2014 iLight Marina Bay highlights

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If you like to “Dance dance revolution” at Timezone, then iLight might have something groovy for you.

The kids can really hop and follow the rhythm but Daddy got hand-leg coordination issue.
Kids just need to bounce on the pad and different colours will beam.

Video : Mayhem as you see kids running in all direction, do hang on to the “small” ones 🙂

2014’s iLight theme is “Light+HeART“, and there are 28 art installations scattered all over Marina Bay. To quote from iLight :
“2014 edition is about creating unique, happy and heart-felt installations to delight the audience while driving home the sustainability message”

Last Thu, we hope onto a bumboat and was given a first hand tour of the various light installations.

Click here for the full display location and descriptions.

The Pool (A14)
Dancing pods ilight

Fool’s Gold (A13) (Chinese idiom 此地无银三百两) and the Floating Hearts (A10)

JouJou-Ours (A9) – bears for you to hug

Mimosa (A7) – you know how a mimosa plant works? You must not miss this Magical experience !

#WeHeartLight (A8)
ilight duration

Bibi (A4) – crocodile
ilight Crocodile display

Beat (A1) – watch the balls synchronised with your heart beat! Cool !
iSwarm (A3) – first time Light display goes under the water, the “sea creatures” will detect your presence and dance for you

If you only have 2 hours to spend, we recommend you to walk from A14 to A1 (or vice versa). Kids will easily spend 30mins at The Pool :p

Other exhibitions which we did not get to watch up close..
Cloud (B9) – it seems pretty interesting from the boat, children were pretending that it was raining and hiding under the cloud 🙂

Celebration of Life (B14) – 3D reflection off ArtScience Museum

(image credit ilightmarinabay.sg)

Giant Dandelions (B6) – 90 giant pods await

(image credit ilightmarinabay.sg)

1.26 (B10) – Singapore Fish net weaving. It has to do with an earthquake which shorten the earth’s Day by 1.26 s (thus the artpiece name)

(image credit ilightmarinabay.sg)

3D Tit-Tat-Toe (3D)

(image credit ilightmarinabay.sg)

It is always interesting to see how the world’s talents can come up with creative and ingenious ways to bring light to us in a different spectrum and form. We just hope the haze from Indonesia will not spoil iLight 2014’s pretty illumination.

More details about iLight 2014 can be found on their website.
Ilight will be turn on from :
– 7Mar to 30Mar
– 7.30PM to 11pm
http://ilightmarinabay.sg

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Fringe activities
– 29Mar – Spidey will be shutting down some of the lights around CBD (Earth hour)
– MBS Laser Light show – every evening 8pm and 9.30pm, Fri\Sat extra show at 11pm (read our experience)

Reunion dinner with family and friends

We had our reunion dinner with a group of friends yesterday.
Not the Chinese New Year reunion dinner but a special occasion to encourage the Family to dine together, more frequently.

We do not need special occasions to dine together.
If we parents do not make an effort to dine with our young ones, how can we expect the kids to dine with us when they enter their teenage years?

Out of 303 respondents (aged 18 to 25), a survey indicated that today’s youth might not find dining together a necessity. Work, school and other distractions make it harder for a family to sit together for a meal.

We might have experience one of these scenes during our meal times :
– the parent who could not stop updating his social media status
– the child who needs an Ipad to settle down
– or the kid who refuse to eat if TV is not turned on.

Unfortunately, we are part of the 低头族 (head-bending community)
Yes, SengkangBabies’ parents are sometimes guilty too 🙂

(image credit – Pink Blue Photography provided families with props and photo printouts for a fun “reunion” dinner)

It was in this context that we gladly accepted “THE REAL REUNION (家肴) campaign” dinner invite.

To quote from the team :
The Real Reunion aims to strengthen family bonds through meals. By redefining the term ‘reunion dinner’, we hope that families can have meals together much more often and not limiting reunion dinner to any culture or special festivities.

Video : We can definitely do a “Reunion” dinner any day 🙂

Our reunion Dinner was held at Blisshouse Themed Restaurant, and the kids were more excited about the setup, props rather than meal time heh heh.

Great company, smiles and laughter ring out across the restaurant.
The Real Reunion dinner Ntu

The dinner was even more memorable and meaningful with the presence of our kakis. Hello Cheekiemonkies, OurPrincessDana, aHappyMum, Edunloaded, Jbabies and WackyDuo 🙂

Group photo with the Reunion organisers (in Orange), and VIP Ms Low Yen Ling (Parliamentary Secretary MSF)
The Real Reunion team

Thank you team, we really enjoy our dinner yesterday evening !
(from L to R Desmond, Jayne, Zhihui and Nathan)

If kids have a choice, ice cream will be a good excuse for Reunion dinner haha 🙂

The Real Reunion team is giving you more excuses to dine together 🙂
From now till 12Mar, snap a photo of you dining with your parent and stand to win Osim products ! More details here.

For more updates about Reunion dinner project, do pop by their Website and Fanpage.

(ps group photos credit to Cheekiemonkies)