Visit to Petrosains

Wahhh seronok sangat the kiddos dapat pergi Petrosains on Sunday.  Senang sangat nak please anak-anak ni hemmm.  I memang jarang sangat bawa anak jalan- jalan sebab selalu weekend jaga mak, you know how my Mom is currently bedridden, so yehhh I spend time at home, mostly.

Why Petrosains, sebab pada Jumaat yang indah, saya telah lalu di tepi Petrosains semasa waktu makan tengahari hahaha.  Lalu timbullah idea nak bawak anak- anak pegi sana.  Seriously don't know what to expect because I've never been there myself hahaha.

Tak jauh dari rumah we all... Seberang ofis I je pun... Petrosains is located at Level 4, KLCC guys.  Naik je bubble lift tu, keluar je terus nampak dah Petrosains.

Source: Google Map

Check out the opening time and ticket price details here .  Masa kami pergi tu dapat juga discount sebab staff diorang excited tengok twins, so kita dapat offer package 2 x 1 adult + 1 kid. Sorang lagi anak kira free.  I buat- buat tanya, ohhh 3 years old kena bayar ye?  I ingat free.  Of course le jawapan nye tak free, kena bayar kak hehehee.

Konon nak gerak pagi- pagi tapi ended up my Mr B ada keje pagi tu so kita gerak dah tengahari... dengan perut lapar belum lunch hihihi.  Ku ingatkan sejam dua dalam tu adalah cafe yang bole makan berat sket, rupanya sementara berjalan dalam Petrosains tu dah 4.30pm baru sampai cafe, makanya makanlah segala roti yang ada jual kat situ- situ je.

All in all great experience la for the kids.

# Anak- anak I tak minat sangat nak baca all the facts, so any exhibition which requires them to read they'll pass by like its nothing.  Boleh lah belajar pasal forest kita, batu- batuan, tentang tenaga dan sebagainya.  I guess we all know who the sponsor for this place is, and they did a good job of remaining neutral and not all about them.  

#Ada few simulators that did not work though so we were a bit frustrated cause we knew those will be the kind of things kiddos would love.  But one of the thing yang Ayesha and Mr B merasa experience is the storm simulator. I takut la konon nak masuk hahaha. Tapi sebenarnya rupanya takde apaaa. Cissss. 

#You will need 2-3 hours in there.  Masa pergi tu dahla ramai budak sekolah (bau anak- anak sekolah ini alahaiii ampun kan lah Mak sebab menahan nafas ketika itu... rasanya Mak masa sekolah begitu lah kepamnye hahahaa) , kami lak tak bawa stroller. So memang berjaga- jaga takut hilang anak-anak dalam lautan manusia tu.

#Ada games yang bagus untuk brain teasing anak- anak.  Innvovative games, puzzles, memang yang ni I found very attractive for kids my age.

#Not just for kids, activities dalam ni memang sangat sesuai for adults too!!!

#Dalam ada cafe panggil 'molecule cafe'.  But that's already in the middle of your journey.  My advise is always always bring water with you especially when travelling with toddlers.  Nanti dehydrated pula.  

#Tandas available, but not that clean lah.  Dan kalau anda takutkan ruang sempit, hahahaha berhati-hatilah.  Tandas nye saaaangat sempit.  

#Ada play area for children.  Kalau parents nak chill sebelum teruskan perjalanan, boleh stop main dulu.  Ada lego, ada slides.  Ok lah not so bad for a pit stop. 

#Ticket price was reasonable.

#Probably the only thing I hated was queuing for the 'Perjalanan Sekilas Masa' aka Dark Ride.  Tapi memang dah tulis pun, waiting time is 20 minutes.  Luckily budak- budak memang tak meragam sebab excited nak naik. Very informative ride guys, ceritakan tentang forest, minyak dan sebagainya lah.  Maaflah, saya memang ada short-term memory lost jadi tak mungkin dapat ceritakan in details.  Trip ni pun dah seminggu lamanyaa,  Hahaha.  

Layan photos below ajelah ye...

