All About Your Child

Singapore Jurong Bird Park

We went to Singapore Jurong Bird Park for the very first time as a family today. It was fun, Fun, FUN!

The ‘Birds n Buddies Show‘ was so good! I, the big kid, insisted on watching the performance twice; once at 11.00am and the other at 3.00pm. So do not be surprised to see photos of the show taken from different angles below:

Everything about the show was so entertaining. The most engaging item for the children had to be the battle between the two parrots. My boys were cheering so loudly for their White Parrot ‘Sunny‘ !

Well, we went for the other show too, ‘Kings of the Skies‘. Though Allan loves eagles and I love vultures, which are the stars in this show, we were not as captivated to the way the show was presented as compared to the Birds n Buddies Show.

But all of these were not as fun as FEEDING THE BIRDS!!! There were a few funny moments during the feeding time, but sadly they were not caught on the videos below. *sad*

They fed the Ostriches!
But before they got near to the mouths of the Fastest Running Birds in the whole world, they had a chance to hold their eggs. *smile*

Binbin had a shock at the strength of the female ostrich, when she ‘snatched‘ the banana from his hand. His facial expression was so funny! It was as if a giantic poo landed at his feet! *huge laugh* After that, he dare not feed the ostriches anymore… So sad, his funny expression was not caught on tape… *pout*

Check out the steady-boom-beep-beep Keatkeat feeding the male ostrich in the video below:

They fed the Pelicans too!
Keatkeat took many steps back and did the Javelin-Throw for his last fish in his packet.
He was so cool!
Too bad, I ended my video-recording too soon, hoping to save my video-phone battery life… which in the end, still died earlier than our time spent in the Singapore Jurong Bird Park. *sigh*
So that awesome Javelin-Throw was not captured in the video below too… *pout*

There was also another place where the kids could feed smaller birds, but they did not want to because the birds were TOO INTIMATE! *laugh*

The birds were all over the bodies of whoever that holds the cup of watery bird food. Even when there were no food on the lady’s head (below), the bird still stood on it. *giggle*

The kids did not want that to happen, lest the bird leaves a smelly souvenir on their head. *laugh*

So my kids merely stood a distance away from the ‘loving‘ birds for some photos-taking.

"My Soft Toy Parrot wants to Talk To You!"

Just like the Singapore Zoological Gardens, the Singapore Jurong Bird Park now has a water-playground too! The Singapore Jurong Bird Park calls it the ‘Birdz of Play‘.

What disappointed me was the price for the ‘Lunch with Parrots‘. Yes, I was expecting it to be on the high side, but I did not expect it to be that high:

We were definitely not ready to spend $68 for a lunch, so the boys ended up with a $5.50 hotdog bun as their noon meal.

We did not visit every section of the Singapore Jurong Bird Park because there were occasions when we were ‘hiding‘ away from the rain and the kids were so engrossed with the fake fossils discovery. They had so much fun sweeping the sand, we ended up resting under that shelter for many minutes.

The Ostrich was Peeping at Them while They were Busy Sweeping Sand.

Other birds we saw at the Singapore Jurong Bird Park which halted our footsteps:

What made my heart took flight in the Singapore Jurong Bird Park was my children’s willingness to hold bags, without complaining about tiredness, nor complaining about getting wet in the rain, nor complaining about melting in their perspiration. *Thumbs Up*

We remembered the last time we brought them to the Singapore Zoological Gardens, Binbin was still so young and he fell asleep when our exploration trip was not done yet, and Allan had to carry him and walked under the hot sun….

So to reward them, we grabbed the Buy One Get One Free promotion and bought two sets of $15 per set Soft Toys for my 6 year old and 8 year old. *smile*

Keatkeat's

BinBin's

Will we go back to Singapore Jurong Bird Park again? High Chance! But not in the near future that is….*wink*
Singapore Jurong Bird Park

Dramatic Sports Day 2011
Keatkeat is my drama-sports-man today.

So dramatic till I cannot find a word to describe his race. *laugh*
I guess, its better to let the video do the talking…

This was how the telematch started off…
His first team mate raced off (2nd from the right)…

sprained his left pinky

sprained his right ankle

abrasion on his right knee

Mummy: “How do you feel after the race?”
Keatkeat: “I am a little mad with myself, because I fell down and my team mates scolded me.”

Mummy: “What did they say?”
Keatkeat: “Zac Loh, why didn’t you run faster?”

Mummy: “Did they scold you for dropping the ball?”
Keatkeat: “No, they didn’t scold me, they scolded the one who threw the ball to me and not passing the ball properly.”

Mummy: “So you are a little mad with yourself , anything else?”
Keatkeat: “I am sad too because I waited for one year to get a gold medal. Last year, I got a silver medal and I told myself that I must get a gold medal in Primary 2. But now I didn’t get 1st, I feel very sad. Luckily the medal is still gold colour, so weird because when I get 3rd, the medal is still gold.”

