School Holiday & Mummy Went On Leave

 

  

@ Glow by Zinc  

 bowling

 

with her 18k white gold earring

 

swimming at EQ

from Big Bad Wolf

The 1 week school holiday officially starts on Mon. Mummy took leave as we had an appointment with the psychiatric in General Hospital. We went out from our home at about 8.30am and it took us several rounds to find a car park, thou it was not a proper car park space. We started with the outpatient department (001) with registration followed by a simple check by the GP. Wonderfully the whole process only took us 20-25mins before we proceeded to the Psychiatric Department. As earlier mentioned, mummy suspected Emeryn has attention deficit disorder (AD) where she can't stay focus for long. We are getting a second opinion from GH as the assessment charges by Adventist is too costly, RM2,000. From the first check up, Dr Lai prescribed a medicine which will makes Emeryn stay focus for a longer duration. Mummy's preference on treatment is surely not medicine to be taken orally. Dr Lai scheduled another follow up on 15th Apr, which probably daddy will bring Emeryn there. GH has practically improved so much from many years ago. From consulting the GP, to the psychiatric and lastly collecting the medicine, it only took us 2 hours in total. Thumbs up!!!

Next we headed to Glow, a newly opened chic hotel by Zinc at Macalister Road. Mummy ordered the set lunch which comes with onion soup, honey glazed roasted chicken, sweet potato with coconut cream as the dessert and an iced lemon tea for herself and spaghetti chicken bolognese for Emeryn. Surprisingly Emeryn enjoyed the onion soup and the dessert too. The restaurant was nicely decorated with funky and colorful portraits. After our delicious lunch, we went to 1st Avenue to catch a movie. We were so lucky to reach on time before the screening and we bought a ticket for Mr Peebody and Sherman. Overall the movie was fantastic and we both enjoyed it well. After the movie we went home and spent the evening at home.

Emeryn attended full day at the daycare from Tues- Thurs. Again, mummy took leave on Fri as we have another appointment with 2 Way Centre, a NGO establishment to further assess Emeryn for the attention deficit disorder. We went downtown for breakfast before our appointment. We were attended by a lady, whom is doing her Master Studies in Child Psychology. Her immediate superior is a Child Psychologist in Adventist and Ms Yeoh is her senior. We only need to pay RM30 per session and fortunately they do assessment for AD at this low cost. We will have to go back to Adventist for assessment and other intervention. How lucky of us to have such premium treatment at a much lower price.

After the session, we went to the Big Bad Wolf Sale again where mummy helped her colleagues to get some books and again we bought some for Emeryn. We spent 2 hours there before walking over to Mc Cafe for lunch. We headed home after lunch and later mummy decided to bring Emeryn for a swim at Hotel EQ as Emeryn has repeatedly request mummy to bring her for a swim. Mummy went into her office to pass the books she bought for her colleagues before we headed to the pool. Emeryn swam alone for about 45mins before we picked Aunty Jenny and her kids to Sunshine Square. We went for 2 games of bowling before having our dinner together. After dinner mummy bought Emeryn a 18k white gold earring as she develops allergy wearing the costume jewellery. That pair of earring costs mummy RM190. Ever since buying more books from Big Bad Wolf, Emeryn has develop a very good habit. She would read at least one book before her bedtime and bring at least 2-3 books each time we go out. Of course, mummy has to sit beside her to read together and explain to her.

On Sat, Emeryn attended her classes as usual while mummy went for an hour of health talk by Preventive Healthcare at B-Suite. Mummy was so happy to find out her body age is actually 4years younger than her real age from the simple health check available there. Again Emeryn requested for a swim after her Art Class. We went over to Aunty Su Ching's apartment but unfortunately the weather wasn't too kind to us. It started to drizzle after 15mins and we were force to stop swimming. Emeryn tried to swim using the swimming board but she fell off into the water after removing one side of her hand on the board. She developed headache after that. We drove home right after and Emeryn slept almost immediately after her shower.

