For the past year, the school dance team had been sweating training up for SYF 2012. As a enthusiastic mother, I volunteered as a parent helper to do make up and hairdo for the lovely gals. They gotten prep talk from the dance director prior the competition and the Principal came down specially to cheer the gals on. While they were doing their last bit of rehearsal, the dance teacher was nearly screaming her head off. Looks like they were under tremendous pressure to perform.


Today, Shan called and ecstatically informed that they won Gold with Honours Award. All their hard works were being paid off.

To prevent any mishap, none of us brought along our phone and camera and thus there was no pictorial to describe the remaining exciting afternoon. We went for 7km water rafting and it quite different from our previous experience at Bali. We gotten rather wet not because we capsized but more so they have the culture of splashing water and ensuring that you leave experiencing the cool river. Simple lunch was provided after the rafting and we followed on with ATV ride.


It was enjoyable and yours truly got to ride it (with the guide) for a while. After ATV, the guide brought us to see the waterfall. We lingered at the waterfall for a while before spending another hr dozing off back to our hotel.

After the hectic day, we end the day pampering ourselves again. The vain guys had fun trying out Thailand facial while the ladies went for foot massage.

Another getaway without the kids... feeling guilty. For the first time, we bought a Groupon travel deal and so instead of our yearly Bangkok trip, we detoured to Phuket. The travel deal comes with hotel stay, half day tour and of course the flight there. If you ask me whether the Groupon deal is worth it, I would say no. The pathetic 2 star hotel given was not in a centralise location and we spotted a better travel deal at the papers. Nonetheless, we had fun because of good travel buddies. Too bad, Janice & Remy could not join us this time.

When Shan brought back the Young Botanist card, it brought back many wonderful memories. I remembered this was one of the activities we did during primary school days. We did lots of stuff, striving to accumulate the stars for each activity in order to obtain the badge. I thought I only embarked on this during P5/6 instead of P3? And, I assumed everyone my era would have certainly collected few Young Scientist Badges but my DH has no memories of this. It's even the first time he is seeing this. Hmmmm.. guess different school different practices?

Anyway, because of the aspiring young botanist, we had been to Botanic Gardens for a few occasions. For a change, we tried Hort Park (more so because Mummy vaguely remembered that there was also a shop in Hort Park and it sold different seeds) with the aim to collect seeds (one of the activities). Ok, they digressed and had fun. In the midst of it, we met a bangla "gardener" who nicely helped Shan and "dug" 50% of the targeted seeds. Blessings come in different form :)

Together with Mum, Sis & her bf, we brought the kids to Marina Bay Waterfront for the i Light Marina Bay, a light art festival to kick start the 1-wk holiday break. There were many artwork on display and here are some of the highlights.