LEGOLAND PART 2

Did you know that when I was younger, I wanted to be a Lego designer? Haha, probably not. Its was just one of my many dream ambitions: art teacher, lego designer, be in a band, ... many more. Hahaha I think this particular dream started after watching the korean drama Coffee Prince, where the lead character previously had a job in the States designing Lego. It seemed like a really fun/cool/interesting job, and well, still does. 

Miniland in Legoland is full of miniature landscapes, with so many little details to admire, if only we had the time (the boys were rushing us to move along, tsk. haha). As I viewed the exhibits I flirted with the thought of being one of those who helped assemble these exhibits. Man, I really wish I could. Here are some of them! Feast your eyes on these before you go and see them for yourself! :)

Singapore landmarks! Check out the arms of the Lego dragon boaters. They are buff, with chunks of muscles. Hahaha

Pay attention to the little details, because look what I found on one of the crowded streets of Malaysia! Gangnam style happening here with a very skinny PSY, well-endowed Hyunah, super cute Yoo Jae Suk, and the other people from the MV. Best discovery. Hahaha

I love the colours on the elephant. Is this some scene from a show? Blonde girl in red dress and elephant. Seems like it could be from somewhere.

I absolutely love the pirate set. Theres so many things going on on the ship, at the pirates' cove. There were even British soldiers at the town nearby. Pirates of the Carribean anyone? Although we searched rather vainly for Captain Jack Sparrow.

All the Legos are rough to the touch, but are sure pretty to look at. And it always makes me think how they made them. Hey, my creativity with Lego is not up there, but one can dream of getting there some day!!

Eunice

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LEGOLAND PART 1

Last week, I got to go on the overseas trip I needed to make the last two weeks feel like an actual holiday. Okay, so its just one day in Malaysia, but hey, I'll take what I can get. My friends and I visited Legoland! The whole park is so colourful, and the weather was pretty good, thus you can imagine that the photos all came out brilliantly! So. Hard. To. Pick. What. To. Post. So I'm splitting the pictures up into two posts: things we did and things we saw.

Legoland is a really big park, but theres a lot of walking space and also a lot of the space is used for MiniLand, where they have miniature landmarks made out of lego. Activity wise, I think theres quite a bit to do, but if you go on a weekday when the park is really empty like we did and you don't queue much for anything, then you'll probably feel like they could use a lot more rides. Hahaha but it was alright, and it looks like they are opening a Legoland Water Park so there should be enough fun to last you the whole day!


There are quite a number of roller coasters in the park! One of the fun ones was the Project X ride, where you are dispatched cart by cart in coaster carts that sit four. The first drop is exciting, and the rest of the ride just feels really thrilling because you're so worried you're gonna fall off the side. Seriously. You have to try it to feel it. I screamed/laughed hysterically at at every sharp turn. Hahaha


They were spinning like crazy when I snapped these. I love my camera for being able to take these shots. ^^ Oh, I refuse to sit this (Technic Twister) because anything that goes round and round like teacups just gives me a massive headache. And my friends like to spin the wheel in the centre to make them spin extra fast. So no thanks. Hahaha


This coaster is the Dragon's Apprentice and it looks really small (it IS really short) but its still pretty exciting and really fast, and it runs two rounds every time. Karin wasn't screaming "THIS IS NOT A CHILD'S RIDE!" this time. So it must still be pretty tame, or her expectations went up. Hahahaa 

They have a larger roller coaster called The Dragon which is more thrilling. Although the initial part of the ride goes through a cave like area where there is some sort of story going on (I think) portrayed by sets made of lego. While its nice to look at, the whole cave area is not only not air-conditioned, its also not well ventilated, so its super stuffy and warm. We couldn't wait to get out of there. But the rest of the ride was pretty good. Really fast, and scary. :D


This was the only really wet ride, Dina Island. If you think, nah, probably won't get too wet after sitting on this log ride, you're wrong. I was sharing a rain coat with Jo (don't ask), and I still got pretty wet. Haha The ride was pretty short though, I think the Jurassic Park water ride in USS is much more thrilling. And whats up with the Dinosaurs and water rides trend. -.-


I always look forward to the shooting rides. Disneyland has the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters and Toy Story Mania (the best/most unique), Universal Studios (Orlando) has Men In Black: Alien Attack (which is SUPER fun, our USS needs one). Legoland has one called Lost Kingdom, which is fun because of the challenge but quite a number of the guns are pretty weak so your laser spot might be directly on the target but you can't seem to shoot it. Its not as exciting as the ones in the big parks, but it'll do. Especially since its catered for kids.


