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Blog Blockage?

November 27, 2011 – 10:55 pm

I’ve been blogging for 3 years and until recently, I’ve realised that I’ve got some blog blockage. Bluntly, I think I’ve run out of ideas of what to blog about or maybe I simply too lazy to blog. If you have noticed, my blog isn’t as updated as before, but I’m still trying my best to do so. Probably, its the expectation that I’ve given to myself, I want to present a quality blog post with good pictures to accompany with it. Its not easy to do so because frankly, before I make a post, I’ll think through and conceptualize how I want to present it. It sounds stressful but its actually very encouraging after hearing the positive comments.

What I need now is….. Clouds of ideas on my future post…Clouds are like the tonnes of ideas that I need, probably like those heavy ones that we see blurring our city skyline during the rainy days.

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Disney LIVE

November 12, 2011 – 9:05 pm

Last week, we spend a night at Marina Bay Sands Grand Theatre watching Disney LIVE. It was full of anticipation since it was our first visit to the Grand Theatre and the show was returning after its first run in September.

Ethan was really excited and Ezanne was alittle tired. As you can see, only Ethan was interested in taking the pictures.

The show had quite a number of Disney characters from Aladdin, Little Mermaid and Toy Story. There was Mickey and Minnie, Goofy and Donald. Ethan was quite disappointed because he was looking for Daisy Duck and we thought the show was short. While we may argue that the attention span of the children are short, the show lack interactivity. After watching this show and Disney On Ice, I realised this is one problem that Disney productions had, there is a lack of interactivity with the spectators.

This is probably the last paid show that we will be watching this year and let’s hope that there will be more great productions in 2012.

Tags Disney, Donald Duck, Goofy, Marina Bay Sands, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse | Comment (0)

Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium

October 26, 2011 – 12:38 am

I got a chance to visit Resorts World @ Sentosa’s Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium. For your information, the Aquarium will only open in 2012. The museum has 2 parts, the museum exhibit area and the Typhoon Theatre.

The museum consists of several exhibits such as artifacts found from ship wreck and some of the cultures and local information of several maritime routes. For example, one of the exhibit was on the Maritime Silkroad Route. Instead of using camels to transport goods, they decided to use ships which is more efficient and productive.

There were several interesting exhibits too, including the Jewel of Muscat, which was a gift by the Omani Government to Singapore.

There were several interactive exhibits too. One example was where visitors could learn how to navigate a ship through a computer stimulation. Other than the exhibits, I personally thought that the Typhoon Theatre was impressive. The Typhoon Theatre was a 360 degrees multi sensory display where we got to experience the rough seas that the ship had to go through. At $6, I thought it was really worth the money as both wifey and myself enjoyed ourselves through the simple storyline but amazing effects.

Tags Maritime, Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium, Resorts World @ Sentosa, Silkroad | Comments (2)

First Nationwide Picture Book Contest

October 24, 2011 – 12:27 pm

As a first time effort, Frasers Centrepoint Malls is partnering with the National Library Board and home grown company, Sparky Animation to bring Mr Moon to Singapore. Mr Moon is a series of charming tales of Mr Moon and his friends’ adventures in the wondrous galaxy.

In conjunction with the movie premiere of Mr Moon in Singapore, a nationwide Picture Book Contest is being held to enable children to showcase their creativity. All children from 7 – 12 years old can create a storyline and illustrate their own picture book around a “care and share” theme, using components from the Mr Moon animation.

The top 3 winners will have the golden opportunity to have their stories transformed into a 3-minute animation and will also receive other fantastic prizes!

The deadline for submission is 25 December and participants must drop off their books at the Customer Service Counters at any Frasers Mall. Entry form and instructions can be found at: http://www.fraserscentrepointmalls.com/promo/MR_MOON/entry_form.html

There are 2 categories for the contest.
Category A is opened to children aged 7 to 9 years.
Category B is opened to children aged 10 to 12 years.

Additionally, all children and parents are also invited to catch Mr Moon and Friends “LIVE” at Frasers Centrepoint Malls from 18 November to 25 December. For timings, please visit http://www.fraserscentrepointmalls.com/

Ethan missed by 2 years otherwise, I would have gotten him to participate as well.

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Poor Service Quality

October 11, 2011 – 11:00 pm

In the service sector, we try as much as possible, not to question our customers, unless it will really help us. We will also try not to pass unnecessary comments which might offend the customers. I was in the midst of completing the necessary documentation for the purchase of Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival and was corresponding with one of the staff on that. Apparently, he forwarded the purchase form in PDF format to me. Somehow, this PDF format form could only be read from a PC or laptop. When I view the form from my iPhone, it was just an empty form. Therefore, I replied and told him that I only got an empty form, not knowing that actually, it must be read in a PC or laptop. I was quite disappointed when I saw this reply from him.

