SkyTrex Adventure is the girls’ new favourite. They claimed Kizsports and Jungle Gym are too kiddish and lame for them and SkyTrex is more fun (adventurous). o.O”

Located within Malaysia Agricultural Park, it provides outdoor adventure activities suspended from tree. For the girls, they are only allowed to go on the Little Adventure Challenge.

We booked our tickets online (to avoid disappointment, it’s advisable to book on line), the best time slot of course it’s 1st thing in the morning, but we had something on and got the 1:30pm slot instead.

We collected our tickets at the entrance of the Malaysia Agricultural Park (you still need to pay the RM3 entrance ticket to the park, since SkyTrex is located inside), and then took the shuttle to SkyTrex.

The first thing they got us to do is to sign some disclaimer forms. o.O”

SkyTrex Adventure Name Tags for Crew

Then we were sent tp get our safety harness, where the crews put on for us, and for the children, they actually lift them up to see how secure the harness has been fastened on them.

We had to go through some basic training, and being taught which is a carabiner, which is a pulley, how to use them, how to read the sign on each adventure to know when to use a pulley and when to use a carabiner etc etc.

Then we have to try out what we’d learnt on the training trail.

Zaria was first to go on the training trail.

And trying out her carabiner.

After that, it was time for us to go on the adventure challenges ourselves. We were given 2hrs to do as many adventure challenges within Little Adventure.

Although whatever we do are pretty safe due to the harness, some of the challenges are quite scary, like walking on wobbly rope which is suspended from tall trees etc.

And for Zaria, we always have to be close by as some of the supporting ‘railing’ and ropes are too high for her to grab on to.

The girls favourite? All the flying fox challenges, although it seemed quite frightening in the beginning.

When they got the hang of it, all they wanted to was to go on the flying foxes.

WEEEEEEEE!!!

It was FUN! And I’m sure we’re going back again!

P.S. Rate for Little Adventure is RM 35.00 per session of 2hrs. For other courses, the min height is 140cm.

There were a couple of holidays the last few weeks, and we took the opportunity to visit different places, and one of them is the Malaysia Agriculture Park (Taman Pertanian Malaysia in Malay) in Shah Alam (sometimes also called Bukit Cahaya Agriculture Park or Bukit Cerakah).

We planned to cycle in the park and to visit the Four Seasons Temperate House which the girls went in 2010 during the ‘winter season’.

We brought along Zaria’s bike since she still needs her training wheels, and rented the 3 other bikes for us. As there were a long queue for the cheaper adult bikes, we took the more expensive ones, which cost about RM10 per hour (while the cheaper one is a Ringgit or two per hour).

The girls did well, riding on the hilly path, when the slopes got too steep, we all pushed our bikes up hill. When it’s a down hill ride, they all went zooming down. We had many rest and snack stops along the way. When the going got a bit tough and when it got too hot, Zaria would complain and nagged at us, “Whose bright idea is it to come here?”

We cycled all the way to SkyTrex Adventure Park, and then the little one got too tired and grouchy so we took the shuttle bus back to the visitor centre. Shuttle bus is provided for free, and it goes between the Visitor Centre and SkyTrex Adventure Park. They allowed bicycles to be loaded onto the bus which is a plus point.

We returned our bikes and parked Zaria’s bike at the bicycle rental place; and then went to have lunch at the small eatery at the visitor centre.

It was a super hot day, but they girls still wanted to visit the Four Seasons Temperate House which is on another path different from SkyTrex. We decided to walk there.

We found some ‘propeller seed’ along the walking path.

We were told the Four Seasons Temperate House was closed on that day, because they were working on the change of season there. Just our luck!

Instead we went to the Observation Tower, and spent some time there.

The girls with their bountiful energy can still ‘exercise’ at the Exercise Park.

Me? I took a nap beneath the Observation Tower.

Although it was a hot day, and we worked out the whole day with all the cycling and walking, the girls still had lots of energy to take photos of their surrounding.
I’m always amazed at the energy they have!

The park is actually a very good place to spend a day at, however, like all Malaysia public facilities, the toilet there is horrendous! The one that we visited had not been washed for ages, there were fossil like poop found in all the toilet bowls! BUEK!

We’ll still go back again though, just try to avoid using the toilet. We want to bring the girls to SkyTrex and the Four Seasons Temperate House next round.

Note :
Entrance fee to the Park is
RM3.00 for adult and children 12 years and above
RM1.00 for children 4 to 11 years old

And…. Here are the winner for the last Barbie Giveaway Contest.

I have the winner list for the Barbie Design And Dress Studio!

They are *drum roll* :

Yan
MK Mummy
Sians

All 3 of you will be getting a Barbie Design And Dress Studio set just like this.

Here are their comments :

Congratulations once again to the above winners. Kindly email your name, contact number and mailing address to winx@gocomm.com.my for prizes delivery purposes. And have fun with your Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style set!

Hopefully in future, there’ll be more Giveaways on my site.

**GIVEAWAY CONTEST IS CLOSED**

This is the last giveaway contest from Barbie on my site!

Here is a set which your child can style Barbie’s hair, and give her a hair cut.

Barbie is giving away THREE SETS of Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style to THREE of my readers.

To win one of these, leave a comment on this post with your email address.

