Where Does Our Day To Day Chicken Comes From?

Date: Feb 9, 2013

This post may be disturbing. But it's for city kids who never seen a chicken processing centre.




Wow. Live chicken RM6.10, dead chicken RM6.60. So the cost of killing a chicken is RM0.50. This is very cheap labour with lots of hard work.




Choose your chicken here.




This Chicken looks nice. It's mostly Kampong Chicken or meat chicken.




The chicken then got sent to the back for praying and the man use a knife to lightly cut the throat. Yes, this is a halal chicken processing centre.




Then another man put them into two different boiling pot to quickly peel off the feathers using hot water. And then quickly rinse and clean it.




Lots of chickens. The ladies here will do the final processing of separating the intestines and if necessary chop legs chop head and so on.




A cat stole the chicken head.




This is also my first time seeing such a factory. Cool. I did not bring the kids though. Scare after they seen it, they scare of eating chicken. Haha




This is how the chicken been packed.





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HexBug - Warriors Battling Robots

Date: Feb 9, 2013

Today the boys have a new toy.




It is a HexBug that you can attach weapons on it.

Basically comes with training mode or battle mode.

When it is in battle mode, the two bugs will fight each other. Each hit will cost the LED changed from green to orange and then red and to a complete stop.




Here are the four HexBug we have.




Blue color is Bionika.




This is the green bug.




Another version of green bug.



It's called Viridia.



The red bug.




The red bug is called Caldera.




This is the yellow bug.




Another version of yellow bug.




They are called Tronikon.




Lets battle!




And this is Jay Jay using his yellow bug with chain saws.




Kay Kay with green bug.




Gabriel with his green bug.




Caleb with his red bug.




Lets battle!




Every one is very happy plying with it. Cooperatively.




So as the 6 bugs. By the way, weapons is interchangeable.




You can get these from Toy R Us!

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Exploring the last Unknown Railroad

Date: Dec 31, 2012

My bicycle front wheel punctured. So I will be doing my last walk for the year.




As I need to catch the kids who is on the bicycle. I decided to explore short cut!

And I finally caught up to them. And WOW!




I didn't know there is an old train track here. I always cycle pass this small little hill under the bridge. But never came up here before.

Jay Jay: "Papa, you mean you don't know there is a train track here?!"




This is the bridge and MRT track above. It is on top of this Ulu Pandan River. (Yes! It's a river!)




There is this small road going up this slope.




When you go up, the old railway is there...




Look left is a small short stretch of railway.




Look right is going into bushes.




Walk up... You will reach...




Commonwealth Ave. Just opposite the fire station and the temple. Before Jalan Lempeng Nan Hua Primary School turning.




My kids love to come here and play. They love trains, and therefore they love train tracks!




Now with the improved bike, he rode much faster now. Even going short cut also cannot catch up him liao.

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Sea Trek @ Cebu

Date:  Sep 7, 2012

Time:  9:15AM

Shuttle to Airport:  10:30AM

So, I have about 1 hour to do something that I wanted to do.  My friend Rose, done it in Bali and I think it is fun.  And they offer this in the Shangri-La Sea Sport Centre.  

I had never dive before.  The excuse is I am wearing glasses, and I don't like the feeling of seeing things blur.  The real reason is I always think that water will kill me. HaHaHaHa

So, welcome to the Sea Trek (sounds like Star Trek).

That is where I am going to walk at the sea bed below that Sea Trek boat.  Lots of cloud, but it should be clear enough.

I am going to wear this helmet.  It weight about 40KG each.  Wow… 40KG.

Let's meet the staff who is going thru the explanation of how it works.

This is the helmet guide.  Who is going to go down with me into the water.

This is the diving instructor.  He too… kepo, wanted to dive down too.  And he is a lot of action one.  But his underwater camera skill is good!  

Oh ya… when you do this kind of sport don't forget to bring your underwater camera along.  I had to borrow my son's camera.

Me:  "Jay Jay, papa borrow your camera, ok?"

Jay:  "But papa, I need to use the camera during Teacher's day."

Me:  "Nope, I am bringing it to Cebu."

Jay:  "Why?"

Me:  "Because I am your father.  Wahahahahahahaha"

Instructor explained why need to equalise the pressure.

Going thru all sort of safety tips.  Hand signal.  Aiya, once you are in there, all you can do is smiling, and any how give hand signal.

Here is another look of the 40G underwater helmet.  It tied to the tube and get the air from the oxygen tank.  It is 51% oxygen and 49% nitrogen.

And yipee!  I am down in the water.  Hey look, fish!

See!  I am wearing my glasses underwater.  And I have my hair nicely combed.

Oh ya… Just in case, please check your watch, how deep they can go, before you really go down the sea.  :)

And I have to use my hand to hold the helmet, as it tries to float up.

Wow… Lot's of fish.

Hey, it's Nemo.

Great shot.  Nemo hiding.

They said, it's like Moon Walking.  Not easy.  Because, I think I am too light.  Every step, I need to force my leg to touch the ground.  and Hey, where is that 40KG thingy again?  It is like 1KG weight in the water.

Oh… That's Nemo again.

More fishes.

Is that Dory?

Opps!  I forgot that he can take video of me.  So, I used my complicated hand language to ask him to take a video.  See below.  Wow… I was fun!

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/TQy7HRWb5oo&amp

Then, they asked me to sit on the turtle.

This is definitely not Space Walking.  He himself need to walk like using a lot of efforts.

From time to time, water can come into your helmet, simply lift the helmet a bit up, and the water will just cleared away.

This is the air ventilation at the back of the helmet.

It's fun!  Today, no fish biting me.

OK!  It's time to go up.  Bye Nemo, bye Dory.

And we are back up into the boat.  It was a very memorable sweet 15 minutes walk under the sea.  It is a wonderful feeling.

I checked.  Minimum age is 8 years old.  So, Jay Jay, sorry, I guess we have to wait until you are larger a bit then, you can have fun under water.  :)