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 !

Eugene's Pre-Birthday Celebration @ Bottle Tree Park

10 July 2011

Had a pre-birthday celebration for Eugene.

Hubby's brother and family just came back to Singapore for a visit and we decided to hold the birthday at Bottle Tree Park mainly because of the kids. Hubby's brother have 3 kids and we thought it would be very fun for them to try longang fishing!

This was Eugene's 2nd time at Bottle Tree Park and trying his hand at longang fishing (see his 1st time here).

We were worried that he might slip and kept telling him not to step on the rocks but he persisted and insisted that he's all right.

But he was very careful, stepping gingerly onto the rocks.

Here's a tip for catching the fish. It is very hard to catch with the small net provided - you can do it better by catching with your hands!

Hubby and the kids and other kids there were catching more fish by using their hands.

Hah, hubby was tired out as the 2 youngest kid, Eugene and 'J' kept asking hubby to catch a fish for each of them.And the fish will have to be put into the net that each of them were carrying, why? Becos the kids wanted to transfer by themselves the fish in the net into the container provided - it made them feel that they were the ones who caught the fish !

Hubby's bro's wife and 2 kids looking at the fish. Pa-in-law looking amused.

Bro-in-law's two older kids.

Special effect from my new camera.

I like this photo very much. Eugene with 'J' (bro-in-law's youngest son)

Came across some people training their parrots to fly across the fishing pond to the person waiting over the other side.

Dinner at the Seafood Restaurant. Everybody was hungry and quickly started eating before all the food could arrived.

Hubby's sis made this teddy bear cake. She took a few hours doing the icing on this.

Thank you!

LOVE YOU !