Family time

During the Christmas and New Year Season, the family has been spending lots of time together because of the public holidays. On New Year's Eve, the children went cycling while me and hubby just laid a picnic mat, relax with a book and just talk about thoughts on 2013 and what we look forward in 2014.

I enjoy time when we can just be still and not rush. It was pouring at certain times, but the children loved it!

 

 

 

I was also pleasantly surprised when my ex-colleague (Chinese Teacher), Joyce whom I am not very close to came specially to my house and gave this to me.

 

 

 

It's a Chinese and English Dictionary to help me with my children's Chinese. The gift is so appropriate and useful. She is sooo sweet. I thank God for Joyce and pray God will bless her thoughtful heart!

 

On New Year's Day, we went out to the Asian Civilisation Museum and walked to Collyer Quay area to take a look at the art sculptures which was featured in the newspaper.

 

 

We also walked along the Fullerton Bay area and can somehow imagined last night's scene at the very spot during the New Year's Day Countdown..

 

 

Just outside Fullerton Hotel, we spotted these beauties..



 







There were quite a lot to see at the Asian Civilisation Museum but frankly speaking, I wasn't too interested in the Asian Culture..

 

 

I was more interested in the History of Singapore

 

 

But still, it was just an experience for my children to see the various cultures and religions.

 

We then walked to Fort Canning Park..

 



 

 

You can imagine at this stage, how tired our legs were..

 

We still persisted and walked to the Philatelic museum. Danielle and I were dead tired already. So we opted to just walk and stay on the ground level while the boys went up.

 

There was this section where they show pictures of the past of Singapore various areas like Orchard Rd and the Singapore River. That was interesting to see how much Singapore has developed.

 

 

 

After that, we had an early dinner at Funan before going back. Danielle wasn't feeling well saying how uncomfortable her tummy is. After just a mouth of food, she vomited so much all over the floor. What a sight! Poor girl. She felt so much better after the vomiting and just thank God, she did not vomit in the car. Haha.

 

This whole time, I felt like we were tourists as I learnt so much and saw things I have never seen before.

 

Great time with the family!

 

Up next, got to prepare Caleb as he goes to his new Primary school tomorrow

 

 

Post Christmas

The day after Christmas, hubby was on leave.  We were out of the house by 840am to my mum's place where I went with my mum to attend a funeral. It was one of those rare moments where I get to go out alone with mum and even take a public bus with her! I did enjoy myself thoroughly. Think I should do that more often with her.

Anyway, after the funeral, we left my parent's place to park our car at our secret free parking lot near Kembangan Station, nestled among the private houses then took a train down to City Hall. We walked to iExperience which is located at Esplanade Xchange, connecting to Esplanade MRT Station.

My children were especially glued to this desktop computer (literally).

I was intrigued by the antiques displayed..ranging from old telephones, handphones, pagers, the old apple computer as well as storage devices, including an 8 inch floppy disk which I have never seen before!

There was also this cool projector piano on the floor to play!

I always marvel at technology and how people create such things.

Had lunch just opposite this place at a small kopitiam. Daddy and Caleb has chicken rice. Caleb could practically eat that every day, every meal! As for me, I shared with Danielle a bowl of prawn mee.

We then walked to National Museum to catch the exhibits.

There were so much to see that surprisingly, we spent about 3-4 hours there! Can't believe it!

We first went to catch the 50 years of TV exhibition where it features the arrival and development of TV in Singapore. Brings you memories of the shows you used to watch.



Cool projector

A vehicle found in Philippines

Check out Caleb's face in the screen with the stars!

I, personally love this exhibit as I have been catching the show in Channel 8 and I have loved every episode of it. It is an amazing production where they filmed in the Yongding District of China, Penang, Ipoh as well as some parts of Singapore. It is a nation-building trilogy depicting the first-generation Chinese immigrants come from China who set foot on the island of Singapore to seek their fortunes, then they will show the world war and finally, the blissful periods in Singapore (present day). This show will spread over 3 years. With an amazing cast and great scriptwriting, be sure not to miss this showing every weekday at 9pm. Alternatively, if you have missed the previous episodes, catch up on it here! (The Journey: A Voyage Show)

 

 

Old pushcarts selling satay

Children enjoying retro music

Wayang costumes

Scent of spices for you to smell

Old glass bottles

In the History Gallery

Posters of old films
 

Old cameras



Children enjoying audio narration of tok tok mee

Biennale Exhibition-Projected on wooden cut-outs are videos of Vietnamese artists coolly eating as they stare back at you. You hear the crunch of cucumber, someone takes a puff, another turns her back on you. They actually move!



Biennale Exhibition of glowing chandeliers-The Japanese couple created this in reaction to the Fukushima disaster in 2011 and each of the 31 chandeliers — made of uranium glass and UV lighting — represent the nations with nuclear capacity; the bigger the chandelier, the greater the number of its nuclear plants 





 

After walking for so long, we were so tired..

 



We then took a train to Bedok to check out the new mall. There were many shops and restaurants. Went to Din Tai Fung for dinner as I love the food there!



 

 

By the time we went back to our car and drove home, it was close to 9pm. 12 hours out with the family is no joke- legs soring to the max. Wonder if I would do this again since it was quite fun and eventful...