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.