As Vesak Day fell on a Friday this year, we had a great long weekend! Finally, some fun for one and all!!
Thursday night my band played a concert at Lucky Plaza. It went off quite okay, although the crowd was very small.
Friday I woke up not-so-late, we were heading off to Pulau Ubin with our friends. We got there and found queues around the ferry terminal to get out to the island; apparently, there’s a serious temple on Pulau Ubin, so the ferries can’t get the people there fast enough on Vesak Day, the one day a year where there’s some serious traffic to Pulau Ubin, Singapore’s most remote point. Oh well – wWe gave up our plan and headed off on long walking tours, with long pit stops in the cafes around the place. The kids had a great time watching the fishermen catching stuff, and exploring. We also saw some hornbills flying around in the trees – nice!
Later on we headed back to our place to chill out and eat some dinner as the kids played.
Saturday I had some surprises for Naoko and Zen, heh heh, namely our evening plans. In the afternoon I took Zen to a modeling shop so that he could buy his Tamiya cement and the Battleship Yamato, then off we went to our next-to-final destination – Kallang Theatre where his favorite performer, Sungha Jung was playing. This 16-year-old is a YouTube sensation and is really doing very well with his tours and album sales. Great stuff! Yes, that’s right – Aerosmith was playing the same night, but we saw Sungha Jung instead. Zen was not so enthusiastic at first, but got more into it later on, burning out a bit at the end. Oh well. After that we went and had some great chili crab at No Signboard in Kallang, getting back near midnight and sleeping in until 8:30 the next morning.
Sunday we did a lot – Zen did homework and guitar practice, then he and I went swimming. Finally, I went off to do an errand: get some printouts and copies. Ouch. Naoko and Zen went to softball in the afternoon while I watched The Wizard Of Oz special features. Boring…
Here are some pics of the weekend.
Zen and friends at Changi beach
Naoko and Yuko at Changi Beach
Find the crab!!
Curious at the beach
beach monitor
teh tarik at Mr Teh Tarik
funky Zen
Zen building his new model ship - battleship Yamato