on. After many rounds going up and down the bus, our last stop was the famous shopping mall in town. We walked around aimlessly because there was nothing much to do. We ended our Phuket day trip with nice cooling ice cream from Swensen!  

A must group photo at the cashew nut factory

Taking pictures with toddler is always a failure

Instead of Phuket town, we only remember to take pictures at the port!

Either us in focus or the cruise - obviously cruise la


Always someone refuse to look at the same direction!

The whole city tour took almost the whole day of our time so by the time we were back, we head to the restaurant for dinner. Since Chinese breakfast was very disappointing, we opted for western menu that night.

When you have no idea what to it - Mix Grilled is the best

Perfecto~

My daughter portion of fish and chips. She finished the fish!

Here she is trying to open the foil on the butter for her dinner roll. 

The dinner was really good and the wine we bought just make it better! Not sure if because we were starving from the city tour or not, I remembered I finished my plate and BURP.

We retreated back to our cabin for a great shower and rest. My daughter "kong" after her bath and since I still have the energy, I decided to roam around the cruise. Cannot just stuck in the cabin room all the time right?

Most people were either in Phuket - since the cruise only embark at 12 mid night, every where was empty.

And even this:-

The casino!

Not a gambler so I had no idea at first why casino was empty when reviews about this cruise was all about gambling activity. And why all tables were covered with red cloth? Maybe no one was playing so it is close at the moment? Then only we realized, cheh, we were still on shore in Phuket which open gambling is ILLEGAL. That means, casino is only open for you when the cruise is on off shore, which also means, only between midnight to wee morning. No wonder~~LOL. We stumbled upon the live band and spent some time with the live music. Choice of songs not bad.

After the band ended, we quickly move to another lounge for a live show from all of the cabin crews. The whole show was performed by all the crew members that serve us food and some even the housekeeping team. So talented and OMG tiring job. Not only you need to do your day job, you need to rehearse during your time off and perform for the audience at night. No wonder they say cruise crew member earn good pay. Really?

In the middle obviously were two "ladies"

The highlight of the show was the two "ladies" with very great dance move and teasing the front guests. They were fun and really talented. Had a great laugh before retreating back to cabin and call it a day.

So, I have to stress the importance of the Star Navigator. We missed quite a couple of activities on board because we were either resting in the cabin, watching cartoon with my girl or out of the cruise doing the city tour. Therefore, when we were back from the city tour, I hold onto the Star Navigator and insist going to a couple of the show to at least enjoy the amenities available on board. Thus, if you are not a fan of touring the city, you do have loads to do on board. With that thought, I decided to stay on board with my girl the next day and quit the city tour in Krabi. But my mom and best friend go ahead still since it was complimentary.

We will look into 3rd day of the trip in next part. Both my girl and me had a great time resting and chilling on board until an hour before the Gala dinner was when my sad story happened. Sigh. I am still trying my very best to get over it. Damn~

Star Cruise Libra - our first cruise! (Part 1)

Picture courtesy from Google Image

My apologies for such a damn delayed post. Been struggling put my life back after the lost of my precious rings (not the saddest day in my life, but still very sad!) and work after a not so happy vacation was dreadful. Seriously, the cruise was not that bad just the ending towards the vacation was the killer! Alright, enough of negativity let's do a in depth review of our first cruise.

So, after an impulse planning and jealous over relative who just booked the cruise, I decided to jump off the wagon and did the booking from a tour agent. We took the package of 4 days 3 nights from Penang - Phuket - Krabi - Penang with Star Cruise Libra. As this cruise is under resort world, so we kind of expected it to be a casino nothing much to do of a trip. Thus, we had the lowest expectation and didn't bother to think any further.

Why a cruise?

Hmm..sometimes I'm a trend setter but there are times where I'm more to let's do what everyone else is doing when it comes to ticking off items from my bucket list. We never been on a cruise before, mom and myself for the past decades and lucky daughter for the past of her 2 years in her life. So why a cruise? WHY NOT?

And you have no idea. Too much movies/drama influence, I always have this fantasy about boarding a cruise. Long floral dress with the perfect summer hat. Pair with Rayban watching the sun set at the top deck and hoping for a romantic getaway by chance?

