USS After a Long Time

I haven't gone to USS even since our season passes ended in the midst of covid. The USS tickets are so expensive and without the season or annual passes, it really doesn't make economical senses. I had been checking the USS website regularly and the season/ annual passes hadn't resumed. On top of that, the park closes at 6pm. Double whammy. 

The kids had on several occasions went to USS with their friends. Of course I made them bear part of the cost. Ya, they no longer need their parents to take/ accompany them to theme parks. 

Bcos Ah Yee and Athena are in town, I thought it was a good reason to visit USS. We left Daddy Lim at home since he was never much of a theme park guy. 

Zaky had aggro skating classes in the morning and Daddy Lim sent him to Resort World. We made our way via MRT.

We were very shocked at the Q for the sky tram. It probably implied that USS would be crowded and indeed it was. I am glad that Zaky only needs a Child ticket until he turns 13 in October, saving me a couple of bucks. 

Hello, USS!

USS was crowded, very, very crowded. Almost all rides had long Q. Ah Yee taught us to download the USS app and we ran to the Mummy ride. It was supposed to be a 10 mins wait but we were stuck inside for an least 30 mins. We stupidly left our bags and all our hp with ah yee. Ah yee and Athena completed the Treasure Hunter ride and we were still in the ride. They thought that they had lost us. It was so fortunate that we found each other and I made a mental note for one of us to hold on to a phone. 

The next ride was the Water Rapid bcos it was supposed to be 20 mins. The kids started queuing while I kept the bags. The lockers used to be free but now cost $1 for an hour. My cheapo self refused to pay and asked the kids to go ahead with the ride w/o me. Again, they had no phone. Zzzzz. 

Ah yee and Athena went for the ferries wheel while I waited for the kids and I waited a very, very long time. It was 40 min at least. I thought I lost the kids. I believed that they came out, missed me and ran off to another ride. I decided to meet up with ah yee at the restaurant and went back to check one last time. Thankfully, the kids were just there! They just finished the ride! The 20 mins was totally rubbish. 

We had expensive fried chicken for lunch, complete with ice cream. Then the Shrek show. 

Every single of these rides brought back so much memory. Right after the ride, there was some performance. Don't waste. 

Water World! This never get old. Even Athena enjoyed herself. 

The kids ran off to the Cyclon while we went for the Elmo ride. It turned out that there was no Q to Cyclon and when they came back for us, we were still in the Q, and the kids sneaked in to join us. 

Once upon a tune, we rode the Elmo ride so frequently that we started looking at the ride's technical details. Lol.

This was our last ride. 

The kids caught the Mummy ride one last time, declaring that there was no Q at all. 

That marked the end of our USS trip. The kids had fun and I got to reminisce the old times. How fast they have grown! Just awhile ago, they were just as old and tiny as Athena but so big now. 

Would I come back to USS? Maybe, when they introduce the season passes again or when the park resumes their operating hours and put back their parade and fireworks. Meanwhile, I am sure the kids would create plenty of theme park memories with their friends. 

Mummy Lim

A Busy Saturday

It was the Company's Family Day. The last time we had a physical Family Day was in the pre-covid world. That is at least 3 years ago. Then, the kids being kids, would happily partake in such activities. Now, I literally have to plead with the teenager to keep the morning for me and join me at the Family Day. 

The event started early and we had to leave the house at 8am, robbing the teenager's opportunity to sleep in on a weekend morning. I didn't dare ask the kids to take mrt and bus, like how I normally would go to the office. I am worried that they would murder me and grab to office instead. 

Not bad lah, there was bfast and atas coffee. 

And kiddy games. 

Nana was entertained for a while and then complained that it was boring. Zaky was happy to do it over and over again to win all the prizes that he can get his hands on.

We left at 12ish after lunch and met Aunty S and the kids. Nana and Zaky went to watch Wakada Forever with T. C caught it earlier and said that it was a nice show. Nice or not, I don't know but it was 3 hours long. When we met up with the kids, Zaky said that jiejie fell asleep in the movie for an hour. Zzzz. It seems like it isn't as nice as C said.

Nana said that the 1st 2/3 of the show was boring and she simply closed her eyes for "a while". The next moment, she saw the lead actress crying on the screen. She thought that she had dozed for 15 mins but right after, the credits started scrolling and the movie had ended. Lol. 

The other aunties came and joined us for dinner. 

We have a much bigger group this time. Even though covid restrictions have eased up and there is no longer any group size restrictions, the different aunties just got busy with different things. No problem, who can meet, meet lah. Whether it is 2 aunties or 8 aunties, the meetup is just as good. 

With that we finally headed home, after a long Saturday. 

Mummy Lim

Fruitful Weekend

On early Saturday morning ride, I was reminded that Christmas is coming. 

This also means that our Melbourne holidays will be here soon. Counting down to 11 days. Hoho. 

In the late afternoon, Daddy Lim brought Zaky to the new indoor skatepark at JE. We had high hopes bcos it is so near and there was a lot of hype about it, particularly the big foam pit. Zaky was so keen to try it and the 1st attempt was thrilling. The 2nd and 3rd attempt was tiring - not the jumping into the pit but the attempt to get out and adding on heavy aggro skates is no joke. In his 4th attempt, he struggled for super long to climb out. 

He was so tired with all the climbing that he had no energy left to skate thereafter. The skatepark was also much smaller than the one in Selegie. The boys stayed for about 1 hour and decided that it was time to go. 

We came home to a crowd bcos it was Popo's bday. To good food!