Mummy: *laugh* “So your dream came true! You wanted a gold medal and you’ve GOT your GOLD MEDAL!” *laugh*
Keatkeat: *small laugh* “Yeah Yeah yeah yeah…”

Mummy: “Keatkeat, you finished the race, you did not give up. You fell down and you picked yourself up and continued… that’s the most important thing…”
and I gave him an enormous bear hug!

Dramatic Sports Day 2011

How to Make Ice-Cream with Your Child
As mentioned in Keatkeat’s 8th birthday post, his future uncle-in-law and my sis brought my boys to an ice-cream workshop as a birthday gift for my elder son.

According to my sis, the kids and the adults were in separate rooms. While the kids had fun making ice-cream in one room, the organiser was busy promoting products to the adults in another room. My sis had the perfect excuse to stop the hard selling advancement of the promoters, “They are my nephews. I am not their parent.” And the promoter left my sis alone.

Only after the kids have finished slurping their ice-cream, were the adults allowed to join the children.

At the end of it, each received a “I am a Little Ice Cream Chef” certificate with the ice-cream recipe printed at the back.

Keatkeat: “Thank you Ah Yi and Big Big Gor Gor for the Ice Cream Workshop Birthday Present.”
How to Make Ice-Cream with Your Child

Keatkeat’s 8th birthday was great in every way, his many wishes came true this year. Though his birthday is on 2nd of November every year, the celebration actually starts on 1st November. This year, his birthday celebration was even extended to 6th November. *smile*

1st November lunch at Pizza Hut:
Keatkeat loves the Hawaiian Pizza at Pizza Hut, but Allan and I are not Pizza Hut fans, so because of that my boys hardly get to eat at Pizza Hut. But because it was his pre-birthday celebration, we went but only the boys ate. Oh well, our purpose is to make him happy, but it does not mean we need to ‘sacrifice‘ (don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with Pizza Hut, just that we prefer to go elsewhere for our pizzas). Allan and I still get to eat a hearty noodles meal at the hawker center. *smile* So everyone was happy. *thumbs up*

1st November dinner at Tony Romas:
IT WAS MAGICAL!!!
Keatkeat has seen magicians performed in the past, but for the first time, Keatkeat PARTICIPATED in it. It felt like as if we had hired a personal Magician for Keatkeat’s birthday celebration. *Super Grin*

And the birthday boy gets to keep the ‘magical poker card‘ as a birthday gift. *smile*

12 Midnight Cake Cutting:
He missed his choo-choo train cake. So we ordered it again. The previous time he had that choo-choo train cake was on his 5th Birthday. He said: “This time, I want a different design, but the toy train must be on my cake.”

 Then it was unwrapping presents time after gobbling down his cake….

His Birthday Presents 2011

He is going Crazy over 'Gogos', so I bought him the Album to start his collection.

His first Gogos collection

From Ah Yi

Present from cousin C.H.

Present from cousin Z.Y.

Present from cousin M.Y. and W.D.

From BakBak

From Bak Leong

Keatkeat has always wanted a gun for his birthday ever since his bro had one. So his dream came true this year. Thank you Yi-Bak and Yi-Bak-Leong

2nd November: A day in Malaysia
Well, it was his dream to celebrate his birthday overseas. To him, Malaysia is good enough. After school, we went straight to our neighbour-country, a day of shopping fun and ended it at his latest favourite Seafood Restaurant: “Tian Lai Seafood Restaurant in Johor Bahru”

If you remember the picture of the note above, Keatkeat’s future uncle-in-law would be giving him an ice-cream workshop as a birthday gift on 6th November. Thus will do a separate post on that later….

Happy 8th Birthday Keatkeat!

***Sincere apologies for the blurry photos. I am still struggling playing with Photobucket.

Happy 8th Birthday Keatkeat!

Today is the best day to post this. As I recall what it was like on this day in 2003. Contractions started. My first child was giving signals that he was ready to meet me in person.

When the clock strikes 12 in less than 5mins, we would be saying “Happy 8th Birthday, Keatkeat”

My future bro-in-law had this ‘old’ video of Keatkeat when he was 2 years old and the recording dated: 3/23/2006 12:55am

There was this short period of time when Allan and I used to sell handphone casing and accessories. The moment we decided to remove that product from our retail list, those leftovers became Keatkeat’s toys.

And because we often end our retail business after 10.30pm, have our quick late dinner, which I usually call it ‘dinper’ (dinner + supper), drive to my in-law’s place to pick up my boys before we head home; by then, its usually after 12midnight.

So its not surprising at all that this video was taken at 12.55am.

The quality of the video may seem horrible now, but I am thankful that during that time, video on phone was made possible. Or else we would not be able to view my cute first born in action again this day.

Thank you future bro-in-law! *Grin*

Memory Flash Back ~ Keatkeat 2 years old