Amara Sanctuary Resort Sentosa - Club Tiny Package

Life as a working mum with 2 little ones is always packed and rushing. So, it's always nice to set aside some time for a short break with a nice staycation!

Recently, we had a staycation at Amara Sanctuary Resort Sentosa and the stay was amazing! Since it was a little rainy, we got to spend a little more time in the family suite and enjoyed every bits of the Club Tiny Kids Experience!

Family trip to Koh Samui and packing list for beach/pool outing

Our family made it to Koh Samui and back!

Many thought that we were out of our mind to bring our 2.5 months Avalyn on holiday, but it wasn't that mad afterall. You might have seen it on my Instagram, it was with 2 other families to Koh Samui at not just one, but two luxury villas! Check out our beach villa here first! Do look out for the post on the hilltop villa on A Million Little Echoes!

  

Legoland Malaysia Resort launched the first LEGO® NINJAGO™ The Ride in Asia!

Media Invite

Skillful ninjas, formidable power, giant roaring dragons and skeleton army - young (and young at hearts) adventurous ninja lovers are surely up for an awesome adventure!

Our family was very privileged to try out Legoland® Malaysia Resort's latest hi-tech attraction, LEGO® NINJAGO™ The Ride last weekends before its official launch on this Friday, 4 November 2016.

Exploring Hong Kong Ocean Park with young toddler!

This year, unlike the other birthdays, I got to celebrate my birthday with an oversea trip! We celebrated Daddy's birthday at Gold Coast in 2014 and Emma's 2nd birthday at Bintan in 2015. Hence, it's only fair to have my birthday celebrated at another part of the world in 2016.

So, off we went to Hong Kong!

During our 4d3n stay, we checked in a lovely hotel, hunted for good food and explored Ocean Park & Disneyland. It was so fun and I just had to push myself to put them in writing no matter how backdated and time consuming it is.

Ocean Park

First up, I will share about our Ocean Park visit and some quick tips at the end of the post. 

Ocean Park is more than just a marine mammal park and oceanarium, it is also an animal theme park and amusement park. Following its redevelopment in 2014, the park now has over 80 attractions and rides across 91.5 hectares (~ size of 90 basketball courts) . It's definitely the largest theme park I have ever been.

The park is separated by a large mountain into two areas - The Summit and The Waterfront. It is connected by a Cable Car system and the Ocean Express railway.

The Waterfront

1. Aqua City: Grand Aquarium, Koala Bears!!, Sea Life Carousel, Old Hong Kong and Waterfront Plaza

 2. Amazing Asian Animals: Giant Panda, Goldfish, Monkeys and more 

3. Whiskers Harbour: Attractions for young children

Explore the world with Little Passports + Giveaway

We've a young globetrotter in making! 

Emma has unlocked Gold Coast, Bali & Bintan and we will be traveling to Hong Kong next month! It'll probably take many long years before we can conquer the world, but nothing is going to stop her (us) from exploring the world now and I mean right now.

Look, Emma's all set to check out the world with her bright orange Little Passports suitcase!

If I were a Time Traveller...

Over the years, I realised that there are simply too many moments that I wish to relive - the joyful moment like wedding, special celebrations and giving birth to a baby as well as the life-determining junctures like education and career path.

By that, I don't meant to undo or change any major milestones or circumstances of my life. No, I don't have a perfect life. However, I firmly believe that all everything, whether is it good or not so good or bad, is within God's plan and control. As one thing leads to another, I won't want to be caught in a butterfly effect where I ended up not having Thomas or Emma in my life (they are the best gifts to me!). 

In fact, if I could time travel and relive any moment, I just hope to walk through the same priceless moment once again but probably with better attitudes and emotions, to go to some ancient bible time to experience and understand what actually happened (reading the bible sometimes just gives me many questions marks) or to peek on how my parents took care of us during the tough days. 

It's so hard to pin down a moment for this "If I were a Time Traveller..." blog train hosted by Madeline Heng from MadPsychMum. So, I just taking this chance to time travel back to our once-a-life-time crazy countries hopping mini expedition since I'm missing the carefree life that Hubby and I once had from time to time. 

It was Hubby's big 30 and a special date, the only date with 1 digit, that we could have in our lifetime so he wanted something exceptional. Back then, we had crazier ideas like getting another marriage certificate in Vegas (too much movies!), trying bungee jumps and giving birth to a baby on 11.11.11. 

