The Animal Resort – Kampong experience

Tuck away from the bustle and hustle of usual Singapore streets is a small farm in its simplicity.

If you are looking for some Kampong feel, with chickens running around at your feet, and seeing your kids babbling to little animals, you must visit this place – The Animal Resort.

The first time we brought the little ones here was 5 years ago. And lately, we visited this place once again to let the children come close to nature and feed the animals.

When you enter the gate of The Animal Resort, you will feel that you have come to Singapore in her early days in a rural setting.  The unmistaken animal smell tells us that we are in the right place. We always come on a weekend, and we see many families bring their children to experience the Kampong life here.

There is an open hut that offers tired legs a rest and others to enjoy some old style coffeeshop snacks. Over here, you get to buy food to feed the animals, selling $2 for 3 packets of feeds. You get to choose “2 legged animals” feed or “Horse, rabbit and guinea pigs” feed among a few more types of feeds.

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Open Hut – selling snacks, coffee, animal feeds and kiddie rides.

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Mid-Autumn Festival – Homemade Ice-Cream Mooncake

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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

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Our family Taiwan 5D4N Trip to Taichung, Taiwan

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It has been some time since we travel as a big family on an air plane. Last year, we went for a Royal Caribbean cruise and there were 17 of us! I would not exactly count that as travelling overseas since our furthest Port of call was just Malaysia Port Klang and we didn’t even leave the ship. This year, I won 6 free air tickets on a budget air line (I shall not mention it since I highly suspect our bout of super itchy insect bites was due to the airline seats. Please tell me this experience of bug bites on airlines is not unique to us!). I paid for the taxes and 2 full price tickets plus a $50 toddler ticket to Taiwan. We had 9 of us in total and it was Little YT’s first plane ride. Continue reading “Our family Taiwan 5D4N Trip to Taichung, Taiwan”

Rise and Shine Breakfast Carnival 2014 + GIVEAWAY!!

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Were you part of the 2013 Rise and Shine Breakfast Carnival last year which broke the Singapore Book of Records for largest breakfast picnic turnout? This year, the breakfast carnival is back again on June 14, 2014 and it is also part of the celebration of International Year of the Family (IYF) initiated by the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF). Continue reading “Rise and Shine Breakfast Carnival 2014 + GIVEAWAY!!”

I wish I may, I wish I might, have these resolutions to last 365 nights..

It’s the start of the new year! It’s time to reset everything, forget unhappy moments in the past year, and look forward to starting anew in the new year!

On New Year’s day 1st Jan 2014, I tried to have a happy day to start off the year on a happy note. I tried to avoid scolding the kids on that day. I tried to forget about my blog (I was busy thinking of what to post for the brand new year). I tried to ignore all sorts of notifications on my Samsung mobile (wordpress, facebook, whatsapp, thank god I do not have twitter). I tried to be a good yummy mummy (a smiling, soft spoken and pretty mum). Yes, the key word here is “tried“. Continue reading “I wish I may, I wish I might, have these resolutions to last 365 nights..”