Weekend, July 27th & 28th, 2013

The town council kept its promise and converted the open-space car park back to the original small patch of grass and a standard badminton sized court, after the multi-storey car park is up and running.
Although it took a whole four-years, they did return us the grass patch which is invaluable.

Children play there, teenagers play there, and old aunties do their Qi Gong there.

My schedule last weekend was packed back-to-back. I had forced myself to complete an essay by Friday night 11pm and vowed to have a break over the weekend. Saturday's violin class was memorable as Kiki was asked to play Twinkle (to the variation of "chocolate-strawberry") and she did pretty okay.

Then we had a challenging time getting to Marina Square & Esplanade, given the multiple stalling of the MRT trains. Nevertheless, we made it in time (detoured via bus) and enjoyed the exuberance and adrenaline rush, having fireworks exploding in close proximity and it was real fun to know that Kiki's screaming syncs with mine in fine momentum. Such great fun to yell. In-between screams, she yelled - "Didi! DIDI!! LOOK, DIDIIIII! FIREWORKS!" like that. Concerned that her brother might miss something fabulous. Colin was keen but not overly excited.Boys......why are they less expressive?