We started our Sun earlier than the usual weekend. We went to the Nissan car service as mummy needed to do a second service after 5000km of mileage. After the car service, again we dropped by at the Big Bad Wolf sale. Yes, again. It was our 4th time there during the promotion period. Never missed out on any good deals, mummy spent again buying some activities books for Emeryn and some which mummy will keep as a gift. After spoiling ourselves at the book sale, mummy went for a Cheng Beng prayers at the Than Siang Temple before going home. 

Upon reaching home, Emeryn requested to do a bunny painting, an activity box which mummy bought from the sale. We spent our afternoon at home until 7pm catching up last minutes on Emeryn's school homework before going over to Por Por's house. We had our dinner there before leaving home. At home, we continued with Emeryn's homework and we played 2 set of Old Maid game before our bedtime.

Big Bad Wolf Sale

 

Emeryn's book

 donating for a good cause

We flew home from Johor on Mon evening and Emeryn skipped school for a day. The following day Emeryn attended school as usual and tuition class in the evening. On Wed evening we went to Popular sales at One Stop along with Aunty Chiek Mei who followed us along. We left home empty handed as the payment queue was too long, the payment system is not ready for the big sales. Mummy bumped into her colleague, William whom helped us to pay for 2 dvds which Emeryn requested for. The sales wasn't that great compare to the previous years.

Emeryn tagged along with mummy for her dinner gathering on Thurs evening at Little Cottage. After the gathering, we rushed home to complete Emeryn's homework. We visited the Big Bad Wolf book sale at Times Square on Fri evening. We spent at least 2hours there grabbing some really good bargain. Mummy spent RM166 on Emeryn's books, mostly story books. After the book hunt, we had our dinner at the newly opened Mc Cafe next to Times Square. We went home tired but super happy with the loots.

On Sat Emeryn attended 3 classes as usual and mummy prepared lunch for Emeryn, so that she don't have to come back to get lunch for Emeryn in between. Again, mummy went to the Big Bad Wolf again. This time, mummy spent 3hours there and spent another RM100 on Emeryn's books again. Besides spending on the books, mummy also donated 4 books to the Penang State Library. Mummy picked Emeryn after her Art Class and we spent the rest of the day at home.

On Sun morning, we went out for late breakfast with mummy's friend. After the breakfast we spent our day at home before going out at about 3.30pm. We went to the Popular sale hoping to get some good bargain. Unfortunately we didn't managed to grab anything except for some small stationary. What a waste!!! We then went to Por Por's place for our usual Sun visit and had early dinner there before leaving. Emeryn brought home some rice and soup which she wanted to have later at nite.

Hello Kitty Land

 @ City Square

 

 

 

Toki Ee Ee and mummy's cousins decided not to join us at Johor. Thus we proceeded with our original plan of visiting Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park which consists of Hello Kitty Land and The Little Big Club. Emeryn woke mummy up as early as 7am and requested mummy to bring her to 7-11 to grab her breakfast. She bought milk and biscuit for breakfast. We then get ourselves ready for our Day 2 adventure. We went to the lobby and check for transportation to Puteri Harbour at the reception. We were very fortunate to be offered a ride at only RM20 for both of us, instead of paying RM60 per cab. We shared a 7-seaters with another family of 5. The driver dropped them at Legoland before sending us to Puteri Harbour. It started raining as soon as we reached the 3-storey complex. We purchased a combo park ticket at RM85 each. Mummy did not bring along our Legoland ticket, else we would be entitle for a 10% discount. This is the first Sanrio Hello Kitty theme park outside of Japan, consists of various walk-through attractions, interactive activities and rides which follow the Hello Kitty theme.

Before going in, we snapped some photo at the cafe next to the ticketing counter. We were greeted by the Bad Badtz-Maru with his naughty actions which Emeryn dislikes. We went to the Hello Kitty Friendship Land and enjoyed our first ride together, tea cup rides. Right after the ride, we have the photo opportunities with Hello Kitty before proceeding to Cookie Studio. We both made our Hello Kitty shaped cookies there. At the Wishful Studio, we also have the chance to enjoy jewelry making and badge making with Sanrio characters on it. We made a bracelet with the Hello Kitty ribbon.

