Ho! Ho! Ho!

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2010!

Penang Turf Club Open Day

Just came back from the Penang Turf Club Open Day. My first time going inside the turf club after staying in Penang for 21 years.

It's like a carnival with lots of activities like face painting, sand art, snake show, puppet show, horses and ponies. Clowns giving out balloons and making funny faces around the carnival.

Let the pictures do the talking.

Me and my cousins had our hands painted. RM3 each for the butterflies and RM4 for the flowers.

It wasnt very hot as there were lots of trees shading us from the hot sun.

Even Shern had fun running on the free grass and shook his bum bum to the beat of the carnival music.

This is the equestrian area. No horse racing today of course.

Many people gathered around the Flying Phoenix ride.

Peter went to play the Flying Phoenix ride when asked for participants from the crowd. My camera's memory full halfway taking this video of him on the ride.

He managed to stayed on for 32 seconds before being thrown out from the horse. However he's the longest among non-professional participants. Bravo!

We didnt managed to go to the Food Fair area as Shern was already tired and begin to whine. Overall I think the carnival was a success!

Let me end with a cute pic of shern in shades.

Hong Kong Day 8

6 November 2010
Good morning! This was my last day in HK.

I woke up and switched on the tv and it was cartoon!

It reminded me of my childhood days where I'd wake up early in the morning just to watch cartoons. The only worry I have at that time is what if I missed my cartoon?

We bathed and had some 7-eleven breakfast tapao-ed by Peter last night from Tsing Yi MTR Station (instant noodle and buns).

Yin wasnt feeling very well maybe due to the rain last night and we were out there the whole day. So Yin and Peter both stayed at the hotel and I went off to Disneyland Park first.

I went straight to Tomorrowland and the first ride I had at the Disneyland Park was Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters.

Halfway thru the queue, there's a robotic Buzz Lightyear that moves and tells the mission of this ride, which is Help Buzz Lightyear to save the universe from the evil Emperor Zurg.

I was never a fan of Toy Story. But I did watch the latest Toy Story 3.

Anyway the ride is something like this. We will be seated in this little cabin which gives u total control. You can turn the cabin 180 degrees in whichever ways you like. And see the score board at the cabin?

It will be accumulated when you managed to shoot the lightning buzzer throughout the whole ride using Buzz Lightyear's gun located in the cabin.

Really super shiok! It's like I'm controlling a space ship to shoot the monsters 180 degrees! Some more can see how well I've achieved at the end of the ride by looking at the scores. Love this ride that immediately I went for a second round! Hahahaha

After two rounds, I headed off to the next ride, Autopia. It's an outdoor ride so I wrapped myself in my jacket from the heavy rain!

Autopia is a ride where one will drive into the future aboard electric cars that cruise along the highways of tomorrow.

the first thought is KAREN!! YOUR CAR!! :P

Hopefully in the future there will still be so many greens around! GO GREEN! :)

The ride is something like the F1 Grand Prix Fun Kart in Genting Highlands but can speed slightly faster than that.

After the ride, my jacket was quite wet. A little bit regret that I played as it was really cold!

I decided not to play with Orbitron (something like flying dumbo but instead it would be a flying saucer) to avoid the rain.

I decided to just walk around and take photos. The first person I met was Woody from Toy Story.

woody is so tall

I walked to Fantasyland and saw this really cute canvas-like eating place and was imagining how it would be like in the summer filled with lots of tourists and most importantly, NO RAIN!

Okay. This is the one ride that I would NEVER enjoy playing.

The teacup that spins round and round and round. It wasnt a scary ride which involves dropping from high heights or going through dark tunnels filled with ghosts. But through experience, this ride has gave me a super terrible nausea feeling that would spoil the rest of my day and sometimes the next day. So I havent played this for years.. and I doubt I would anymore in the future. LOL But I love the teacups. I think they're so cute and colourful!

Spotted an elephant-shaped bushes near the Flying Dumbo.

A young lady was kind and offered to take a picture for me. Thank you!

Random shop selling Disneyland souvenirs.

I decided to ride the Cinderella Carousel. Personally, I think carousels are boring...but at the same time I think carousels are filled with childhood memories. When we're young, carousels are one of the happiest thing isnt it? Carousel means theme park!

Plus this Cinderella Carousel is so beautiful. It has 60 graceful, prancing horses!

It was still so early so I've decided to go to the Mickey's Philhar Magic for the 3D adventure again because I simply love it and I wouldnt want to forget the best 3D adventure I've ever been on.

After that, I just stroll around the park. Spotted this stall selling ice creams.

