Things You Need to Know about Legoland Malaysia

I believe some of you already know about the new Legoland Theme Park which is located at Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Since the name is Legoland, then all the park is using lego as the main attraction. 

Legoland Main Entrance

This park actually started operating sometimes around September last year (2012), so it is still very new. Located in the Nusa Jaya Area, it is around half hour driving from the centre of JB. Not too far actually, but the area seems just very new and open only for this purpose. On the left side of the Legoland Main Entrance, they are still constructing the Legoland Hotel and Waterpark. As the plan, it will only be open on 2014.

Since the park is still very new, I have some tips before coming to this place :

Ticket
The ticket price to enter this place is reasonable for me :
Adult : RM 140
Child and Senior : RM 110
But buying the ticket on line is a lot way cheaper rather than buying it directly at the gate. If we already knew the exact date to come, then better buy on line. It will only cost us RM 112 for adult and RM 88 for child and senior. And also do not forget to check the discount voucher. Some products may sell the discount voucher. Last time I get 35% discount voucher buy buying RM4 Mamie's product.

Umbrella, Sunglasses, and Hat
Throw away your jacket, use the very comfortable clothes and also do not forget to bring, umbrella, sunglasses and hat. This park is way too hot! Johor it self is already a hot temperature city, and then with this new open park, the trees are still not enough to block the sun go straight away to your head, there are also no building comes to surround this area. So just prepare yourself to drink lots of water.

Backup Clothes
Bring along your backup clothes. Not because you will play with water and get wet, but mostly because the weather. After enjoy playing in this park, my husband brought my son to take a bath and change his entire clothes. Me and my husband also do that thing, changed our entire clothes.

I can give 4 stars to this place because the place is very clean, the restaurant sell food with taste with reasonable price, the supporting area also complete. They built a nice Surau, Baby Care Room and Toilet.

Huge and Clean Toilet

I even can put the ***** (5 stars) to the baby care room. Not only because of the place is cold hehe :p but, inside the room we can found 2 big toilets for changing place. The play area, huge pantry with all the equipment might be needed, and then a baby cot and of course the nursery room. 

They have two person in charge inside this place. One for taking care of the tidiness of this place and the other one responsible for the door. Because some of the man, might not reading the sign that they are not allowed to enter this place. 



The park is very child friendly. Some parks may let kid to come inside the park and then got nothing to do. But Legoland is different, it is actually built for the child. The games and the ride can actually be used by child with age 3 and above. So it is worth to pay the ticket. My son got very happy with the games here. He really enjoyed the whole day, even though it is so hot that day.

Complete Pantry!!

Then the last thing is for the souvenirs shop. Usually I always be a fan of souvenir shop inside a theme park. But not for this one. They mainly only sell Lego in this place. They did sell some other thing, but not that interesting. Even the fridge magnet does not work on me :p 

So I think that's all for the Legoland trip from me. Hope every one who wants to go to this place get a better idea :) Do not forget to check to the Legoland Calender, because they will close several time in a year, and of course do not forget to check my other story about other theme park.

Strait of Malacca Mosque

A beauty will always be a beauty..
This is the word that I can use to describe the Masjid Selat Melaka. As the name, the position of this mosque is literally at the strait of Malacca. It is 2 hours away from Kuala Lumpur. This mosque development started on 2003 and only finished on 2006. It took almost 3 years to create this beauty. The concept of this building mixed the Arabian and Malay architecture style. And what makes this Mosque become different with others is the building of the Mosque is on top of water. So we also can called this Mosque as a Floating Mosque.

There are several things that I found a little bit uncommon with this mosque :

View

astonishing!!

This is the view from the back of the mosque. First time I stepped in front of the mosque, I was too excited. Then I walked to the back of the mosque, there's nothing than Subhanallah.. We can hear the sound of the wave and the wind from the sea. Not to forget at the beautiful blue sky, without clouds on it.