Boating school! This is pretty fun. Slow but fun. Although they don't let you drive a boat by yourself, minimum two people. We had a little struggle between our two boats when they tried to overtake us but Karin rammed their boat into the side barricade. Don't mess with us. Hahaha There's also a driving school were you can drive lego cars, but those are for kids only... They turned us away. T.T


After taking most of the rides twice, we spent quite a bit of our afternoon time in the Build & Test area. There are TONS of blocks around the whole room. We were building random stuff (Iron Man masks, buildings, etc.) with big blocks. They have some sort of earthquake simulator platform on which you can make a building and test if it can withstand the earthquake! That's pretty cool. We were there for some time before we moved to the car building part of the room, which had TONS of small blocks you can make your cars/vehicles from. After building it you can challenge your friends to a race on the track, which has a cool starting barrier, countdowns and all. 


Around Legoland you can also find stalls of carnival games, which seem simple enough but aren't super easy! The boys tried out this ball throwing game, where they had to get two balls in the basin, but it was so difficult to get them to stay inside. They just bounced out. Ale scored at a sure-win luck game where she had to fish out little dragons on platforms with numbers underneath them. She didn't get much points but she still won a cute little dragon!

There are many more small rides to take, but I think I won't spam you with those. Most of them go round and round, so you can imagine. Theres a manual fire engine race thing that's REALLY tiring (I think we were doing it wrong), also a train that you can take around the park (good for resting/snoozing). There's also a 4D show theatre there, and we caught one show (the racers one) but it wasn't very good... It got really boring after awhile because the characters don't say a word. But there was a part with fake snow, A LOT of fake snow that got in our hair and everything. I think that was as exciting as it got. Haha

We had food from the Pizza Mania (pizza & pasta), and snacked at the The Cafe, but honestly we didn't think the food was good. Theres a mall right opposite the park though so you can always grab some food there and go back in after if you want. 

Woohoo done okay I won't overwhelm you with info anymore. If you wanna see some of the Lego deco/figurines all around the park, it'll be in the next post! :)

Eunice

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A CARNIVAL THEMED WEDDING

Last weekend I attended the wedding of a childhood friend and I must say it was one of the most beautiful and fun weddings I've ever attended! It was held just off to the side in the Flower Dome of Gardens By The Bay. I usually do not carry around my camera to weddings, but you can see why I did this time! I don't know if I will ever attend another Gardens by the Bay wedding! The wedding ceremony was so lovely and beautifully simple.



The post-ceremony activities were the fun part. It was carnival themed so there were booths everywhere around the room with so many things to do! AND FOOD GALORE!



Besides the regular buffet table (which was hardly regular), there were also other food stands that had bites such as hot dogs, candy floss, popcorn, Sogurt froyo with as much toppings as I want (my favourite kind), and a Saybons crepe stand (which continuously saw a queue)!



There were also booths with carnival games that you could win prizes from! The shooting game seen below earned me a KitKat. ^^ When there's chocolate involved it gets serious. Hahaha



The ring toss game had cool prizes. You could win balloon clubs and hula hoops if you succeeded. It was pretty funny to see people of all ages lugging these large prizes around the wedding venue! Really cute idea!



The photobooth by Hello Forever was simply wonderful. I love the backdrop, the lights, the huge-ass Mac screen that shows you your photos, the cute props, the fun assistant, the awesome quality prints. EVERYTHING. It made for really fantastic wedding memorabilia if you asked me. :D



Hello Forever also had a second photobooth (shown above), but this one had a twist! Instead of a static photo, this one captured 60 shots (60 seconds) and you could dance around and do anything. They then print these photos out on the spot and make them into a small flipbook so you could watch yourself dancing around just be flipping through the pages really fast! That was something new and pretty cool indeed.

I really really enjoyed myself, getting to catch up with people I haven't met in quite some time and observing the festivities was also a joy! Its not often that I get to go to a wedding that has so many fun activities that the guests can have a good time doing. In fact, I think I didn't get to spend enough time there to eat and try everything. Hahaha They must have put in a lot of effort (and a lot of money) to have a wedding of this scale, but if you think from their perspective, it was worth it. After all its going to be the day they will definitely remember for the rest of their lives, so why not let all their family members and friends have a great time too? ;)

Eunice

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