SG50 Jubilee Baby gift

Singapore celebrates it’s 50th birthday in 2015, and someone thought we should welcome 2015’s babies with a Julibee Gift, something like a good old traditional goodie bag.

Over 6,500 entries were submitted for the Baby Gift/s.

Singaporeans are pragmatic, Daddy suspect the most popular items should be free medical check, free education, free milk powder, cash and vouchers.

But the committee wanted something which falls under the categories “Care, Celebrate and Commemorate” ( ie cash and vouchers not applicable :p )

From now till 15May, the shortlisted 15 gifts are ready for your selection.
What gifts for babies

The nation has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 50 years.
All babies are important, but maybe those born in 2015 are more symbolic.

Those born in 2015 will perhaps lead Singapore into the next 50 years.

Daddy was invited to go on air (95.8) to share his ideal Jubilee Baby Gift. He only wish more parents will spend more time with the kids. They are only young once, and they outgrow their childhood like, overnight!

If we parents make the effort to connect and go through their childhood together, there is a higher chance that the family will be more integrated, stronger, and happier.

Video: Happiness in our Family (credit TheHappinessRevolution)

– Article about Jubilee Baby Gift
– Choose your top 5 gifts here

* poster and image credit – HeyBaby

2014 iLight Marina Bay highlights

[ Media Invite ]

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)