Voyage of Dreams

Last Sunday at Central Library’s The Pod, you would have found a cute Penguin.
Let Daddy tell you about our aMAZe-ing adventure 🙂

Voyage of Dreams aims to encourage family bonding through creative play, and the main ingredient is our humble Cardboard (Yes, the same material which is normally associated with our friendly garang-guni)

Cardboard Dreams await when you step out at the 16th floor.

How can you expect the kids to resist the Whale, Balloons, and the MAZE !

A few hours earlier, our kids got to pose with their Hot Air Balloon at home. Who can forget the cartoon UP! To enhance our Dreams, we even pasted photos from our Putrajaya Hot Air balloon adventure.

At around 2 plus, Voyage of Dreams started with a soothing duet from Evelyn and Alf. It was cool to see the kids form part of the entourage.

Games galore, every family was encouraged to bring along their own diy games.
Fire Engine, Fishing and Jenga !

Marvel at the creativity of parents. Kids were eagerly exploring every game station.

At Auto city (name?), the boys were crazy about the cars, plane and train.

It is always easy to make parents smile. As long as the kids are enjoying themselves, we will be beaming broadly too 🙂

At Voyage of Dreams, there were so many opportunities to bring parent and child closer, like TanFamily 🙂

Top down, Wai Wai, Carol and Summer‘s family.

M.A.Z.E for the little ones. This must be the center of attraction !

Chu Chi Tunnels or Naked Mole rat comes to mind when we see the kids relishing their tunnel marathon ! It is a marvel that the kids could navigate inside the tunnel without a map.

Some cheeky ones will purposely stay still so the parents cannot FIND them wahaha !

Video : Hugh Maze of Fun !

Do pop by our Hot Air Balloon demo and Maze construction on Instagram too.

Secretly, Daddy wish he could crawl stealthily inside the tunnel too, but it would be embarrassing if his 1.8m frame got entangle at one of the junction ..

Let us talk about The Prince and his Castle instead, not forgetting THE Sword 🙂

We got storytelling to entertain the kids too, introducing Adora, Wai Wai and yours truly.

Friendships were made, over sword fighting or catapults. Boon Yee told us PC Mum‘s daughters were his Hide & Seek buddies.

More Arts & Craft activities await kids at the basement. Did you see the cardboard Vessel ? It is on display till 31 Oct.

Our cardboard project manager Sarah with her kids (The Playful Parents). Her vision (and Roy’s support) helps to make Voyage of Dreams a BIG success.

Interested to know how her Cardboard dream started from Global CardBoard Challenge?

A BIG shout to our volunteers (from ITE college Central), who spared no effort to ensure the kids enjoy their Angry Bird cardboard adventure. 谢谢 !

We need to thanks National Library Board (NLB) for allocating the venue and the following sponsors for the arts and craft materials.

Voyage of Dreams was a big success, we spotted smiling faces at every corner.

Thank you Voyage of Dreams, for bringing an afternoon of FUN and Laughter to so many families 🙂

We have more photos and games on our Fanpage album.

Are you inspired? Would you like to indulge in some cardboard Fun? Daddy got a lot of inspirations from http://pinterest.com/jeanettesantand/cardboard-games.

Living a good life, one without Regrets

[ My own Life ]

If I should live up to 80 years old, I am almost at the halfway point already. Quite sobering, 40 years has gone by in a flash, with four little monsters to keep me alive and active.

We plan for their future, we hope to see them grow into responsible adults, we hope to see them settle down, and maybe carry their children. But nobody can tell you what will happen tomorrow.

Advanced Medical Directive
Advanced Medical Directive

Turn to the obituaries, people die everyday, some prematurely.
Besides the insurance and Will which we leave behind for the family, we can consider Advance Medical Directive (AMD) too.

Call me traditional or pragmatic, I prefer to go quickly, rather than to drag on.
Mr Lee Kuan Yew is inspirational and thought provoking in talking about his own departure (Read quick exit). He is in very good condition for a 90 years old !

If I should need to go first, I hope to be able to choose the way to depart.
At my old age, I would hate to feed through tubes or be connected to multiple life support systems.

With medical advances, doctors might feel obligated to prolong our life, or family members might wish to extend our life, praying for a miracle.

When life is unbearable, when the dignity of living is diminished, when death is near and recovery chances slim, let me go. To stay alive “artificially or though life-support system” is to prolong the pain, not to myself, but to my loved ones.

If we have live a fulfilling life, one filled with contentment, there should be minimum regrets. Treasure every day with our love ones 🙂

For further reading :

Advanced Medical Directive Act
– Let our organs improve someone’s quality of life. Read Human Organ Transplant Act.

ps.. Daddy touches the wooden bench *touch wood*