The Sentosa Luge

It's been some time since we last visited Sentosa Luge.

Us getting ready for the ride! Even Nick and Grace were so excited.. 

But hor, the mummy is having cold feet!!

Nick was just so excited and cannot wait to get onto the Luge.. :P

After Q-ing for some time, well.. Here we come.. :)

While mummy was busy pulling the handle to slow down the Luge, Grace was helping me to push it forward so that it can go faster. She just kept shouting "mummy go faster, go faster.. Must win papa.. Cannot let papa reach first..!!" It was so fast that her helmet almost flew off!

Oh Mr Sun!! We LOVE U!!

Finally after weekends and weekends of hiding at home cos it's always raining when we want to go out, Mr Sun is finally out, although not for long!!

Nevertheless, we manage to make a trip to play.. 

In case you are wondering, why do i only capture Grace on the scooter and not her brothers.. Well.. Grace is half riding, half pushing.. So, she's slow enough for me to take pictures. *slow-pok*

As for her brothers, they zoom and were gone in a flash before i could take pictures.. :(

Shrink Art With Grand-Auntie Jeanne

Grand-Auntie texted me a day before we went to her home "I teaching the kids to do shrink art, so bring your colour pencils." That sms left me puzzled, so i replied with " What is shrink art?" and the reply came back as "I will BAKE THE PAPER after they colour loh."

I didn't thought much about it since i assumed she was pulling my legs, nevertheless, i brought the colour pencils to her home.. 

The first pix shows the size of the shrink art paper against the hand phone holder. Then the next few pictures shows the piece of paper shrinking and curling up and with a frying ladle, we smack the piece of paper flat! When flatten, it's like a hard plastic and u can hang a key ring and make it into a key chain.  Cool right?

Grace with her shrink art end product! :)

Thank you Grand-Auntie Jeanne for having us at your home!! :)

Kite Flying @ Marina Barrage

By chance, we saw some pretty lights flying in the sky.. We stopped by to check only to realize that those were KITES!

So, the very next day, we decided to knock off at 4pm, just to bring the monkies to the Marina Barrage to fly kites. Since it was a weekday, we did not expect the place to be so CROWDED!!!

Look at the number of people on a weekday.. Don't they need to go school or work?? 

See the amount of kites in the sky? 

Nick's kite.. Up, up and into the sky.. 

We had a great time later that day playing with sparklers, bubbles and led lights!!

We sure will be back for more fun soon!!

Our Busy National Day Weekend..

It's National Day on Monday, as such, we had an extremely long weekend.. 

Initial plans to go Genting, Macau, Cameron Highlands and Marina Bay Sands wasn't successful.. :(

Since my long weekend started on Thursday and didn't end till Monday, the monkies definately had loads of activities lined up for them!

Friday.. Nick celebrated his birthday in school.. 

Sunday, the monkies joined in the flame celebration at ITE East!

On National Day, the monkies had a quick meal at McDonalds and rushed of to join the Q to get into Padang for the National Day Parade. 

No pictures taken at the NDP this time round cos, well, mummy forgot to charge both of the digital camera and her handphone battery also..  :(

The Craze Continues.. The RSAF Museum

The mad fighter plane craze continues!! 

Bright Saturday morning, we headed out to the RSAF Museum.  We wasn't even sure if they are open since the website was last updated in 2009! 

We made rounds around that area, until we spotted the building with "The Air Force Museum". Hubby and me let out some signs of relieve!  Boy, we dare not think if we couldn't find that place or if it's closed, how disappointed the monkies would be!

After parking, as we were walking in. hubby commented "maybe the museum is only made up of these few exhibits" as that place was absolutely deserted!!

Well, in a way, hubby was pretty right.. The exhibits were a little disappointing since the kids cannot get into any of them, or there wasn't even much explanation on the model, what can the fighter planes do or how fast they could get!!  So, we just loiter around and let the Nick took some pictures.. 

Grace for some reasons got super scared of that place.. She refused to let go of my hand and kept insisting i have to carry her. If i put her down, she end up hugging my leg like a koala, and me having to drag my foot around to MOVE her.. That also perhaps explains why she's only in 1 of the many pictures we took!

Inside the museum, Nick posted in a few pictures. The place was pretty eery since we were the only people there with the weird old machines and statues. Again, there wasn't much explanations, so whatever questions Nick had for me, answers were based on my limited knowledge or some bullshit answers!.. 

Nick on the only stimulator which he pretend that he was a pilot. Grace finally got off from hugging my leg, stood there and watched for a while.