Next we visited the iconic Hello Kitty house complete with living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. It was nicely decorated with pinkish Hello Kitty theme, such a fairy tale imagination. Emeryn also spent some time at the indoor playground before we proceeded to the Black Wonder, a hi-tech interactive themed experience and Kitty House. Before ending our tour at Hello Kitty, we were entertained at the "Purrfect" stage which houses a live performance by Hello Kitty and her friends.

We continued to the second level of The Little Big Club where it houses Pingu's Igloo, Barney's Yard & Playhouse, Angelina's Dance Studio and Bob the Builder Play Structure. As we stepped into Level 2, we were just in time to watch the Barney's live sing-along show. Next Emeryn visited the Barney's Playhouse where the kids can watch the Barney movie on the tv screen with a re-creation of the set in the television series. Amongst the 6 themed interactive play zones at The Little Big Club is the Angelina Ballerina play zone where the little dancing stars can dress up and get a dance class from their favourite ballerina, Angelina. The little participants were dressed in cute tutus. 

We went to the Lat's Place for our lunch. Over there we get the opportunity to discover life in Lat's village at this state-of-art themed restaurant, where Lat the Kampung Boy and his LAToon friends come to life through live animation. Impressively the lunch set was really delicious and Emeryn enjoyed every bits of it.

After lunch we continued our adventure to the Bob the Builder's interactive 'Build It Zone' where the kids can join Bob's 'Can-do Crew' and help their favourite builder by getting involved in all aspects of building a house. We skipped the South Pole at Pingu's very own igloo as we need to pay for the games there. 

At Level 3, we also get the chance to ride Bertie the bus for a journey, fly on Harold the Helicopter, join Toby on his favourite Windmill Ride, visit Sir Topham Hatt's play station and join in the fun at the Thomas & Friends Imagination Station where we had a train ride. The ride Emeryn enjoyed the most were Colin Crane Drop Ride and Bumping Buffers Steamies & Diesels Ride. Mummy could hear her laughter everywhere. In addition to all of this, we didn't missed the chance to captured the  interactive character meet and greets throughout the day.

The park closed at 6pm and Emeryn bought a Barney t-shirt as a souvenir before leaving. Instead of taking the pricey cab ride back to the hotel, we took a bus ride to JB Sentral. The whole journey took us about 40mins. We had our dinner at KFC before taking a cab back to the hotel as Emeryn refused to shop around at City Square. She slept at 9pm after getting her shower. 

We started our last day at Johor late. After grabbing a quick breakfast, we lazed around in the room until we checked out at 11am. We then took a cab to City Square along with Aunty Su Ching and You Ying. We walked separately upon reaching and meet again at 3pm to catch a cab to the Johor Premium Outlet. We had our lunch before going over to JPO. We shopped for about 2 hours at JPO before taking the bus ride heading to the airport. Ah Kong and Por Por picked us from the airport and we went for a late dinner before they dropped us home.

Legoland

@ Legoland boating school, driving school and airport city

@ Miniland

theme park

water park

As we are flying to Johore on Sat morning, mummy decided that we should get an early rest to prepare for the long day ahead on Sat. After school we went for dinner at Pappa Rich, Egate with Aunty Grace. Aunty Grace needed some guidance from mummy on creating photobook. Mummy has successfully redeemed a total of 15 photobooks thus far. We spent 2hours at the dinner before heading home. After shower mummy requested Emeryn to end her night early while leaving mummy to pack for our 3days 2nites trip.

We started our Sat as early as 4.45am where Aunty Su Ching's mummy dropped us to the airport. We are flying along with Aunty Su Ching and You Ying and our flight was scheduled at 6.55am. Upon touching down at Senai Airport, we had our breakfast at Subway before catching a cab direct to Legoland. We abandoned our earlier plan of taking the free shuttle to JB Sentral enroute to Legoland, in order not to waste time on traveling. 

We reached Legoland before 9.30am and wandered around till 9.45am when we were allowed to purchase our entrance ticket. Amazingly we were the first customer of the day, despite fearing the long queue we initially thought. We paid for an adult combo ticket of RM175 and got a free child ticket with the Dutch Lady cut-out coupon. Before the park was open for the day, we snapped some photo at the Legoland Hotel. We were greeted with a welcoming dance performance by the staff before the opening and the appearance of a mascot. We took a locker to store our luggage before exploring the theme park.

