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Have you heard of the “Eco-Playground”? It is an environmental-friendly playground being certified by FSC (Forest Stewardship Council).

There is one of this eco-playground located at the City Square Mall (situated near the Farrer Park MRT station).

This is a “country style” concept of playscape being made from a combination of FSC certified wood.

This is another tyre-swing gadget. I think it can still host another two more tyre-swings by looking at the size of the support frame.

This is Prisca’s favourite – a mini twister that could make her feels real high.

“Papa! A sheep in the sky!”
“Err…sheep?”
This is the after effect of playing with the mini-twister I guessed ha-ha.

No one realizes these colourful circles after I implemented it as hopscotch.

A living maze made of thick bushes. Do explore it in pairs especially during the night, unless you are martial art trained.

A Butterfly Garden without a single butterfly being attracted to it, sad…

This is a slightly larger water fountain (as compared to the one at Bugis Parco) to let your child get wet. It situated at the ground floor of the garden (beside McDonald).

Parents may bring your children to this eco-playground to kill some time on weekends.

Have fun playing!

Few months back, I remembered teaching Prisca to draw a simple star but to no avail.

Maybe it was too difficult, I thought.

Last night, I was alarmed that she could draw her own stars at quite a remarkable speed. I asked her who teaches her, she smiled and kept quite.

During bedtime, she mumbled to herself “Up, Down, Left, Right, Close”.

“What’s that?” I asked. She used her little finger and sketched a drawing in the air.

Alas! It was a star. The star may look complicated to a child at first glance but with simple instructions of “Up, Down, Left, Right, Close” it becomes extremely easy!

The moral of this story is “In most circumstances, a child is not stupid; it is the parent who is stupid of not knowing an innovative way of teaching!”

Thank you Prisca’s teacher in her kindergarten for this simple lesson!

Prisca gave me a shock last night by reciting the Singapore National Pledge in Mandarin!

I have never recited the national pledge in Mandarin through out my school days! I am feeling kind of ashamed of myself…really.

Here is the Mandarin version; you can listen to my girl’s sound clip and say it together with her if you like he-he.

Singapore National Pledge in Chinese
我们是新加坡公民，
誓愿不分种族、言语、宗教，
团结一致，
建设公正平等的民主社会，
并为实现国家之幸福、繁荣与进步，
共同努力。

Tips: If your PC does not support online streaming; just right-click your mouse to select “Save link as” to download it. Cheers!

>> Sound clip 05

(Warning! The sound clip is quite LOUD, please lower the volume of the speaker to prevent a sudden shock! Ha-ha).

“Do you want to join me for a ride?”

This is an interesting promotion brochure for the several shopping malls in Singapore that caught our attention.

These tigers are extremely cute and Prisca immediately related these cutey cats to the family members ha-ha.