After that, the monkies watched some video fighter plane demo which made Nick so excited that he reminded me again that he wants to pilot a fighter plane when he grows up!.  *Am keeping my fingers and toes crossed he doesn't changes his mind!*

Nick here with the "fake man" in uniform.. He claims he likes the one in green better.

Some other smaller fighter planes that was "tied" to the ceiling on the way out. 

*pictures taken by Nick*

While we were leaving, a staff approached us and asked if we are interested to see a 5 mins video screening on the air force. It wasn't was informative as i have expected it to be, nevertheless, it didn't fail Nick since he wanted to see the planes. 

Not a bad place if you have time, and is looking for a quiet place.. 

Location:

RSAF Museum

400 Airport Road

Singapore 534234

Opening Hours:

Tuesday to Sunday

8.30am to 5.00pm

(Closed on Monday & Public Holidays)

Buses:

SBS 90 and 94

(SBS 94 not available on Sunday)

Free Admission

Desaru Fun! (Dated 3 July)

It was out of the blue that hubby and me decided to head up to Desaru! Friday morning we talked bout it, and Saturday, the whole family headed out to Desaru! Yes.. That's almost how impromptu our trips are!!

Us on our way there.. 

Arrived!! Finally.. After the 2.5 hours drive.. 

Hubby and me in the van at the Fruit farm.. Picture taken by Grace.. Not bad hor!

The fruits at the farm..

The Koi pond in the farm..

The mini zoo in the farm!

Us at the Ostrich farm.

Happy 45th Birthday Singapore!

It's still a bit early, since it's neither Singapore's Birthday nor Nick's Birthday yet! But well, by chance, some unknown Mr Nice sms-ed me by mistake telling his friend he has some 2 tickets for the preview for him. :P I asked if i could have them since none of the monkies had watched the NDP live before!  And he offered the tickets to us instead..  Not only did he offer the tickets to us, he offered us 4 tickets!! :) Of cos, he made my day and he made me so thrilled that i simply forgotten i needed 5 tickets instead of 4.. Haha.. How could i ever be so BLUR!! 

Nevertheless, while we were leaving home to catch the parade preview, Grace cried buckets when she came to know that she will be left behind.. After much pleading and crying, we decided to try our luck at the door. 

Count us damn lucky!!  Luck didn't only strike us once, but TWICE!! At the entrance, we were told that only 4 could enter the parade preview since we only had 4 tickets and another hunk saved our day.. He had 2 tickets but he only needed 1 to enter.. So we gotten the extra ticket from him and head into the padang for the preview.. :P 

* In the pictures, you see both Nick and Grace opening their mouths so big cos they were screaming at the top of their voices when the hear National Day songs that they knew how to sing! Machiam so proud being part of the parade!!

* In the last picture, you see Grace taking the flag and cover her face, that's because she was so scared by the fighter planes and mummy was too busy telling Nick to watch, taking pictures that i didn't get the chance to hear her telling me she's scared!  So in order to prevent herself from crying, she took the flag and cover her eyes hoping that by not seeing them = not scared! Made us laughed till our tears rolled up while we were looking thru all the pictures!

 

Dilemma..

The family wants to head up to Genting.. Gramps wants to do KL/Genting from a Friday to a Tuesday.

It's tough to convince myself that a short trip with the monkies means "pon-tang" school for Sam who is already attending Primary School.

I know Sam badly wants to tag along with Gramps and, Gramps aren't visiting Genting over the weekends..

It's a really tough decision isn't it..

An Impromptu Trip to KL (Dated June 2010)

It was a normal weekend when we pop by JB so that the monkies could play with their cousins and a family dinner with the in-laws.. 

Grace on the swing

Grace on her get-around-scooter..

After dinner, the monkies refuse to go home.  They claimed that it was a long long time since they stayed at a hotel.. And, it didn't take long for daddy to decide that we are heading to KL for a short weekend trip!  With no clean clothes in tow (except the monkies PJ since we had plans to deposit them with in-laws so that hb and me could catch a movie), we had to pop by a local mall to get what we needed before heading up to KL.

A 4 hour drive up, we arrived around 11ish, ate supper and pop into the hotel for check-in without a reservation. The only thing we could do was keep our fingers and toes crossed, hoping they have rooms, otherwise, we will be hotel hopping around the town, looking for a room.. :P

After check-in, the monkies instantly dozed off after changing into their PJ..  

The next morning, lil monkie woke up, EXCITED!! 

Then, they declare they wanted to go for a SWIM, but it was too early. The pool wasn't opened yet, and even if it did, the water would be too freaking COLD! 

So, the 2 monkies ended up "swimming" in the bath tub.. 

So cute hor.. I heart this picture.. Nick's head here look double the size of mei-mei's one..