Art Garden @ Singapore Art Museum 2011

29 July 2011

"Mummy Dearest" room. 

Dress up the dolls and

decorate a cake - using velcros.

"Paramodelic-Graffiti" room

Eugene wanted to touch everything there but it was not for touching. 

The kids are supposed to fix the tracks themselves (of cos with help from a museum assistant to guide them) but the tracks were already laid when we got there........

The toy trains were battery-operated. 

After a while, Eugene got bored with it.

No fun and no challenge just looking at the trains going round and round on their own. 

Eugene actually picked up the train that was given to him to play and put it back into the bin and said he wanted to leave.

he much preferred it here..........

He can fix the tracks and accessories himself and to get the trains moving, you have to wind it up.

There were no other kids in this room and so Eugene had all the attention of the assistants there who helped and played with him for awhile.

He had the whole table to himself. I guess this was more challenging to him. More accessories like tunnels, bridges etc to add to the tracks and also to have to wind up the trains to get it moving.

He was scared of the elephant at first but later warmed up to it and kept asking to be given stickers to stick onto the elephant.

"Fruits" - er, boring lor, paper fruits
"Tree of Love" 
"Dancing Solar Flowers" - can see, cannot touch
"Superhigh" - can push the coloured blocks around and can sit or stand on it - but Eugene don't find it fun leh.

Went to the Chapel to watch some films for kids and also to take a short breather and light snack. Ok, the breather was more for me, ha ha.

I find that there were less interactive stuff to do.

I much preferred last year's and I'm sure Eugene too.

Underwater Shots @ Raffles Town Club

19 July 2011

I've finally decided to buy a waterproof bag for my Canon Powershot camera. It's like a ziplock bag to put the camera in.

The Canon camera is quite an old camera and so I was willing to try it out in the waterproof bag. Of cos, I did the 'dry' test first as advised by the manufacturer. That is, put in a piece of tissue in the waterproof bag and submerge it in water and see if any water gets in.

Well, no water went it and so decided to try it out with my Canon camera.

Here we are at the Raffles Town Club.

Hubby's nephew - same age as Eugene - completely fearless in water.

Hubby's other niece and nephew - naturals in the water.

Hubby's brother and kids.

See me holding tightly onto the kids? Frankly, I've got water-phobia. I almost drowned when I was young and was scared eversince.

You can tell the kids are very confident in the water by their expressions. As for me, I was trying my hardest not to have a "shocked" look !

Hubby's bro's wife and the youngest one. All the kids had a fun time going down the slides except Eugene :(   who absolutely refused to be even near it.

The pic at the bottom showed Eugene crying. Well, he found himself on the deep end (feet just barely touching the bottom) and started panicking.

Yeah, I, at least put my fear aside for awhile and put my head underwater.

Ya, laugh. Only those who have water-phobia like me will understand how scared one can be if one have to go underwater.

Go for swimming lessons? Yes, I did.

(A) In my twenties, I joined a group. When I turned up, I was the only adult among the kids (I think somebody recommended this teacher ( I wanted a female) and to join her group. I thought it was an adult only group, looked like I was wrong). Then we had to go to the deep end to learn how to tread water.

Instructress : D, take your hands off!

I was clinging to the side of the pool and refused to let go.

I didn't go back for any more lessons.



(B) In my thirties, my galfren and I had private lessons (just the two of us) at my friend's condo pool.

Did frog style but I still did not know how to come up for air and so was holding my breath. I was swimming from the shallow end and then I saw.......I was at the deep end now and panicked and the instructress had to quickly pull me out of the water.

End of lesson.

So how?

Underwater World, Sentosa

14 July 2011

Hubby's niece and nephew wanted to take the bus, a double-decker if possible.
I was already tired by the time we reached Sentosa! ha ha ha.

The Touch-Pool.

Beautiful!

Look at those huge Japanese King Crabs ! They're as big as Eugene!

The jelly-fish takes on the colour of the changing lights.

