Saturday, December 29, 2012

Sanrio Hello Kitty Town, Malaysia

It's no secret that my girls and I have been talking about a getaway (even if it's somewhere near) since school started in late September! Decided to make a trip to Sanrio Hello Kitty Town, Puteri Habour Nusajaya, Malaysia for our Christmas outing. Just a 10 minutes ride from M'sia's custom via Tuas. 

Took a 0830 bus from Singapore Flyer via WTS Travel, and reached the place at about 1000, exactly the official opening hours of the place.

We were greeted by this cute little Hello Kitty Board. Red Bow Cafe's one of the available snacking cafe you'd find in the building!
Hello Kitty House
The first "attraction" that we went into the moment we got into the theme park. Greeted by Kitty & Daniel! But, I think they're a little too skinny HAHA!
A tour around the kitchen, with Hello Kitty litter bin! Cute or cute?
Hello Kitty Coaster I can't help to fall in love with. (I'm not a major Kitty fan btw. My friend is.)
Their Kitty bowls and saucers. Imagine you're Kitty/Daniel, everything in your house is filled with your own face. Hmmmm.


Kitty Chimneys! 
And they have got 2 Kitty day beds for us to take picture with! But their huge kitty's abit distorted with "necks" HAHA disgusting.

Kitty's Mirror.
Cousin and I!
One pathetic question for you to answer. And if you get the answer wrong, everyone else will know cuz the computer will give off a loud "X"! Embarrassing much.
Outside the Hello Kitty house, we have the amazing Hello Kitty Statues. 
Disclaimer: The lighting in the entire house, sucks. So if you want to take nice pictures, better get a good camera prepared.
Queuing for the next attraction, bracelet making.
Ta-da, on our hands!
Then we've decided to take a break from all the queuing and waiting, so we sat down for the show, held in the middle of the parade square. 

Melody why you hide behind this ugly penguin!
 Kitty and Daniel on stage engaging the younger kids!
Then we have Cookie Making. Yes, as interesting as it might sound, we're only given 2 diluted colours (red & brown / strawberry & chocolate) and we're supposed to "colour" our own kitty and finish up the cookie in 5mins. Everything's really designed for young kids. 
I've decided to go without the strawberry colouring cuz it doesn't look appealing.
 & then I've decided to colour my Kitty brown HAHA!
One of the best attractions there would be Hello Kitty Black Wonder. We are supposed to act like some professional detective, going around the Kitty maze to find clues to our problem! But seriously, other than the interior design interests us.... the rest are really the kids' things. 
 Save Daniel!
 And Kitty!
 We had to look for clues in this room made up of Kitties and Daniels all dressed up for prom!
 The detectives holding on to the torch given to us at the entrance to look for clues in the pool!
 Put your hand into the holes to get your clues!

 And when you found your answer, get to the exit and you're required to type the answer into their system! You'll see this screen if you're correct!

 Certificate awarded!
 Maybe the most colourful thing that attracts queue in the place is this Kitty Teapot! 
 You can choose between riding Hello Kitty, 
 Or Dear Daniel!

 To fulfill my crazy Hello Kitty fan friend's (left) wish, she had to take Hello Kitty!
 And we settle for Dear Daniel!
The last attraction would be Costumes Dress Up and Photo Studio! They only provide 3 sets of customes for the adults, so Jia Le had to settle with the kid's Hello Kitty Costume.
 Why I need to wear this black ugly bat looking penguin thing :(
 The Kitty fan! Nobody dare to fight with her over the Kitty costume. 


 I had to squat to cover Jia Le's overgrown legs HAHA 
 At the end of the day, we bought 4 photos, one each! At 100RM for 4, we get an extra 8R photo for free! Quite worth it right!
 Major cuteness!
Btw, we are only allowed into all the attraction once. An activity card (below) will be given at the entrance so you'll have to get them stamped before heading into the attractions!
We had our meals settled at The Little Big Club, which wasn't a wonderful experience and I'll talk about it soon!

Overall, I think this place is worth to go, ONCE. HAHAHAHA

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Christmas Celebration with OGLians

The company had Christmas dinner together!

Fika Swedish Cafe and Bistro (Halal)
9 Raffles Boulevard #01-20

 Before food and the rest came
 One more with Jasmine
 Aglio Olio with Chicken
I'm a huggggge fan of pastas (noodles to be exact) and this comes with my favourite linguine which makes it my favourite dish of the night. Couldn't comment much on the taste because I usually have a whole plate of pasta to myself but we ordered this to share instead.
 Swedish Pannbiff
It's Swedish Beef Patties served with their own cream sauce! I'm a fan of beef but not cream sauce. Anything creamy makes me feel like puking. In my opinion, this will not be something I'll try for a second time. The beef patties are a bit harder than they're supposed to be.
 Swedish Meatballs
Maybe the meatballs' a better choice compared to the beef patties I would say.
 Fika Christmas Platter
Just at $29.90, this platter serves 2 with smoked salmon, roasted turkey slices, soft dyed rye bread and many many other small portions of food including their meatballs. I don't really fancy the idea of having red beet salad in almost every dish they serve though.
 Seafood Pasta
This huge plate of seafood pasta again serves 2, but you could have it in cream sauce, tomato sauce or aglio style. Your choice to make! Recommended for those who love seafood cuz the Huge Tiger Prawns and mussels are delicious, just by the look of it!
 Planstek - Fika Style (MUST TRY!)
Grilled Ribs with BBQ sauce with mashed potatoes at the side! The ribs are tender I would say, not bad a choice. Quite pricey for 2 pax though, at $68.90. As I mentioned, I really don't like creamy/milky food but their mashed potato is nice! It really melts in the mouth with no chunky bits of potatoes.
Couldn't get hold of the rest of the food but we had at least 5 to 6 dishes more. Then we kind of ended the meal by revealing our secret santa and my secret receiver had a last minute change due to some unforseen circumstances (HAHA!) But nothing is better than having my own twinnie as my secret santa! Thank you Esther :')
After that, we had our second round of drinks at Paulander Muchen, just a couple of steps away from Fika. 
& we ended the night with rounds and rounds of arm wrestling, which I topped the loser's hall of frame. What a shame (I have muscles ok!)
Thank you OGL for the company, food and drinks :)