A short trip with the kids

We had a short trip to Johor not a while back, and proud to say it was a successful first-time, short trip with the kids  twins while we follow Daddy to work.  The twins are already 3 years + and both of us never dared to bring them anywhere except balik kampung.  We used to spend short trips nearby when we only had Kakak.  It was too much to think about carrying 2 babies at once when travelling in our small.. small.. small.. car, and too many things to carry :P Don't expect a write up on overseas trip from me, at least not yet hahahaa,

Anyway, Mr B had a job to be done at Johor Premium Outlet, so it was a work-fun trip. Work for Mr B, fun for the kids and ah well, not so fun for Mommy where she gets to watch her kids having fun hahaha.  We spent 1 night there, mostly in hotel because Mr B ended up working most of the time.  Imagine my to-do list before going was like 1001, but we ended up doing only 1..

I was assigned to book us accommodation, which was of course reimbursable by the Company, so basically there was a limit.  I had to find somewhere cheap, comfortable, with swimming pool, huge bed, bath tub, and nearby the JPO.  So I went on booking.com and got us Le Grandeur Palm Resorts.  It is about 10-15 minutes to JPO.  Anything more than what Mr B's company can reimburse we'll have to top-up.

After reading several online review about Le Grandeur I decided that the place was probably gonna be an old hotel with lodsa refurbishment needed but somewhat convenient for myself and the kids given the facilities available.  Dahla pergi pun teman Mr B keje... not gonna be much of leisure or jalan-jalan cari makan trip la.  Just wana be away from all the shit normal stuff...

At the time of writing this post I was already thinking why was it that I did not remember to buy the inflatable mattress (which we bought just before raya).  Seriously tak terfikir masa tu.

I think we got ourselves the 'extra large double bed' or something, I can't remember.
But all of us can bunk in here all at once.  

 We had very little time with Mr B, but plenty of time to enjoy this room, me and the kids.  It was all mandi in the bath tub, another round at the pool and then bath tub again and the pool, it's been that or lazing around in the bed.

The room was very spacious for all of us.

Kids already screaming 'we wanna go mandi mom please pretty please.'

Nice and windy at 6pm. 

Pool was ok, huge but already looking very old.  

 Ok there was so much photos of the kids in the pool and hotel room because that was all we did other than hanging out at the JPO itself to do some Raya shopping, then we all went cari makan at Danga Bay for dinner and Kilang Bateri for late lunch the next day before we head back to KL.

My thought of JPO did not change since the first time I came here last time, any high street brands you find here are not much cheaper than those in KL.  Guys I even thought that my GAP 50% membership discounts gave me better offer than JPOs.  But if you happen to be here with intention to shop, well maybe... Maybe there were some that were really cheap, like handbags maybe.

These girls, all they care about is ice-cream *roll eyes* so having Baskin Robin while waiting for Daddy was fun for them.

The special thing about Johor I guess is also food varieties you can find here.  We obviously didn't get to explore much due to limited time.  But we made it to Danga Bay (no photos as princesses fell asleep on the way to dinner and Mr B decided to tapau back to hotel and we ended up eating in the room when the girls are wide awake).  Kiddos loved the ikan bakar soo much it was like one huge fish wasn't enough for all of us here. 

Then before we head back to KL we had our late lunch at this 'Kilang Bateri'.  Ok I should've taken the photo outside hahahaha because it was quite cool with vintage car and all but I didn't because we had cranky kids with us.  Seriously guys this place WAS a kilang bateri.  It is now a hipster cafe/ food court with varieties to choose from.  I loved this place.   Interior was super cool and of course clean, so many food to choose from and the price was shockingly cheap also.  Once you've filled your stomach you can pay a visit at their hipster vendor shops around this Kilang Bateri.  I found those shops pretty cheap.  I bet parking will be disastrous had we come at peak hours which thankfully we did not.  

I was running out of battery so this was one of the 2 photos I managed to take of 'Kilang Bateri'

My poor attempt to take 'panorama' shot on iphone hahaha

Anyway what I realised from this trip was that it didn't take expensive activities or places to make my kids happy.  It was the togetherness, and spending the time with them that they appreciated so much of this trip.  I bet they won't remember places that we've been to, but they will remember somewhere in that memory , I was there with them... Not just elsewhere too busy making a living that I myself have forgotten to live...