Are they just colourful seaweeds? Look closer.........

They are the Amazing Sea Dragons!

Pink Dolphin! Not totally pink - got black spots. But still, so cute.

The sea-lions are so adorable!

Let's all cool down.

It was a very hot hot day !!!!!

Went to one of the cafes along the beach for some snacks.

The mother of this boy told me that her son started to tell Eugene about his toy cars and Eugene was like nodding his head and answering the boy - the mother was very amused - 'cos the kids were talking like adults - so serious and all.

The other kid was very friendly and generous in sharing his toys with Eugene.

The Underwater World's smaller than I expected. You can stand on the travellator to loop around the aquarium - it's a very small loop. I wasn't wow by it as I had been to a similar one in Australia.

The pink dolphin show was a big disappointment. The star should be the pink dolphins right? But they didn't do much - maybe due to pressure from the animals' rights group. The majority of the performance was by the sealions who're very entertaining.

I am 3 years old !

11 July 2011

How time flies! In the blink of an eye, and Eugene is already 3 years old.

HAPPY  BIRTHDAY EUGENE !

Teacher Liz who is so wonderful with the kids.

 The assistant whom Eugene calls 'Auntie'

The classmates. Of cos, Eugene will have to be seated next to his favourite gal 'S'.

After class, we walked to Central to meet my friend 'SY' for lunch.
On the way, Eugene started to prance around and hollering in a loud voice (in a good way). I guess he was happy and thrilled that the whole class sang 'Happy Birthday' to him and he was the 'star'.

These were moves that I had never seen him do before !

Yep, you can tell that he was really happy that day.

Cake Pops n Presents

I decided to get Cake Pops for Eugene's classmates as well as for his teacher and the teacher's assistant.

Never knew there's such a thing as cake pops till I read this blog's posting. Thanks Lady J for the recommendation.

SMILEY FACE CAKE-POPS

N ELMO!

So cute, right?

The Elmo cake pops looks very red, just how Elmo's colour should be but in reality, the colour was more like the pic right at the top where I have not stuck the Elmos onto the styrofoam yet - well, I should say a little bit more lighter actually.

Even though it would have looked a lot like Elmo if it had been more red, but then it was no big deal. The kids still loved it!

There're a couple of bakers in S'pore doing these cake-pops but what sold me over was  (according to their website) :

1) we do not use artificial preservatives or stabilisers in our cakes

2) where butter is required, we use real butter and not shortening or margarine

3) the ingredients we use does not contain trans fat

4) where milk is required, we use low-fat milk

As these cake-pops was to be given out to young children, I do not want to have any unnatural stuff in it as far as possible.

I tasted a cake-pop and it was very tasty! The shell and the chocolate cake encased in it was not too sweet and it was very yummy!

If you are interested, get it here :
http://www.happybakes.com/


Parents and in-laws gives ang-pows every year.

Bro-in-law and family got the below for Eugene.

while we got for Eugene a Beyblade. Why a Beyblade? Becos Eugene wanted one.
Sometimes when we bring Eugene to the playground, there will be this group of older boys playing their Beyblades and Eugene will watch fascinated by it (see here). And so when we asked what he would like for his birthday, he immediately said Beyblade.

He chose the Beyblade himself.

Eugene has only watched the boys playing the Beyblade and have never touched one before. So we showed him how to play it.

After a couple of tries, he got the hang of it.

The video below was taken after Eugene had tried to learn how to spin the Beyblade for a few time and thus you can see that he was very careful and cautious going about doing it (of cos, by the time this post is posted, he's already like a pro at it!)

You will also notice that he got a smile on his face the whole time. Ya, that's becos I told him that I'm taking a video of him and so to please smile (I didn't expect him to smile throughout, ha ha).



The 'faster' that I had mentioned in the video was not to chide him for being slow but to tell him to pull that plastic thingy fast so that the top will be able to spin faster and longer.

Not bad for a 3 years old Beyblader !