We started the day with the fierce sun following us from the driving school to boating school, to Legoland Express and followed by a quick tour at the Miniland. We skipped the Shipyard as it is just a themed playground. We had our lunch after exploring the Miniland. We then proceeded to the Lego City Stage where there was an on-going performance. After the show we continued with the Lego Rescue Academy where we have to jump start the fire truck and pump the water to the water hose to put off the fire. It was a tremendous hard task for the two of us as it needed physical strength to do it. In normal circumstances, it needs at least 2 adults to move the fire truck. Nevertheless the mother & daughter team did just well. Lastly we ended the Lego City with the Lego City Airport station.

Next, we headed to the Land of Adventure starting with the Pharaoh's Revenge followed by the Lost Kingdom train ride. Emeryn doesn't enjoy the ride as it was a train ride under the dark. We then played the Beetle Bounce and Emeryn enjoyed this ride the most. We skipped the Dino Island as it looked like a scary boat ride.

We walked into the Imagination section where the whole area was nicely decorated. We started off with the Lego Studio 4-D Show, followed by going up to the Observation Tower where we enjoyed the scenic view of the whole Legoland in 360 degree and lastly the Kids Power Tower where we have to pull up our own ride.

Looking at the time constraint, we hurried our way to Lego Kingdoms where we first played on the Merlin's Challenge. It was a fast carousel ride and mummy felt a bit of dizziness after the ride leaving Emeryn for her second ride. After that, we walked up to the Castle Stage where there was another performance going on. We didn't want to waste anymore time there and proceeded to the Royal Joust which was an outdoor lego horse ride. We skipped the Dragon's Apprentice and The Dragon , both the roller-coaster ride.

We leave the Lego Technic section for later of the day and headed straight to the water park at about 3.15pm. After playing for an hour at the water park, suddenly a heavy down pour begin but luckily it only lasted for 5mins. The heavy down pour washed away the heat on the ground and we had a more pleasant play at the park. Amazingly mummy's lil' cheeky completed EVERY single slides bravely. That was so not like the usual Emeryn. One word, IMPRESSED. We played up to 6.15pm where the water theme park closed for the day. After taking our shower, we proceeded back to the theme park.

We visited the Lego Technic where mummy accompanied Emeryn for the Technic Twister. Again it was a spinning ride. Next, Emeryn proceeded to the Aquazone Wave Racers on her own. We walked in to the Lego Academy but we left in less than 5mins as Emeryn wasn't too keen on building lego. We then repeated some of Emeryn's favorite rides which consist of Kids Power Tower and Beetle Bounce. We also tried to complete those which we missed out earlier at the Duplo Express and Duplo Playtown. Before ending the fun day, we went to the souvenir shop and mummy got Emeryn a mug and a small teddy bear. Last but not least we spent our last 10mins at the Shipyard, a ship-themed playground before biding goodbye to Legoland.

We meet up with Aunty Su Ching and You Ying at the entrance area and took a cab straight to Tune Hotel. Before checking in, we had our dinner at the shop lot next to Tune Hotel. Emeryn fell asleep in just 10mins upon checking into our room. She was obviously too tired to stay awake. We both walked under the sun and rain from 10am till 7.45pm. Bravo to a funtastic trip.

Fever, Go Away Please

 the sick parrot

On Tues evening Emeryn complained of her high temperature as soon as mummy picked her from school. She was having fever since early afternoon and endured it throughout the whole schooling session. Upon reaching home, Emeryn took her panadol and light dinner before attending the BM tuition. While Emeryn was at the tuition, mummy attended the wake of Sherine Ee Ee's granny at downtown. After the wake, mummy picked Emeryn from tuition 30mins earlier before the tuition ended. 

Mummy took half day leave on Wed morning to take care of Emeryn and to make sure her temperature is ok before sending her to school. For the first time ever, mummy directed Emeryn to bring her medicine to school as she needed to take her panadol 6 hourly to make sure her fever goes off entirely. Sadly her fever comes and goes and has never ended and accompanied by a very nasty cough.

