last activity in 2012

we started our year with our first activity at the beach. we end our year with splashing fun at the swimming pool.

 

waiting for papa

upon reaching, yu ze asked for his spade which was in the car. darling had to walk back to the car to pick it up while i get them changed. while waiting, they were seated by the pool. since its a children pool, so i asked if they wanted to go in first. thinking that its quite shallow, water level at their waist only, should be quite safe. after i helped yu ze stand in the pool, yu xi wanted to go in too. they started to walked off once they are in it. yu xi had a little accident if you may call it, she didn't walk properly in the pool, slip and end up struggling inside. darling was walking back and saw it. he went down and hold her up. after this little accident, she refuse to go in again and requested to change.

 

playing with water structure

no matter what i said to her, she refuse to get into the pool. so i changed for her and she sit with me by the side. about 20 minutes later, she said she wanted gor gor to come up. so we walked along the pool to look for gor gor. then she slowly warm up again and started playing with the water structure out of the pool and had herself all wet again.

 

hugging the 'octopus'

i believe this 'little accident' will not keep her away from the pool. we also signed up for safra membership. we will be heading down to safra swimming pool pretty often when both of them start their class with berries.

genting & kuala lumpur

our long awaited short getaway is over. 5 days 4 nights trip to genting and kuala lumpur with jiali and family. this trip was booked way back in feb when air asia was having promotion. we bought our tickets at $50 each all in.

 

jiali don't want to travel down from genting in the night, so we decided to stay 2 nights in genting and 2 nights in kl itself. we booked our hotels on our own and got leelian to help book a mini van for our transfer.

 

queue for rides

genting seems to be pretty cold this year compare to last year. we checked our luggage in at the hotel and left for our lunch while waiting for our rooms to be ready. the kids goes crazy when they saw all the rides available at the indoor theme park. we bought 2 days, all park pass for all. jiali being preggy get a discounted adult pass.

 

bumper car

we covered all the available and suitable rides in the indoor theme park except for the reindeer ride (which we took last year). some of the rides, the kids went more than once. due to the cold weather, we covered some of the rides at the outdoor theme park. most of the rides at the outdoor theme park were not really suitable for them. they are either too young or too short for it.

 

yu xi developed fever in the late afternoon on the day of arrival. she was grouchy the moment the medication effect was over. her fever lasted for 2 days till we left genting. overall, she had enjoyed herself too despite the fever.

twin towers

as usual, we check our luggage in the hotel and left for lunch while waiting for the room to be ready. we spend our day shopping at mid valley megamall and the gardens. we went on the hop on hop off bus ride the next day. we took the train from mid valley station to kl sentral to take the bus. we went to twin towers, kl tower, bukit bintang and chinatown. we couldn't catch the last bus ride at 730pm so we took a cab back to hotel on our own.



kl tower

we checked out early on our last day for the driver to bring us to have local breakfast. he brought us to chocolate factory too though no production line to show. next, we went to batu cave. the 17 X ?? (don't know how many) steps were a killer. there were many monkeys along the stairs too. one of them give jiali a big fright that she screamed. then, we went to kidszania. however, we had to miss it cos they were fully booked for the morning session by 13 schools. :(  we had our lunch nearby and shopped a bit before the driver came back to pick us up for berjaya times square, which was our last stop.

overall, it was a fun and nice trip. though, i don't seems to have done any shopping. everyone did come back with something.  

fantastic mr fox & barney show

watching all these plays are very ex. i booked the tickets for fantastic mr fox very late and almost can't get any tickets. its a interactive and nice play. its a longer play then what we had watched so far. yu ze wanted to leave during the interval. i manage to get him to stay and finished it. it through it. at the end of the show, i asked him if he likes it. he say yes and wants to watch the next show, room on broom.

 

enjoyed the play

we went to united square for lunch and barney show. we started to queue for barney around 2pm after we finished our lunch though the show only starts at 3pm. i also manage to get a photo pass to take photos with bob the builder, wendy and spud.

family photo

we had a great time watching both the play and barney show.

lego land, here we come....

lego land, here we come......

