On To Legoland Malaysia

Last month, with my mother-in-law visiting us here in Singapore, we made a plan to visit one of the newest theme parks in South East Asia.  it is to Asia's first Legoland theme park located just a few minutes drive from the bridges that links Malaysia to Singapore in Nasujaya, Johor.  

Prior to visiting Legoland Malaysia, we purchased our tickets in a travel agency in Chinatown for discounted price.  We got it for about 25% less from the regular price.  Then we purchased separately the shuttle bus trip to Legoland and back via WTS Travel.

And so early morning of a Saturday, we made our way to the Singapore Flyer to take our shuttle bustrip.  We checked in near the Tours and Transfers Counter where buses are parked.   We bought an 8:30AM trip to Legoland but we managed to get on a bus departed about 15 minutes earlier.

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Visita Iglesia 2013: In Singapore

Visita Iglesia (Church Visits) has been a tradition among Filipino Catholics.  Every year on Maundy Thursday during the Lenten Week, Catholics visits seven churches and perform the Stations of the Cross prayers.   Some would visit only one church and pray the Stations of the Cross.

I remember back when I was younger that we used to join processions where we do the Stations of the Cross in our village.  And in my teens, we used to do a 2 hour walk to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes Basilica (better known as the Grotto Church) in San Jose Del Monte City in Bulacan province.  We would walk starting midnight going there and we would pray the stations there together with hundreds of Catholics visiting the shrine too.  Some Filipino Catholics in Manila would hike up to the National Shrine of the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage (a.k.a. Antipolo Cathedral) in hills of Antipolo in Rizal province.

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Bird Watching in Jurong Bird Park

After more than a year of living in Singapore, my family finally had the oportunity to visit the Jurong Bird Park, Asia's largest bird park. The best thing with it was we were able to go to the park for free. Well the admission tickets to the park costs S$20 for adults and S$13 for kids, but we got free passes for four.

My wife Jen currently works with OCBC bank, one of the largest banks on the island and they have corporate tickets to a number of parks and attractions in Singapore. Monthly they raffle in these passes to employees who register and fortunately Jen was picked during the raffle. Well this was the second time that she was drawn, wherein the last time she was drawn for free passes to the Singapore Flyer. I'll see if I can post a separate blog about it next time.

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A Day at the Sentosa Flowers 2012

Last January 29th, me, my wife, and my daughter visited Sentosa to check out this year's Sentosa Flowers.  Sentosa Flowers is an event that annually happens in the island resort of Sentosa located south of the main island of Singapore.

This was our first time to see Sentosa in blooms were flowers are almost everywhere.  Basically this event was set to welcome spring after the Chinese New Year.  

And so anyways, we planned to visit Sentosa for a short time as my wife is pregnant and she gets easily tired.   We first headed to VivoCity where the Harbourfront MRT station is located.  And instead of riding the monorail into Sentosa, we decided to walk the half kilometer long Sentosa Boardwalk beside the bridge that connects the resort island into the main island.

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Grand US Tour 2010: California Adventure Park

After one whole month in traveling around California in 2010, we end it with our last chance visit to see Disney's California Adventure theme park located across the main Disneyland theme park in Anaheim.  Again this is included in the CityPASS ticket that we purchased to see California's other theme parks like Universal Studios and Sea World.

Unlike the beautiful sunny Saturday the day before, the weather went back to being rainy just like our first trip to Disneyland 2 weeks back.   And due to this, we went to the park a bit later that day after lunch as we try to guage whether the weather will still go better.  We ended up just bringing our umbrellas to the park since it's our last opportunity throughout our stay in the US.  Also it was just my family and Angel who went.

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