Christmas At Kidzania

As a reward for being a goodboy, Ganma Annie said she will sponsor a trip to Kidzania for Ace on christmas day...

As you need to have a kid to go into kidzania, she was pretty excited to go there herself:)
So early at 9am in the morning, Max dropped us off at Dubai Mall.. Ace cannot help it but want to take pic with this car...

After tat, we slowly made our way over to Kidzania where we bought our FIRST CLASS TICKETS and got to transit into kidzania:) yipee!

First stop is to cash in the cheque we had at the bank to exchange for Kidzos.. which is the currency used here in Kidzania;)


Then off to the first stop... Flight simulation and to be a pilot... But as it was very early and relatively empty, Ace found it was not quite fun.. But we had to do this cos at our last trip here, this was the one thing we missed out on...

Anyway, I found out that there is a Parent's lounge at the second storey... once he has fulfilled his unfulfilled dream.. guess where he wants to go to next?

To be FIREMAN lor...

Having their fireman lessons and now ready to go:)


Ace was quite lucky... because they usually just go one round shouting "Kidzania, fire fighter!" and that is it.. at special hours, they will get to do missions... in this particular session, he got to go to the Flamingo Hotel and out out fire with a hose:) How cool is tat:)

I asked if he would like to go to the hospital but he prefers to be paramedic... so that is where he went to next... As he has experience and knows what is going to happen, he put his hands up quickly when they asked who wanted the stethescope and be a doctor... and lucky for him, he got it:) hehehe... check out his gleeful look:)

Then they are given some more lessons and sent over to where the casualty is laying down on the floor "injured"...

When asked if he heard anything after putting the stethescope on the casualty, Ace cheekily said, "No..." "But you are suppose to hear something.. if not, it means she is dead.." said the leader of the team of paramedics...

Bringing the casualty back with them...

Next stop, car designing at Chevrolet...


That is the car that Ace designed:)

We saw alot of people driving cars and tried to queue up.. but we were told you have to get a driving licence in order to "drive"...

So we went to queue up to get a licence lor.. then I figured out that the licence actually cost money:) hehehe... I found out this time tat some activities here cost kidzos.. so Ace used 10 kidzos to get a licence...

Valid till 2020... woo hoo!

But on the way to find the racing track, we got distracted by the art school and Ace decided to be a little Picasso:)

And just as we are about to reach the track, Ace discovered this.. BOTTLE YOUR OWN COKE station... he was so happy to have his own bottled coke and kept wanting to drink it...


Now, time for Ace Schumacher to zoom around the racing track...

Alas Schumacher Ace was a little too fast and crashed into another parked vehicle..heng he is safe.. so he continued racing again...


Tadah.. the champion!!!:)

Then of course, without fail, Ace chooses to be policeman! wahahaha.. Annie ganma was so tired by then she took a little rest on the benches nearby..

Anyway, we found out from the guy at the door that since Dubai Immigration is sponsoring this station, they will do most of the time, immigration officers instead of policeman as sponsors get to track the number of children who have done the activity.... policeman only comes on once every hour or so.. dam!

Anyway, their job is to go and dunno check wat.. I wonder if they checking for stowaways.. wahahahahahahahaa.... Anyway, they told us that there is a possibility that a Kidzania will be opening up in Malaysia.. good news for the kids in Singapore:)

Next we saw this swiss arabian perfume thingy and Ace decided that he wanted to make his own perfurme.. I am not a fan of the perfumes and I actually thought it is the most revolting smell I have ever smelt when I first came... but over time, I have gotten to appreciate it.. Not that I like it but I just understand why other people MAY like it... wahahahaha.. But you wun catch me dead with this perfume on me:) hahahahaha



Tadah, his perfume and a cert to certify his involvement:)

Next, he went to work in the DEWA department.. tat is like the PUB of Singapore lor.. it just some lesson and a computer quiz on how to safe energy. I hope he understands now that it is important to switch off the lights when he goes out of the room and it is a total waste of energy to open the fridge and stand there for 5 minutes deciding what he wants to eat!!!!! (On a side note, the lesson seems effective as i dun see him doing tat so much since this lesson:P)

Meanwhile, me and Annie godma just rest and relax one corner and camwhore! :)

Next, Ace decided to be a newspaper reporter (like mummy sort of used to be)... they in charge asked if he could speak english and I said he could.. cos now one year later, he is a much better reader and writer... They actually got him to type out his own conversation inside a comic strip on a ready made newspaper...

My son and his comic strip.. alas, his comic is about.. you guessed it.. POOP! Faintz....

This one is interesting.. it is working as a customers service officer in DU.. which is like our M1 or Starhub, Singtel equivillent in Singapore... you supposed to match the person to the person the caller wants to connect to.. like a quiz...


And then Ace decided that he wanted to be a construction worker.. wahahahaha... so building walls again lor..



Then Ace said he was hungry... so we went to mac donalds for food.. but he interestingly rejected my offer to buy a happy meal and said he just wanted fries and ice cream....

I found out that the happy meal here is like 5 dirhams more ex.. and wondered why..then I found out tat when your kids buy a happy meal and pay more, they get a hat and apron from mac donalds.. and then they can go inside the kitchen to wrap their own food and pack their own happy meal.. just as if they are working in mac donalds.. I told tat to another parent I was chatting with and he said he will bring his girl there cos it is her dream to work in Mac Donalds when she grows up and can take vacation jobs! hahahahaha.. (I dun think she really will in the end.. I would rather be a telemarketeer and earn $11 an hour than earn $2.50 an hour and mac donalds:P

Anyway, after that, when I asked Ace what he wanted to be.. he wanted to be a firefighter.. AGAIN!!!!

So boh pian lor.. this time there is long queue and we have to queue... Then two interesting things happened..

