MRT observations

I take the MRT to work everyday. Just wanted to record some observations while travelling..

Observation 1
At peak hours, when many people alight at busy stations, some people refuse to step out to allow people inside from getting out. I always wonder why these people are so ungracious, causing a human jam at the doors where there is only a small gap for people to alight. I think I found out why...

Once, I was at Farrer Park when a large group of people behind me wanted to alight. So I graciously stepped out of the train to allow them to alight. As there were many of them, the last one alighted just when the train beeped to indicate the doors were closing. Before I could get back onto the train, the doors slammed shut in front of me and left! So much for being gracious!

Observation 2
Quite frequently on my morning train trip to work, I chance upon a Chinese (as in mainland China) family of 3 (parents and 1 approx 6 year old daughter). Once, the mother was supervising the child in some mental abacus calculation exercise. The mum was timing her while she was working through the questions. When the girl took longer than 2 minutes to come up with the answer, she incurred the wrath of her mum, who was telling her how she was not concentrating, how angry she was, and that she might as well dont start with that exercise. The girl was very apologetic and said sorry to the mother and started to work on those again. This time, she took less than 15 seconds for each question, and earned an approving nod from the mum.

There was another time the girl was reading a Chinese story book and writing down the new words she comes across. I bet you there are words in that book that I did not know as well, even though my Chinese standard is considered not bad!

The most recent time I 'met' them, the parents were discussing which primary school to send their daughter to, and which phase they are qualified for. And names like Ai Tong Primary came up.

I really cant imagine my daughters having to compete with such children of 'foreign talents'!

Sherryn can walk

Record of another milestone - Sherryn can walk without support from 13 months!

At East Coast Park


At the newly opened Punggol 'nature reserve'(?) (got to find out the actual name)

Happy Chinese New Year! - Day 4

On Sunday, we went to the Sentosa Flower festival. It was a nice trip. We parked our car at Vivo City and took the train to Imbiah Station. Pretty flowers there. Thereafter, we walked down to RWS, had dinner at Hard Rock Cafe, and went on the newly opened boardwalk across to Vivocity. Along the way, we managed to catch the Crane Dance performance (impressive!) and fireworks (nice!!).

Happy Chinese New Year! - Day 3

Visiting continued. Today we went to my auntie's house, and thereafter went down to River Ang Bao at Marina floating platform. We went down in the late afternoon, lighting not as nice as the night scene.

Happy Chinese New Year - Day 2

The festivities continue on Day 2...

Happy Chinese New Year! - Eve and Day 1

I am so glad that I am able to celebrate Chinese New Year this year! Last year this time, I had just given birth to Sherryn and was still in confinement. Was feeling really miserable then.. But how quickly a year has passed. And just a month ago the 2 kids were down with Influenza A, and Kaelyn had pneumonia as well and was hospitalised.

I was so afraid it would morph into something even more serious (not saying that pneumonia wasnt serious enough..), but good thing they both recovered from that. And they got to enjoy CNY this year, especially Kaelyn, who has begun to appreciate the loud CNY songs, receiving ang pows, eating the goodies etc..

The visiting is tiring, and the kids were sleeping later these few days. But well it is the festive season, so I dont want to be too strict with the routine at this time!

Early reunion dinner at my parents place the weekend before CNY



CNY eve - before heading out to in-laws place


CNY day 1