 

weather is good today and we are making our trip up north to the long await lego land. meet up jiali and family for breakfast before we drive up. traffic is not too bad at the checkpoint too. we missed the turn to lego land and make a big round back before we hit lego land.

 

lego express

the kids are so excited about the trip. we took all the rides that was available for their age and cover the whole of lego land (appropriate for their age). the queue for the rides range from 15 mins to 45 mins as stated on the sign at each ride. we didn't really time to check if the queue timing is as what is stated but its doesn't seems to long a wait though. for a school holiday fri, i think the wait is pretty reasonable. the park is not overly packed too. you will also notice that the crowd sort of die off by around 4pm.

 

driving at the junior driving school

we took some of the rides twice as requested by the kids. rides and activities suitable for young children of 2 and 4 years old includes:

• lego city airport
• junior driving school
• boating school
• lego rescue academy
• lego express
• duplo express
• observation tower
• duplo playtown
• musical fountain
• beetle bounce
• the shipyard
• miniland

we had upgraded our day pass to annual pass at the end of the day. we were there from 11am to 7pm. the kids were dead tired. fall asleep immediately when they were in the car. we will definitely come back for more fun.

babies prom

we are at esplanade again for our yearly sso babies prom concert. its their 10th anniversary concert. this year, we have yiyi andrina and anvelle joining us. thanks to yiyi eileen for getting the tickets for us, yiyi celine to pass us the tickets. this concert tickets are selling like a hot cake, tough getting the tickets if we are not given any priority.

 

the kids have fun and enjoyed the concert, so do us.

 

10th anniversary concert

Anvelle joining us for the concert (pic taken by yu ze)

 

hello kitty town & the little big club



in JB



we went to hello kitty town & the little big club!!! its so so fun for everyone of us except maybe darling (he enjoyed but not as much as we do).

 

i love kitty

i'm so so so in love with hello kitty town and turn into a little girl who is excited over all the things in there. hahaha..... i just want to take photo of everything in there. yu ze and yu xi had fun too. both of them were scared at the 'black wonder'. yu ze said that is for the bad kitty, he is scare. i didn't get to do anything from the 'wishful studio', must make sure i visit them the next trip.

 

the fat controller

there were two levels for the little big club, one level for thomas and another for barney, angelina ballerina, bob the builder and pingu. of course, we had lots of fun at thomas area. however, there are 2 rides that we were turn away due to height and age. yu ze was so sad that he cried. i had to comfort him and get to play at other stations. 

 

at the other level, we had skip angelina ballerina. they are not interested in her. her play area is simply a dress up area where you get to wear the tutu and dance like a ballerina. we just walked in and out of the place. they spent most of the time at bob the builder and barney. yu xi was a bit sad cos bj and baby bop didn't appear and bj was not feature there. she didn't even want to take pic with the barney mascot.

 

overall, it was a good trip and a place for everyone in the family (at least for mine). travelling time for one way was about 1.5 hours.  

thomas & friends

we are back at takashimaya again. this time is for thomas & friends show.we had our lunch at the same place again (japanese stall). yu ze wants to eat rice with 'cheese' (mayonnaise).

waiting for thomas

we are early but they refuse to go any other place. we end up waiting by the stage for 1 hour and we are first in the queue too.  as we suspected, we met the same thomas and same fat controller again. of course, we sing the same songs too. hahaha.... this year, yu ze decides not to take any pic with thomas and the fat controller.

photo taking

gardens by the bay

the 2 friends meet

we meet up with kat and her family for a cool evening walk at gardens by the bay. it has been a long since we meet up. we had planned to take the ocbc skyway walk. however, the queue is so long that we have to give it a miss. we end up walking around by the gardens, enjoying the cool breeze.

 

sitting on the big pebble

yu ze spotted the spider web by the side lamp. they spotted a few small frogs and a beetle along the walk. these are things that we adults will missed. i guess we are not observant for such things. 

spider web

its nice catching up with each other. small group meeting are good as well since its fuss free and less logistic to handle. as the kids grow, its harder for us to meet up. everyone is busy with their own activities or enrichment classes for the kids. hopefully, we can do more meet up in future.