I was thinking why should he compare me with other customers? He didn’t even bother to take the initiative to send me another form or tried to look into ways to help me with it. What made things even worse was he got me to fill in the form again and send it to him. Luckily, my wife did some checks and managed to retrieve the form with all the information filled in.

So if you are in the services sector, remember to be mindful the next time when you talk to your customers. Be sensitive. Be wise.

Tags BASE Entertainment, Marina Bay Sands | Comment (0)

Be a considerate driver

October 4, 2011 – 6:01 pm

I was sending my Dad for a medical checkup at Changi General Hospital this morning and due to the rain, the basement carpark was full, as expected. Fortunately, I’m able to get a parking lot after cruising around for about 10 minutes. About 2 hours later when we were about to leave, we found a car parked illegally which we realised, that we could not leave the parking lot at all.

We called the parking management and they told us that they couldn’t do much since the car was not listed on their season parking list and they are unable to make a broadcast announcement. Surprisingly, the driver turned up 5 minutes after my call ended and was not apologetic to the inconvenienced he had caused not just to me, but other drivers as well as staff and wheel chair bound patients who were needed to use the ramp which he was blocking.

Anyway, I gave up on sending an email to CGH as I thought it will be quite meaningless.

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3 years… And I’m still blogging!

September 19, 2011 – 11:03 pm

Time flies and I’ve blogged for 3 years. Over the past 3 years, I’ve been discovering, thinking of what this blog should be all about, what contents to be included and whether I will be able to continue blogging. I’ve gradually found topics which I’m interested in blogging about and I’m glad that there are people who keeps visiting this blog and read what I’ve written. I’ve always said that blogging is a way for me to improve my English. Minutes were spent drafting each post in ensuring that there are minimal spelling and grammatical errors. Well, I still do spot my own mistakes though.

Over the past year, I’ve received more invitations than I ever had previously and I will like to thank the organizations for the support. I do hope that the invites will keep coming and I’ll be able to blog more interesting stuff for my readers. Please continue to support.

On this special occasion, I’m proud to announce the launch of the fanpage for my blog. The fanpage will contain updates of the blog and do LIKE it!

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Win a chance to Paint a limited edition SMURF with your family

August 31, 2011 – 11:00 pm

In conjunction with the first 3D SMURFS movie by Sony Pictures, come meet THE SMURFS at Frasers Centrepoint Malls this school holidays from 26 August to 11 September. I’m very happy to announce that my blog is working with the organizers for my readers to win a chance to paint a limited edition SMURF with your family.

Its very easy to participate. Simply tell me which is your favourite smurf and why it is your favourite writing a comment in this post (include your email address as well). The 1st 10 readers who respond will get the opportunity to paint a limited edition SMURF with your family on 3 September 2011 between 5pm to 7pm at Northpoint. Contest ends on 2 September at 12 noon.

For more information, you may visit Smurfs in Malls for details.

Tags Frasers Centrepoint Malls, Northpoint, Smurfs | Comments (4)

Does age matter?

August 19, 2011 – 12:42 am

I was driving to work today when I saw a car that somehow got itself in between the centre divider.

Then, the driver, who was probably in his late 60s or early 70s came out with another 2 elderly passengers. Upon seeing this, I started wondering if there should an age limit for drivers to drive on the road. For this particular incident, he was lucky that there isn’t much vehicles during that time. What if this happened at a busier road or an expressway? I’m not trying to say that our senior citizens can’t drive, but probably there should be some measures put in place to review their suitability to drive.

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What it feels like to be old

July 31, 2011 – 12:58 pm

2 weeks ago, I was invited to attend a session titled “A Day in My Future” organized by Council for Third Age (C3A). It was a session where there was an active discussions on old aged issues and how we prepare ourselves for our old age. What’s interesting about this session was we were given a chance to become ‘old’. Together with other bloggers, we were ‘dressed up’ and all set to experience being ‘old’

We went through quite a number of challenges. First, we were made to climb the stairs (with us ‘stiff bones’), breathe through straws to simulate breathing difficulties. Then we were told to look for some information using our mobile phones which was quite a challenge to me since I had ‘cataract’ and finally answering questions when I had difficulty in hearing.

Through these activities, I’ve got a better understanding of what our Senior Citizens are going through and learnt to appreciate them more. It also makes me start thinking how do I want my old age to be. For more information on ‘A Day in My Future’ fanpage for more details of the session.