SengkangBabies, Author at Sengkang Babies

First Family Karaoke session at Teo Heng KTV!

Never mind if we cannot croon.
Never mind if our kids will fail Sing! China (中国新歌声) auditions.
Everyone can still have Fun!

You need not sing like 向洋 Nathan Hartono or 董姿彦 Joanna Dong to enjoy Karaoke!

Ok, if you are the ones in our room, you better sing along (out of tune or whatever,we do not discriminate) or cover your ears haha :p

We were initially shy, so I had to be thick skin and led the way. As I croak along, the kids saw the Fun potential and started chirping in.

The rest of our 2 hour session is all laughter and memories.

Whether it is oldies or yuppies, or even Kpops. Songs from yesterday brought back so much LOVE 🙂

Choose the songs and sing to your delight. If you cannot understand lyrics, just follow the chorus.

Some of the songs we sang :
Kiddy (Baby Shark! haha or 拔萝卜!) ( 萝卜radish song got 6 mil views!)

One Direction (Story of my life , Best Song Ever, Live while We’re Young)
Ed Sheeran (Perfect)
Passenger (* Let Her Go)
Train ( Play That Song)
Charlie Puth (One Call Away)
Maroon 5 (Girls Like You,Sugar)
Lukas Graham (* Love Someone)
Boyzone Ronan Keating (When You Say Nothing At All)
Calum Scott (You Are The Reason, No Matter What)
James Arthur (Say You Won’t Let Go)
John Legend (All of Me)
A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera (*Say Something)
Halsey (Without Me)
Natalie Imbruglia (Torn)

Oldies
Abba (I have a Dream)
The Carpenters (Top of the World)
The Beatles (*Here Comes The Sun)
Elton John (Sacrifice,Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word,Your Song)
Extreme (More than words)
Survivor (* The Search Is Over)
Firehouse (Love of a Lifetime,When I Look Into Your Eyes)
Surface (Shower Me With Your Love)
Bob Carlisle (Butterfly Kisses)
Collin Raye (Love, Me)
Howie Day (Collide)
Eric Clapton (*Tears In Heaven,Wonderful tonight,*My Father’s Eyes,Change the World)
Bananarama (I Heard A Rumour,Love In The First Degree)
CHICAGO (Hard To Say I’m Sorry,If You Leave Me Now)
Cyndi Lauper (Girls Just Want To Have Fun,Time After Time)
Eurythmics (There must be an angel)
Crowded House (*Don’t Dream It’s Over)
REO Speedwagon (I Can’t Fight This Feeling Anymore)
John Farnham (Burn for You)
Paul Young (Everytime You Go Away)
The Police (Every Breath You Take)
Duran Duran (Come Undone,Ordinary World)
The Bangles (*Eternal Flame)
The Three Degrees (When Will I See You Again)
Restless Heart (*When She Cries)
Jimmy Harnen (*Where Are You Now)
Breathe (*How can I fall)

My Sassy Girl | I Believe
Hebe (小幸運) ♥
高明駿王馨平(*今生註定)
周慧敏邰正宵 (*知己)
許志安 (許慧欣 *戀愛頻率, 鄭秀文唯獨你是不可取替)
蘇永康陳潔儀 (愛得正好)
林志炫柯以敏 (愛我)
馮德倫陳慧琳 (北极雪)
關楚耀湯寶如 (感冒)
卢巧音王力宏 (好心分手,落葉歸根,唯一)

Group (笨小孩) (别想不开,老天自有安排,老天爱笨小孩 wahaha)
张学友 (只想一生跟你走,情書,祝福,你最珍貴,*来来回回,*我真的受傷了,每天愛你多一些,*遙遠的她,心碎了無痕,*咖啡,*暗戀你,*這麼近那麼遠,)
周华健 (爱相随, 朋友,孤枕難眠,讓我歡喜讓我憂)
张克帆 (结局,爱错了)
熊天平 (许茹芸你的眼晴,火柴天堂,爱情多恼河,雪侯鸟)
古巨基 (梁詠琪許願,戀無可戀,嗜好)
梁靜茹 Fish Leong (暖暖, 勇氣 ,寧夏. 小手拉大手,*可惜不是你,问)
小潘潘,小峰峰 (學貓叫)
TANK (非妳莫屬)
汪蘇瀧有點甜
劉若英 (後來,成全,給15歲的自己)
徐若萱 (*愛笑的眼睛)
龚芝怡 (*幸福不难)
楊丞琳 Rainie (帶我走,雨愛)
孫燕姿 (半句再見,*尚好的青春,*遇見,我懷念的)
A-Lin (給我一個理由忘記,有一種悲傷)
張韶涵 Angela (*親愛的那不是愛情,淋雨一直走)
Ann白安是什麼讓我遇見這樣的你
陳綺貞 Cheer (she sang Mayday) (魚,還是會寂寞)
王心凌 (當你)
郁可唯 Yisa 路過人間
JC 陈泳彤 *说散就散 (mix version Derrick 何維健 & Kelly 潘嘉麗)
*飞鸟和蝉 – 任然 ,張遠 (蔡恩雨 Priscilla Abby)
南拳媽媽 Lara (下雨天)
林忆莲 Sandy (*至少還有你,傷痕)
周蕙 (约定,话题)
莫文蔚 Karen Mok (當你老了,愛,*這世界那麼多人,*慢慢喜歡你)
張惠妹,張雨生 (最愛的人傷我最深,如果你也聽說)
郭靜 (下一個天亮)
阿桑葉子
于文文 (体面)
林依晨 Ariel *孤單北半球
張國榮 (追,今生今世)
Beyond (*海闊天空,喜歡你,*情人)
李宗盛 (領悟)
苏永康 (*爱一个人好难,*其實我很擔心,男人不该让女人流泪)
陳奕迅 (*淘汰,浮誇,*穩穩的幸福,不如不見,*shall we talk,富士山下,*明年今日 aka 十年, *岁月如歌)
林隆璇李圣杰 (*你那麼愛她)
林隆璇 Kevin, 周慧敏 (流言)
蔡旻佑 Evan *我可以
陶喆 (*愛很簡單)
吳佳明 (小人物的心声)
梁文福 (细水长流)
优客李林 (认错)
光良 (*童話, 第一次,掌心,勇氣)
胡夏(那些年，我們一起追的女孩)
庾澄慶哈林 Harlem (情非得已,*缺口)
鄭中基製造浪漫
王啟文 (老鼠爱大米)
林宥嘉 Yoga (說謊,浪費)
張棟樑 Nicholas (當你孤單你會想起誰, 寂寞邊界,只因為你)
陳小春 (獨家記憶)
盧廣仲 Crowd Lu (刻在我心底的名字,*幾分之幾,最寂寞的時候)
利比 (跳楼机)
周興哲 Eric (你,好不好 ,*以後別做朋友)
邓丽君 (月亮代表我的心)
TFboys (左手右手) Young singers with catchy songs, no wonder 17 mil views!

