Embracing the Peranakan Culture on a Monday

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts Monday Music Moves Me, Motivational Monday

giant pot

A pot normally used to store food in the olden days.

Over the weekend I saw this enormous pot at the airport. It was part of the Peranakan Culture exhibition which was on going at the airport. For those of you who do not know my family is Peranakan and my grandmother went through the traditionalNonya wedding back then when she was eighteen years old. With such a rich heritage there is a lot which I will need to learn about before I am able to integrate my kids.

Big vase

A China Vase

Coming from a mix heritage of straits born Malay and Chinese my ancestors have embraced the best of both cultures and combined it to something unique~Peranakan. There is still so much to learn especially how to cook all those tasty but laborious dishes. I hope to be able to pass on to the kids all these jewels which my ancestors have left for me.

How do you embrace your culture?

Here is one of the songs which you certainly have to have it on LOUD. Angel by Super Junior.

September 24, 2012

Motivational Art and Music on a Monday

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts Motivational Monday

Bicycle Rack

Last weekend while at East Coast Park for the kids annual sports day I chanced upon this really ingenious contraption- a bicycle rack. The display was near the East Coast Village food court and there were other wooden sculptures in the area but this was the only one which caught my eye.

The bikes are hung at an angle so their tires don’t remain on the sand while being parked at the bicycle rack. I know how difficult it can be to keep the tires clean and how dust and dirt can screw up the cycling mechanism if the bike is not cleaned properly.There was even a pictorial instructional sign in front of the exhibit to explain how the bikes should be mount on the structure.

I really love how functional this piece of art is and that the inventor really managed to get his creation out from an idea in his head to something which everyone can enjoy. It only shows that if one really works on ideas/dreams which they are passionate about the dream will come true.

What are your thoughts about this?

Sharing one of my favourite songs from Tiger Girl’s birth year 201- SHERO by S.H.E