In the comment, answer the below question :
What can you do with Barbie’s hair? (there’s no right answer, just be creative)

(Read previous Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style review to get some ideas, Here and Here.

AND

Complete this slogan : I love to win Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style because…

Giveaway is open to Malaysia readers only. This will start on October 24th and will run until October 31st 2012.

One week after the end of October 31st, Barbie will choose the winner, and then it’ll be announced here; and the Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style will be sent to the lucky winners!

This is your last chance to join Barbie Giveaway Contest, so don’t forget to put in your entry. Good Luck.

Tell me which little girl does not like to be a hair dresser??

Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style fulfill this love that little girls have.

Zara : Maa, we need adult’s help with this Barbie. It’s not easy for us to put the hair extension on.

Playing with this Barbie will require us to participate. Helping the girls to put in the hair extension.

Zara has been trying to learn how to pleat hair, what better way to do this and learn with this Barbie?

After pleating (with some of my help), it can be worn as a braid.

Or Barbie looks just as dashing with her hair all let down.

What the girls like most about the Barbie? The scissors which actually make sounds like a real hair dresser’s scissors snipping hair.

Zara was pretending to cut Barbie’s hair, and then remove the hair extension, which mean, Barbie’s hair length actually got shortened!

The set comes with some accessories for the hair.

It gives the girls a chance to be a hair stylist and they love it!

For little girls, combing, styling, braiding (or attempting to braid) hair is one of the most fun things to do. Zara and Zaria sometimes spend hours trying on different headbands, or clips, or trying to create different hairstyle, on themselves, on each other and sometimes on their soft toys.

Now that we got The Barbie Hairtastic Cut & Style, they can do it on Barbie too!

This set comes with hair extension, a couple of hair accessories, and a pair of scissors and comb to cut and style Barbie’s hair.

Let the girls show you how they style their Barbie’s hair in the next post.

I’ll be announcing the Winners of Barbie Design and Dress Studio Giveaway soon too. Stay tuned.

I’ll let Zara tell you about Barbie Design and Dress Studio.

(mind her spelling)

She asked how she should design her clothes, I told her she can always use the stencils, or just draw with freehand. So here is she doing this.

At the end of every ‘print’ she put on the dress, she showed to me and asked if it was ok. Here is the completed dress.

The front.

The back. (Yes! you can design the back too)

She was very excited to remove the completed dress from the ‘frame’.

And then dressed Barbie up.

She did another one a day later, which looks like this.

It was fun going through this with her… She has kept 2 dresses to be designed together with Zaria.

Note : The giveaway competition for this Barbie will be held end of the week, so come back and join in the competition to win yourself a set of this.

Here is another set of Barbie we got, Barbie Design and Dress Studio!

Girls were so excited. Zara immediately ‘chuped’ (Malaysian slang : booked) this set. Telling Zaria she can have the Barbie Fashion Combo Holiday and she will own this set.

This set is retailing at RM99.90 at major toy and department stores nationwide. See what comes with it?
♥ 3 design markers in pink, black and purple
♥ 2 design stencils
♥ 1 sheet of beautiful stickers
♥ 5 real fabric dresses

Zara has decided that Zaria can have the white dress to design while she’ll have the rest.

These dresses are all ready to be designed by the girls (using the design markers, stencils, stickers).

After drawing the design on the dress and/or sticking stickers on it, you can just tear along the perforated line and then get the dress out; and it’ll be a new dress for Barbie!

In the next post, you’ll see how Zara did her designing and her telling you about her Barbie’s experience.

Watch out as well for a Giveaway of this Barbie Design and Dress Studio during the 2nd week of September!

Check out how the girls play with their Barbie Fashion Combo Holiday set.

They spent time checking out what came with the box. Deciding who should go first.

Zaria being the youngest, got to change Barbie’s clothes first (see the smile on her face for getting to go first).

Some of the clothes are a little challenging for the 5 1/2 to put on for Barbie, so Zara took over.

Zara : Maa, do you like Barbie in this?
Me : It’s one of my favourite.

Zaria: Jie, you need to put on a pair of shoes for Barbie (tried to put it on, but struggled)

Zara : (help out) Maybe we try this pair instead

……

Zaria the fashion diva at home said Barbie needed to have a bag.

…….

Then it was fashion show time. Barbie wearing all the beautiful clothes from Barbie Fashion Combo Holiday set.

Zara : All the clothes have to be back on the mannequin after the fashion show ma.

Zara : There ma.

…….

And then, Zaria decided Barbie should be robbed. o.O”

Look what we got from Mattel? A Barbie Fashion Combo Holiday set!

Such a BIG SET!

Barbie is going on a holiday, so she’s bringing along, a comb, 5 sets of clothing, 5 pairs of shoes and 2 bags!

Zaria went, “Waaaaaaa” then silent, not knowing where to begin.

Lovely accessories.

Look at how intricate the shoes are.

Lucky Barbie! Lucky Girls!

As one of the girls’ favourite show currently is Barbie Fashion Fairytale, they absolutely love this set of Barbie Fashion Combo Holiday.

Watch out for a Giveaway of this Barbie Fashion Combo Holiday set later in the month!

Mean while, the girls will start enjoying their set first.