It was a non-stop action on Friday.
Asean Passport @ Discovery Centre
We went to Discovery Centre first which was located at Joo Koon for the "My Asean Adventure" activity. I think it is important for my gal to know which are the countries in Asean as they are our neighbours.
However, Joo Koon is very far away from our house as it is located at the end of West line, so I got to make the trip worth by visiting all the nearby places.
Discovery Centre is located around 10 mins walk from Joo Koon MRT station. It is not really near to the MRT and quite a distance away. It was my first time to Joo Koon area and I felt the air around there smelt strange. Maybe it is near to factories or industrial buildings which emitted the pollution into the air.
The Discovery Centre is located on a big plot of land with a big lake in the centre. That area is quite scenic and nice. However, there were not many people there that day. I guess it's because of the "ulu" location.
We started off with the art and craft activity of making a lotus flower. My gal enjoyed and focused on making the lotus flower throughout the activity.
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| Making lotus flower |
Next we went to the Asean adventure venue. We took the Asean passport from the counter before heading to the Asean activity venue.
It was located in an event hall showcasing each Asean country specialty and items. We need to complete the puzzles in the passport about each Asean country before we could get stamps on the passport. After completion, we were given a 3D puzzle of a building which she could colour it with coloured markers.
Not a bad activity but more for older kids or adults. Anyway, I tried to show her each Asean country flags and explain to her some of the unique things found in some countries. Hopefully she can learn from it.
I felt there's nothing much to see in the Discovery Centre. However they do screen latest movies like Angry Bird, X men and etc. The ticket price is cheaper too only $7. However the timing is quite bad only morning and evening 2 timings. There was no other timing in between which was a pity I think.
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| She's colouring the 3D puzzle |
Army Musuem
Since Army Musuem is just besides the Discovery Centre, so I thought why not just head over to visit it.
Turned out they also have a kids dress up activity where kids could dress up as a soldier. The dressing up was one of the highlight and quite fun. There was a little girl soldier uniform with skirt which I thought would look nice on her but she refused to wear it and instead prefer the army uniform. She got strange taste lolx.
There were also a number of toy guns, rifle guns, binoculars and etc for the kids to play with but my gal disliked guns and only chose those harmless toys like binoculars.
After the dressing up, we visited the Army Musuem where the entrance fees is foc for S'poreans. Somehow, she disliked the Museum display on the 3rd level and was very frighten and kept asking to leave the place. So we quickly left the 3rd level and proceeded to the 2nd level where the place looked brighter with more interesting things to see.
After that, we went to the outdoor adventure park which was just located outside of the museum. There were some fitness stations but the kids were treating it like a playground and having fun running around.
There were also some equipment display in the park like the canon truck, army ambulance, big tanks and many others too.
She enjoyed the dressing up and the adventure park the most so far.
After visiting the Army Musuem, we headed to the Science Centre at Jurong East since it was on the way.
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| Dressing up like a soldier! |
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| Fun at the Adventure Park |
Star Gazing @ Science Centre
We attended the star gazing event again as there was a talk about Solar System which I thought might interest my gal. We reached there around 7.45pm but there was already a long queue for a time slot at the observatory telescope.
While waiting for the queue, one of a Science Centre staff was promoting to us about the 'What's up there?" Live show which he was hosting at 8pm. He promised that it would be an eye opener experience and it was the last show for this school holiday. However the ticket price cost $14 per person and duration about 1 hour. Thinking it might be something worth seeing as we never watch a live astronomy show before, I bought the tickets for 2 :)
Turned out it was really an eye opener show. He showed us "live" how to identify the constellations and planets in our night sky and also zoomed in to the Moon and some of the planets like Mars, Venus and Jupiter really closed up which my gal thought we were on a spaceship!
The most amazing thing was, he showed us how it was perceived to look like when we left our Solar System and eventually leaving the Milky Way galaxy. With all the galaxies in space, it looked like a cosmic butterfly from the Earth perspective!
Of course, all these were simulated based on what the scientist thought the universe might looks like because our spacecrafts had never reach so far to picture the universe! The furthest spacecrafts we had were Voyager 1 and 2 which after decades of "sailing" in space, so far only Voyager 1 managed to get out of the solar system into interstellar space. It haven't even reach any of the nearest star system within the Milky Way galaxy!
Anyway, space is an intrigued subject which always fascinated me but most importantly my gal also love it! I was astonished that my gal actually stayed still throughout the show. She kept asking me if we could go to space again! She thought we had went to space during the show lolx!
The show lasted for 1 hour. It was a good and educational show and highly recommended!
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| Showing the constellations |
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| Closed up picture of moon |
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| Mars closed up! |
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| Jupiter |
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| Saturn! It was as though we were travelling past the rings too! |
After the show, we rushed to attend the solar system talk at 9pm.
After the talk, we went up to the observatory telescope and we got a treat to see Saturn! The closed up view of Saturn through the big telescope was so amazing!
After the observatory telescope, my gal still wanted to see other telescopes at the open field area. We managed to see Jupiter but it was not as clear as looking through the observatory telescope.
We also saw Moon close up too. One volunteer staff actually helped us took picture of the moon from the telescope! It was so amazing!
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| Our closed up photo of Moon! |
It was really a great day of fun and action. I loved going places and I enjoyed bringing my gal to explore and have fun! I can see my gal inherited my wanderlust trait too! Hopefully next time when she grow up, she can bring mummy to tour the world, or perhaps if technology permits, travel to space too! :)
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