Category: fun

Our own pinhole camera + free camera workshops

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Daddy loves to take our photos, and we do not mind posing, with all the silly expressions 🙂

But when Daddy told us we can understand more about photography, and even build our own camera, we were sceptical. Can we really build a Nikon, Canon….

Enter nPower Education, they are an education center that seeks to provide primary and secondary school students with learning techniques that lead to more efficient learning. During school holidays, nPower conducts pinhole camera classes.

Our friendly Teacher cool Khoo shows us what is inside a pinhole camera. No battery !

Handicraft time, the red boxes will be our “camera”. We have to poke and cut our own pinhole and camera shutter respectively.

There are 7 kids in our class, and all of them were busy constructing and decorating their cameras. Kids are very excited about their project, judging from the laughter and “posings”. Everyone wants to PEEP through their own camera 🙂

Pinhole Fun, brought to you by nPower 🙂
Did you know we even had our own “dark” room to process our special film?

nPower’s camera workshop is suitable for kids aged 6 to 12. Besides building our own cameras, students will also learn about the science behind photography.

What do we do with our new toy? Pose, Experiment.

Oh, we were told to stay still for 30 seconds just to get our own “exposure”. Have Fun standing still ! Everyone were giggling away 🙂

After we got our own film, we have to get it developed in the dark room (with a Red neon light).

Kids might not understand that they are going to develope their own negatives, but they were very curious about the next steps. As we rinse the special-film over the chemicals, we can see our own photos slowly appear.

Why is image inverted? Why is it Black and White? Why some photos are so blur, or bright? So many questions for our teacher.

This is Daddy’s first visit to a dark room too 🙂 Our own mini gallery.

We have built our own pinhole camera, understand a little more about shutter and exposing, we can now understand more about pinhole camera’s history.

We can bring back our projects and memories 🙂

We would like to thanks the teachers at nPower for inviting us to this Fun class.
You can view more snapshots on our Fanpage album, and nPower’s album.
If you are interested, more info about pinhole can be found here.

More about nPower Education :

Address : Blk 157 Ang Mo Kio Ave 4 #01-578 Singapore 560157
Contact : 64591868/ 90285699
Email : admin@npowereducation.com.sg
Website : http://npowereducation.com.sg
Fanpage : nPower Education

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Now, if your kids are curious and might be interested in photography, nPower is sponsoring two free camera workshops worth $45 for SengkangBabies’ fans 🙂

1) Simply like our Fanpages SengkangBabies and nPower Education
2) Leave your name on our Fanpage, and message us your email-address
3) Two winners will be randomly selected on 13Mar 11pm.

In addition,
a) 20% discount for Build a Camera workshop when you quote discount code “SKbabies20”.

Safra is giving NSmen angpows

Our four kids are eager to sign-on with Singapore Army, Navy, or Air Force. They have heard from Daddy that some NSmen (and NSwomen) are entitled to one year Free membership and up to $100 worth of Safra vouchers !

To celebrate NS45 (National Service 45 years anniversary), and to recognise NSmen’s sacrifices, this is Safra’s one-time Ang Pow !

Fortunately, our kids do not need to enlist for National Service at such a tender age. Safra membership is only $20 per year for the whole family !

We start exploring all the family activities that we can enjoy at all five Safra clubhouses (Jurong, Mount Faber, Tampines, Toa Payoh and Yishun). We hope there will be a Safra clubhouse nearer to SengkangBabies, maybe Sengkang or Punggol soon.

1) Remember this fish tank at Safra Toa Payoh? This pool (which resembles the Naval divers’ but without drown-proofing) should proof to be a hit with the kids. The key word is see-through.

Kidz Amaze should well, Amaze the kids 🙂 . We love climbing Jurong’s obstacles and kids should love Toa Payoh’s too.

2) Safra’s interest groups should appeal to Daddy.

For the car enthusiasts, read Defensive driving skills, and evasive skills like Handbrake turn or Reverse flick. Daddy did some donuts with our Stream quite sometime back, and it would be fun to try the stunts tricks again.

..and Daddy just found out about the photography interest group too.

3) Mummy will not be left out, Safra Jurong and Mount Faber are ready to invigorate and pamper Mummy to some relaxing massage sessions. Kids are asking about the Stones ?? (refer picture below)

4) We suspect everyone will be tired and hungry after our activities, we are spoil for choices at Safra! Check out Safra’s F&B outlets across the Island.

Maybe Daddy can mobilise some kakis (buddies) to talk about our Bitter and Sweet experiences again. The buddies we friend from BMT till ORD are likely to stay with us for life. Since Daddy’s MR in 2009, there is lesser opportunity to catch up his Band of Brothers 🙂

Back to our pool, Boon Kang is already gearing up for the next recall to Toa Payoh Safra 🙂

The last day to register for the free vouchers is Feb 28th 2014 ! (So generous).
In four easy steps, Safra activities are waiting to bond families and buddies.

Thank you Safra, in Army slang, ORD lor 🙂

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First started by Dr Goh Keng Swee in 1972, Safra has grown over the decades.
More information about Safra can be found at http://www.safra.sg and wiki.

–> Click for NS45 (National Service) benefits

Image credit – the Massage photos above are taken from Safra.sg