All About Your Child

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….or better known as Singapore’s very own Reservoir in the City or Reservoir by the Bay.

We fell in love with this place the moment we found it on Saturday by Chance. It was opened since 1 November 2008, but we never knew till we took our usual drive around Singapore to find new places to entertain our boys. Singapore, though small, it does have lots of ‘hidden’ places where you can easily fall in love with. Its our habit to ‘take a drive’ whenever we are bored….

When we are so crazy over a place, we can keep going there and not get sick of it. Guess what? We found it on Saturday and we went again on Sunday! We are nuts! We always have a set of spare clothes in our car boot, so whenever we chance upon a place with ‘water-playground’, we would NEVER say disappointing sentences to our kids like, “Sorry boys, we’ll come again another day, we didn’t bring extra clothings for you, so if you get wet, we can’t dry and change your clothes….” which is soooooooo commonly heard.

Saw the video on yesterday’s post? Haven’t? Ooohhhh…. go see the fun my boys had!

Ok, please bear with me, cos’ when I’m in love, I tend to be really chatty, I have to show you around the place….

This is the ‘divider’ which the government built, separating the salt water from the reservoir. After the divider was up, they started draining away the salt water and transformed it into Singapore’s biggest reservoir right beside the bustling Central Business District. Though we are but a dot on the globe, Singapore has always wanted to be self-sufficient and this is one of the biggest step Singapore has taken.

And hence the birth of this place - Marina Barrage. A place for the whole family to do lots of fun stuff.

The photos are a combination of both days, so you’ll notice that the boys are in 2 different clothings and the sky looks rather different. It was covered with dark clouds on Saturday and because we went there earlier on Sunday so certain photos look much brighter…

Here, you can (left to right) stand on that divider or the viewing bridge to look at the beautiful scenery….

you can see The Singapore Flyer, people fishing and the big Ships sailing by…

you can also take the boat ride at S$5 per person and/or bring your kites there and fly it from the High Bridge where you can see much more…

or just have great splashing fun at the water playground… remember to bring extra clothings…. I’m a ‘water-person’, I simply couldn’t resist the temptation and got wet while chasing my kids around, are you eager to see me wet? nah… I didn’t upload those photos of me… *laugh*

So Please don’t forget to bring your camera!!!!!

I’m an Obedient Mommy. *laugh* So after Friday’s post, I gave myself a day off from the keyboard yesterday and spend the whole day doing nothing except making my boys happy, especially my 5year old ‘messenger’, Keatkeat.

Question for my Singaporean Friends: “Can you tell where were we?”

When you receive a note like this, from your child, firmly stuck at the bottom of your monitor, you know you have either neglected him OR he is too concern over your eyes OR BOTH!!!

I have never (but WOULD LOVE TO) experience snow before. Though we have Snow City, its still artificial. I want to have snowball fights out in the open and build snowman’s family under the blue sky.

I know we will never experience that in Singapore; being so near to the Equator, only miracles can bring Snow onto this island. Did you say travel overseas? How could we afford, when we are not debt-free yet?

Though Tanglin Mall has been doing this for years, it was during last year did we get to experience their ‘Snow’ with the kids. If we were still in our retail business, this would be the busiest time of the year for us and we would have missed out such family fun, I’m truly glad we are OUT OF THAT!

This is how the place looks like before the ‘Snow’ falls.

And when the engine starts….the ‘Snowing’ begins! Yes they are just bubbles. Lots and lots of them.

Most children will stay near those ‘Snow-blowing-machines’. (left to right) Keatkeat putting his hand near the outlet and see his hand slowly disappear in the ‘Snow’. Some older kids prefer to lift up their shirts and enjoy the strong air pressure on their skin. Even older and obviously not very sensible kids will carry their little sibling high up with their face right infront of the spray and ‘frost’ their little bro or sis till they start to cry! *shake head*

The kids had great fun and so did the adults….so I’ll just let the photos do the talking now…

We brought shirts and towels for them to change. Yup! We went prepared. It was pretty cool for the management to create a washing area right beside the ‘Snow’ Ground…

What a fun way to deceive ourselves…*laugh* till the day we truly experience snow, I guess we’ll continue to do this every year….

