Bubbles Play at Toa Payoh Park

Jade | Heart shaped hair

Magnet Tiles

came home and found this at my SOFA.

O_O

4D3N to GENTING MALAYSIA - DAY 3 (Genting Premium Outlet)

 Awana Skyway - Cable Car ride is $9 ringgit per person. Children under 110cm is free. 

To get to the Premium Outlet Mall, the station is called Awana Station. There's a Chin Swee Station in between Genting Resorts and Awana Station. The ride was pleasantly comfortable and cabin space was spacious. Surrounding forest and greens were very pretty and occassionally you can even hear monkeys making funny noises.

 Above: Chin Swee Temple

The ride down to Awana Station was very fast.  The premium outlet mall is just outside the station, look for wayfind signage and you will be there in no time at all. There are 3 levels of the Premium Outlet Mall, upper and lower levels are all the shops and the lowest level is where all the eateries are.

After shopping for awhile, it was time for a quick lunch at Burger King before we continued our shopping. I bought Onitsuka Tiger shoes for the kids as they were on sale. 1st pair 30%, 2nd pair 50% and 3rd pair 70%. So average out, each pair cost me about $40 SGD. The other place which the shoes were going quite cheap was Nike. I bought 1 pair each for the boys.

After all the shopping, I wanted to buy some local produce back for my parents, so I stopped over at Ban Heang where they were famous for their almond crisps. But I bought the cheese crisp flavour because Jules loved it alot.

We had an early dinner at Palsaik because I wanted to try it out last evening but didn't get a chance cos it was so crowded and the waiting time was 2 hours.

We ordered the set for 4-6 adults, soju, Pororo for the kids and a serving of instant noodles for our kimchi soup. The whole meal was quite good or perhaps because of the cooling weather, it was so shiok to eat barbeque in such a chilly weather!

Our 8 different flavoured pork belly (Ginseng, Wine, Pine Leaves, Garlic, Herb, Curry, Miso Paste, Hot Pepper)), top tier was prawns, squid and more pork! Kimchi on the side was refillable!

 While Godma went to Koi for her regular caffeine fix, the kids were running amok!

My shopping overhaul in Premium Outlet Mall. i can only say i was practically only shopping in advance for the kids' chinese new year clothes! Oh yes, Padini for Kids was very affordable and the designs were quite nice. So for families out there, you can try out Padini!

4D3N to GENTING MALAYSIA - DAY 2

Our stay at Theme Park Hotel includes breakfast. Vouchers were given to us when we checked in. There was no breakfast buffet at the hotel itself and you have to make your way to Sky Avenue to eat. There are only 3 locations to choose from: Malaysian Food Street, John Medan and Medan Selera and the voucher is only worth $13.90 set.

From Malaysian Food Street, there are only 4 stalls which you can choose from - Porridge, Noodles, Dimsum and Toast.

From John Medan, there is Nasi Lemak, Prata, Mee Goreng.

From Medan Selara, there are much more choices...so my recommendation is to go there. They also serve a variety of drinks. If you were to eat at Malaysian Food Street, you either have coffee or tea. And for John Medan, there's only coffee! Really really bad, my expectations of breakfast provided was really disappointing.

 Our first meal of the day - Toast and Porridge.

Brought the kids up to level 4 where there's a Jungle Gym and I left my 2 boys to tumble and rumble there for a solid 3 hours. Whilst my helper was eye-balling them at the gym, we went shopping! I bought a pair of mini melissa for Jade at a really cheap price as they were having a sale.

 By lunch time, Jade was zzz. Hubs queued at the famous british Fish & Chip shop. I think it's over-rated but for the price we paid (quite affordable), it's still better than our back home kopitiam western fish and chips.

Above: that's how a regular box of Fish and Chips look like. And I haven't even started eating yet. You can count the number of chips I have....lol, no wonder they have a set called "legendary". I went round looking at what others are eating... i got the feeling that Legendary means 2 pieces of fish fillet instead of 1?

Went to pick up the boys after our shopping. At Adventureland, we bought some tokens and let the three kids have some rides together. Next to Adventureland, there was Mary Brown, KFC and subway for the kids to have a quick lunch.