But putting the wild dreams aside, we came out with a "Where in the Hell is Matt" inspired countries hopping trip. With a goal to collect as many passport date stamps, we spent $1.2k to travel to 4 other countries in 24 hours and successfully collected 8 passport date stamps on 11.11.11. We could make it 5 if it doesn't cost more than double the price of the total for 4 countries.

Our Top 5 Eating places at Gold Coast

I was reminded of this post in my draft when a friend was asking about Gold Coast. So, here I'm trying to clear my travelogue (back-log) and hopefully could bring joy to some bellies. 

Before I start, can you guess what is little Emma doing?

Any clue? She was actually checking out her belly after seeing the bikini girls on the magazine. 

So hilarious!

Besides the many attractions that I have shared in my previous post (here), there are also plenty good food! Here's the top 5 (with ratings from Tripadvisor) on our list!

Allure (4.5*)

Allure is an award winning restaurant! They serve French exquisite cuisine that is fit for Kings and Queens (but not princes and princesses as it doesn't have any high chair)! This was the last stop before we departure and we are glad to make a trip there with friend's recommendation. 

Don't look down on this truffle tries, it's so satisfying! 

15 things about our Gold Coast trip + Packing List

Dear Emmalyn

Our first family trip to Gold Coast last Nov is a success! 

Things are so different after you come along and it took us 14 months to finally decided to go on a trip as a family. We booked and planned for this trip just a month before we head over. Our shortest notice for oversea trip! 

It has been nearly 2 years since Daddy and Mummy last traveled. We actually went on a babymoon to Phuket in Jan 2013 when you were still in Mummy's tummy! So, this is unofficially our second family trip. Hehe.

Things wasn't as scary as we expected and we are thankful for this safe and fun trip. I am so glad that we plucked the courage to travel with you. It's a good break before Mummy starts new job and a reward for breastfeeding you. 

Here's 15 things that you have experienced at Gold Coast as a 15th month old toddler!

Church Retreat @ Pulai Spring

It’s only the 3^rd week of ‘holiday’ and there are already so many exciting happenings.

Earlier Dec, we went on a short church retreat with our main church at Pulai Spring, JB. The suites are big and comfortable :)

Guide for Hong Kong & Macau #1

Here's a simple guide for Hong Kong & Macau

1. Take Cityflyer A21 to get to Kowloon (like Mongkok, Yau Ma Tei), . The single trip ticket costs HK$33 and round trip tickets cost HK$55. The coach has spaces big enough to put a cabin size luggage in front of the seat. :)

 

Hong Kong & Macau 2012

Dear Lord, thank you for watching over this trip :) Everything went well and we all have enjoyed ourselves.

I'm thankful that my parents are ever-accomodating and have successfully resisted Macau casinos.

Family Trip 2012 !

 

Heading back to Hong Kong again!

But this time we are going with my parents & brother :)

 

It's my greatest desire to bring my parents on oversea trips! and I'm really happy that this trip is happening.

It has always been them bringing me & brother around to our neighbouring countries like Malaysia and Indonesia when we were younger. Now that both of us are all grown up and independent, it's time for us to bring them around. I'm so looking forward to this Sat.. Counting down! hehe

 

:)

Thank you Lord for this wonderful opportunity where we could all make time and travel together. I pray for a safe and enjoyable trip where we could have wonderful moments that we would never ever forget. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen.

Precious Moments of 2011

I know that I haven't been writing much... posting photos is certainly the easier way out. =P.

Honeymoon @ Mauritius: So Blue !

Developed our Mauritius photos taken by the waterproof camera last Tues & finally got it scanned & ready for posting.


Taken when we were up in the sky doing parasailing! Kind of hard to control, but thank goodness still can see both of our faces.

Honeymoon @ Mauritius: His Creations

It is so nice to break away from the hectic life !

I have to admit that there are many times when I am so busy, tired or lazy that I forget to observe and appreciate the things and people around.

Recently, there are so many happenings around me that allowed me to be deeply immersed in these wondrous creations. And I really give thanks for all these creations that God has made (& still making) so perfectly.

Sky, Sun Stars

Our 2nd day @ Mauritius and we were greeted by a nice rainbow... =D

Ready for parasailing!!

Honeymoon 2010.

To be continued...

Happy Holidays !

May all enjoy this chinese new year & valentine's day!!..

Mauritius ! Here we come.