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A Trip to Legoland Malaysia

February 01, 2017

Long overdue post. As usual hehe.

Pergi masa bulan December 2016, cuti sekolah. Trip "buat gila" kita orang panggil. Sebab tak plan pun nak pergi Legoland tapi my husband came with the idea "jom pegi day trip Legoland, surprisekan Adam & Aiman".

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Of course I said yes dulu, janganlah say no yer, nanti apa pun tak boleh hehehehe, konsepnya janji keluar KL haha but then I suggested why not overnight satu hari, at least boleh merambu ramba dekat JPO hehe. Sebab last minute, jenuh jugak nak search hotel yang available but we managed to score a really good deal for a hotel room on Traveloka website. Thistle JB super peak season (a day before Christmas) for only RM220 inclusive tax. Yes, no kidding. :)

Ok fast forward to the whole Legoland story, first ialah survey tickets. Memang jenuh mengira jugak, sebab nak compare which deals yang paling menjimatkan. Maybank that time ada discount, MyKad holder ada special rates, then ada Legoland Buy 1 and 2nd at 50% something like that, but we finally used this. The voucher we got from Ali Cafe Instant Coffee. 1 Full Price Adult Ticket = 1 FREE Kid Ticket. Basically untuk keluarga kami 2+2, kira beli 2 tiket dewasa, free 2 tiket kanak-kanak hehe. Yang ni option paling jimat untuk kita orang :P

First the WEATHER. It was hot (blazing sun!) and humid, so for kids please please, sunhat and sunblock is a must. There are few misting stations and shade spots but most often tak stop pun at any of it. Oh mineral water too, pandai-pandailah susun dalam bag, they do check the bags (usual procedure for any theme park kan), but just a quick one tho, so kalau hang sumbat periuk nasi at the bottom pun lepas kot haha. Ok main-main je. What I meant is kalau setakat roti, biscuits, burger, boleh je sorok-sorok hehe. The rule is no outside foods allowed, so pandai-pandailah.

Second, the CROWD. This one, to our surprise, there were almost no lines for the rides. Except a couple for the roller-coaster rides, other than that we breezed through the attractions with almost no waiting time. Ok max 5 minutes I think, tapi tak kira lah sebab kalau Disneyland tu, 15 minutes pun dah kira short time beratur hehe.

Third, the FOODS. IMHO, food was average. I imagine meriah la sedap hehe sebab local kan tapi hmmmm, boleh je lah. Mediocre. Tu yang menyesal tak seludup Burger King dalam beg hehehe. One meal set at the average of RM30, in a no-sharing portion. Serious, memang kalau share tak cukup hehe. Eh ke kita orang lapar? :P However, still considered quite cheap as compared to what we paid in USS and Disneyland hehe, sebab ni bayar in RM yer dok?

Fourth, the RIDES. Overall, the rides are good. Fun and interactive for the kids. Tapi kalau ikhlas cakap, Legoland is suitable for families with toddlers and young kids (below 10). Teenagers and above, Universal Studio is a lot better; due to the limitation of adrenaline-rush kind of rides. Disneyland wins lah apa-apa pun, sebab cater for all. Even Tokwan and Maktok enjoy the whole place.

The highlight of all is the Legoland Junior Driving School. Adam & Aiman truly enjoyed this as they get to be behind the wheel of their own Lego car and drive around the city street. The ride really look like a real world; they feel all grown up when driving around. They even got their own driving license.

Fifth, the ATTRACTIONS. Lego Miniland (miniature towns of certain Asian countries) definitely my favorite. So does everyone else lah kot, the attention to detail was amazing. Mesti nak posing beria dekat sini hehe.

Sixth, the LEGO STORE. Seriously, not as much merchandise and lego set as expected. Those Lego stores in KL lagi best rasanya. If you think the Lego set here is cheaper, heck no, same or even more expensive, as you can get a discounted set from online sellers (kalau pandai cari hehe).

