Zoo

All set to go

Its a Saturday and its family day! Today, we are off to the Zoo!

Clié and Cleo at the Zoo

The girls have been to the Zoo countless times already these years, but kids being kids, its always fun.

This time I did up a work sheet for them to do at the zoo. The sheet had pictures of animals that I know will be at the Zoo and all they had to do was to write out the names of the animals.

RAAAHHH

We saw the white tiger! RAAAHHHH!!

Kangaroos

Its super hard to take pictures of Cleo, cuz when we ask her to smile, she smiles, but she looks away. So finally I notice I got to tell her where to look. So “look at the black black thing on the camera” was it. From now on, I think I can get decent shots of her already.

Cleo seeing Gibbons

Here is Cleo looking smashing!

Ice Cream time

We wanted to see the “Splash” show, but as we were late, it was not possible to see anything with the amount of people there on a Saturday. I could put one of them on my shoulder, but i simple can’t put 2. When one is up, the other is unhappy… so how? Go eat ice cream lor. problem solve.

Water Play time

Mommy bought the girls new swimming outfits and they are super cute.

Cleo happy to play water

Thirsty

Thirsty

Clié plays hard. I hope when she grows up, she will work hard too.

Cleo playing with water

Here is Cleo filling up her cups with water, only to later throw them both up in the air. Lately she finds throwing things up fun. At home, she throws her stuff toys up.

It was a nice afternoon. Not too hot, not much whining, not much problems… everything went smoothly. The only thing that could have made things better was if mommy could have joined us. Too bad she had to work this Saturday.

Meaning No?

This ad is indeed very deep, I had a long chat with a friend online tonight about the significance of this ad and how powerful it is in our generation. With about 2.5million views in 10 months, thats about 8,300 views per day for the past 10 months (about 300 days).

Pls share with me your views on this ad.

The project manager’s dilemma

If you are working on multiple projects, managing multiple clients and yet have a family, you might relate the the following scenarios. What would you do?

  1. satisfy client A and disappoint client B;
  2. satisfy client B and disappoint client A;
  3. satisfy client A and B, but disappoint wife and kids;
  4. spend time thinking of how you got here and do an online survey to see what will others do.

ATRIA Bloggers Unconference

Tag of Tags

I was real nice to attend ATRIA Bloggers Unconference today. Its the first time i’ve seen like minded Christians coming together to discuss about technology, new media, etc.

I arrived and was surprised that a personalised tag was provided. It even had a tag cloud on it which was generated by… i’m guessing www.tagcloud-generator.com. A very nice touch.

Paul Khoo introduced what ATRIA is and what it hopes to achieve and gave everyone an overview of the evening.

The evening then started off with 3 speakers sharing their views and knowledge of the New Media Scene. Nicholas Aaron Khoo shared about what the New Media space is all about, highlighted several impressive stats on what has happened over the past few years and highlighted how everyone should be relevant. Shing then continued and reassessed the whole fundamentals of New Media all together. I missed the last speaker as i had to go out to take a call.

The session then broke into discussion groups and naturally i joined the Technology Frontier as the other 2 were on Faith and Collaboration. We all introduced ourselves and the discussion then kicked off immediately with ideas, fundamental questions, views, concerns, etc. I enjoyed every moment of it.

I think there will be a video that will be put online soon by Atria… If it does come on, i’ll add to this post.

I have to say, overall, i’m quite impressed on the level of maturity and professionalism in the discussions and do look forward for the next one.

Singapore Science Centre

Rahhhhaaaa

Amidst my busy schedule, i took leave today to bring the kids out. I planned to bring them out during the June holidays, but just did not manage to. Today we went to the Singapore Science Centre, its time to see if the kids are interested in Science or not.

Spinning water

We came across some really cool devices and one of the cool ones was this spinning water thingy. Apparent the faster the the column of water spins, it will leave a large void in the center.

Exhibits

There were so many exhibits there. Everyone had some educational value which is cool, but its really difficult to explain science to 4 or 6 year olds.

Interactive Board

This interactive board was very well done. It will grow plants, buildings and some other items. There is also a cat that will try to hide under what ever items you place on the top. The cat will basically keep finding shelters.

Interactive Board

Then with the string, if you make a junction, Trains will start appearing. Then if you made an oval, the shape fills up with water and ducks start swimming in it.

Kaleidoscope

Can you spot Daddy, Clié and Cleo?

Water Play

Then after viewing almost all of the exhibits, its water play time and the kids had a blast.

All Tired

Now, all showered and dressed, they both fell asleep in the car on the way home. What a wonderful day we had.