After lunch, we walked to First World's shopping mall, through Skymetropolis which was very crowded and many of the rides had long snaky queues.  EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING!
There was a man giving out free cotton candy!!! The kids were so excited and queued for their cotton candy.

Dinner was spent at Motorino. The selection of pizzas were very limited but the dough is freshly made and baked from an actual old fashion oven. We were so hungry and tired that we didn't really care...but looking back, it was quite tasty.

Capped the night with packet milk from the supermarket for all three of them. Good night!

4D3N to GENTING MALAYSIA - DAY 1

It's the September School Holidays again! How time flies and 3/4 of 2019 has just past by in a blink of an eye. Hubs and I didn't really gotten ourselves down to plan what to do for the children this one week holiday, so we thought perhaps bringing them to somewhere close or even a staycation would be a good break for the whole family. Also I believe school holidays are a time for more family bonding.

You might wonder why would weekends not be a time for family bonding for us. Well that's because Hubs is running a one-man show doing his freelance interior design and many of our clients are only free on weekends for meetings. So many of our weekends are spent not together as a family. Saturdays I would look after the kids and bring them out to our local neighbourhood shopping mall for a walk, tea and scoot. Usually we take about 2 hours and that gives hubs enough time for his meetings. Sundays we bring all three of our children over to their grandparents' place for bonding time! The grandparents are always happy to have them over because they are so noisy!!!

To cut the story short, this holidays we decided to bring them up to Malaysia's Genting Highlands. We booked a malaysian driver, a contact which I got from my colleague who frequents the casino often. We stayed over at Theme Park Hotel after reading many reviews on them and wanted to give it a try since they have a sixers room, really suitable for a big family like us.

We woke up at 530am, got into our car at 6am, crossed the customs quite swiftly and had breakfast at Ya Kun Fishball noodles. Although it is a fishball noodles, it looked very much like our Singapore's Yong Tau Foo store! The noodles are served in a very delicious black sauce and opps, it was so good that I didn't even remember to take any photos of it. The place was very crowded and had free WIFI!

The 7 of us (hubs, myself, 3 kids, godma and helper) managed to squeeze ourselves into a 4 pax table!!!

2pm, we finally reached Genting Highlands. The check in time was 3pm and if we wanted to check in immediately, we had to paid a $5 ringgit and we thought ok! With 3 kids and even though there was a really fun playground in the lobby, I don't think my 3 kids could spend an hour there....

So we checked ourselves in via the check-in kiosk and paid the $5 via credit card and up we went into our sixers room!!!

Above: James who was so happy to see the bedroom slippers...and they read "happy feet"

Next was to check up the bathroom areas.  There were 2 sinks, separate shower area and a separate WC. There were 6 towels but how come there were only 2 sets of toothbrush and toothpaste? We didn't ask for more since we brought our own set of toothbrush and toothpaste. Also it's more environmentally friendly to bring your own, however since it was a sixers room, there should have items for at least 6 pax.

Although the concept was to co-share, but can you imagine if it was co-share with 3 couples? The shower area totally had no where to hang the towel or clothes and that means that after you shower, you basically have to come out to an open area where there is no door, anyone could have mistakenly walk in and see you naked!

So when it was Godma or my helper's turn to shower, we really had to wait until we were sure that they had finished their shower, came out fully dressed before we could use the WC. So in the end, it wasn't able to allow multiple pax to use the toilet at one time.

The room was very modern with 3 queen mattresses.

However, for 6 pax seriously there wasn't even hanging space for all of us. The ceiling fan was very small and lucky for us, the weather was quite cooling in the day, if not even with the windows open, the mattress under the bunk bed was actually quite stuffy!

The blinds at night kept banging against the window frame and making loud noises due to the wind. So hubs couldn't tolerate the noise and had the blinds down and they stopped flapping but the room was very stuffy and almost warm. How can a hotel room not have aircon???  The ceiling fan was so small and it was only above the dresser table, other parts of the room basically didn't have much ventilation at all.

And worse, two of my kids were bitten by some bugs and I'm not even sure was it because the window was left open!!!

above: passing clouds that make it feel really nice and cooling!