May 18, 2010

Visit to the Singapore Art Musuem

At the entrance of the museum

Over the weekend we brought the boys to the Singapore Art Museum . It was the start of their month long Children’s Season exhibition.

The boy enjoyed themselves playing with the interactive displays. The 1st stop we had was at the 1st exhibit on the ground floor. – The Garden

Having fun playing with the enormous “five stones”

Chiling out!!

The light and dark green beanbags were to represent the grass growing in the garden where Walter rabbit lived. I don’t think the boys were able to make the association between the beanbags as they were too preoccupied tossing and throwing the different beanbags at all the kids who were in that room with them.

Floribots

Mechanical flowers called Floribots were featured in one other rooms. The 100 giant robot flowers depicted the plant life-cycle from a seed to a bloom. The boys were intrigued by how the flowers randomly rose and sank.

As we ventured futher into the art garden we entered the Enchanted Forest.

Roy leading the way into the forest

Characters from various stories were entwined together and hidden within the forest. There was an activity book which one could do in conjunction with visiting the Enchanted forest. The book could be purchased from the information counter but we thought against it as we didn’t want the boys to have such a “structured” visit to the museum.

The boys did some colouring of butterflies instead and pasted their masterpieces up within the enchanted forest.

The monster

On the 4th floor of the building we saw this exhibition by Joo Choon Lin. She was on hand at the exhibition to answer questions and Ryan had a field time asking her various questions regarding the reason behind her creations.

Hubs and I found the animated cartoon a big gory and too violent to our liking as there was quite a lot of blood as the monsters were killed. Most of the creatures which were created were made out of copper which was moulded into various shapes and sizes. It must have taken the artist an extremely long time to create each of her masterpieces on show.

The boys were not actually put off by the morbid scene and were happily examining the various exhibits on display. I think they were kinda oblivious to what they were viewing.

Will you be bringing your children to view the exhibits?

The Art Garden is open from the 14 May to 18 July.

Art Garden: Children’s Season at the Singapore ARt Mueum is at SAM at 8Q

Mondays to Sundays 10am-7pm

Fridays 10am-9pm

Adult $10

Student ( with valid student card ) $5

Children 6 years and below = FREE

Weekend Reflections- Being A Mother

Ryan & Roy

It has been 6 years and 2 months since I became a mother. Time really flies by when you have two hyperactive boys , a hectic job and household issues to handle. From being only responsible for your own personal actions, to becoming part of a pair and now responsible for the lives that we bring into this world. My responsibilities have been compounding and I have to make decisions which affect the lives of everyone in the family.

Being a mother is something that brings me much joy and something that I really enjoy. It has been a wonderful experience watching the boys grow and mature from helpless infants into young individuals who are exerting their own rights. It has been trying at time trying to cultivate good habits and behaviour in them but I’m sure my efforts will bear fruit in due time.

R and I always wanted to have our own kids. Even before we were married we did talk about having kids and the number of kids we would like to have. Initially I wanted to have all my kids before I turned 30 years old.However as life after marriage started to unfold I had to cope with stresses of work and the daily demands of living we didn’t manage to start our family till I was 25yrs old. Nevertheless now at 31 we will be completing our family with the addition of a baby girl this September.

It will be a different experience parenting a girl as compared to parenting boys. I’m looking forward to the challenges that I will be facing in the immediate future.