A day of locals roaming like tourists visiting places of interest in Singapore. With papa's ASA card on hand, the Libran part of me sprung out and I squeezed in as many places as I could to make full use of it.

1) Mint Museum of Toys

I've been wanting to visit for the longest time even before she was born but laziness always took over.

There's 4 main levels of collections:

Level 2: Collectables
Level 3: Childhood Favourites
Level 4: Characters
Level 5: Outerspace

With that much of variety, I'd say that my eyes were kept busy for quite a long time. Even the little one seemed interested when we're explaining the pieces to her and she was occupied throughout the exploration. Kid-friendly? Approve!




2) Singapore Pinacothèque de Paris (closed as of April 11, 2016)

To be honest, I've never heard about this museum until I saw it in the ASA list. Nothing much there to see though, so we walked around Fort Canning Park instead.




3) Singapore River Cruise

After 2 museums and a heritage walk, it's time to give our brains and legs a break, so we headed over to Clarke Quay Jetty and hopped on the River Cruise to enjoy a relaxing Singapore River Experience.






That marks the end of our local tour, WE LOVE SINGAPORE!

Part of the ASA card journey with my another post, we went to Singapore Zoo with 2 objectives in mind : see Koala before they go back to their homeland and play the water playground!

Too many animals, too little time for photos.



It started to drizzle after a short walk so we had to sit down for an early lunch first while praying for the rain to stop. She got all emotional and teary, and kept raving about her giraffe and elephant through lunch in fear and worry that she wouldn't get to see them.




A familiar sight much?




Mami was excited for her to meet and feed the farm animals in The Rainforest Kidzworld but she was STILL too timid, refusing even when i suggested to hold her hand and feed with her. She rejected my offer of the Pony Ride too. ):

No choice, we gave up and went over for some splashes in the Wet Play Area instead.



Ended the day with a tired but happy child!

It's our first year joining the annual Christmas Wonderland at Gardens by the Bay, since we had no plans and admission was free, we decided to give it a try!

And when you've a child, Far East Organization Children’s Garden is a definite to-go at GBTB.



Evening came, so we quickly washed up and headed over to the event!




All-in-all, the decorations were pretty and the atmosphere was really jingle-bellish, but since she's still small she could only enjoy rides and carnival games. Ice Palace was really attractive but the prices were steep so we gave it a miss.

To be honest, I wouldn't want to visit again because there wasn't much for her to do and dining was quite a problem due to the crowd. Somewhere cozy and fun will sound much better for us!

Source : NTUC U Portal

That's like a super good deal because all other websites/places were selling the subscriptions at a much higher price. It's so insanely cheap that I was all heated up asking Papa to make the purchase ASAP.

I was anticipating to show the magazine to my little one because it's something new and I'm also curious about her reaction to such educational magazine. My mailbox acted as part-time Santa and she's so happy everytime she receives a new issue since it seemed like someone kept sending her presents.

In her magazine, there's Wild Cards introducing different animals with photos and write-up which was kinda too difficult for her so I kept it aside because apparently she had less than 10 seconds of interest with them. The content of the magazine caters to the 3-6 age group pretty well because it includes easier sections like Spot The Difference, Counting, Matching and also simple information on different animals on each issues. It actually has a good mix of materials to teach the toddlers based on their individual understanding level. She was able to maintain her concentration with the magazines and I'm so motivated to start introducing her to encyclopedias!