The rest, toilets were clean, tak kotor pun seperti yang diseramkan hehe. Surau pun besar and bersih. Another important tips, please bring extra shirts. Walaupun nama dia Theme Park, there are few rides that will get you all wet. Unless you don't mind to buy the rain-cover from the Lego store, tapi mahal la hehe.

Lockers of different sizes available too and ATM machines pun ada dekat entrance. Overall, the theme park is well maintained. :) Tapi kalau repeat anytime soon, rasanya tak lah kot hehehehe.

ShilaShower

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Kehidupan Shilashower Selepas 2 Minggu Sesi Persekolahan 2017

January 17, 2017

Haha, tajuk drama sangat. Macamlah sebelum ni takda kehidupan. Sebelum ni ada jugak, cuma involvement pada aktiviti sekolah anak tak berapa nak serious sangat. Yer lah, sorang baru darjah satu, sorang tadika, chill lah. Adam standard one, kita orang tak kisah sangat dia nak belajar ke main ke, yang penting homework siap, exam jangan melingkup sangat hehehe. Tengok dia pun relax je, takda komplen susah ke apa, exam pun score, so kami pun tak kalut apa. Aiman lagi tak payah cerita, masa awal-awal tadika, ada hari pergi, ada hari tak pergi haha. Tapi last-last tu rajin dah pergi Brainy Bunch, sebab dia seronok satu macam.

Tapi 2017 dah lain. Belum apa-apa, Adam Haris dah start meluahkan perasaan, "darjah 2 ni subjects dah makin susah lah Mummy". Ok, dah macam red alarm tu, anak needs help. Baru first topic Math dia macam blur-blur, and I was like biar betul Adam Haris ni. Sebab Adam ni jenis competitive, sangat jarang dia nak complaint susah, usually dia akan pulun dulu kalau tak dapat baru mengeluh. Sekali bila I check buku, ya amponnnn memang melambak terms tak faham haha. Mummy pun tak faham, apatah lagi budak darjah 2 ni.

So bermulalah sesi tution dengan Mummy Shilashower. We decided to start early. Monitor dari awal, sebab mengikut perkiraan, by the time nak exam pertengahan tahun, rumah ni ada new baby, so Mummy mungkin sedikit kalut time tu. So while I am still free now, I decided to follow each thing dia belajar dekat sekolah. Buat mini poster with important points for Adam, guna Illustrator baru meriah hehe. He seems happy with that, sebab bila pergi sekolah, cikgu ajar dia semakin faham. Mummy ni tak pandai sangat mengajar, lebih nak jadi monster je, tapi kasih sayang tuuu tak boleh beli dekat mana-mana, ingat tu.

Tapi rutin, bukanlah hari-hari belajar. Hari sekolah takda pun, balik malam I allow them to play, tengok tv ke, main game sikit-sikit boleh. Yer lah, siang dah sekolah kebangsaan, then sekolah agama, takkan nak push study beria, sikit-sikit sudah. Hari Sabtu, hari main sepuas hati. Hari Ahad je kena allocate 2-3 jam untuk revision, which Mummy dengan Ayah akan monitor. Tapi bab mengaji bagi dekat Ayah, kesabaran dia tinggi sikit haha. But all in all, I think allocation time tu masih banyak kepada main, so fair lah, bukan strict sangat, only few hours on Sunday untuk tengok buku sekejap. The rest, biasanya dia orang mengadap Xbox main Minecraft, takpun Lego, swimming and etc.

Aiman on the other hand, belum dapat buku teks. Sebab Aiman dapat offer untuk join DLP class. Dual Language Program, belajar Math and Science in English. Kita orang amik masa jugak nak fikir, untuk agree atau tidak, tapi bila tengok terms Bahasa Melayu pun equally susah, so kami pun agree. Ramai jugak parents tak agree, mainly sebab takut kemampuan anak, and some dekat rumah tak biasa dengan English, so takut tak dapat bantu. Aiman ni, bab spelling reading tu masih nak kena improve, cuma dia boleh bertutur so cikgu masukkan dalam potential kids. Takpe lah Aiman, kita accept je. Dalam hidup ni mana ada benda senang.