On Fri evening, mummy dropped Emeryn at Por Por's place while she went out for a quick dinner and some catch up session with her friend. Carmen Ee Ee went over to Por Por's house with her new pet doggy, Shiro. Emeryn had fun playing with Shiro that evening. Later at night, we went out for a mid-nite coffee at Kaffa Espresso. Sherine Ee Ee and her mom joined us as well. We ended the night at about 11.30pm and headed home.

Emeryn attended her usual classes on Sat. In the evening, we went out for a quick dinner with Carmen Ee Ee and her family. Her fever does not go away entirely, thus mummy decided to bring her to LWE. Emeryn needs a speedy recovery before our trip to Legoland on the following week. As expected, we waited almost 2 hours from the registration to taking the medicine. Emeryn was prescribed antibiotic as she was having throat infection too which causes her increased temperature. After the hospital visit, we went to Por Por's house for lunch before going home for a rest. We spent the rest of our Sun at home.

Cat Cafe

41 Living Story

 

  

@ Cat Cafe

camera museum

A week ago, Emeryn's English teacher complained about Emeryn. She said Emeryn hardly pay attention in the class and yet disturbing her classmate whom sat beside her. The teacher did switched her place with different student but Emeryn still try to talk to them and distract them in the class. The teacher asked for advise from mummy how to manage the cheeky girl. Mummy suggested Emeryn to be seated alone. The complaint from the teacher raised mummy's suspicion and she googled further. She found more about ADHD and Emeryn fits most of the checklist of an ADHD kids. As much as mummy don't hope that Emeryn falls into this category, she found more and more disturbing examples which suited Emeryn. Finally mummy decided to bring Emeryn for a consulation on Thurs. Mummy took leave and brought Emeryn to Adventist and consulted Dr Yeoh Shin, the child psychiatrist. From the initial chit-chat session, Emeryn looks perfectly fine to Dr Yeoh Shin. She communicates well and most of all behave very well too. However to further confirm, Dr Yeoh Shin suggested a 4hours assessment for Emeryn which includes attention deficit, memory and IQ test which will cost RM2k. After the consultation, we had lunch before mummy dropped Emeryn at school.

We spent our Fri evening at home where Emeryn watched 2 new dvds which mummy bought for her. As for Sat, she attended GB Maths, Karangan and Art Class up to 5pm. Emeryn's friend, Jocelyn has been telling her about a Cat Cafe located at Love Lave and how wonderful it was. Thereafter Emeryn kept asking mummy to bring her there. Mummy agreed to bring her there if she behaves well. And yes, she did it. We headed to the Cat Cafe after her Art Class. Our first pit-stop was at the 41 Living Story, a small shop nestled along Love Lane selling rustic souvenirs. At the Cat Cafe, we ordered an iced chocolate and a piece of carrot cake. Emeryn loves to be around with the cats but she was too scare to go near them. She insisted mummy to go to the cat's session and play with the cats. Mummy is not a fan of cats. Thus, staying away from them is the best option. We spent about 1.5 hours there before going over to Prangin Mall for our tom yam dinner.

On Sun, we woke up early and headed to the airport to pick the old folks. After picking them, we went for breakfast at Sunshine market. We then dropped Ah Pak and Ah Mou home first before sending Por Por and Ah Kong home. After chauffeuring them around, we went home for a rest before going out to QBM at about 2.30pm. We spotted The Journey casts at QBM and Emeryn got so excited meeting them. At least it was a movie she watched on CNY and remember it well. We had our late lunch at Sakae Sushi before buying some clothing for Emeryn at Jusco using the AEON voucher mummy got for her sales incentive. After our shopping, we went to Por Por's house and later we headed to the newly open Penang 2nd Bridge. It was a massive jam at the FTZ towards the 2nd link. The Penang 2nd Bridge is the longest bridge in South East Asia, which stretch to 23km. Many cars stopped in the middle of the bridge, only to capture the special moment. We do not want to miss the chance to capture the special moment too. Thus we pulled off and had a quick "konica" moment before continuing our journey. Instead of going back to the island using the 2nd link, we used the 1st link to avoid the massive jam. Upon reaching Penang, we had dinner before dropping Por Por and Ah Kong home.