Ok, it's a bit far fetch but, hey 小女情怀 ? LMAO

Especially one of the movie from Andy Lau, the worst movie he acted as he claimed but it's chick romantic kinda movie where you just want to waste a 2 hours of your life watching it.

Fanscination Amour - picture courtesy from Google

Though, in reality nothing as such will happen to me in this life. But ticking off the bucket list is pretty exciting for a shout out though. Nothing is too late! 

So, let me share about this trip and along the post, I'll highlight the tips for you if you ever intend to join similar cruise.

Tips No.1 - Parking at Swettenham Pier Cruise Terminal, Penang

Since the cruise stop only in Penang, we drove all the way down to Penang Swettenham Pier Cruise Terminal. We have to park our car at the open car park, which was just cross the street from the pier entrance. Waze/Google Map give us a vague location about the parking but still, it's Penang so you won't lost. LOL! About the parking, we did a couple of research/asking around but it's pretty decent looking kind of a secured parking - which means, you have to pay by hours. FML. 4 days and 3 nights, cost us RM77. But hey, car still in one piece. So can't complain much. But my word of advise, any kind of parking also park at your own risk, so if you are unlucky don't blame anyone la. No cctv coverage to help you trace the car also.

When I was still single, I research like 50-60% about the destination before the trip. But with kids and traveling with elderly, I have no choice but to research at least 80-90% about the whole freaking trip. Not kiasu traveler but I need to know what and where my kid/elderly can go/do. Safety is my first priority. Don't even get me started with the packing!

But most frequent traveler will usually advise you not to research so much and plan a fix itinerary for your trip. Because you will get too caught up in trying to stick to the itinerary you worked on rather than enjoying the trip. Sometime, you'll get too restless when you are trying to cover EVERYTHING.

So, my itinerary is to serve as a guidance of what we can do following this route. If we ever get lost, then at least we SHOULD know where we should be heading to. LOL my last Europe trip was a very good experience and reminder about itinerary..

Yes, I went to Europe last year with the same group (my daughter and my mom) WITHOUT an itinerary. End up, we were lost in Czech Republic and in the car, on the road for freaking 23 hours. So nope, I am not going to repeat that.

Tips No.2 - Check in online and obtain your Sail Pass prior to the trip

OK, back to this cruise (sorry side track sikit). Due to my researches, we actually check in online and printed the Sail Pass (like our boarding pass) days before this cruise. This was a life saver to us because we skipped the super long queue for registration. Imagine after a long drive from KL, dragging your luggage from a public parking - means under super hot sun, a cranky toddler and the urge to pee, I seriously had no mood to queue up! With the Sail Pass, I went straight to an empty counter with a staff member and upon checking our passports, she gave us the access card to board the cruise. This access card is very important to you. It serves like your passport when you are on board. Also because of this stupid card, lead to me losing my rings. Aihhhhh (another story, I promise)

However, I still can't skip the queue at the immigration. And why on earth all immigration area is always out of air condition. I was soaking wet with my salty sweat. So, still be prepared to queue~~

After passing through immigration, we were welcome with cold towel from the cabin crew and there was a less crowded toilet to use. So, don't wait up at the toilet outside the registration area. Walk a little more and you have a crowd free + cleaner toilet to use.

Then FML another queue where we had to hand over the passport and re-scan the blardy access card again. The cabin crew did a damn thorough job to check word by word of your name on the card vs the passport for EVERYONE. So, good Lord I was almost dying due to dehydration! 

Finally, we see two model figure with beach wear and a camera man in front. This is a paid service means, you got to claim your picture with these models (cabin crews) with a fee. We took the picture still (100% tourist) and grabbed the voucher thinking we should claim it even though we have to pay since it was our first cruise. But the voucher was lost during the trip, too bad.

Wahlao, damn long procedure..we have to get our luggage up the cruise and FML another queue for scanning all your bags! ARGH! What the hell did I bring to this trip? How many times I need to remind myself to pack light. I really curse myself under my breath.

Then, finally we were in the atrium of the cruise where we were welcomed by the friendly cabin crew passing us a copy of the day itinerary, they call it Star Navigator.

Tips No.3 - Grab a copy of your daily Star Navigator

The Star Navigator is like a itinerary/newsletter of the cruise where it has all the important notes for you to read/know. This is distribute on a daily basis on your cabin room or if you missed it you can grab it from the Customer Service Counter. The important notes for example where you are going to have your breakfast-lunch-tea-dinner complimentary. If you miss the time for these, the consequences is to pay your bill on top of your trip cost. 

