Our September JB Holiday Day 4

All good times come to an end. Sob. 

We had intended to head back early to avoid the custom jam. After some discussions, we agreed on Aeon Mall, which is somewhere near to Austin Heights. We used to frequent that mall. 

Daddy Lim still think that we could have a light bfast, then an early lunch before we head back. Hmmm… I am sure we were already heavy from before the trip. 

Bags packed. Bye to the decent hotel but with no gym. 

We came with 1 luggage and go home with 1 (plus some extra plastic bags) too. 

Aeon Mall was about 30 mins drive from the hotel. Memories flooded when we turned into the carpark. The 1st thing was to send the kids to the Rocky Basecamp. 

Then to quickly grab a coffee and more shopping. Haha.

I ordered the popular Spanish Latte. I asked the staff what exactly it is - coffee, milk and sugar. Chey. What a fanciful name for a latte with sugar. It wasn’t too bad; the right amount of sweetness.

We headed back to the kids, wanting to take more pictures. The kids are very much into bouldering now. 

Bouldering is seriously hard work. Actually, I really don’t get the joy from trying to hang from one’s fingers. That sounds super torturing and painful to me. 

Also, a lot of falling. I mean, look at the poor fingers, how to hold a body weight? Why even attempt to try or train them to do so ah?

The kids didn’t last the full 2 hour session. On the way to the Center, we saw go-kart and the boys wanted to try. 

I am no fan of driving and if I must, I would have opted for the “Child Speed”. Why bother? Only the boys went and opted of course for the “Professional Speed”. There goes Zaky well-styled hair. Haha.

Nana was just happy with her Rotiboy, which had exited Singapore. 

The Professional Speed karts didn’t look that fast but Zaky said that they feel fast, maybe bcos the circuit was tiny. 

We finally headed for lunch. Our last Korean meal. At least there was enough interval from bfast to allow us to feel peckish.

And some kopi and teh, in prep of the long way home. 

Fortunately, there was almost no wait at the custom and we cleared both sides smoothly. We came home to Mochi, who is well and alive! 

We paid $30 per day to Nana’s friend from Youth to visit on Saturday and Sunday to feed Mochi and supplement with kibbles from the auto feeder. She said that Mochi hissed at her on day 1. I didn’t know Mochi hiss. Does he recognise us? At least he didn’t hiss at us. Haha. Does he miss us? I have no way of telling. 

This will probably be the last trip (for a long time) that we will drive in to Malaysia, until we figure out what to do with the VEP. Haiz. So painful. 

Mummy Lim 

Our September JB Holiday Day 3

It was getting harder to wake up and to wake up for a HIIT workout. I would gladly do the treadmill or elliptical anytime. Mental note to check for gym the next time. Will power wins and I still did my HiiT, though it takes me a long time to scroll through the list of YouTube video (still on the bed) and to choose one that seems tolerable. 

I finally remembered to take pictures of the pick and choose bfast. 

The plan for the day was Paradigm Mall crawling, ice skating, rock climbing and KTV singing. We made it to the mall at 10ish and Zaky had started to lose patience for shopping, unless we were looking for/ at his stuff. 

Camp 5, which is the rock climbing and bouldering Center, starts their 1st “guided climb” session at 12pm and that was full. We mistakenly thought that this was the only activity and signed the kids for the 1.30pm slot. We also checked out the ice skating sessions and Nana was very excited to see a fellow Singaporean skater. 

We were for lunch and archery to burn time. 

It was my 1st time shooting so many arrows. My left arm hurts from holding the bow and my right fingers hurt from pulling the sling. Tiring siol. 

Then to the claw machines. Bcos we had successes, we became very excited and spent even more $$.

I don’t even think the kids care about the prizes, they were just thrilled over winning. Who can blame them? I got very excited too.

The kids headed to Camp 5. Daddy Lim and I followed our calling - the shopping. We stayed long enough to take some pictures. Parents’ duty done. 

It was only almost after the hour that we figured out that the Center has the whole day access pass to the auto-belay rock climbing and bouldering. Zaky was still excited to continue, but Nana complained that her fingers hurt so much. The 1 hour session that they went for required them to take turns and thus a fair amount of waiting. Nevertheless, a good workout for them.

