It's December!

Stating the obvious is one way to start a blog post (as per my opinion). Of course, if it is unacceptable, please tell me. Maybe a philosophical quote would be better, preferably in Latin (Do you know Germans get to learn Latin as a second language? So cool! A German couple told us when my family were in Taman Negara). Or maybe to you, the sentence ‘It’s December!’ is worth deciphering from the philosophical point of view. Let me just tell you: There is none. I really am just stating the obvious because I have no idea what to write as the title (as always).

So why am I here again? One is because I just went to a happy place! And happy events are always worth blogging down. Oh ok ok, I am also happy during the other times I am not blogging too. So what other reason made me want to blog today? Well, long story short: My lecturer said my English is not up to standard. Yup. Personally I think my English is not too bad (Definitely better than the Malaysian population). But who knows right? Maybe my English really do suck so here is an informal way to practice my English. SPECIALISTS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT! We students are always the wrong ones :)

So what was I saying before? Ah yes, I went to a happy place. At Johor. Guess? NO IT’S NOT HELLO KITTY LAND. But it’s close.

I went to Legoland.

From what I heard from others, Legoland is too costly and not really a nice place to go. And therefore, my expectation was so low, I didn’t have any expectations at all. In fact, I didn’t want to go before that. I had a busy and extremely tiring week but mom insisted I go (You chaperone the kids la… Yes, I’ve finally reached the chaperoning age. Old already.)

Let’s just say, I didn’t regret going.

My new motto in life should be: Don’t have any expectations. Life will turn out better that way.

Italicise it:

‘Don’t have any expectations. Life will turn out better that way’- TPG

Ahah! Now it looks super official!

Uhum, ah yes Legoland. Not going to say much. I will list it out what I observed and may you take it as tips if you are ever going to go there one day ;)

1. It really is a super kid friendly park. The maximum height limit in the whole park is 130cm and my 11 year old brother can ride it all without much complains (Except after he rode The Dragon. It made him nauseated and he had to go to the toilet to puke. But after that he rode it 3 more times, one after the other, without any complain.) If you don't feel like spending all that money going there now, wait till you have children. Bring them there and you will have happy kids. And happy kids = Happy family.

2. Remember to bring sunblock and sunglasses. The sun burns down on us almost the whole day and without sunglasses, we had to squint our eyes against the sun in almost all the picture. Hideous.

3. More importantly! Bring umbrella. One moment we were on the verge of getting sunburnt, dark cumulus nimbus appeared and rained upon us. We were stuck at a café for up to 1 hour before we decide to follow the YOLO concept and ran under the rain to another ride nearby.

4. Go to a pharmacy and buy a cheap one time use raincoat just to play Dino Land. In some ‘river concept’ rides, it depends on your luck whether you will be splashed. This is not one of them. Every single person on the ‘boat’ was drenched from head to toe.

4. We took the normal park + water park package. We went to the normal park first before going to the water park. If I had to go again, I would play at the water park first THEN proceed to the normal park. One reason being water park closes 2 hour earlier. Second, you don’t have to fight for the shower at 6pm when it closes. The shower room as HAVOC. Babies screaming, people glaring at you when you push pass them to go the entrance (We were packed like sardines, what you expect?)

5. Those rides where you have to wait up to an hour to ride? Skip it first. Come back after 6pm. You don’t even have to queue up. The ride managers would even ask you if you want to go again. Of course yes lah! (That’s how we rode The Dragon 3 times at one go. We were so immune to the G force by then I was closing my eyes and almost falling asleep. Hey, can’t blame me! I was chaperoning the kids *and being a kid also haha*)

6. The water park? Meh, wasn’t that special. In fact, it doesn’t look very ‘Lego’, except the Build-It Raft. THAT, is a really cute and creative ride that has a more Lego component. It’s just like the typical ‘river’ where you lie on a raft and float around the park but for this particular ride, there are floating Lego! Palm sized plastic Lego! So adorable :3 While floating you can build Lego structures using the plastic Legos.

7. We left Miniland as the last place to go. Not a good choice if you want to take amazing pictures of those delicate gorgeous handmade Lego structures. They are really jaw dropping. I can’t even build a house and they built KL cityscape, Tanah Lot of Bali, Angkor Wat of Cambodia. They are really replicas of the real thing. I don’t know why they chose to build a port and KLIA, they aren’t really famous but the detail of those structures… I have no words to describe it >.<

8. Remember to keep an eye out for promotions! We bought our tickets online from Legoland. RM440 for 4 person, for both theme park, applicable to adult and children. Quite cheap :)

Yup I guess that’s about it. Just keep your expectations to a minimum and just have fun! :D The place is really kind of cute and being a sort of Lego fan myself, I enjoyed myself. It could do with more rides related to their more famous series such as Star Wars and Harry Potter but I guess those belonged to other theme parks such as Disneyland and Universal Studios.

Shall end this post with a picture of me at Miniland beside some super adorable buildings <3 p="">

(It was raining, a drop of rain must have obscured part of my camera. The towel was my ‘umbrella’. Just 'cow bathed' at the shower because there is just too many people and that explains the wet hair)

OH YES! Go Legoland as soon as possible because even know it is still ‘young’, I noticed at some areas, the paint is chipped off and one of the floor boards of one of the rides is loose! Even the colour of the Lego has faded due to prolonged sunlight exposure :( Let’s just hope it’s maintenance remains up to par for an internationally owned theme park but because they are more used to building parks for temperate countries and not tropical countries, who knows what will happen right? Still, Legoland Malaysia is too cute to suffer from an early demise.

LONG LIVE LEGO!

(And please correct me if I used any English words wrongly in this and any other blog post. Really serious about wanting to improve my English. Serious.)