{"id":1950,"date":"2010-03-26T16:20:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T08:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2010-03-26T16:20:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T08:20:59","slug":"singapore-trip-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Trip 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we read on newspaper that the National Museum of Singapore will be cooperating with Kunsthistorische Museum Vienna, Egyptian and Near Eastern Department to display some artefacts from ancient Egypt early this year, we’d already planned to make a trip down to Singapore as Zara has a lot of interest in pyramids, mummies, etc.<\/p>\n

I never knew it was under such circumstance<\/a> that the trip finally materialised. Daddy drove the girls down together with Jelly (my insistence) on 18th March. Luckily my dad recovered well after surgery, or I think we won’t be doing all the sight seeing.<\/p>\n

\u266517th March, Thursday\u2665<\/strong><\/span>
\nGirls and Daddy arrived. Girls were so happy to see me after a week. They were hugging me and kissing me, and Zaria kept telling me, “I love you very very very very very much, mum.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Daddy was showing sour face the whole time because of the sleeping arrangement, and also his inability to get tickets to Universal Studio (as if it’s my fault!)<\/p>\n

\u266518th March, Friday\u2665<\/strong><\/span>
\nI cooked a hearty breakfast for everybody. Scrambled egg white for my dad, egg and bacon for the rest. I had Greek yogurt and honey instead, something I can’t find or cost too much in KL.<\/p>\n

After instructing Jelly what to cook for lunch, Daddy, the girls and I left for the National Museum. Girls got all excited when they saw the Quest of Immortality<\/a> posters in the ticketting hall. Finally, they could enjoy what we’d talked about since the newspaper reading.<\/p>\n

\"Egyptian<\/p>\n

\"Egyptian<\/p>\n

Zara then pointed, “Mum, look, Hieroglyphic!”<\/span>. I had no idea what it was, and had to follow her gaze. You can imagine how much interest she has in all things Egyptian.<\/p>\n

\"Hieroglyphic\"<\/p>\n

\"Girls<\/p>\n

After the Quest of Immortality, we went on to visit The Singapore History Gallery<\/a>. Seriously, how much history does Singapore has? But they did it in a story telling way, with free multimedia handheld device given out which guides you around the gallery, it made the whole thing so interesting.<\/p>\n

I left the gallery with the girls first (because my device broke down half way) and proceeded to have lunch. Daddy turned up 30mins later. He said he thoroughly enjoyed the visit.<\/p>\n

After lunch, we went shopping at Sommerset 313 and later met up with my brother and his family, my dad and sis for dinner.<\/p>\n

\u266519th March, Saturday\u2665<\/strong><\/span>
\nMy brother brought my dad for his check up, and left my nieces with me. Again, I made everybody a big breakfast, and I continued to have my yogurt. <\/p>\n

We went to the zoo after breakfast. It was actually pouring, but since we didn’t have any other day to do this (my nieces were going home the following day), we just braved on, with raincoats bought from the zoo.<\/p>\n

That’s how silly we looked.
\n\"Braving<\/p>\n

Even in this weather, the walk around the zoo was very pleasant. So green, so much to see, so informative. We could see almost all the animals up close.
\n\"Wild<\/p>\n

There’s the outback section where girls can pat kangaroos.
\n\"Outback\"<\/p>\n

\"Outback\"<\/p>\n

My favourite, the polar bear.
\n\"Polar<\/p>\n

\"Polar<\/p>\n

Zaria’s favourite, the baboons. She has a book about June the baboon, so she was very interested to see a baboon real life.
\n\"Baboons\"After that, she told everyone “Baboons have heart shaped backside!”<\/span><\/p>\n

We left the zoo in the evening, and then straight on to dinner with the rest of the family, and off shopping again.<\/p>\n

\u266520th March, Sunday\u2665<\/strong><\/span>
\nWe had breakfast together at Tiong Baru Market. Probably the only market we know how to go, and my dad’s favourite eating place.<\/p>\n

After breakfast, my brother and his family, my dad and my sister left home. We had to sort out with the ‘hotel<\/a>‘ on the refund we wanted since we were leaving earlier (as my dad has been given permission to leave Singapore by the doctors earlier than planned), and also moved to a new room. (When I wrote this post the refund is still in progress)<\/p>\n

We then brought Jelly along and took a taxi and went to Suntec City. Big mistake! Nothing there, not much to shop. We made the girls walked from Suntec City to Millenia Walk, then to Marina Square, and then later to Esplanade. <\/p>\n

\"Merlion\"<\/p>\n

\"Esplanade\"<\/p>\n

\"Singapore<\/p>\n

We then headed back to the ‘hotel’ to rest. At night, it was another round of shopping, this time at Ion (which I think where we shopped most). \"Ion\"<\/p>\n

After shopping, the girls played at the water fountain at Ion, and had a lot of fun.
\n\"WaterLuckily we brought them spare clothes.<\/p>\n

Daddy then suggested we took the MTR to Raffles Place to look at the Merlion up close. Zara and I were so tired, we didn’t really bother, Merlion or not. Zaria was however very keen. So off we went again.<\/p>\n

\"Esplanade<\/p>\n

\"Merlion<\/p>\n

\u266521st March, Monday\u2665<\/strong><\/span>
\nWe woke up late, had a lazy morning, then went to Wisma Atria for lunch, and then headed home.<\/p>\n

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