We skipped ice skating as well bcos the rink was crowded and we saw puddles forming. Never mind. All those climbing made the kids hungry and the parents benefitted too. What is a Malaysia trip without A&W? I think A&W taste better in Malaysia.

We headed back to the hotel to park the car. The Karaoke was in the KSL Mall and the mall was about 7 mins walk from the hotel. From our room, Daddy Lim spotted little tentages set up along our route to the mall and we decided to go explore, much to Zaky’s dismay. Haha, 

It turned out to be a make shift pasar malam along a super narrow stretch and it was so crowded. At least the walk to the mall had become very exciting as I ogled at all the good food but it was too early for dinner. Zaky didn’t agree though and complained that it was too hot and squeezy. Too bad, too sad. 

I think we just had a tired teenager. He also said that karaoke is not fun, that he is not going to sing but nap in the room. Ya, right… Nana thoroughly enjoyed herself. She had been dying to go singing. 

I would have loved buying all the pasar malam food and feast in the hotel but Daddy Lim and the kids didn’t share my passion and we ended at the Nanyang kopi for dinner. I kept my stomach though. We bought grilled beef (too tough), satay, otah, egg oyster on the way home. There was quite some waiting for the food bcos of the crowd and that was unpleasant but otherwise not too bad. 

Last night of our holiday! 

Mummy Lim

Our September JB Holiday Day 2 Part 2

We went to Eco Palladium Mall bcos there is the “Floor is Lava” game. However, bcos we didn’t make a reservation, the next available slot was at 6.30pm. Reservation can be made via their FB/ IG page. 

We contemplated going to the rollerskating rink only to find it super mini and doing rounds in that small size will probably make us dizzy. We saw an Escape Room and booked a 3.30pm slot. With some time to burn, we went to play pool. 

We look quite pro right? But we are actually very bad. Bcos we are so bad, constantly hitting the balls from one end of the table to another without pocketing them, we didn’t even finish 2 games before we need to head back for Escape Room.

Eco Palladium is actually a good place for IG worthy pictures. Classic black and white. We saw somebody taking bridal pictures.

The Escape Room only has 2 rooms for the time being - one scary and the other not. I have scardy cat kids, who refused to do the scary theme one. I also scare actually. The scary theme room has staff who would chase after participants in pitch black environment. Not good.

The theme that we chose ended up to be super simple and we completed the room in 30 mins. In the many escape rooms that we had played, we had to ask for hints multiple times, and barely solved the rooms in 1 hour. This one, the clue is super obvious and easy. 

We had 2 hours to burn and decided to stop for a drink and snacks.

Nana did some revision work, the rest of us simply indulged in social media. I got so tired that I dozed off. We left the cafe at 5.30pm to head for dinner. Haha. Ya, nothing but eating. 

We found Roast & Coffee, a popular cafe chain and the food is really not bad, just very spicy.

Finally, to Lava Floor! We had to wait a little, and there is ample of nice waiting space. Meanwhile, the son is constantly touching and styling his hair. Zzzz.

Our turn! For RM45 each, we have 25 mins in the room. 

It was a lot of fun and a lot of running and jumping and screaming in 25 mins. Totally exhausting. When we were done, we realised that we are a panicky family who would have died very quickly if one day the floor did turn lava. We barely crossed level 12 while the 2 persons team in the other room was “walking” coolly and at level 30 with still time to spare. We are lousy. lol.

The last stop of the day was Danga Bay and it took us 30 mins drive to reach Danga Bay. 

We arrived to a lot of lights but the amusement part has actually closed down. The amusement park machines are still on the ground, which is why we didn’t know that it had closed down bcos we passed by it on our first day and I saw the Viking and other rides. 

There was nothing much to do and we left. We saw many locals parking in the lot, taking out their picnic chairs and chilling. No lah, too many mosquitoes. We contemplated heading to karaoke but Zaky was super tired and so were we. We decided to push it to the next day. 

What we did do is another Ramly Burger for the boy. I duno how he can burn all these food.

We passed by durian stalls but simply were too full to eat. So wasted. 

Zaky really did fall asleep very quickly. Running away from the lava is really tiring. 

Mummy Lim