The 2 younger Fs slept over and I woke up to 3 Nana-lookalike on Sunday morning bcos the girls loaned Nana"s clothes. 

Instead of riding on Sunday morning, I accompanied Daddy Lim for bfast before a jog at the Jurong Lake Garden. 

It had been so long. The last jog was in ECP many months back. I wore the shoes inherited from Zaky. 

The sole was so thin and another piece dropped. Looks like I can soon buy new shoes. Hoho. 

Zaky had his active SG basketball session and I see more parents compared to Wednesday.

The last 30 mins was spent on games and I thought Zaky played well. He got 2 balls in through very nicely done lay-up, which he later admitted that it was probably luck. Lol. I was very excited at his games like how I usually am. I am also glad to hear another mummy sitting behind me equally excited. Hoho. 

We met Nana in JP for lunch and got her glasses done. 

She also finally booked for herself a trial drum lessons. She had been bugging to buy a drum pad (is that what it is called?) and to take drum lessons. Not that I didn't want to put her on drum lessons but she simply has no time. Even when it is the school holidays, she struggled to find time for the trial lesson. I had been nagging at her to give up some but she insisted on holding on. I think it is FOMO. Nagged enough. Aiyo!

Nana didn't join us for dinner. Sunday dinners are to be reserved for family but she claimed that we already had family dinner on Saturday. She ended up meeting her youths to celebrate somebody's bday. Daddy Lim said that we should have good food to flex to her. We were obviously hungry people, who only remembered about the picture after everything had been consumed.

Flexing. 

This marked the end of our fruitful weekend. 

Mummy Lim

Retro Party

One fine day, it popped up on my FB feed that there is a retro party at the Singapore National Museum. No, no, not the Mambo kind of retro party. Lol. I thought it looks quite interesting and brought Zaky to go look at "boomer stuff". We asked if Nana is interested and she mumbled something that sounded like "no" while still half-asleep. 

It wasn't a big exhibition but free entry and good to entertain us for a good 2 hours. We redeemed a free piece of old school cake too.

Some of the stuff caught my eyes, like this super old school label printing gadget. I had one of those when I was a kid too. 

There was also this stall selling the rice engravement. I used to have one of those pendants! Hmmm.. I wonder what happened to it. I got a little too excited and unnecessary showed my age. Lol. 

Some of the stuff were before my time. 

I also like to play with one of those telephones when I was a kid. 

This one brought back alot of memories. 

When I was a kid and got too bored, I used to dial the toll free 1711 number to hear the time, even when I already knew the time. Lol. 

Zaky and I got an old school photo too. I thought this one looked a little scary. 

When exiting the exhibition, Zaky saw free balloons and asked for one. I gave in but asked for the smallest possible balloon. 

Really very small. 

We went on to explore the rest of the museum. 

I don't know why but realised that museums tired the legs out like anything. My legs were screaming before we even completed the level. This called for a coffee break. I almost dozed off in Starbucks and decided that it was time to head home for a 2nd nap to catch up on what was lost the previous night from Nana's Halloween Night. 

Mummy Lim

 

Timbre with Bai-Kah

I think Lil Shauna must have sprained her ankle like 3x since she started netball in Sec 1. She just sprained her ankle in June during training. The sprain took like weeks to heal. Just when it was getting better, she went back to training, landed awkwardly (again) and sprained the same ankle again. She said that Coach was upset with her, I would too, especially when the zone competition is coming up in July. 

This sprain seems worse than the initial one bcos the swelling is bigger. She even skipped school on Friday when she woke up in great pain and claimed that she cannot walk. We had no choice but to bring her to TCM on Friday evening and the nearest one from where we had dinner in JP was MaGuang, atas TCM. 

Gone were the days where the Chinese Sinseh would do the crack, crack, crack, bone settling. The previous time that she sprained and Daddy Lim brought her to a different TCM, it was medicinal wrap. This time, the Sinseh recommended acupuncture plus medicinal wrap if Lil Shauna could tolerate the former. She cannot..  Zzzzz... 

Surprisingly, Zaky was very nice to her and offered to be her clutches as she limped to the car.

On Saturday morning, the swelling didn't seem to go down and Lil Shauna was still whining in pain. I was worried that it was some fracture or hairline crack and had intended to bring her for an x-ray if things didn't improve. By late morning, she said that the pain was more tolerable and even went for her Youth gathering. Win le. 

Daddy Lim picked her up for our family dinner date at Timbre, a reservation that we had made months back. The last round, the reservation was too early at 6.15pm and Zaky kept bugging to leave after he had finished dinner and before we even caught the band. 

This time, the reservation was at 7.30pm. Daddy Lim parked at the nearest possible carpark but still a walk away. Zaky offered to piggyback jiejie but for like only a few meters. Then jiejie slowly limped to the restaurant. 

Zaky survived until the band started playing at 8.30pm and we watched the 1st set. 

Yay! Family dinner date accomplished. 

We didn't catch the 2nd set bcos Zaky had used up all his patience le. Then it was another slow walk back to the car. This time, Daddy Lim piggyback the girl. 

Gone were the days that our princess is a little bit; she is obviously very big now. Daddy Lim also didn't survive very far before dropping her and had her limping her way back to the car. Ya, I not so silly and didn't attempt/ offer to piggyback her. Hoho.

Zaky attempted his spiderman pose that he loves when he was a tiny (skinny) boy. 

Ya, he needed a much bigger post now. Lol. 

This morning, Lil Shauna confirmed that the pain is better. Looks like what she needed is time now. 

Mummy Lim