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The Tiniest Frog Ever Found by My Family

Frankly speaking I do not know what is the name of the frog but so far this is the tiniest frog we ever found. We found this frog at Berembun Forest Reserve in Negeri Sembilan. It is found near the waterfall area. It is about 10mm long only.

Berembun Forest Reserve has many attractions. One trail will lead us to fruit paradise while other trail has leaded us to a beautiful waterfall when we found the abovementioned tiny frog. For those whose is more adventure, you may also trek deeper into the forest looking for the RAF Liberator KL654R plane which has crashed into this forest on 23 August 1945.

The Plassid Villa, a Peaceful Villa for Nature Lover

We love village life due to cleaner air and cooler weather. So when my friend, invited us to her villa in Kampung Baru Pantai, we immediately accepted her invitation.

We are coming from Puchong, so we use the LDP, exit the Puchong Selatan Toll and headed to Kajang Silk Highway. Then we turn to LEKAS highway. We had to pass by 5 tolls before we reached Jelebu. The journey took us about 1 hour drive.

Her villa has basic amenities but good enough to keep us comfortable. Most of the decoration in the villa is designed as close to the nature as possible. Tables and chairs are hand-made using trees collected from nearby forest.

We enjoy ourselves plucking pulasan and rambutan from her farm. We also managed to collect wild durians for breakfast. My husband also found beautiful Orange Pill Millipede inside the durian farm.

Fresh vegetable is being planted at the back of her villa and we can enjoy it right away. It is so fresh and chemical free.

As for the dinner we got to enjoy BBQ fish, chicken wings and lamb.

Other attraction of her area is the Berembun Forest Reserve where we do jungle trekking for

a)     fruits such as durian, langsat and rambutan, and also petai

b)      the beautiful waterfall inside the forest. 

We also found the tiniest frog ever seen before in our life.

We really enjoy our trip so much that we look forward to go again in the near future. This is ideally the best RAYA holiday I ever had in my life. 

Here, I would like to send a million thanks to my friend, Apple for giving us such a good holiday.

Here how to go to Plassid Villa:

After you paid RM1.90 at the Ampangan Toll, drive around 2km, you turn left when notice signboard “Jelebu”. Go straight all the way. When you see signboard “Sikamat”, do not turn left but go straight until you notice the signboard “Pantai”. When you reached the mosque on your left, turn right to Kg Baru Pantai. Go straight all the way until you notice signboard “The Shorea”. You will notice a small signboard “Plassid” on your left. Stop at the gate and called the owner to open the gate. The gate is locked all day long for security purposes.

If you are using WAZE, look for The Dusun Negeri Sembilan, it will direct you to the Dusun first gate which is closed also. Do not turn left into the gate but rather go straight till you found“The Shorea” signboard.

Jelita Ostrich Farm, Seremban

This farm is actually located inside Jabatan Perkhidmatan Veterinar in Seremban.

The farm has emus, ostrich, goat, turkey and rabbit.


We were given a personal tour guide upon paying our entrance fee. We pay RM8.00 for adult and RM6.00 for children.

Ostrich is very sensitive to a lot of thing (such as water, sound etc) when they are below 6 months old, so we only see those ostrich above 7 months old. They are not a smart animal and they only know how to go straight. They are usually not aggressive unless you provoke them.

We are giving the opportunity to stand on the ostrich bird egg which can support human weight (usually) and the ride an ostrich.

They show us Ostrich Racing too. As ostrich only know how to go straight line, the rider would need to cover the ostrich’s right eye if they want the ostich to go left and vice versa.

Basically the tour took an hour and very educational. My children love it.

Jungle Trekking with Young Children

It all started when we are planning to send our maid away. My husband and I love to go jungle trekking but without maid to take care of our two boys, we finally decided to bring them along. My youngest son, nicknamed Didi was not even 3 years old when he joined us on such adventurous sport. His older brother, the “Koh Koh”, was just celebrating his 4-years old birthday when we took them for their first hiking at Wawasan 5, Puchong.


It has been a scary and tired experience for all of us. We either hold them too hard that hurts them or we hold them the improper way that make it difficult for us to hike. It took about 6-months for Koh Koh to adapt to it and for us to learn our mistake. Didi, being too young that time, took a bit longer to adapt himself. They cried and grumble all the way and we learned to give a lot of encouragement to them. We also reward them with sweet and breakfast of their choice if they able to complete the trail as planned.

One important thing to remember is that it is best to let them walked on their own, let them hold your hand and don’t grab them so hard that it stress out both of you. Also very importantly, never ever carry them when they refused to walk. Give your child a lot of encouragement and motivation to proceed further. Let them see that life has to go on even though how tough is it. Obstacle is a good lesson to improve oneself rather than a problem.

This year marks the second year we have been going hiking together as a family event at least once a month and now I really cried a lot of happy tears that my two sons has successfully conquer the jungle. They can climb up a step half of their tall without assistance and they are capable of jumping down from a high place without fear. They know which part of the ground can be stepped and which one to avoid. Koh Koh can hike faster than me already. Nowadays we go hiking even it is raining and the trail is slippery. Sometimes they will fall down and sometimes they will have their shoes struck in the mud but they will just carry on walking without fear. Oh dear, I’m so proud of them and every day I thanks god for giving me such good family life.

Teluk Bahang Forest Eco Park

This Eco Park is a nice place to visit in Penang.

If you want to go inside the forest, you need to register yourself at the ranger office and then sign out after you completed the trail. There are 4 trails to choose from. We brought children along, so we choose the easy trail called Monkey-cup Trails.

We are the second group who register for forest trail today. There are not many visitors today, maybe it is a weekday and not a public holiday. Or maybe many people prefer to go to the beach or shopping that breathing the fresh air of the forest…I’m not sure.

There are signboards along the trail but a lot of the information board along the way has been badly damaged that we unable to know what is the name of the tree/plant already.

We took 1½ hours to complete the trail.

We went to the Forestry Museum also. The museum is not so big but good enough to display useful information about the forest.

Overall I would say it is worth spending time there if you are the kind of person like me who like natural environment a lot.



Grace Farm, Serendah

My children and I follow a group of Church Members to visit this organic farm located in Serendah, Selangor. I’m not Christian but I do not mind to follow any group of people to go for a trip because I can take advantage of the cheaper price that I need to pay due to bigger group of peoples joining the trip.

At Grace Farm, the price that they are charging is depends on the size of the group. They also provide accommodation if you plan to stay overnight there.



We arrived there around 9.30 am and were served with simply breakfast of fried mee hon and egg omelet plus milo drink.

We get a hand-on experience on planting vegetable, tapping rubber, maintaining palm oil tree and milking the cow.

We were also giving the opportunity to have a close-up experience with the deer, gooses, turkeys, goats and rabbits. My children simply love it.

Our trip ends around 1 pm where we were served with lunch of rice and 4 or 5 dishes (sorry, forgotten how many dishes already) plus sirap drink.

They also sell the products such as spinach, green mustard, village egg, goat milk and papaya.

BTW, the goat in the photo below is called "John" and they like to call him "Kissing John" because he simply like people kissing him….ha..ha..ha…funny goat!