We were advised to look for our cabin and take a rest before going to the lounge for the gala dinner registration. Happily and with lowest expectation on our room, we opened the door of our cabin. Honestly, we think it is pretty decent with the price that we paid. But, two of the four travelers are plus size. So imagine how much space we actually have. We didn't think much though since we won't be spending much time in the room. One by one, we freshen up and head to the lounge.

Tips No.4 - Register for your Gala Dinner

You will end your last night on the cruise with a gala dinner and show. In order for the Cruise to serve your choice of menu (western/Chinese/Halal), you need to register for the dinner and select your menu. To avoid queuing, we went in and register after 15 minutes wait. The cabin crew will explain the type of menu for you to choose from and at the same time, trying their best to sell you some alcohol on board

Tips No.5 - Buy your bottle if you drink
One cabin crew from Surabaya - beautiful smile lady but I forgot her name, nicely explained to us the available promotion of wine. We got ourselves a RM238 for 3 bottles of red - different years Merlot and the best service of buying alcohol on board not just the price but you can actually drink in any of the restaurant on board. Doesn't matter if you couldn't finish it during the meal, they will store for you until the very last day when you leave the cruise. I honestly think the price is so pretty cheap for 3 bottles and plus point, the wine was REALLY GOOD WINE

After registration, we still made it to Pool Deck for a complimentary tea break. Since we only eaten our breakfast for the day and I remembered clearly we were starving!

Food spread was alright. Tasty? More to edible. LOL

Taken with the cheap sport cam. Not bad though!

Trying to understand if that's a playpen or a golf range?

Train them young

Both are super kan cheong type for pictures

There is a limitation of size to upload a video here. So some other videos will be You Tube links then. Which I am still working on my own You Tube channel.

She had a blast terrorizing us all

First day buffet dinner was a BBQ buffet at the Pool Deck. The weather was super hot and so crowded we didn't manage to enjoy the dinner much. Also because we were pretty stuffed with our snack/tea time earlier. 

I didn't manage to take the picture of our cabin. We opted for the lowest price since we think we can accept the quality of the room. The lowest rank of the cabin is inside stateroom. There is no window, but space was enough for your luggage and to sleep. So I took Google picture below:-

Something like this picture just that the lighting in the room was definitely not as bright as shown in the picture. I thought we will gave in to this cabin but my eyes were so sharp I actually read up the Star Navigator and there was a bullet point telling you "Please check out our promotion rate cabin upgrade at the Customer Service Counter".

See, so we went ahead and upgraded our room! LOL

We paid another RM1300 for the upgrade on top of our trip cost and for 3 adults, it was about less than RM500 per pax. 

The upgrades provided us a comfortable queen size bed with a sofa bed for the third guest. A spacious bathroom with bath tub and Loccitaine brand of toiletries. Beside, we were provided with a complimentary bottle of red wine in the nice fridge we have. Not bad though.

After browsing through my album, I realized I didn't take the room picture. Only these few below

Room service with some twist of humour

Bunny and Eddie

We were all knackered by the end of the day. I don't remember we explore much about the cruise. I remember we all went to bed early and waking up in the middle of the night with my daughter screaming from her nightmares. Gosh~~~

That's about the end of our day 1.

Stay tune for next part.

凑女经

话说上嗰礼拜我签咗维持6嗰月嘅课程。membership 系七月开始。所以哩几个礼拜嘅周末都得闲。所谓嘅working mom, weekend is the only bonding time with your kids! 一直都好钟意行街街嘅我就啦埋#rascaltoddler一起出！

又唔想洗咁多钱，就带咗佢去间无咩野买嘅shopping mall。行入间玩具铺以为佢会想要嗰玩具啦，点知佢又对啲嘢无兴趣哦。奇怪！

再行下就入咗间indoor playground。好啦被佢burn下啲energy。而我又可以休休闲闲咁坐向到睇住佢玩。一举两得！ ✌🏻

Weekend entrance fee is RM40 per adult & 1 child with unlimited time. You can re enter unlimited time too for the day. 

