Snowalk at i-City, Shah Alam

Yesterday, Papa took us to the newly-opened Snowalk at i-City, Shah Alam. Snowalk is a place for visitors to experience snow albeit in a 'synthetic' way. Papa first knew about this from a blog he read and then saw it featured in The Star newspaper in the Metro section.

The moment Juan Or saw the Snowalk building, this was his reaction - fretful and almost crying. By the way, we had not even entered the building, he already reacted like that. Don't know why! *Slap forehead*

The normal price for adult ticket is RM25 and children (from 3 to 12 years) is RM15 inclusive of winter jacket rental, but since this is still the promotional period, the adult ticket costs RM15 and children RM10. Since Juan Or is still under 3 years old, he gets to enter for free and still gets to borrow the winter jacket for free!

Papa tried putting on the winter jacket for Juan Or before we entered, but don't know for what reason, Juan Or refused to put it on! So we thought never mind, let him feel the consequence of his own decision, thus Juan Or entered the snow area in his plain clothes!

The snow place is icy and freezing cold. There are lots of typical Christmas deco structures to see along the way such as snowman, dinosaur, miniature castles and igloo structures made of large  ice blocks, and also pathways for you to ride on a sleigh to slide down the ice. Or if you do not fancy riding on a sleigh, you can merely slide on your buttocks in those miniature castle structures. So how does snow feel like? To Mommy, the synthetic snow felt just like those icy powder sediments you find in a freezer! So for a cheap feel of snow, just open your home freezer and ta-dah!

And as mentioned in previous blogposts before, this boy loves to play with and suck or eat ice cubes. But when he was already face-to-face with ice and snow everywhere, he somehow refused to see or touch anything! Instead he chose to stand there and fret and fret and cry! He even kept on pointing towards the door where we entered to say he wanted to go out!

Papa even went to pull one Spiderman sleigh for him to try but he refused to try it! After that, Papa tried again to put the winter jacket onto him and he still refused so we had no choice but to force it on him with scolding and slapping.

By the way, if you intend to visit this place, Mommy's advice is to make sure you are sufficiently 'equipped' in that preferably you wear socks and shoes rather than slippers and wear whatever cheap gloves you can get hold of such as the gardener's cotton gloves. You know why? Because if you intend to do some sliding on ice, then you can't help having some snow trapped between your feet and the slipper and that's going to give freezing sensation to your feet! Or just in case you need to use your bare hands to help break the fall or slide, your bare hands will have to touch snow or the 'ice powder', that's why it's better to have at least the gardener's gloves over your hands if you don't want to end up spending so much money.....

Anyway, very soon we were out already because Juan Or was fretting so much. He was even terrified by just looking at the life-sized snowman! Once out of the snow place and back at the tropical temperature, he was all smiles again!

Then, neighbouring to the Snowalk, there is a new indoor amusement park. So we went in to have a look. Judging from the look of the amusement play items, we reckoned that probably the amusement park is not yet open for business.

Juan Or saw big horsey arcade games, but don't know why he didn't seem keen to ride on the horse.

There was the basketball type of game....

and guns!

Then there's the machine gun type like Rambo!

There were also very nice, clean and big kiddy rides too, but too bad, that day Juan Or didn't seem to be keen with kiddy rides like these......

.....because there's something even better - something fast and furious! Vroom! Vroom!

Then there were more guns - black gun....

....red gun, ......

....and blue gun! Piang! Piang! Juan Or even went on to point the gun at Mommy and said "Shoot Mama!" and then pointed to Papa and said "Shoot Papa!" *Slap forehead*

Here he was putting the gun back after he was done playing.

Juan Or also enjoyed crossing the 'bridge' that connects the Snowalk and amusement park.

Now he was all smiles walking back to Snowalk!

Now it was time to go back to the car park. See how hot it was outside!

Back to the carpark now, which is just next to the Snowalk building. By the way, parking was free!

i-City in Shah Alam

This is an outdated post dating back to 30th May 2010. We were on our way down towards Klang and stopped by at Tesco Shah Alam to see what offer were in store and partly also because Juan Or loves to go to Tesco and Giant hypermarkets.

After Tesco Shah Alam, but before reaching Klang for lunch, Papa passed by this so-called city that pricked our curiosity for some time already. It's the i-City, perhaps short for information-City, in Shah Alam. Papa read before from a newspaper's report that i-City is a beautiful place to see. So we wanted to see for ourself how beautiful is beautiful.

Here are snapshots of i-City in the late morning - electric Christmas trees decorating the place. So night time should be beautiful to see.

Looks like gigantic electric trees decorating a desert!

There are small electric Xmas trees too.

Real trees among the fake trees.

A description of i-City and some disclaimers.

Bear statues as part of the garden's deco.

Juan Or posing with his Papa. Notice the unicorns in the background?

Another pose with Papa. This time don't know what Juan Or was thinking in his head!

Curiosity kills the cat (or rather 'mouse' because Juan Or is born in the year of the mouse).

Actually people are not allowed to go into where the unicorns are, but the temptation is just too great for Juan Or.

One last walk before we make a move.

Once we were done with i-City, we head down to Taman Rashna area in Klang to have our lunch at Hometown Village Restaurant.

During the waiting time, this was what Juan Or was up to.

And these were what we had.

Beancurd and crabmeat in superior stock. Tastes very good! It's everyone favourite including Juan Or!

Mantis shrimp in kam heong style. Taste good for Papa but too dry for Mommy. Juan Or refused to touch this dish.

Sweet potato leaves stir-fried in sambal belacan. Used to taste very good, but this time it tasted a bit bitter, probably the cook underestimated the amount of sugar to use. Mommy couldn't even finish this vege this time.

Assam sting-ray. Tasty!