My Gmail account was hacked!

My Gmail account was hacked last week and I only found out when I realised that my blog was removed by someone! The hackers changed my password, disabled my Gmail account and removed my blog. Luckily I didn’t have any Paypal accounts or bank accounts linked to this email as I believe most of the hackers are after money. I hope none of my friends received my email asking for money, if you do so, please let me know!

I was very calm when I found out this incident. Immediately I submitted a form to Gmail and hoped to recover my account as quickly as possible. I was asked a few questions by the Gmail team to determine if I am the correct account owner. Thanks GOD, I got the answers right and I managed to recover my account after 2 hours.

After I managed to login to my account, the very first thing I did was to change my account password and recovered my blog. I found out that the hacker used an I.P address from Mexico and Egypt (at the bottom of each webpage on Gmail, click on the "Details" option and it will take you to a webpage describing the type of access and the IP address of the computer which logged into your email account. This will help you spy if someone has been accessing your account).

This incident was really an eye-opener for me but it’s a blessing in disguise in some ways. I have learnt that we have to choose a unique and hard-to-crack-password, never use the same username and password on multiple websites & also don’t use dictionary word as your password.

Don't delay, be sensible and make your passwords more secure today!

Quote that inspired me this week

‘你羨慕別人月薪幾萬，卻不知道他日日加班到深夜的辛苦。你羨慕別人說走就走到處遊玩的自由，卻不知道他為這份自由放棄的東西。一切都有代價，無論是財富，事業，愛情，還是自由。別人永遠是別人。別處永遠在別處，等你走過去，你現在身處的地方又會成為你的別處。所以不必羨慕。生活不在別處，在此處’.

Source- 励志.名人哲理

I took this picture at ‘Putrajaya Floria 2013’ last month, I’ve been loving it. Life is beautiful, I hope you like this picture as much as i do!

星期六下午，想吃杞子桂花糕

我, 迷上了桂花淡雅的香气...世上也许没有天堂但还有很多简易制做的美食, 甜点.. ..杞子桂花糕, 就是其中一道.

 

特别做了几个心型桂花糕送给老公.. .. 

I ♥ theme park– Legoland (End)

Kudos to the theme park designers, hope that kids are inspired by the creativity that they have put in at every corner in the Legoland. Cheers!

Another brick sculpture which caught little one’s attention… I didn’t know how to call this man, so I told Jing Xuan that he’s called the “Iron Man”. Hehe… Isn’t the theme park a fairy-tale land for kids, so naming isn’t important, all you need is your imagination.

 

The Observation Tower

We loved this ride very much and went on it twice. We really loved the 360 degree view of the Legoland and the surrounding area. There’s a magician entertaining us with some magic shows while waiting for the ride. Anyway, no queue at all!

Some very nice Lego sculptures spotted around The Observation Tower.

Duplo Playtown – A very cute playground where little one refused to leave even though it’s hot like an oven.

“I am very busy looking for the hen who keeps on saying ‘cluck-cluck-cluck’ at this barn.”

Anyway the ‘Duplo Express’ was down for maintenance. Are you able to spot the bunches of ‘brick-veges’ in the photo below?

It’s 5pm, we had spent almost an hour in this playtown, so we decided not to watch the 4D movie (at the Lego Studio), not to enter the “ Lego Build and Test” room and also the “Pharaoh Revenge’s ride”. We headed straight to the mini-land. More bricks sculptures were spotted on our way to the mini-land.

 

The Pharoah Revenge’s ride…will visit again next time.

 

Mini-land

Can you spot that someone is trying to commit suicide in the photo below?

We were happily enjoying the great creation at the mini-land for the next 1.5 hours. It’s amazing. Little one hoped to stay on as time was just too short for him to slowly go every small bits & pieces at the Mini-land. 

Planning to revisit soon as we get 2 buy-1-free-1 ticket on that day.

I ♥ theme park– Legoland (I)

We woke up at 830am on the next day, 3 of us were freshly recharged ( JX slept for 12.5 hours while we slept for 11 hours),what a luxury! After a relaxing breakfast, we checked out from the hotel and headed straight to Legoland!!

“I feel so itchy with this new shirt.”

It’s a normal schooling day, the park was quite empty and there’re no queue at the ticketing counter. As we entered the park, the first thing we did was to find a shelter so that we could browse through the Legoland’s map & guide.

“While daddy and mummy are busy looking at the map, I am attracted to these shoes. I like the brick design on the shoes.”

It’s almost 12 noon, we decided to first visit ‘The BIG shop’ which was located next to the entrance to avoid the blazing sun (we forgot to apply sun-block).

“Mummy got me changed to another shirt in the shop, no more itchiness! We spent quite some time in the shop, 3 of us really enjoyed looking at all the different sets of Lego & Lego merchandise sold in the shop.“

The “Big Shop” was selling a wide range of Lego selections which I’ve never seen in KL.  We spent almost an hour in the shop (without buying anything ) and finally decided to leave the shop and take the “Legoland Express”.

