All About Your Child

….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 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….