Vacancy

Actually it was my husband who's paying attention to this unique vacancy ad. It is different yet using a catchy kind of wording. This mosque is looking for Makmum. In Moslem, Makmum means the follower of Imam at the praying time. Since this mosque was built at the very end of the road and at the strait, there are not so many people can come to pray in this mosque. That is why, by using Pahala as the reward (from the Almighty), they invite us to come at the praying time.



Tower

multi function tower

The tower of the mosque have a double function. Not only used for the mosque purpose, but also as the light house at the night. The tower itself, is still in the same area of the mosque.

Child Friendly

children play area

Not so many of mosque that I have been visited got a children play area and a baby care area. This mosque prepare for those thing, they got the children play area at the corner of the mosque and the baby care inside the woman toilet. All of the part of the mosque is very clean. I found this toilet is the cleanest kind of toilet that I have ever visited.







The area surrounding this mosque is still so quite. There are no housing around it. But, just next to the mosque, they are developing a unique kind of building, looks like using an Arabian style, but I can not get the exact information about the function of the building. Whatever the purpose of the building, I hope it can make the mosque can get more visitors so that the mosque management can pull down the vacancy ad as soon as possible ('',)

Also visit my other Mosque journey here :
Hongkong
Shah Alam
Islamic Art Museum

Menjadi Seorang Srikandi

Gambar : Pitoyo.com

Srikandi dalam kisah pewayangan digambarkan sebagai sosok seorang prajurit wanita. Pejuang wanita yang tidak pernah takut menghadapi perang, menghadapi rintangan dalam hidupnya. Kisah inilah yang kemudian banyak menginspirasi para wanita untuk menjadi a strong woman. Wanita yang bisa berdiri untuk dirinya sendiri, tentunya tanpa melupakan kodratnya sebagai wanita.   

Tahun ini 2013, ajang pemilihan Srikandi Blogger digelar. Ajang ini merupakan pemilihan yang dilakukan oleh Kumpulan Emak-Emak Blogger untuk para anggotanya yang sudah mendaftarkan diri untuk ikut. Tidak ada batasan usia, jenis tulisan, bekerja atau tidak, lulus sarjana atau tidak. Batasan yang jelas hanya antara wanita atau bukan. Ya namanya juga Srikandi ya..

Singkat cerita, saya dengan sepenuh hati, tanpa berpikir apakah akan menang atau kalah, mendaftarkan diri untuk mengikuti ajang ini. Saya tertarik untuk ikut, setelah saya membaca kisah Srikandi. Jujur saja, saya bukan orang yang tertarik mengenai cerita pewayangan apapun. Sehingga sebelum mendaftar, saya harus tahu terlebih dulu, siapa sebenarnya Srikandi ini. Kenapa sampai ajang ini memilih nama Srikandi untuk mewakili wanita yang berkompetisi didalamnya. Ternyata, memang tidak salah nama Srikandi dipilih untuk mewakili sosok wanita. 

Sebenarnya, dengan mengikuti pemilihan Srikandi Blogger ini, membuat saya terpacu untuk terus berkarya. 
Sedikit cerita, saya sudah hampir 2 tahun menetap di Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sebelumnya, saya dan keluarga tinggal di Jakarta. Saat saya masih di Jakarta, saya bekerja pada salah satu Bank Swasta Nasional, sehingga kegiatan rutin saya adalah bekerja. Ketika memutuskan untuk ikut dengan suami ke Malaysia, saya tidak pernah tahu apa yang akan saya kerjakan. Menjadi Ibu Rumah Tangga yang memang benar-benar tinggal di rumah, tidak pernah masuk ke dalam bayangan saya tentang hidup saya. 3 bulan pertama, merupakan bulan-bulan tersulit bagi saya, saya yang biasa bekerja, menjadi tinggal di rumah. Saya yang biasa punya 2 orang asisten rumah tangga untuk mengurus anak dan rumah, tiba-tiba harus mengurus semuanya sendiri. Banyak hal lain yang tentunya membuat 3 bulan itu menjadi cukup berat bagi saya. Bukan tidak sering saya merasa menjadi ketakutan dan menjadi insecure dengan kondisi saya.

