Work, work, work. That dreaded word took away many of our weekends last year and as a result, our $430 “WildLife Unlimited Plus” membership to the Singapore Zoo, Jurong BirdPark and Night Safari was barely half used.
Besides work, our FYP for our Masters was also the culprit of our constant fatigue and lack of interest in driving all the way to the Mandai area, so we promised the kids, when our FYP is finally over, we’ll definitely make time to bring them.
Promises should not be broken, so yes, recently, we have been more active in our weekend pursuits. :)
Today, we went to the Singapore Zoo. Boy, was it crowded. Our (hardly used) membership had expired last Dec, so we had to apply for a new one. The whole place was so packed, and even to apply for the membership, we had to take a queue ticket. There were more than 10 people ahead of us in the queue, so we waited more than 30 minutes just to apply for membership!
We also saw Flying Dutchman there. He was there with the ChannelNewsAsia “Blog.TV” team to do a “Say I Love You” promotion and basically, the team was there to try to get 1000 people to make a phone call to someone to say “I Love You” and if they succeed, someone would donate some money to some charity fund. We got Fleming to call home to say “I Love You” to his grandma and Edison to call Daddy. Unfortunately, Grandma wasn’t home when he called, so ended up Fleming spoke to Idah and said I Love You to Idah instead. Edison was videoed saying I Love You to his Daddy, though Edison said the place was so noisy he couldn’t even hear himself or anything.
We didn’t apply “WildLife Unlimited Plus” this time. NRZ figured we probably wouldn’t bother much with going to Night Safari and the boys were none too keen on Jurong Bird Park, so paying $430 was not worth it. So we opted for the $180 “Friends Of The Zoo” membership instead. I did a quick calculation and figured that for a family of four like us, we just need to make about 4 trips a year, and it’s already worth the cost. Four trips a year ain’t a lot, haha, so that’s quite a good deal. :)
Today was weekday, so we got free tram rides! We never took the tram and always walked all the way in our previous visits to the zoo, so this time, taking the tram to travel around the zoo was really senang and enjoyable! :)
We also took a lot of videos using our JVC Everio TrueHD videocam. The raw videos are fantastic in quality! But the raw videos are gigantic, just a couple of seconds is a few MB and those 5-10 mins are a few hundred MBs! I converted and resized a few of these videos but the resized versions are not even half as good as the original. You can view some of the zoo videos at my Youtube channel here.
I trimmed my hair today at QB again. The stylist trimmed off a good 900 cm square worth of hair for me! But seems that even with this massive amount of hair snipped off, it didn’t have much visual difference to others. Mum, Idah and NRZ all commented that I didn’t look as if I had a hair-cut at all.
On another note, Fleming wrote his first blog entry today! Heehee, you can go read it at http://flemingsiow.blogspot.com
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It’s a lot of broken English and doesn’t make sense (a lot is make-up by him), but haha, I enjoyed reading it. ;)
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