TSOD Junior Dance Group

20 March 2016 (Sunday):

Rachel was selected to join the TSOD Junior Dance Group. She was elated since she did not got it at the last audition 2 years back.

The Yishun branch decided to have a dance group of its own. This selected group of students would represent the school to take part in competitions and events and performances. However, this means additional classes and practices. I have pre warned Rachel before hand on the additional classes she would be having and this means longer hours of practice. She was all for it. :)

And only after the 1st lesson, she was told by the teacher, Ms Jasmine Koh that they will all be entered into a competition, hence the lessons would be stretch from the usual 1 hours to 1.5hrs at least.

From the initial 3.15 - 4.15, classes are now from 3.15pm to 4.45pm but with most lessons, the timing would be stretch to 5.15hrs but there was once, almost to 5.30hrs.

Well, so long, Rachel enjoys her classes, Mummy here would definitely give full support.

RAD Ballet Exam Open House

17 Mar 2016 (Thurs):

The Grade 2 students were having their ballet open house this evening. This was a pre preparation for the mummies n daddies to have an idea what kind of syllabus the kids would be tested on and what have the kids been practicing and learning during those extra classes every week.

I leave you with 2 character dance video clips I took.

Sprained

07 Mar 2016 (Mon):

This poor baby sprained her wrist while playing on the monkey bar n fell.

Happened last Thursday but the pain lasted only a few mins, hence this gal ignore it. She did not tell me abt it even when i brought her to her ballet coaching class. The pain only intensified on Friday n my mil brought her to the Chinese sinseh.

And this is how her wrist looks now. I cant see how light or serious the swell was/is as i was away at work the whole weekend.

She was able to bend and turn her wrist gently, therefore the sprain should be light.

She will be having her RAD Grade 2 Ballet Exam Open House in 10 days time and I do hope she has recovered by then.

CNY 8th day: 15 Feb 2016

15 Feb 2016 (Mon):

We had a 9-ish (am) flight back to SG.

So we decided to have a takeaway brekkie at Mac. Well, they only open at 6am. Hubs went down to get the breakfast while i get the kids ready and do some last min packing .

This the view at about 6am from our apartment. There were already people jogging by the beach front when i zoom in. :P

We took the G Link to Broach Beach South Station and took bus # 777 to Coolangatta Airport.

The tram station was the same as the day we went to Currumbin Wildlife.  From Broadbeach South station, it was another half an hour - 45 mins to the airport.

Okay, folks... sorry I took so long to update my trip but it was work work work and I was so tired during the weekends that I just did not have the mood to update my blog.

CNY 7th day: 14 Feb 2016

14 Feb 2016 (Sun):

Happy Valentine's Day to all :)

Our 2nd last day Gold Coast. The day before, we enquired with one of the travel and tours booth around Surfers about the admission to Dream World and it was expensive. Then we caught sight of a promotion at another booth for admission to Dreamworld, Whitewaters and Skypoint. Bingo! We got that.

Skypoint, even at 8am was crowded. The view was as clear as what we saw when we had our heli ride, except this was in the morning.

Dreamworld and Whitewaters... of cos no photos at the water theme park.

Sand Safari at Beachfront Market. The market opens only every Wed, Fri and Sun from 3pm to 8pm, subject to weather conditions. They feature a variety of premium products, including fashion, jewellery, accessories, artworks, photographs, beauty products and home wares and many more.

CNY 6th day: 13 Feb 2016

13 Feb 2016 (Sat):

We went back to Sea World for half a day as we did not manage to look at all other attractions Sea World has to offer. (With our unlimited entry to the parks, this was worth the while).

We caught the Dolphin show and the ski show, saw the penguin sanctuary and sharks bay.

Then we went over to do a Heli ride. Perfect end to the day. We caught the sunset and it was magnificent. We flew over Gold Coast and the skies were clear and spectacular.

CNY 5th day: 12 Feb 2016

12 Feb 2016 (Friday):

We had a full day at Movie World today. Movie world seems to have shrunk in size (area). The last I came; some 13 years ago... it was much bigger or so I thought. Now, once you have walked towards the Hollywood Stunt show from the main entrance after passing by Shrek 4D show, it seems only either you walked towards the left where Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster and West Wild Falls Adventure Ride are or towards the right where WB Kids Zone is.

The Country Fair Games station were not open that day and the parade is not till 3pm. Basically we were left wondering aimlessly. Yes, we went to Shrek 4D, watched the Hollywood Stunt show, ( I still prefer Police Academy), rode Scooby Doo coaster, sat on the log ride and then.... nothing left... we over to the Kids Zone just to keep ourselves occupied... the kids went on practically ride even though the queue for it was long - gosh... we had plenty of time to waste...till 3pm.

We had thoughts of skipping the parade. We had an evening show at the Australian Outback and it was on the same stretch of road, next to Paradise Country Farm

Either we could go back to our hotel first, and then come back later in the evening for the show or we could come back later at 3pm for the parade and then proceed for the show. But we felt it was silly to go off and return again. So, we sat around and waited for the parade to start.

(Come to think of it, we might skip the parade and visit Paradise Country Farm instead, then proceed to Australian Outback... why did we not thought of that)

The Australian Outback was excellent! The story line and the performance were wonderful. Though the tickets were expensive, it was worth it. At least hubs, the cheapo one found it worth the $$. Thank goodness. Else my ears would be ringing non stop with his " why this...why that "