Tapi, ternyata selepas 3 bulan tersebut, energi saya kembali terkumpul. Saya menjadi orang yang tidak pernah berhenti berkegiatan. Senin hingga Jumat saya punya setengah hari untuk berkarya, apapun itu. Sabtu dan Minggu, saya pergunakan untuk mengikuti kursus sertifikasi untuk menjadi Perencana Keuangan. Cita-cita dan passion saya dari dulu yang tidak pernah bisa terealisasi, karena terjepit oleh jam kantor. Saya kembali menjadi Srikandi untuk keluarga kecil ini. Saya menjadi orang yang tahu kalau berkarya bisa darimana saja.

Mungkin ini juga yang ingin ditonjolkan oleh para panitia Srikandi Blogger. Nominasi, maupun juara terpilih nantinya merupakan wanita yang bisa bersuara (lewat media apapun, termasuk tulisan), wanita yang tahu cara menghargai diri sendiri, wanita yang tetap menjadi suri rumah tangga, dan tentunya wanita yang tidak pernah berhenti untuk berkarya.

Kalau saya berkesempatan menjadi pemenang, waaah saya bakal bersyukur sekali karena pastinya tidak mudah. Yang pasti, saya berjanji tidak akan pernah berhenti berkarya. Saya akan terus memanfaatkan blog, dan media sosial yang ada untuk menyampaikan suara saya dari jauh, tentang pentingnya menjadi bermanfaat untuk diri sendiri dan orang lain, dan tentu tentang pentingnya merencanakan keuangan keluarga.

Great Event, Gone Very Well :)

This last Saturday, 35 Indonesian's people who lived in Malaysia, were having a great time. We're spending half day attending the Financial Planning Talk with Ligwina Hananto.

Ligwina Hananto is one of the popular Independent Financial Planner from Jakarta, Indonesia. She's the one with the strong word about financial planning. That day, she did an excellence job by sharing the reality about what we have to face in terms of family financial planning, to all of my friends here. A big thanks to her.

I actually came up with the idea to invite her to come to talk here on end of last year. 

I just feel that maybe I also need a refreshment and of course I really wants to help my friends to go through the right path about this financial planning thingy. 

Living abroad sometimes it is not as easy as it seems, in terms of financial. Great if we are hired by a huge company, and treated as an expat, but sometimes financial planning is not only about financial problem, but more to understanding. But hopefully every single person who attend the talk, not only having fun here, but get a clear idea about how should we manage our financial planning in a correct way. 

The talk was covering the financial planning process, from start preparing the Emergency Fund until how to get to the Financial Freedom. 4 hours interactive talk, long enough actually, but still people keep coming in person to ask for their own questions to Wina after the talk. See the crowd..

Lining up for the personal questions..

After the talk, I received lots of positive feedback from my friends. Ooooh I am so proud of myself hehe..I think I deserved it :p 

Just never imagine that I can make something like this happen. 

Happy "Early" Birthday Greetings from Ibu..

Taken from "Parenthood" TV Series :

If someday you become a parent, you will see so much of yourself in your children. Your eyes, your smile and whatever. But one thing that you have to remember, they are not you. They are a different person.

I am not to sure whether the words are exactly the same or not. But that is the message coming from a mom, as a selfnote to herself to her daughter. I am totally agree about that sentence. 

Sometimes as a parent, we think that our children are us. Asking them to be just like us. Asking them to act the way we act, taking the same decision making process and point of view just like how we did it. Until we forgot that they also have they own style in facing life and also until we forgot that they can not read our mind. 

My son is going to be 4 next week. I have not gone so far and of course yet so mature in parenting. I am just trying as best as I can as a parent. Currently I am working on how to communicate in a good way. Try to respect his feeling, try to listen what he wants to say instead of cutting him off. For me, communication is the very most important thing that every family should have. 

I try many ways, I bought and read books. I watch movies, like this "Parenthood" one. And the most important thing is, I practice. Practice does makes perfect right? :)

His 4 years old birthday, is my fourth year being a parent. Still gotta lot of homework to do. We will work on it and keep doing great son..I promise..

Happy Birthday Son..

-Love, Ibu-