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Children’s Seasons 2015 @ National Museum

June holidays are here! One of our most anticipated activities for our kids for this holidays is the annually held Children’s Seasons. This year, the theme is still Masak Masak, built on childhood games, but with totally different games to play.

To understand and appreciate how the Children’s Seasons are put together, you need to know the artists’ introduction of their installations. This year, there are 10 installations by six local and four international artists to feature familiar childhood games and interactive exhibits. Remember to read the introduction near each installation.

Spoiler-alert! I will share some fun exhibits and games that my kids enjoy. Oh, just a note that Masak Masak is suitable for kids 4-7yo although I would think my 3 yo-to-be toddler did enjoy himself and my 10 yo gal is beginning to appreciate the art too.

This oldie round swing greeted us at the big lawn outside National Museum.

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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.

20141005_152711 — Open Hut – selling snacks, coffee, animal feeds and kiddie rides.

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Upper Peirce Reservoir

This is one of our favourite places to go – Upper Peirce Reservoir.

Places like this are rare in bustling Singapore. But parents like us, will constantly look out for interesting and out of the way playgrounds, fun places just for our little ones. Anyway, Lower and Upper Peirce Reservoirs are not new but just rather inaccessible than most other Reservoirs in Singapore by public transport.

As Kel drove slowly on the long road into the Upper Peirce Reservoir, the kids were always thrilled to see many monkeys – grand monkeys, mummy monkeys, sister and brother monkeys, and baby monkeys clinging onto their mummies suckling their nipples, as well as monkeys picking out lice from other monkeys’ backs.

And almost each time we are there, we see inconsiderate people stopping their cars or vans and throwing food to the hoards of monkeys who seem to recognize their samaritans’ vehicles. As if they had been anticipating and waited for a long time, they scrambled towards the vehicle and catch their daily “supply”. There are many notices along the road and in the park that tell people not to spoil the monkeys’ natural instinct of finding food for themselves. Sadly, there are still people who choose to remain uneducated on this.

Just before reaching the Reservoir, there is this long steep road down where the kids always pretend they are going down on a roller coaster in our car. I simply love this moment. We also see many avid cyclists pedal hard up this slope as they defy gravity with strong lean legs.

Upon reaching the Reservoir, there is a long breakwater which kind of divide the Reservoir into 2 parts. On one side is the water catchment area that oversees a big park. The other side is our favourite where there is a very steep grass slope leading to a vast green field.

We walk along the little dirt track road leading to the lower grounds and to the low lying waters.

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Canon Camera & The State of Fun!

My kids love cameras and tell me, which kid doesn’t?

We were invited to Canon Family Blogger Photo Shoot Out to have a day of fun at Sentosa and to try out Canon cameras. If anyone would have remembered, last Saturday was those days when you wished you had a beautiful sky with enough sunshine to take good pictures while having a good time, but of all days, that was the only day it rained non-stop for the few hours that we were supposed to be having fun. Still, we enjoyed ourselves more than we could imagine despite the rain. Nothing’s going to stop us from having a great time at The State of Fun! Continue reading “Canon Camera & The State of Fun!”

How to survive a family travel with young children and elders

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My husband and I have been travelling with our children and our parents since we have 2 kids 5 years ago.

We have travelled in large groups including with extended families to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Phuket, Cruise, Malaysia, Australia and the furthest is Sweden.

Whenever friends tell me that they worry about travelling with young children or even worry about giving up freedom of travelling after having kids, I find that their worries are rather unfounded. What you really need is to have a positive mindset and some good planning, and things will just work out naturally. There is really nothing big to fret upon. Continue reading “How to survive a family travel with young children and elders”