It was a cool Hari Raya morning. Rina, LiPing and I decided to bring our kids to the new Jacob Ballas Garden located at Bukit Timah. Greg and Ryan were so excited when we arrived at the garden but I must say I was quite disappointed with the place. Perhaps it was extremely crowded on a Saturday morning. The treehouse was so filled with kids and many young kids came down from the covered slides crying away. Yanti took the slide and felt that it was too steep for very young children. She even had some abrasions after taking the slide. I thought there should be some safety signs indicating the minimum age for children to use the slides.
The garden itself was so small that we couldn't find a comfortable place to put our picnic mats and for the kids to play with balls, bubbles and badminton. In addition, the constant morning rain also dampened our mood for a fun picnic there. We did manage to take some photos, but I doubt I would be returning to this garden again so soon. Above photos: It was such a challenge to take a snapshot of the four kids together and making sure that they looked at the camera. The first photo was taken in a small manmade cave with a mini waterfall. We were hiding from the rain then. The second picture was taken at the suspended bridge when Ryan and Greg were running across it. The picture below was taken when we were hiding (from the rain again!) near the classrooms where the covered area is. The kids rested there and had a mini biscuits feast before they took out their watercans to collect the rain (because there's nothing else they could do when the rain was so heavy).
Though we didn't do much at the garden, Yanti, Greg and I felt so tired after our lunch at Paragon. Greg and I brought Yanti to Sakura for dinner after our nap that day, partly to celebrate Hari Raya with Yanti. I believe it wasn't as fun as the atmosphere she had in Indonesia with her family on this very day, but I do hope that our presence and effort had made her feel less home sick.
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