“The weather’s so hot and mummy told me that the Lego company must be taking the opportunity to run some “Acceleration-Life-Tests” on their legos in Legoland Malaysia.  Hhm…. I don’t understand a single word mummy is saying,  mummy…. can you please snap a photo IMMEDIATELY, I really can’t stand the heat!”

“All on board! I call this Knapford Station and I am hoping to see Thomas or James here. Anyway, I still love this colourful Legoland Express and we boarded the train twice.”

“I wave to some of the passers-by whom I see while traveling in the train.  I see a lot of miniatures during the train ride and I wish to go after that but mummy said she has no mood to admire the beauty of the structure under 1pm hot sun. She said she will bring me there maybe 4 hours later.… .”

The second thing that caught our attention was this –The Junior Driving School (for 3-5 years)

No queue at all!

“Ready, set and….”

 

“But the reality is…….I don’t know how to drive the car.”

 

“Luckily, I got a ‘driver’ to help me go for one round!”

“Not bad, I earn a ‘kopi lesen’ after the drive.”

After the Driving school, we decided to visit another shop –’The Brick Shop’ to avoid the sizzling hot sun.

I like this shop very much. I especially love the “Pick-A-Brick” section where you can pick some customized bricks to add to your sets. The price was RM35 per 100gm, I think it’s quite pricey but luckily I only needed to add some flowers, leaves and chairs to my set. So, the weight of my “add ons” still considered light compared to buying other Lego bricks. Besides, I was very excited to find 2 Lego sets which I’ve been looking for since 2 years ago –The Lego Doors & Windows set, 6117 and The LEGO Roof Tiles set, 6119, were sold in this shop. The happier part was these 2 sets are not imported and distributed by ALJ Malaysia (Every Lego set brought in by ALJ distributor will have the ALJ sticker on the Lego box). ALJ is Malaysia’s Lego distributor who is responsible for the high Lego prices in Malaysia (in another word, they dictate the Lego prices in Malaysia). Most of the Lego sets sold in Legoland Malaysia were still under ALJ but luckily there were still some exceptional ones. Anyway, if you are a Legoland Malaysia’s annual pass holder, you are entitled for an extra 20% discount on all the items purchased.

I knew that The Lego Doors & Windows set, 6117 is sold at ~USD20 (~RM60) and The LEGO Roof Tiles set, 6119 at around USD27 (~ RM86) in Amazon US website. So, I was happy to get them both at RM49.9 each.

While I was busy counting every single piece of leave or flower I scooped from the “pick-a-brick’ section, JX was happily playing at the “Build-A-Minifig station”.  As the name suggested, you can customize your very own minifig by choosing the heads, torsos, legs and some accessories available there, RM25 for 3 minifigs. Little one spent almost 40 minutes playing at the station and finally we decided to get home 3 minifigs.

“I build the sailor and the policeman, mummy builds the other one.”

Nice “twin towers” structure spotted in the shop…

 

We had our lunch at “The Cafe” which was situated  beside The Brick Shop.

“Daddy bought me some pastries and a cup of rainbow ice-cream for my lunch. Daddy and Mummy are half-full after a heavy buffet breakfast in the hotel this morning so they shared a lasagne. We like this cafe as the air-con is cold and it’s not crowded. A nice place to take a rest!”

After lunch, we decided to take a walk around Legoland.  Anyway, JX insisted to leave Legoland and suggested to come back again next time…. Hhmm…I did notice that little one had finished 1 litre of water in the last three hours and I also knew that the scorching sun was not very welcoming but MUMMY REALLY WISH TO CONTINUE TO STAY AND PLAY HERE, sorry!

“ I want to go home, I want to go home!”

The “I want to go home” remedy presented by JX at the Legoland’s front door lasted for 15 minutes and finally he was distracted by me to a ‘ life-size painter’ near the edge of the water.

 

Aquazone Wave Racers Ride

“I am not interested to take this ride. My clothes were wet by splashes of water as I was just standing beside the pool. Mummy ask me not to worry as my clothes will soon being naturally ‘sun-dried’.”

Lego Mindstorms & Lego Academy – we didn’t enter both, will visit again next time.

“I am attracted to these 2  ‘brick robots’ placed at the opposite of the Lego Mindstorms . From time to time, I could hear these two robots communicate with me in a funny voice.  I am wondering why and I am very interested to know them more.”.

We really loved the brick sculptures which were littered all around the park, masterpiece!

The Dragon Kingdom

“Daddy & Mummy are not fans of roller-coaster so they both didn’t bother to take any rides in Legoland including this- ‘The Dragon Ride’. Mummy is more interested in window shopping at the gift shop next to this castle.”

 

I am fascinated to see all the different types of Lego sets  in this gift shop.