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18 July:
Mummy woke up early to cook darling's porridge for dinner (to pack to Sentosa). Darling probably knew we are going for our 1st Sentosa outing and was very co-operative at her breakfast =D finished full serving of her brown rice + banans + milk breakfast within 20mins.

We don our family outfit - Oranje Army - for our family outing =D
Here's a foto taken at home with Donald . .. Haa.. But Donald is camera shy =P


We took NEL, stopped at Vivo for lunch. Darling had some soup + rice + chicken for her early lunch. We oso bot breadtalk orange steam cake and bread for our consumption on the island. Then its off to the Sentosa train at Vivo. The ride costs $1 and entrance to the island is $2. Darling was so excited to see the train and went 'tu tu train' =D We board the train, cross the sea, saw boats (and sang the 3 little sailing boats song), saw the intergrated resorts which is still under construction and oso the roller coaster tracks! But darling couldn't understand the roller coaster tracks, neither was she able to spot the cable cars up in the sky (which appeared mini in the far away sky) despite mummy's repeated attempts to point her to them ..

Our first stop: Palawan Beach..We wanted to catch the animals show at the grand stand at 12noon and we only had 15mins to get there! So we ran there.. HAAAA .. Great exercise for mummy n daddy .. Darling was being carried by mummy and then daddy thru'out our run .. HAA.. But but .. Booo .. When we got there, the staff told us that the weather is not too gd and the show would probably b cancelled =(
Looking up we saw dark clouds forming and we quickly went into the nearby food court. Mummy decided to latch darling on and prob let darling have a booster nap.. Who noes the rain stopped within 10mins. So daddy brought darling out into the open for sandplay.. .. Urgh and daddy got darling wet!


Goodness! See the cellulite on darling's thighs?!


Mummy din plan for darling to get wet and din bring her shampoo. So mummy went to the nearby 7-11 got baby bath and baby lotion. Aft some wet play mummy took darling to the ladies to clean up. Goodness me… there isn't any children cleaning up area and mummy had to wash darling up under the normal adult overhead shower. Well mummy got all wet washing darling up… Aft washing up we went for the primates show. Darling wanted to walk towards the open stage area to see the monkeys up close .. Haa..

Aft the show, we rushed for the dolphin show at 1pm and its running again .. Haaa… daddy n mummy sure lose some weight =P The dolphin show wasn't too interesting coz the dophins were performing at a stage which was so far away from the audience. Darling only catch a few glimpse of the dolphins and thereafter she is busy playing with sand and laid down on the sand!



Aft the dolphin show we took the island tram from Palawan beach to the other side of the island - Siloso beach for the underwater world. Here are some pictures from the underwater world visit:
There is an open tank whereby visitors may reach into the water to touch the fishes. Darling reached in but can get to the fishes which were darting around the tank!
The Open tank:



Darling probably learnt how a shark, stingray, starfish, crab, spider crab, octopus, cuttlefish, dugong, etc looks like =D The octopus which looks pretty yucky and scary gave darling a scare whilst the sea angel with cute little tiny flipping wings amused darling and she tried to immitate the little sea angel's flipping-wings action. Darling fell asleep in daddy's arms during the 2nd round of the underwaterworld tunnel walk and we left the exhibits and headed for the gifts shop. Mummy bought animal cups, animal puzzles, a turtle soft toy and sea creatures stickers for darling.

In the tunnel:






Darling fell asleep in daddy's arms:

Deep Sea Isopod:


We wanted to head for Songs of the Sea venue after Underwater world tour but darling woke up and hence we let darling play at the sand playground first. Here's darling enjoying herself in the sand and the house for little ones =D
Peekaboo!


On the slide:

Darling with daddy.. cramping into the little house:

Let's go for Songs of Sea:

Guess its about time we buy new camera.. no voice recorded?! Daddy prob spoilt it during the water play with darling earlier in the day.. haizzz


Our last stop for the day is Songs of the Sea .. When we got to the venue, mummy got down to feed darling her porridge .. Whilst daddy went to get the tics … boooo … daddy came back with bad news, the tics for the 2 shows are SOLD OUT! We din expect it else we would have bot the tics when we first got to the island in the morning.. So we ended our day early, leaving for main land and got home by 8pm.. Its been an exicting, energy burning and great family outing day for us =D Thank you daddy for keeping to your promise to bring us on Sentosa .. Looking forward to our postphoned Zoo outing .. and perhaps Sentosa #2 for Songs of the Sea ?

