A Dugong Gone!

I am going to perform in a play tomorrow and Friday at the KL Performing Arts Centre or KLPAC. Me and my friends from my school's drama club have been rehearsing for a year for this. We rehearsed at KLPAC today from 3pm to nearly 8pm.

The play is called "A Dugong Gone!". Dugongs are large mammals and look like walruses.

Read more about dugongs here: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/dugong/

The story, which all of the drama kids wrote together, is about a dugong that gets caught by greedy fishermen. Then a storm appears, and they let her go. There will be lots of singing and dancing and fun in the play.

Tickets are RM35. Proceeds from the play will go towards saving the dugongs, which are almost extinct because the fishermen catch more than they need so that they can make more money.

It has been tiring and I nearly quit the play because I was really nervous and I skipped a lot of rehearsals earlier in the year but now I am excited, and I know all my lines and dance moves. Teacher Amina said I peformed well today.  I can't wait for the show!

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Today I woke up early at 8am, got dressed by myself, and brushed my teeth without mum telling me to because I really wanted to go to Hello Kitty Town.

So me and mum got in the car and she drove from Singapore to Hello Kitty Town. It is an indoor theme park in Puteri Harbour in Nusajaya, Johor, part of the Iskandar Malaysia project. It is about a ten-minute drive from Legoland. It took us about one hour from Singapore.

When we got there, the building did not look ready from the outside and builders were still working on it with ladders and things. The basement carpark was very dirty and dusty. The lifts were not ready so we had to walk out of the carpark and back into the building. I saw rubbish in the carpark and told mum, "Malaysia, here we are!"

Hello Kitty Town was already open when we got there. It is open from 10am to 6pm. The line to get tickets was not very long.

Tickets cost RM50 for Malaysians and you get a card which you have to get stamped every time you do an activity. You are only allowed to do each activity once (except the Tea-Cup ride).

There is also a Little Big Club theme park with Bob The Builder, Barney and Angelina Ballerina. Tickets again are RM50 for Malaysians. But if you want to go to both the Hello Kitty Town and the Little Big Club on the same day, it is RM85.

When we went in, I took a photo with Hello Kitty.

There was a parade and Hello Kitty and Dear Daniel came out to meet everyone. It was very loud but very nice, and colourful with lots of dancers. They let kids dance too. There was also a show a bit later where they danced on-stage with lots of dancers dressed in costumes from around the world.

 

I went on the Tea-Cup ride, which is the only ride there.

Then I went to the Costume Dress-Up area where you can dress up in a Hello Kitty or My Melody costume and get your photo taken.

 

They also have a jewellery-making place where you are given a necklace and you can choose a pendant. I got two because mum gave me hers. It is not really a jewellery-making place, you just get a free necklace really.

Then I tried the nail salon. They give you five nail-art stickers but you have to paint and decorate your own nails.

There is also a cookie-decorating place but the queue was too long so mum said we didn't need to do it. There is also a place called Black Wonder which is like a puzzle and maze.

You also get to go into Hello Kitty's House and see her living room, bedroom, walk-in wardrobe, kitchen and bathroom.

There's a cafe too. Mum had a tuna sandwich which was RM5.50. I had a hotdog. The fruit puddings were RM7.50 each.

There is also another cafe downstairs outside the gift shop. I wanted roti jala but they didn't have it.

 

I bought a new handbag, notebook and letter-writing set from the gift shop.

I had wanted to make a Hello Kitty doll at the Hello Kitty doll-making factory but it had already closed down :(. My cousins had gone to Hello Kitty Town last week and they said it costs RM75 to make a Hello Kitty doll.

Me and mum finished the whole Hello Kitty Town in just a couple of hours. It is a bit small but I still liked it :).

After we were done at Hello Kitty Land, then we went to Legoland.