Ace asked me if he can talk to other people and make friends..."Of cos.." And Ace said "I want to make friends because I don't have any friends here..."

The little indian girl behind him heard that and said immediately, "I can be your friend if you want.. my cousins who are here with me always leave me alone and so I can be your friend..."

Wah.. then you see my boy turn on his charm and that little girl smiled and laughed... and in no time at all, they are fast friends liao:)


After a while, Ace complained to me and said that some boys out of the window did a "you are dead and I will slash your throat" sign to him and he is really upset by it.. "Why do you have to be upset?" I asked him... "Just ignore them.. they are being mean.." said the little girl...

And then after a while, the girl took the matter in her own hands.. went to the window and used sign language to tell the boys outside that they are dead too in her bid to protect Ace. Once Ace realized you could do tit for a tat and so he started gestulating and the boys just gestulated even more... I told Ace that the boys were wrong to do those signs but he isnt any better if he does the same as them.. and so he stopped...

And then, yet another interesting thing happened... The children were queuing and the line got messy.. so that they can tell who came first, the person in charge asked everyone to form one straight line and this irritating indian woman (an adult) declared that she was also in the line as she is queuing for her children.

The incharge told her that is not allowed as it is not fair for the other children and she started to raise her voice (maybe she tot loud will win) lah.. say wat she wants to see the supervisor lah.. blah blah blah... and so he brought his supervisor and the supervisor basically repeated the same thing that it is not allowed...

Then hor, when the supervisor left, the thick faced woman actually continued to stand there till her children came.. she was actually queuing on behalf of 4 children!!!!!!!!! And she quickly asked them to slot into the queue...

Then leh, she dam bloody suay.... she go and cut queue in front of an arabic lady with a very young boy.. when the boy saw four more people in front of him, he looked terribly upset cos tat means he needs to queue another half an hour for his turn... dun which mother can tahan that right? so the arabic woman quarrel with the indian woman.. and even louder.. telling her this is not fair and not nice. and insisting to see the manager.. so the manager came and the arabic woman just loudly repeated what she said and repeat and repeat till the indian woman "teeth mouth no words" and finally, she very ashamedly ask her four kids to go with her...

Poor kids, I bet they cannot come to this fireman station anymore.... Anyway, I think the indian woman is ridiculous... thankfully the arabic mummy stood up for herself.. I think if i were behind here and she only slot one kid, I would have closed one eye.. but four kids? wah lau eh...




Anyway, Ace went on to be his FIREFIGHTER again:)



And then... guess what, my son wanted to do the policeman thing again... So we tried to go back and queue during the timing where they say will have policeman activities...

This time he was lucky again:) cos it is joint missions exercise back at the Flamingo Hotel... the fireman will come here and put out the fire and the policemen are there to guard and ask people to keep away...


Policeman hard at work...

That is Ace asking people to keep away.. very serious looking policeman:)

After that, Ace said he wanted to worth with the vault.. so he went and got to send money somewhere...

After he came back and reported back to the station, he said he wanted to queue to do it AGAIN.. cos he wanted to collect money this time! wahahahhaha

There he is.. queuing again...

Finally collecting money at TNT and completing his mission...

Next, he said he wanted to make milk at the milk factory...

That's Annie godma at the other side of the room. hehee

Anyway, they had to go through a sort of "bath", then got to put on their white robes and first stop was take the colouring.. and then add some sort of white powder.. and then still got wat check for bacteria or wat...

And after tat you pour it into this machine and press the flavour tat you want..

Out comes his chocolate milk:) I think the other stuff is all fake one lah.. cos i think it is not allowed to make the milk outside of a proper factory..

Ace finished the milk in two gulps lor!

And then we queued up for the supermart and guess wat, we were queuing behind the "evil boys" (ace named them tat) who were gestulating about cutting throats.. to him.. And some other girl tried to cut queue and interestingly, the boys stood up for Ace and said Ace was here first... But maybe it could be part of the they look down on girls thing cos they said it with such disdain...


Anyway, in the supermart, you get to be cashier and afterward, customer... everyone only allowed to buy 5 items but they still shopped like crazy...


Ace putting it back and finally getting to shop.. by the way, you dun get the merchandise you bought.. they are all fake.. you just get a receipt :)

Time to count money.. after Ace picked out the things he could buy with his money, we were still short of $10 and so we went to do car design one more time so tat he could pick out a magic trick that costs 50 kidzos:)

Just a side note, we saw two arabic men treating Kidzania like their own garden:) hehehe.. First class seats.. wahhahahaha:)

After tat, while bringing Ace to the toilet, I met two frens who were here in Dubai on a trip!:) Small small world lor:)

Anyway, Ace was in a tantrum cos the exit of Kidzania led to a toy shop.. he watned to buy a toy and i din want to buy for him.. cos it was something he already had. (it was a policeman set) and so he sulked all the way out of kidzania.. his godma heart soft lor.. say ok buy for him.. so after we walked like 10 min to another part of the mall to meet Annie godma's parents, we had to walk all the way back again to buy the toy only to find tat the toy is for 3 years old.. and then we spent another 20 min waiting for shaoye to choose his toy.. really tired dao..........

Anyway, finally after we met up with Annie's friend who just arrived in Dubai and Annie's parents, we brought them to see the water fountain show and headed off to a really nice dinner at Ace's favourite restaurant in dubai- Sino Chai:)

After two nights of partying and one whole day at kidzania, I woke up the next day aching ALL OVER my body lor!! wahahahahahaha...

Anyway, looking at the choice of careers my sons has tried.. I dun think he will wanna be a doctor or wat.. he probably wants to be something with ACTION to save or service people when he grows up.. wahahahaha..

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