All About Your Child

As per previous post, I mentioned that Kidz Amaze @ Safra Jurong is a place which made the kids laughed and cried. Laughed because they had fun chasing each other, cried because of skin abrasion caused by the spiral slides.

Let’s talk about the laughter first:

Your child and all entering adults will get a stamp on the back of the hand for identification purposes AND remember to bring along your socks. Check out the entry rates for Kidz Amaze below:

You can see the overview of the place in the first video on my previous blog post.

My 5 year old Binbin loved shooting aimlessly, even though he is suppose to aim at the different ‘insects’ all around…

And

After getting sick and tired of climbing in and out everywhere, ‘soft’ ball fight with his Papa is just as fun…..

The biggest attraction in Kidz Amaze would be the 3 spiral slides. You have seen Binbin and Han went through the first short slide in my previous blog post.

This is another shorter slide:-

WARNING: There is only one way in and out of this slide and the stairs are structured in a VERY weird way. It is narrow and if you are big in size, I suggest you just let your child go for this slide while you watch.

POINT TO NOTE: The ‘stairs’ in Kidz Amaze are structured in a very strange way. You are not able to see if another person is coming down when you are climbing up and vice versa. With active kids all over the place, including teenagers too, please be prepared that your head or back will be stepped on when the situation happens.

Now, here comes the main Skin Tearing story:
The children were told to cross their arms in a hand-on-shoulder manner whenever they go on the spiral slides, by the friendly counter staff. But when children play, how many of them really obey instructions?

Guess what?!
Even when you OBEYED the instruction, the turn in the slide was so fast and so powerful, you get swung to one side and the normal reaction from a human is to stretch out the hand to prevent the head from being knocked onto the slide, isn’t?!

That is when the injury came.
Binbin and Keatkeat were sliding fine on their own, until Binbin was about to try the TALLEST slide. My 2nd niece went for it before him and told him how scary it was and that she got skin abrasion at the end of it.

The comments made my 5 year old doubted and for the first time, he requested that I go with him. I thought, since I had my jeans on, my legs should be well protected with him sandwiched between my legs.

I WAS WRONG!!! DEAD WRONG!!!

I tried ALL 3 slides at Kidz Amaze and this LAST slide really took the skin of my flesh!

This photo was taken BEFORE we took the ride down together. Look at how happy he smiled before the ride… yet he came out in tears at the other end… *sigh*

Due to the steepness, the speed was very fast and the turn was very sharp too. So both Binbin and I went down with our arms crossed at first, but when it swung us to the right, I had to stop my head from being dragged along the side of the slide, I released my crossed arm and that’s when the disaster happen.

We were both swung onto the right, Binbin was pressing my released right arm AGAINST THE SIDE of the slide and that was how I could not FREE MY ARM and my HEAD! I thought I might end up partially bald at the end of it! My head was DRAGGED along as we went down further…. *faint*

In the end, Binbin’s arm ended up with this!!! :

And me?!

I had a TOTAL OF 6 PARTS of my skin sliced off! 1 on my left elbow, 2 on my last two fingers on my right, , 1 on my right arm, 1 on my right elbow and the MOST PAINFUL had to be the one on my right wrist. You can see the photos over at my personal blog in this post “Skin Abrasion is so painful! Ouch!!!!“.

You can get endless plasters from the counter for FREE. Which makes me wonder, since Kidz Amaze provides plasters, that means they are already aware of the danger, isn’t? Then why are they NOT improving on their slides quality, instead of giving advise or instructions before the children take on the slides; which usually goes to deaf ears.

And the worst part is, WE OBEYED THE INSTRUCTIONS, and yet we still get hurt! WHAT LUCK!

So who else got hurt besides Binbin and I?

• Allan – right elbow
• My eldest niece – right elbow
• My 2nd niece – arm and leg too

My 6 year old niece was the ‘happiest’ because she tried NONE of the slides. She thinks that the look of those slides are way too intimidating. Keatkeat who did not listen to half of what was instructed ended up with no injuries either.

When we asked my youngest niece if she would prefer Polliwogs or Kidz Amaze, she replied, “Polliwogs! I told my Mommy to bring me to Polliwogs for my 7 year old birthday already. And she said OK!” She grinned and ran off….

So would I recommend Kidz Amaze to your child? I would only say this….

Unless you do these:-

• Wear LONG SLEEVES
• Wear LONG JEANS
• NEVER go down the slide with another person at the same time

If you think all these are going to prevent your child from having the fun that he or she needs, then your child might not enjoy Kidz Amaze.

Oh man! Never thought I would take so long to post this up. All thanks to the Mummy of the birthday boy who forgot to charge her handphone! So all photos were taken from his daddy’s handphone. The funny thing is…. none of our PC and laptop are willing to ‘talk’ to his handphone! *faint*

So in the end, I had to transfer all the videos and photos from his to mine using bluetooth! Thank goodness bluetooth was invented!

Alright, enough of rumblings….

Keatkeat had a blast on his birthday on 2nd November! But when the clock struck 12 midnight, we had our usual family cake cutting celebration, even though he is having his last final year examination paper that day…

Note:The female voice in the video is my sis’s, not mine. I prefer to be silent when videoing… *wink*

We wanted to choose a more ‘interesting’ cake this year. We took a long time to find that special cake shop and Keatkeat took an even longer time to choose the cake….

In the end….

The Chief is on Leave for the next 2 days! Oh man! Because of that, the cake would not be ready in time! *faint*

So we went back to a familiar shopping center and patronized a different cake shop for the first time.

Keatkeat chose chocolate sponge and mango fillings. Well, the rest think its ok, but the birthday boy did not like it. *pout*

On his actual day, we brought the kids to Polliwogs for the 2nd time. But this time, a little more special, Allan and I brought all the Loh Family Kiddos down except for the youngest W.D.

Totally no adults! *clap clap clap*

Oh well, none of my nieces considered us as adults anyway. They think we are more like over-grown kids. *huge laugh*

Allan went so crazy towards the last hour before Polliwogs closed for the day. He was chasing the 5 children all over the play area, running up and down, causing glass-breaking screaming from the 3 girls in the enclosed place. *faint*

The screaming were so high pitched that I had to stop him from playing with them. Guess what did the kid-in-man’s-body said?!
“Isn’t playing with kids supposed to be noisy???”

*super faint*

“Well yes, but not when the level of noise is affecting everyone else in this ‘shared’ place.” I snapped.

We took several photos, but my favourite has to be the one BELOW, which was taken at the outdoor. They were sitting on top of the 1 storey high ballooned slide; just seconds before they slided down at super speed….

You can see how high the slide is, in my previous post on Polliwogs: Children Having Fun at The Polliwogs. To me, its quite a scary height to slide down…

After hours of fun at The Polliwogs, we went to my in-law’s house for a pizza cum prawn noodle plus curry dinner, followed by a cake cutting session.

We did not stay for long as Keatkeat was too eager to go home to open all his presents….

*smile*