There is an indoor man made beads/sand pit for the kids to play like they are on the beach. And numerous slides. But the space is very limited and from our last visit till last Saturday no refurbishment done, no replacing of toys too. Pretty nothing much and quite pricey for such space. So, you judge yourself.

Venue: Quill City Mall

She was obsessed of the man made beads/ sand pit the last we visited but, this round, she seems to have OCD neat freak. She couldn't step on it at the beginning until she saw there were other children doing the same and it looks like fun. 

唔知系唔系佢真系咁闷叻。见到其他小朋友就极度兴奋定系.....?? (fill in the blanks)

She followed her new friends and try to join the crowd, again being overly friendly herself, she always get rejected by people. Pity her. 

 

 

尤其系见到大哥哥，种兴奋吖！

可惜系佢过渡嘅热情吓走啲大哥哥囖。一系就人地唔同佢玩，一系就玩玩下，为咗争野玩，意见不合做喊宝。

小朋友玩一定会要损伤。做啊妈嘅要老定。唔好小朋友一喊就以为小朋友被俾人虾。话说，热情嘅#rascaltoddler好开心咁join啲大哥哥一起玩。一路都唔系几钟意佢啲大哥哥一直抗拒佢。但系大哥哥嘅啊妈好好人。一直同佢地讲要同妹妹玩。玩到一个点，出事啦！唔知大哥哥点整到，受伤啦。喊嗮咁。好紧张嘅我跑过去系死咁道歉！

我认定咗系我家嘅#rascaltoddler整到人。Asshole parenting point 1. Thank god 大哥哥嘅妈咪唔介意种系到话小事嚟噶唔好喊。我完全无留意到#rascaltoddler嘅面目表情就一起同人地道歉。Asshole parenting point 2

过后，大哥哥一家就离开playground。我地都匆匆离开。不好意思了Asshole parenting point 3

我地就咁去咗食lunch。Settled down in restaurant 过后，佢想要Pororo, I refused because still angry at her for being rough at playground. Of course she didn't understand why I refused to and just let her continue crying. 

Then I talked to her about the incident. I asked her 3 questions:

1) why you played rough in the playground just now?

2) don't you know you've hurt people?

3) why can't you stop being a brat and listen?

Duh..she cried even more, cos she didn't understand obviously.

Then I asked her one more time. 

Do you know you've hurt 大哥哥just now? 

She stopped crying. Looked at me and say: NO!!

And continue to wailed

Face palm la! 

What am I thinking trying to talk some senses into a 2 year old mind? 

Took a deep breath (while taking the phone out for her Pororo) I asked her again in mandarin: 你是不是觉得哥哥痛痛是不关你事呢？

佢点头。

是不是哥哥自己弄到pain pain. 不是melody弄到的？

佢讲咗一连串baby language. But my mother instinct told me she was trying her best to explain what had happened of that incident and it has nothing to do with her.

哪。。melody是个good girl 吗？

佢mm咗一声。

哪。。是melody要讲sorry吗？

佢突然间大喊！

Ok,哪是不是妈咪要讲sorry呢？

佢收少少声然后叫一声mommy(with a very sad face 😭 😭 😭)

I hugged her and played her favourite Pororo.

嗰一刻真系好想来杯红酒冷静下。

She settled down and started to laugh at the cartoon feeling contented that she can watch her favourite Pororo. But I felt like an asshole at that moment. Seriously.. as parents, we always repeat the same mistakes again and again even we've vowed not to and reminded ourselve to never do such a mistake. 

For example this situation:

1) obviously she didn't feel she did anything wrong, she didn't understand why she has to apologize. Maybe at that time she was passing by or conveniently standing nearby the boy. So when the boy cried I've immediately jump to the conclusion that she was the one that is hurting him. Why would I not consider that she is only 2 years old when the boy obviously 2 years elder than her. How can she even strong enough to hurt him?

2) even so she hurt him for instance, I should have check on the boy injury if it is serious rather than apologizing again and again. And the next I should be checking on is her. If she is hurt too?

3) lastly, I should explain the situation to her at that point of time and not later when it is over. Cos from her reaction, giving her benefit of doubt, she think she is innocent.

Damn.

This is not good at all.

We returned home and putting these dramas behind us. 

Sorry baby, I vow to be better. In mean time, please give both of us the patience. I know the age is near when you think I don't understand you. Don't slam the door on me ok?

I love you, baby!

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