Part XXX of How we spent our school holidays…..

We attended a picnic at the glorious Taman Tun Park one morning at around 9am when it was all quiet despite the school holiday and not too sunny, lucky us!

Tee insisted on bringing her scooter so I told her that if she did, there was absolutely no way I was carrying it and if she couldn’t carry it herself, then we would just leave it there for the monkeys to scoot. After all, I had to carry 2-3 bags comprising food, cutlery, water, towels, change of clothes, beach toys, heavy picnic mat, more water, more food……

As we were the first to arrive, the park was pretty deserted but Tee and I braved it towards the lovely stream……..

Then, uh-oh….a flood of monkeys blocked our path! There were about 30 monkeys roaming around, some fighting over plastic bags of food and I had to make a quick decision whether to walk past them or to turn around. We waited awhile till most of them scattered away, then braved past them and all the time, I kept yelling to Tee to just walk straight and not stop to look. She was so curious that she just wanted to be up close with them!

Finally, we arrived at a perfect spot under 2 large shady trees and set up our picnic. Tee immediately stripped and went to play!

Later, when some other friends arrived, Tee only hung around her boyfriend *faint* So anti-social!!! The two of them would happily go about doing their own thing…….really like an old married couple.

Here’s a pregnant Mamapumpkin for you……

When we could finally drag the kids out of the stream, we went home all exhausted. Tee didn’t even bother getting changed as she and her boyfriend refused to leave so we just packed up and walked off. They quickly got their scooters and followed behind and overtook us, then waited for us at the car park. All this while, we were screaming to them to stop and wait for us but do these kids listen? NO!!!

We were greeted by monkeys once again upon our departure…..

If you ever intend to have a picnic at the Taman Tun Park with kids, this is what you should pack along:

1. good picnic mat (ground is filled with tree roots if you want to be under a tree)
2. lots of water – better if cold (what we did was put some tumblers into the freezer the night before and by the time we needed those at noon, they were PERFECT!!! Tee and I actually fought over the iced water!!!)
3. lots of kiddy snacks – the kids are usually not interested in eating as they’re having too much fun but there’ll come a time when they all suddenly get hungry and VOOM! All food is vanished within seconds!! Usually if you have goodies like cupcakes and fairy bread, those tend to go first over the sausages and chicken nuggets.
4. a change of clothes – it’s more comfortable if kids were in their swimmies as they are bound to get wet and it’s not too comfortable being wet in a T-shirt and shorts.
5. towels – for wiping wet kids bodies and dirty feet when you go (bring water to rinse those feet too) and towels for wiping off your own sweat, because believe me, even under an overcast sky, it is still hot!
6. beach toys – bubble guns, water guns, pails, spades, rakes, little cups, small fishing nets (lots of tadpoles, baby fishes and insects to be caught) and a container that has a twisty lid so kids can bring home their catch if they so wish. Oh, and bicycles or scooters because they love riding them down the pathways and there is also an open flat area where they can do this.
7. hats and sunglasses, sunblock and very importantly, MOSQUITO REPELLANT – for both kids and adults
8. trash bags – bring at least one large trash bag as you will have trash that you will need to dispose off
9. lots of tissues and wet wipes – we usually just pee in the drain (not the stream) as we can’t be bothered to walk towards the official washrooms. Honestly, by the time you walk a four year old there, they’d have already pee’d in their pants anyway!
10. basic cutlery and crockery – just in case you need them, including one or two empty tupperware containers to pack home leftover food from friends etc.
11. a long umbrella – to ward off dangerous monkeys if you need to! because they do tend to encroach towards your picnic mat as they can smell food!
12. lots of smiles and a great attitude!

I am disappointed that we will be unable to join Chin Nee and gang for their mass picnic this Sunday but we already have a super packed weekend. Pity, pity, pity!!!

This weekend, we have to see two doctors, Tee’s Mandarin class, a wedding, a concert at the MPO, a birthday party…..just thinking about it is stressing me out. I love those weekends where we have absolutely NOTHING.

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

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She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

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Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.