Poslaju

Went to the post office yesterday. The poslaju service gives you a guarantee "Dijamin sampai esok" for the slightly higher stamp fee compared to the normal post. Well, I wonder if it means the guarantee lasts only until the next day, as that's how it does sound to me. Guarantee on what, that's another question too.

Shouldn't it be, "Dijamin esok sampai" if they want to say "Guaranteed to arrive the next day"?

Family vacation at Awana

We went up to Genting over the weekend....err, yes, ......again!

But this time, instead of the usual hotel stay up at those theme park resorts, we checked in to the family resort apartment with 2 bedrooms at Awana. The apartment was basically maintained well. There was even a jacuzzi where all 5 of us can squeeze into and enough to get the children crazy.

We were given more than enough free tickets for the skyway cable, so the children had a fun ride, though the Q was for half an hour each way.

That night, we had steamboat dinner at the apartment, with another couple friend around. They were to bring their children along too, but made them "flew aeroplane". Anyway, we had too much food on the dinner table, not enough shandy, and a relaxingly pleasant dinner without much fuss with the children.

The next day, we went horse riding for 5 bucks 2 rounds. I thought it wasn't much of a big deal, but when I mount up the horse with Adrian in front of me, I was frightened I would fall down! It was such a tense ride, but Adrian liked it, enjoying the scenery from a higher eye-level.

KT then had his attempt on the archery while all of us watched. Sad to say, the score was nothing to brag about here.

The pool was a hot big tub, it was just great dipping in the hot steamy pool in that cool environment.

We hang around longer around the apartment, and only descent from the hill around late afternoon.

I would truly recommend Awana for families, rather than the commercialised "city of entertainment" anytime. There are also other family-style eco-activities like hiking and fox flying, which I kept in mind to go for when there's a chance later.

Planetarium Negara

Bet you guys won't even know there's such a place in our dear old "tanah tumpah darahku". In the heart of it some more!

Actually, we didn't realized such an existence too, until we "stumbled" upon it one day while checking out Taman Tasik Perdana. That park has a lot of other attractions, some of which we would find time to go for as well, like the Bird Park, claimed to be the largest bird park in the world, Butterfly Park, Orchid Park, Deer Park. (While driving around and me pointing out the different places here and there, Adrian asked me "how about the cockroach park?" "!!!")

The playground area is very pleasant as well, I personally like that place for strolling with the family, spending a quiet evening together.

So, it was the Planetarium Negara we went to over last weekend. Entrance fee was RM1 for adults, so so cheap... where to find?? We love it (especially KT) hehe..






The grand entrance is not for the "rakyat biasa", I think, as we had to detour to the other smaller path to the carpark and climb up the stairs to the side entrance. Lucky the children were in their excitement mode and willing to walk up the stairs. The youngest one when coming down, insisted to be carried. Sigh...

This is an effect of mirrors all over just 1 TV screen, right where we entered. It was also a pleasant change in temperature once we entered the place, from under the hot burning sun to a cool nice winter palace. Even the children has no more complaints.



They ran all over the place excitedly to check out what's in store. However, it was all so "scientific" and "high tech" that even their mom won't understand, they were happy enough to explore pushing the buttons, rolling the balls, and what else there are.



Well, at least there are some rockets and stuffs to see.

And posing for pictures. That's MY purpose.

There was this "Black Hole" in space. Didn't know the effect was this when I took the pic, until I playback. Wonder if this is what one should expect to be seeing when suddenly dropped in a "black hole"? Sorry, mind my ignorance, I'm no Stephen Hawking, not even any close, don't really have an understanding on the theory of "black hole". I do suppose that it's he who came up with that theory though.

Now, this little portion is slightly more interesting. Upon entering this little "room", I felt like the head spinning and finding it hard balancing. The picture below reads "Light water reactor ... Note that the water from the reactor runs UP the Plastic tube. To further demonstrate the gravitational distortion you may place the balls on the top of the plastic tube and note that they also move UPWARDS. Do you know why?"

To be honest, I don't know why. I asked KT, he told me it's just an illusion. Ah... "like David Copperfield, so I thought"... Heck! Do I need to admit I'm so dumb here?

Inspiring piece of art behind me. I do hope it inspires the children to learn about the space and more of the advance technology though. Then they would be rich, I would be rich...that would be great!

Later on, we went up to the tower. I was hoping to see a big telescope looking into the space, stars and planets, but heck, it was so darn disappointing. What we saw was just the KL view. Jeez... I guess that's what I should expect from a RM1 entrance fee, real doboh.

At least, we found some place to take guests to see KL bird eye's view at some cheap rate. No need to pay RM10 or so up to KL Tower to get about the same thing. It's not a crowd there as well, so, we have all the time to check out the various buildings around the area with the "free" binoculars without worrying about the children getting lost.

Be a good Malaysian like us, visit the places Malaysia, our homeplace, has to offer. :) How patriotic do I sound.