Yang sekarang kena sambung belajar teruk ialah Mummy. Kena belajar subjects Math Science darjah 2 in BM and darjah 1 in English hahaha. Esok baby keluar, dia dah pro dua bahasa Math and Science hehehe.

As for daily routine, hari-hari I still pergi teman dia orang makan waktu rehat. Haha over kan. Dah sekolah bagi masuk sebulan, memang sebulan la muka Mummy dekat sekolah. Budak-budak sekolah pun dah kenal, "ini Mak Adam Haris dan Aiman Haris" hehe. Pergi sekolah, balik sekolah pun either me or Kown but most often my parents tolong amik. Zaman bahaya ni, memang kerja tunggu tepi sekolah je lah.

Bab monitor harta benda, Adam ok, barang all masih berlabel and cukup. Aiman pun sama jugak tapi dia ada extra. Almost everyweek ada barang kawan hahaha. Bila tanya kenapa suka angkut buku kawan ni, dia jawab, "sebab everytime before balik, kawan dia tinggal buku atas meja, takkan nak biar, nanti buku dia hilang". Haaaaaa gitu pulak. Ok lah, 10 markah untuk perilaku bertanggung jawab. :P Ada sekali tu, sampai 5 bijik buku tulis kawan dalam beg dia, dia kata sebab kawan tu tertinggal dalam drawer, hahaha jenuh pikul.

Sekolah Agama pulak, dah dapat buku teks. Buku pinjaman, tapi ya ampon, taktau nak kata tu buku ka roti kirai. Nak bukak pembalut pun taktau kot mana. Then baru flip muka surat sikit, dah bersepai habis pages haha. Buntu nak buat apa, Adam pun sedih tengok buku dia, we decided to buy a new ones. Tapi mencabar la baq hang nak dapatkan each text book sekolah agama. Sebab buku ni keluaran JAIS which tak jual dekat kedai-kedai buku, walaupun macam Pustaka Mukmin, Minerva bagai tu. Until a friend suggested, cuma call company yang print buku tu, and ask them where to buy the books. Haaaa sampai camtu lah nak mencari. But we finally dapat beli buku baru untuk Adam Haris. Printer companies satu in Melawati, satu in Templer Park and satu lagi dekat Balakong nuuuu. Nak bagi anak belajar gembira punya pasai, gigih Ayah drive jauh-jauh sana sini hehe. Buku satu RM3.50-4.00 je weh. Minyak kereta mahal lagi hehe. Nanti kita share details kalau ada parents nak beli buku teks sekolah agama Negeri Selangor untuk anak.

Ok got to go. Nak waktu rehat budak-budak ni dah. Camni lah rutin hari-hari for now. Hehe...

ShilaShower

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Hari Pertama Persekolahan - Adam Haris & Aiman Haris

January 05, 2017

Haloooo...

Kepada yang dah lama follow blog Shilashower ni, terutamanya dari zaman Adam & Aiman baby, haaaa derang berdua dah sekolah rendah youuu. How time flies kan? Dan sebab peristiwa ni sangat penting, maka Mummy kena bukak balik blogspot bersawang ni and update jugak story. Penting. Sangat penting untuk kenangan masa depan.

Adam Haris darjah 2 and Aiman Haris darjah 1. Yer, combo berganda ni dah sekolah bersama-sama. Monday was such a tiring day and by 7pm Mummy dah nampak bantal je, lain takda, dinner pun tak kuasa.