Ling passed on this tag to me….Thank you, Thank you! *Muack*

Everyday, I’m in for a surprise treat from Keatkeat. He is REALLY good with the blocks. I’m bad, I should have shown you ALL his creations, from animals to vehicles to furnitures to towers and bridges and what-have-you…. but I didn’t *ashamed* I just kept them in my heart…. they are (were) beautiful!

There are no books, no samples and all he does is imagine it in his head and he put his fingers and extreme creativity to work, and within seconds, Taa-daa…. A masterpiece.

You have seen Keatkeat’s creation of the multi-story carpark and Papa & Mommy using these blocks. I have to clarify, these are NOT LEGO blocks. I’d never like Lego because of ‘their good quality’, their edges are too sharp…. so the ones that Keatkeat has been playing with are ‘cheapo’ building blocks.

(Please forgive me for the shadow of my big head! I was too eager to take photos and I forgot the lights were right on top of my head…*laugh*)

Keatkeat: “Mommy come and see….”

Me: “What is this?”

Keatkeat: “It is an ambulance.”

Me: “Huh?! Can you explain the different parts of it? I can’t tell why is this an ambulance…”

Keatkeat: “The 2 yellow ones are the siren on top of the ambulance. The purple ones are the windows, it is closed, the other side don’t have purple because the windows are opened.”

Me: “Oh! Then where should the patient lie?”

Keatkeat: “This is the bed.”

Me: “Hmmm……”

Keatkeat: “You can put it in like this. The bed in the ambulance can be taken out, just like the real one in the REAL ambulance”

Me: “Wow!”

Keatkeat: “This is the patient.”

Me: “Oh, what’s wrong with him?”

Keatkeat: “He fight with the bad people and got a cut down here (pointing to his groin) and he got fever.”

Me: *trying not to giggle* “Oh, ok….”

Keatkeat: “So he lies on the bed and they are ready to go to the hospital now…..Mee-Mor… Mee-Mor…. Mee-Mor…. (sound of the siren)”

*laugh* What a funny siren sound….

For most of you who have been ‘regulars’ here know what kind of person my MIL is. Whenever I talk about her, I’m never stingy on details *laugh*, but I don’t exaggerate ok!

Today when we were over there, as usual on Sundays, I witness something that made my heart feels good…. errrrmmm….even though I’m NOT supposed to…

My eldest BIL, whose family stays with her, is the ONLY one in the family who dares to shout at my MIL if he does not agree with her. And here’s the drama for today: -

Little 1 year old Weidong was playing with the sliding door that separates the kitchen from the living room. My MIL was worried that her grandson would accidentally hurt his fingers as he slides back and forth. After much scolding and warning the little cutie didn’t stop, she slapped his tiny hands. Weidong cried.

Few minutes later. When my BIL went into the kitchen, his son went back AGAIN to slide the door. This time, it wasn’t back and forth. He closed it completely, turned his head and gave a cheeky smile at all the spectators. I was waiting for a big reaction from my MIL.

Instead of another slap on his hand or scolding, my MIL laughed and clapped her hands, “You naughty boy, locked Papa in the kitchen eh?” *laugh*

My BIL slided the door opened and as he stepped out, he raised his voice at my MIL, “If I’m Weidong, I’ll be so confused! When I slide the door a moment ago, you scolded me and hit me. The next moment you are clapping and cheering. How in the world would I know if it is right to play with the door or not?!”

As usual, my cannot-be-defeated MIL started to answer with her nonsensical reasoning, “Just now he was sliding it back and forth. Now he didn’t, he just close it….”

Without giving her a chance to finish, my BIL snapped, “Aiya, you just don’t want to lose, just don’t want to admit that your actions are wrong. To Weidong, be it sliding the door back and forth or just close it, its the same! He still has his hands on the door!”

MIL felt she was embarrassed infront of the whole family repeated her case again, but my BIL just walked back into the bedroom without a word, because he knows her too well. She just doesn’t want to admit that she is wrong. Since her target was not interested in the argument, she turned to the forever-harmless FIL and started her long speech. As usual, FIL didn’t say a word, just sat there and listen to all her ramblings…. *laugh*

I’m happy because I wanted to say that too! But it wouldn’t make much impact as compared to my BIL, ‘cos he is talking about his son, whereas Weidong is just my nephew…. *laugh* I’m evil in this sense…. Not that I like to see my MIL being yelled at, but its always entertaining to see her and my BIL, the 2 most temperamental beings in the family having a drama like this. *laugh*