Christmas 2012 and Back-To-School Preparations

Going around for Christmas decoration photos. All the malls are in Christmas mood :)

Santa's North Pole Express Musical Live Show at Gurney Plaza
Both of them seem not so familiar with the Christmas story.

Meet & Greet with Santa and Train Conductors at Gurney Plaza

Playing the Children "Ticket To Ride" board game before the musical show starts

The locomotive

At the playground

Joyous Neighbourhood Day
They had fun playing games at the nearby playground. Even it's drizzling, they still wanted to play. 姐姐 won 3rd prize for jumping with balloon game.

Joyous Neighbourhood Day - games

Garfield and Friends Christmas Musical Live Show at Queensbay Mall
They seem to enjoy the Garfield more as he is a cartoon. 姐姐 purposely wear Garfield dress to take photo with Garfield and Friends. Some of the crowd must be disappointed as they only give out 20 passes for this last session of the day for meet and greet.

Meet & Greet with Garfield &Friends



爸爸 and her won two Garfield t-shirts for the puzzle game

With Nermal and Garfield

With Odie, Arlene and Jon

Christmas decorations at QBM this year.

Wonder is this a Pinang tree?

槟榔 tree?

Jolly Pink Meet and Greet with Santa and Santarina at 1st Avenue
The children received candy cane from them for the first session.

With Santa and Santarina and Christmas tree background

Pink Christmas tree

Candy Cane decoration with pink ribbon

We wrote our Pink Wish and hung it on the tree

Prangin Mall
It's "snowing" in Prangin Mall :) Actually just foam bubbles. A guy was with a device spraying snow from 3rd or 4th floor

Playing with mock "snow"

Giant Snow Globe

Giant Inflatable Santa

Kimnovak school uniform hunting
We're actually in town for school uniform. Even though other back-to-school counters at the malls were pretty quiet, the uniform shops along Jalan Magazine is bustling with activity. We got 姐姐 Kimnovak school uniform. Did you know Kimnovak 金露华 has facebook page? This time she'll be wearing size 28L pinafore, size 3.5 white shirt and size 25 school shorts. The L for pinafore is a slightly different cutting, it has a longer skirt. Compared to the size 29 that she tried, 28L is slimmer cut but longer skirt and suit her better. The size 29 is still slightly shorter than even 28L, too wide, and it looked sloppy on her. The staff at Kimnovak did not offer us the pinafore with L option. I commented to their staff at least 3 times that the pinafore is too short. But they just keep giving me bigger size. Until I asked them, didn't you have the longer and slimmer cut version that I heard about? Only then they bring out the 28L for 姐姐 to try. Maybe they didn't want to promote this version to the general public. Glad I persisted for a better fitting size.

Remember to ask for the L version of pinafore for slimmer and longer cut

Next on the list will be school shoes hunting for the spare pair since she will be in school almost everyday due to extra curricular activities.

Colourful Sunday at The WhiteAways Courtyard
This is organized by Penang Global Tourism in conjuction with Car Free Day. This is not a competition, just a fun activity for the kids. The children were given Christmas headband and cap for the Christmas theme, in addition to souvenir for participation. 姐姐 got a ticket to Adventure Zone for lucky draw, but 弟弟 didn't. How to go since ticket is so expensive?

The drawing is rather complicated thus the kids spent quite a bit of time on it

The finished colouring. They're actually wearing the Garfield t-shirt which says Merry Christmas.

This is taken by 爸爸

The staff taking their photo :)

After completing this activity, we went to have breakfast at China House. 姐姐 enter the drawing contest there and she drew Santa from her headband. 爸爸 didn't take photo of it as she rushed to drop it into the box. Well never mind, since there are so many nice entries she doesn't have much of a chance as her drawing is also a little messy.

The children received vouchers for free frozen yoghurt at Gurney Paragon. We went there one weekend to try it. They liked it very much, but too sourish for adults. We should have gotten some toppings added but the guy at the counter didn't tell us about such options.

Moo Cow Frozen Yoghurt at Gurney Paragon



We walked around Gurney Drive

We played tourist for a couple hours and tried the food at Gurney Drive, it is really bad, maybe catering for outstation tourists since most stuff like nasi lemak and pasembur we ordered were too sweet. Only rojak is nice. I think even food at the Sungai Pinang kopitiam is better. Pity the tourists eating there :P

Final Christmas-themed activity :) 姐姐 plays Deck The Halls while 弟弟 sing. She learnt the solfege in her JXC Book 2 lessons, and now she added the chords. That's why some parts are choppy :P