We went to 'hide' at po po's house coz daddy had to report for his overnite ICT, back only on Sunday =D
Mummy took darling on bus 43 with a lot of barang barang (stingy mummy refused to take cab .. Haa.. Anyway oso cant get cab on a Saturday aftnoon!?). We stopped over at the playground and darling played on the slide (with a jie jie). Darling was veri obedient when mummy said last round darling understood and stopped playing. We went into the shop n save to cool down.
We finally reached po po hse at 130 and darling zzzzzzzzzz till 430 (must be ultra tired with the outdoor activities?!). Mummy finished the bus tissue case for darling's bag while darling slept the afternoon away.. our bus =D



Gong gong n popo came back from their shopping spree at beach road. Po po stocked up a lot of dried foodstuff and gong gong got darling a sand play set with wheel barrow, pail, fork and spade. Darling surprised us when she lifted the wheel barrow and pushed in using the one n oni front wheel! Mummy tot darling would bend over n push the low barrow.. Smart girl =D
Gong gong then decided the fishes in the fish tank deserve new water and darling had a go at catching real "live" fishes! But darling din catch any, the furtherest she went was to point at them and use her spade to scoop water from the tub to her mini pail. Ended up ALL wet and no fishes caught =P

We went for our jog at Punggol park today. Our 2nd time to the park and today mummy brought darling's sand play toys to let darling play with at the sand pit. When we got there daddy started his jog while mummy stayed with darling at the sand pit. Darling dugged a mini hole, made her own fish & turtle figurines (using the sand moulds). When daddy came back he played with darling at the playground while mummy went for a jog around the park. Mummy only ran 1 round which is about 1.1km only =P After mummy came back we went to wash our hands and feet at the park's toilet and headed for the Sengkang Fire Station behind our house =D
It was mummy n darling's first time, eye opener… but to dearest daddy, it is his at finger tips .. Coz daddy is with SCDF for his NS.. And during his reservist, ICT, IPPT etc he is exposed to such equipment. Our first station was the Control room (shiok! Coz it's the only air-conditioned place in the whole premises!). There was this button which amuses mummy a lot on the control panel which reads "Traffic Light". So mummy asked and was told that in the event that the Fire Engine needs to go out (emergency), the control room would press this button and the traffic light outside the station would turn in RED immediately for the fire engines to go out.. WOW WOW.. Can control traffic leh =P
Our tour guide then brought us to view the Fire engine and explained all the parts and equipments on it. There weer hoses of 3 different sizes, video camera on the front seat to video cam any vehicles who refuses to give way on the road! The back seats which can take about 5 firemen is really crampy and low overhead.. Poor firemen has to cramp in there… There were all sorts of equipment, from Bio-chemicals, heavy saws to cut locked doors/gates, small and simple devices to break car windows and cut car seat belts. We were shown a mini camera which is worn in foggy/smoky surroundings and our firemen would find it easier to spot victims.
Next we were shown the Ambulance. There were 3 of them and was told one had gone out for "call" already. Our tour guide told us that ambulances calls are more freq than that of fire engines, that's why there are more ambulances compared to only 1 fire engine in the station. And the control of the traffic lights would only be activated when there are fire engine calls coz there are too many ambulance calls. There are mini fire engines (mummy dun rem wat they are called) which are posted at "Fire Posts". Fire Posts are similar to our Neighborhood Police Posts (NPPs). These mini fire engines are stationed at 2 different NPPS so that they could react to fire calls faster. The medic was about to start explaining the things we see on the ambulance when there was a call for ambulance and we were there to see the ambulance go out in ONE minute, with the medic, driver and another personnel (mummy cant rem what's the name …). ALL ambulances and Fire engines HAVE to leave the premises within ONE minute from the call, failure to do so the officer would need to write long long reports and penalised for it. So we saw the medic ran to don his uniform, ran to the control room for the call report and "zoom" off they go!
With the ambulance gone, our tour guide showed us to the Fire engine motorbike & Ambulance motorbike. They are really huge and heavy and heavily equipped compared to normal bikes on the road. Even a Harley cant be compared to their size! Really takes a strong big man to drive one… these comes with all the nec equipments to save lives and the fire engine motorbike even has 2 gas tanks. One tank for our fireman cum motorcyclist and the other to pump water out for fire fighting purposes. The poor fireman would have to wear the double tanks on their backs while they put out fires. Cant image if they need to run up staircases with the tanks?!
After the bikes we went to view this fire engine tanker. It is meant for fighting bush/forest fires coz they do not have the normal wheels. Our tour guide demo how it is done and daddy had a go at it too. There was a Sliding Pole performance whereby 4-5 firemen on duty slide down their poles. They can even 'brake' in midpoint on the poles. The officer on duty advised that (there was another group of visitors) such sliding pole performance is not meant for boys to try on at playground poles!
We had a go at Fire fighting too. WOW the hose is VERY heavy and the water pressure .. Mummy suffered a bruise cut on the underarm after holding the hose underarm to fight fire!
The finale was a ride Up the eletric ladder. Well we din climb, we took a ride on the open air lift and were brought up to 7 storeys height. The wind is great and so is the view =D Darling was 'wow-ing' thru'out. Daddy leaned forward and showed darling the height. Darling din appeared scared =D
When the tour ended, we were given souvenirs pens and pencils and darling got herself a Fireman helmet!