Difficult songs, we just enjoy the lyrics 🙂
五月天 MayDay (*突然好想你,後來的我們,你不是真正的快樂,*我不願讓你一個人,私奔到月球,知足,*聽見下雨的聲音(jay chou),*溫柔,洋蔥,*乾杯,頑固(astronaut)
林俊杰 JJ (修煉愛情, 小酒窩, *她說 ,豆浆油条,*可惜沒如果)
周杰倫 Jay Chou (說好不哭,屋顶, *說了再見-海洋天堂 ,安靜,開不了口,告白氣球 ,*說好的幸福呢,*蒲公英的約定.Secret,星晴,菊花台) ♥ (那个人不就是我梦里那模糊的人)

We had earlier sang at Teo Heng KTV (Ci Yuan) if you are itching to have some FUN, just go ahead and book a session.

The room packages are very affordable, we paid $30 for a 10-pax room two hours. Families can even bring their own lunch or dinner at no additional surcharge.

Two hours pass in a flash when we are having fun, we hope to do another round of Family Karaoke.

Additional Tips to enjoy your Family Karaoke Session

1)Book early as weekends are packed

2)Shortlist your songs beforehand, it is hard to use Teo Heng’s system to search by singer, before scrolling through his/her song list

Finally, special thanks to David (Instagram @Doting_Dad) and eccentric friends for reigniting our Singing passion haha. Click on this IG story to see how the Uncles Sing, Rock and Dance with wigs and props!)

Hope you will have FUN Singing along too 🙂

ps.. Sadly Teo Heng announce that they will be closing in 2021, due to Covid19 losses. This is sad.

Boon Yee’s JSA Singapore has ended. This is the second sport from his Junior Sports Academy Selection.

I am eager to find out what two other sports he will be enjoying over the next two semesters.

We did mention Junior Sports Academy is like a Sports buffet for Yee.

Read about our JSA Flippa Ball (mini water polo) experience here.

Yee warming up with peers. Sparing with coach or peers, Boon Yee aspires to be the next Lee Chong Wei 🙂

Warm up , play (technique), push up(strengthen), kids had to get in shape to play well.

Seeing him enjoying his Badminton, we know JSA has already enriched those kids who are sporty in nature.

Unlike Flippa Ball, parents were not allowed to view the kids in action (Tampines Primary School). I was only there for the first and last lesson.

A pity, as we parents would like to participate along the child’s progress. There was a certain disconnect when I could not see my kids leap, smash or spar with his peers.

Due to the larger number of students, most of them have to play doubles, and not one vs one. This might mean lesser attention from coaches to tune the kids’ moves.

We did challenged Boon Yee’s Badminton skills, and I know he has improved.

Besides JSA Badminton , kids have to pen their thoughts, quiz and some cross puzzles. They have a booklet to “chart” their progress and activities after each session.

There is a new development for JSA 2017/2018 cohort. Those who had already completed two sports and are shortlisted by coaches, get an opportunity to specialise.

The specialised path will roughly consist of more intensive and customised curriculum, under the same coaches. Training the kids with mindset of an athlete, perhaps someone with potential and aspiration would then be groomed for higher training.

In Boon Yee’s case, he was selected to extend his Flippa Ball passion. If he is keen, his JSA programme will consist of only one semester of Badminton and three for Flippa Ball.

If we choose Flippa Ball, we would never know whether Boon Yee might prefer the last two sports, potentially Taekwondo and Fencing.

Upon further enquiry, MOE is offering specialised track earlier, because JSA Programme lasts from P4 till P6. There would not be enough time for kids to “specialised” after going through 4 sports.

A pity though. We joined JSA precisely because we wanted our child to get multiple sports exposure, now child and parent face dilemma to specialise or go through all four sports.

One day, I hope Junior Sports Academy (JSA) will be extended from P4 all the way to Sec 4. If Sports Singapore is serious about finding budding sports enthusiasts, extend the current 2 year JSA programme to six.