Walked passed Fantasy Gardens.

I didnt spot any Disney characters inside. Wrong timing.

Spotted this Mickey Fountain with lots of feather dusters.

And this particular one beside the fountain reminds me of Babette the feather duster from Beauty and the Beast.

It was nearly 1pm so I walked passed the Sleeping Beauty Castle to meet Yin and Peter.

vintage clock spotted near the Sleeping Beauty Castle

The three of us went to Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters. Yin and Peter loved the ride so went for another round! So in the end they played 2 times and I played 4 times!

We decided to head back to Main Street USA and look at the shops. Vintage vehicles can be spotted driving along the Main Street USA.

One of the shop that we entered.

look at the number of pens/pencils

and I love them!

i've been wanting this hairband but so expensive! T_T

Bakery...

Spotted three lovely people singing acappella songs of Disney in the bakery.

We went to Corner Cafe for lunch.

Then we continued looking at the shops in the Main Street USA.

I loved their Disney princesses collection. Look at how the story about each princess unfolds in their lovely dresses.

disney princesses + castle . Ariel from The Little Mermaid

Belle from Beauty and the Beast . Aurora from Sleeping Beauty

Snow White . Cinderella

Cinderella, Ariel and Snow White in a Carousel

disney princes and princesses

mickey and minnie

mickey

white castle . cystal frame

We have some extra time so we went to Art of Animation. It's a small little gallery that celebrates the Disney and Disney-Pixar animation.

You know how cartoons are made of? Nowadays we know they use the help of technologies and computers. But in the olden days every single movement has to be drawn out. Simple actions like eating or dancing will be drawn using hundreds of pages with each page the characters will be drew a few millimeters of difference. And when the pages are flipped quickly, the action drew will be revealed.

The spinning Toy Story Zoetrope helps to illustrate in 3D instead of in drawing. They build miniatures to show how statutory the miniatures are when it is individually shown, and how they reflect an action when is those string of individual miniatures of slight difference in millimeters are being spun together.

Watch till at least more than 12 seconds!

Outside the gallery, we spotted a photo session with Goofy and Pluto. We had our turn.

Then we went on to queue to take a photo with the legendary Mickey and Minnie!

Again, luckily it was raining so our queue was only about 15 minutes. I've heard from friends that they queued for more than an hour just to take a photo with Mickey during their trip!

We spotted Donald and Daisy Duck nearby so we went to queue to take photos with them too.

After that, it's time to bid farewell to Disneyland Park.

welcome because i took from another direction. Hehe

So this HK Disneyland, I missed the Disney on Parade due to the rainy weather and Space Mountain roller coaster ride due to their renovation. However, I'm still very happy to be in Disneyland. I cant believe that I've finally been to Disneyland. It has been a dream for me all these while. Dreams do come true? Hehe

So what do you do when your dream has come true? You make another dream!
So my next dream is to visit other Disneylands in the world.
1. Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan.
2. Disneyland in Paris, France.
3. Disneyland in Anaheim, California, USA.
4. Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Hopefully 2012 is not the end of the world yet! Hehe

We went back to Hollywood Hotel using the shuttle bus and took our luggage from luggage storage service. Yin and Peter has already check-ed out earlier before they meet up with me in Disneyland Park.

After changing into dry clothes, we took the shuttle bus to the MTR Station.

MTR Station at Disneyland

We took the Disneyland Resort Line back to Sunny Bay Station, change to Tung Chung Line and alight at Tsing Yi Station. Then we bought the Airport Express tickets back to the Airport.

HK International Airport is huge! Or maybe because I'm so used to the small airport in Penang. Hehe We checked in 2.5 hours before our boarding time in Terminal 2. Then we realised that our boarding gate is in Terminal 1. We walked for the nearly 2 hours before we reached our boarding gate. Only had about 30 minutes spare before the flight took off.

Had Nasi Lemak Combo from Air Asia on my way back home. This time, it was served with Old Town white coffee instead of plain water.

And I had that super craving feeling for chocolates! I bought m&ms too on the flight for RM4.

Touched down Penang safely at night. Dad, Mum and Shern greeted us at the airport!

That's the end of my one week HK getaway. Overall I think it was a nice trip with a lot of walking. Definitely a place that requires a good walking shoe. And I absolutely LOVE the desserts in HK. I think HKies are quite friendly too. And their toilets are clean. But it's difficult to find public toilets. Love their MTR transport system. So efficient that it makes driving in HK is useless. Shopping is great for ladies especially perfumes, beauty products and branded clothes/bags/shoes. Too bad I wasnt lucky enough to meet a celebrity there! :)