Wink Wink! Living life with Meaning and Inspiration
We took a short cruise to Malaysia the last 2 days and it was tremendous fun for the boy.Apart from the thrill of a stayover on a cruise ship, he had fun with the activities on board the ship, enjoyed ice cream during late hours in the night and was able to stay up late for both nights.
It was a kind of a finale to the end of the school holidays for him, since school is commencing in less then a week. For hb and I, we appreciated the family time we spent together.
Where do you go with 3 coughing kids on a lazy Saturday morning?
Waterplay was out of the question, so we decided to take an educational excursion to the Asian Civilisations Museum to give the kids a glimpse into the cultures and civilisations of Asia.
So is ACM suitable for 3-5 year olds then? There are now holding an exhibition curated especially for children, that features colourful displays and lots of puppets from the legends behind some of the well-known and well-loved characters of Asian myths. The kids, however paid little attention to the puppets and artifacts from this exhibition and preferred to meddle with the multimedia displays. I reckon stuff of legends and myths have very little interest for kids their age, or even older kids in this day and age.
History, on the other hand, has a lot more relevance than legends and myths. However, be prepared to explain alot more about past and the present with a preschooler, especially when time concepts can be relatively abstract for kids between the ages of 3-5 years old.
If your kids can get past some intimidating exhibits in some of the galleries, they will be kept entertained with a number of fun zones for kids within the various galleries; complete with sounds, multimedia displays, a dress up corner, pretend corner and plenty of different types of drums.
K's verdict of the place? "Next time we don't go there again, because I don't like some of the scary statues. I only like the drums there." Probably no more repeats in the near future, due to some of the nightmare-inducing exhibits. But I think it is still an interesting and educational place to visit on a Saturday morning, definitely better than having to hang out at some air-conditioned shopping mall.
Beautiful day, clear skies….what is best way to spend the morning?
Outdoors, at the park with friends of course!
In the late afternoon, as the family was feeling a little rather adventurous, we took a walk in Dairy Farm Nature Park and went to explore Grand-dad's latest discovery from the park.
We ventured a little off the beaten track and took a short hike through overgrown grass and shrubs to the place where Grand-dad wanted us to see…
finally we trekked our way to a bridge over-looking these tracks.
While waiting for the train to pass, K kept himself busy,
And he was not the only one who was kept occupied while waiting …
K probably had more fun throwing rocks towards the train tracks, rather than anticipating for the train to pass.
Apart from this train discovery from the park, we have also discovered that K quite likes the challenge of seeing how far he can throw the rocks.
Finally, we got to see what we were originally here for…the train!
Which passed too quickly and was not that exciting, at least we got to see what we came here for that evening.
And K surely did not mind the wait one bit!