Maybe sebab first day semalam, Mummy semangat bangun pukul 5 pagi masakkan foods yang dia orang nak bawak pergi sekolah. Adam dulu standard one memang almost everyday bawa bekal, sebab dia ni tak berapa minat makanan kantin, so kita try nak train Aiman the same. So sorang dah order Olio Pasta, sorang nak Chicken Nuggets. Sebab hari pertama kan, so layankan aja request2 dia orang. Akan datang, ikut suka Mummy nak prepare breakfast box apa hehee.

Being a kekwat Mummy I am haha, nak hantar pergi sekolah pun penuh strategi. Sebab bila sampai sekolah, I yang turun dulu kereta with their two bags, pergi masuk kelas and book tempat dulu hehe. Kalau nak tunggu dia orang dua jalan, melenggang mak minah, lambattt. Adam sebab nak cari tempat bawah kipas, sebab dia kan ada eczema, so by afternoon selalunya dia dah tergaru-garu. Aiman pulak, takmau dia duduk belakang sangat, sat lagi dia main ja lebih, biar dekat Cikgu takpa hehe.

First day sekolah kebangsaan, activity quite straight forward. Budak-budak pun masuk kelas terus, kedai buku pun tak crowded maybe parents memang ramai dah get ready buku semua awal (bagus!). Cuma waktu rehat, meja macam tak cukup, ye la sebab dah parents pun pakat duduk sekali dekat meja, then kena hambat dengan cikgu hahaha baru semua bangun. Baruuu budak-budak dapat duduk makan. Biasalah, first day, bukan semua parents faham dos and donts kawasan sekolah, yer dak?

Kita risau sangat Aiman tak boleh cope new environment, sebab sekolah kebangsaan kan ramai, huru hara la sikit dari keadaan dia masa dekat Brainy Bunch. Unfortunately nope. Dia rileks je, senyum je bila kita angkat tangan dekat dia. Towards nak balik tu, siap sakan dia main dalam kelas. Meleset betul sangkaan Mummy hehe. Ni tengok gaya, dengan kawan-kawan Abang Adam dia sapu buat geng.

Tengah hari sambung sekolah agama. Ada lah break dalam sejam setengah in between dua sekolah. Bunyi agak penat tapi biarlah dia pergi sekolah agama, kalau duduk rumah, membazir masa main je lebih. Adam dulu pun awal-awal kita kesian, lama-lama dia ok je. Dari tak tau baca and tulis jawi langsung, sekarang dah boleh macam-macam. Alhamdulillah...

Adam first day ok je, sebab dia dah darjah dua. Tak sabar masuk sekolah adalah. Sebab nak jumpa kawan-kawan after long holidays kan. Aiman yang kita risaukan segala macam, rileks je. In fact, pagi-pagi dia lagi senang bangun mandi and bersiap and breakfast dari Abang. Adam kalau kejut mesti cakap, "5 minit". Dia punya 5 minit adalah 4-5 round, dekat setengah jam baru bangun.

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Beg sekolah, buku sekolah, barang sekolah all in good condition, pulang dalam kuantiti yang sepatutnya hehe. Baju sekolah je la dah kelaut warna. Boys, takkan nak expect suci murni putih baju kan hehe.

For now, Mummy belum dapat nak fikir macam mana nak adjust jadual harian. Hantar and amik sekolah. In between buat kerja and nak kena free kan time malam, sebab dah dua orang sekolah, kena focus sikit. Sebab kalau sambil lewa, jawab dia dua-dua lah main sekali. Malam semalam we started with something basic dulu, simple. Baca Iqra for 30 minutes. Lepas baca, they have 30 minutes untuk main game or tengok tv, sebelum dua-dua kena hambat pi tidoq hehe. Sebab first few weeks ni belum ada homework, so kita chill dulu. Buat yang simple. Tak berani nak terlalu chill pulak, sebab dua-dua bersama ni, satgi "brother see brother do".