HEEE...

Mummy got bonus for the year (not alot, really not alot..boo) so darling got herself a new toy ;) (what an excuse for getting a new toy for darling). Its a mini kitchen set! We went to uncle winson's place a few weeks back and mummy saw darling having hsuch fun with it and so decided to get one for darling too... Though the box states an age which is darling's current + 4 .. haaa
Anyway, mummy is afraid most of the food, utensils, forks and spoons would be lost in a few weeks time! Mummy's tinking of DIY some 'food' for darling too.. using paper or cloth.. whilst daddy can make food using darling's doh =D

Here's my little chef at work:


and the Slimz's chefs =D


Heee.. my little chef has an apron too =D hee.. its actually her ArtnCraft apron!

We wanted to go for a family outing to the zoo on 20th Jun, celebrating Fathers' Day as well. But our poor darling fell sick. It the first time darling is sick apart from her normal injections related mild fevers so we were all caught off hand!

She had fever on Friday morning and mummy fed paracetamol to bring down her temp. After that mummy went off for work leaving darling with Po Po. Who noes in the afternoon darling's fever persisted and she started to LS! Mummy panicked and quickly called daddy (who happened to be on leave) to bring darling to the doc. So sad that dr tay at HG Mall has stopped practising =( and so daddy brought darling to dr koh at amk sbcc. Verdict frm dr koh - viral infection in stomach resulting in LS and high fever.. =(

That nite darling's cousins came and stay overnite coz its sch hols and will set off for Zoo on sat morning tgr. But with darling's fever and LS still persisting .. We decided dat mummy and darling shall stay home whilst daddy go for the zoo trip with ah ma and the rest. (we din wan to call the whole ting off coz we were the one who suggested for it..and everyone was looking forward to it..) Mummy din sleep the whole nite, keeping watch over darling's fever and changing her diapers once she LS to prevent rashes… at 3am her fever got really high and the med din seems to be working! Daddy rushed down to our 24hrs NTUC and got ice packs to stick on darling.. But still high high and so we decided to go KKH A&E. Over at KKH, the dr gave darling Nurofen (via mouth) but darling vomitted it out and so, no choice, the med were given via darling's bums! BOOOOOOOOOOO .. Darling was screaming when mummy put her down on the bed and when the med was inserted she SCREAMED and CRIED and BIG BIG tears came. Darling was screaming "ma ma, ba ba" throughout … sobzzzz… so poor ting .. Boooo ..

Sat was WAR.. Darling used at least 30 pcs of diapers with her LS… in the end mummy decided to let her wear pants and sit potty. Eating oni diluted porridge the whole day, lots of water and all kinds of cooling liquids/mixtures from Ah ma and po po. Of course BM as well. Darling latched on at least 10 times a day, guessed it's the oni way she can get comfort frm her pain… so mummy gave in.. Sat evening everyone came over to visit darling. Ah ma, ah gong, da bo, da bo mu, po po and gong gong… ah ma even da bao dinner over for us.. Dat evening darling's bums started to ve rashes and would scream and put up a fierce fite everytime she LS and we clean her up .. Haizzz… *heartpain*

On Sunday fever has subsided but LS still come n go and of course reddish bums. We had to give GUG class a miss. Initially we wanted to bring darling there but she decided to take a nap at 1030 and din wake till 2pm.. Class ended liao =P

Darling recovered from her LS sometime on Tuesday and the rashes went off by Wednesday. What an ordeal! Really hope darling wont catch any viral attack again.. Tiring for all and painful for her =( booo

Haizz.. And we missed our zoo outing =( .. We are planning an underwaterworld outing in mid july… *cross fingers* noting goes wrong …