Zoo

We visited the zoo last weekend and had quite a good time. I always enjoyed visiting the zoo, although sometimes I do question what I am teaching my kid by bringing her to look at animals being caged up and not in their natural environment. I have been thinking about this issue and thought that at least, she grows up hopefully with a love for animals. From that, hopefully will learn to respect them and do more for them than I ever can. Zoos are places that should educate, and in that way, perhaps, a few animals gets 'sacrificed' and become exhibits.

I hate it when I sound like a hypocrite.

She loves the tram ride! It seems to be the highlight of the trip for her. Nope, didn't go to the water play park, since she was still having the runs and recovering. We didn't want her to get anything nasty nor infect some other poor kid.

The Sam Seng

She has finally finally accepted the hat once again. And that is due to her vanity. She has alright with one til she was about 8 months old. Everytime we want to head out outdoors, the second the hat touched her head, she would yank it off.

This trip was especially fun because she has taken more interest in the animals. She knows her animals, she has some faves and she will say the darnest things that makes us flip!

Xmas Pressies

Christmas is certainly early this year. At least to me. I am not feeling especially Christmasy yet, and I think it is due to the weather. Just as I have mentioned, I have started on the Christmas present shopping early, I have 2 wrapped up already and it is not even November!

The Night Festival

I decided that we should head down to the Night Fest since we didn't really have anything planned. It would be fun, and a good photo opp too. Not that the photos are that great anyway. Still, beat the horrid looking skies we had been having last week. There were some performances going on and the museums were open til 2am and the best thing is admission is free to all of them! Good news to me since I wanted to visit the Panton exhibit and also, I have been a little curious about the Peranakan Museum.

Tons of people at the Peranakan Museum, with artists giving free caricatures, some band singing and free candy floss. There were queues forming everywhere in the museum, waiting for their caricatures to be done and the candy floss machine must be overworked too, judging by the number of people waiting for their candy.

The grand finale was Loop of Fortune by a German act. Singaporeans are suckers for pyrotechnics, of course having fire works was a must have. I don't quite get what they were trying to express in this performance but I enjoyed the fireworks at the end of it. The National Museum looked sparkling good too! The Husband didn't think I was able to make it til 12 midnight! I did, somehow time passed really fast that day. I was tired at the end of it, but on our way back to the car, I remembered I hadn't been to the Wu Guan Zhong's exhibit at the SAM! Despite being pretty tired, I suggested we had a peek at the paintings.

Somehow I enjoyed the performance from last year's more. Boats, pianos, giant balls and dancers flying by the facade of the museum. I remember there was this other performance after the main one with a performer splashing around in a huge glass bowl filled with water. I thought she was amazing! Too bad, I ran out of batteries way before that.

Crackers

I made it to the closing of the Singapore Arts Festival. I am glad that I made it there. It was a plenty of fun. A whole lot louder than the usual firework displays. Plenty of smoke too! The last time we were just beneath fireworks was many many years ago on a certain New Year's eve at the Esplanade. Was it our first new year's eve together? I can't really remember now.. could be the second one.

The photos do not tell you how much fun we had... I have seen some really awesome photos taken on that night, amazing! Think those dudes were on the nearby HDB block.
The website has quite a nice video