Beg sekolah pun tak da nak check apa sangat, 2 orang 2 sekolah, so ada 4 beg sekolah, ada 4 kotak pensel haha. Takyah dok kelam kabut nak tukar-tukar beg, nak transfer buku and kotak pensel. Buat pening je. Tahun lepas Adam macam tu, pastu nanti buku sekolah kebangsaan and sekolah agama habis bercampur. Tahun ni dua orang, Mummy lebih prepare and details in every aspect. Gituuu.

Ok lah. Sambung nanti. (Mummy Shilashower kata antara azam tahun 2017 nak rajin update blog haha). Tengoklah nanti. :P

ShilaShower

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Cuti Melbourne - Harbour Town & CBD

February 08, 2016

Day 5 in Melbourne.

Decided to spend the whole day in Harbour Town and CBD. Bila fikir-fikir balik, tak pasti kenapa masa ni kita tak decide to give another try to Puffing Billy. Mungkin sebab hari ni pun hujan kot. Or maybe sebab semua orang dah tak sabar nak jejakkan kaki ke QV market haha.

So pagi-pagi lagi semua dah siap and bersemangat nak shopping dekat Queen Victoria market. Tapi kita tak beli apa-apa sangat, sebab the same souvenirs beli masa trips yang lepas, spesis yang sama jugaklah yang dijual masa ni. I don't need a repeat for that. Simpan duit untuk Harbour Town hehehe. Tapi for first timers, of course macam-macam nak borong dekat sini. Souvenirs untuk family and friends dekat Malaysia kan.

Dekat sini nak beli barang kena rajin pusing sikit. Tawar menawar tu tak pasti lah sebab tak berapa nampak pulak activity macam tu tapi kalau pandai cari boleh dapat quantity yang lebih. Contoh stall A mungkin jual 4 magnets for AUD10. Tapi mungkin ada satu kedai lagi yang jual 6 for AUD10. Ada yang boleh mix barang, ada yang tak boleh, so pandai-pandai pusing.

Lagi satu paling penting, QV market bukan bukak hari-hari pagi sampai petang. Dia ada specific opening time dia. So kena plan betul-betul supaya tak terlepas visiting time tu. Yang penting dia close on Monday and certain Public Holidays. So do check the website for visiting info.

Done with QV Market, kita pergi Harbour Town. Cita-cita nak shopping gitu. Unfortunately, takde la benda-benda yang best sangat. Patut pegi DFO South Wharf je rasa. Tapi ada jugak beli sikit-sikit barang budak-budak, benda-benda cute yang macam eh tak jumpa ni dekat Malaysiaaa. Pumpkin Patch pun tak banyak choice mungkin sebab Autumn season. Kalau beli pun, baju-baju tu nak pakai dekat Malaysia time bila pulak hehe.

Then kita lunch dekat Chilli Padi Kopitiam at Waterfront City. Dalam area Harbour Town jugak. Price wise ok lah, AUD10-12. Korang jangan la convertttt. Heheh. Tapi kalau nak detail lagi boleh check website dia sini. CHILLIPADI WATERFRONT CITY. Hah boleh congak siap-siap apa nak makan and berapa AUD nak bayar hehehe.

Actually masa ni hari hujan jugak. Hujan manja-manja. Lebat sangat tak, sikit sangat pun tak, makna kata kita orang redah je hujan. Hehe. Masa pergi QV market kita drive and park dekat sana. And then pergi Harbour Town kita drive lagi and park dekat open parking space depan Harbour Town. Done with Harbour Town, kita nak pergi sebelah State Library sana. Nak pergi masuk segala David Jones Myer segala hehe.

So we took the FREE tram from Harbour Town to La Trobe Street (stop at the corner of State Library Victoria). From there boleh la free and easy jalan-jalan ikut suka. Don't worry of getting sesat, the whole area macam square shape je. Habis kuat pun you akan sampai Flinders Street Railway Station, lepas tu pusing balik hehe.

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Dah habis tawaf (also dah nak habis duit haha), we hopped onto the free tram again and back to Docklands again. Kereta dekat sana kan. Parking fee tak ingat dah berapa masa tu. Hehe.