Cheap Flights to Melbourne!

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Calling all visitors-to-be, Jetstar is having a sale!



"Massive Mid-Winter Sale
Sale now on until midnight (23:59 AEST) Tuesday 5 August 2008, unless sold out prior. Sale may be extended. Travel dates vary depending on the route and sale fares are not available on all flights or days. School holidays are excluded. Sale fares include JetSaver Light fares, for when you travel with carry on baggage only. Of course you can also choose a JetSaver fare (as shown below) for $10 more for domestic flights and $20 more for international flights, with the full 20kg checked baggage allowance. So whichever fare you choose, you're sure of an amazing fare!"

Travel Periods:
15 Oct 08 - 10 Dec 08
29 Jan 09 - 28 Mar 08

Singapore - Melbourne (and back) from AUD$259... there's the Jetsaver light for AUD$239 but you don't get to check in baggage... haha... so, no, not counting that... =)

However, I randomly searched some dates, and I've found that there are quite alot of dates which are actually priced at SGD$128!!! yes, no typo. SGD not AUD. excluding tax, though. I searched Singapore to Melbourne return, for dates like 28 Nov 08 - 10 Dec 08 and/or 28 Jan - 12 Feb 09.



So, come visit! and let us know your dates so we can accomodate =) Do note that there's an extra fee of SGD$35 per way for meals and unlimited soft drinks (optional).

Rainbow

On my back from work. I saw the biggest and clearest RAINBOW i have ever seen. I am so glad that I was stuck in the traffic jam. From where i was i can see the complete ARCH ! I wish I had my Canon 40D to take some nice photo but all I have with me, is my Apple iPhone.

The rainbow is a beautiful token of the Lord that continues to testify of the covenant that He made with the world and all flesh (Genesis 9:11-13). It is a perfect reminder of our Lord’s protection and the keeping of His promises

Listen to this song =)

VicRoads Driving Test - Booking Tips!

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Some info about booking VicRoads driving tests... which we wish we knew in May when we first booked our driving test... they made us wait til mid-July - and by that time, the driving rules were tightened

1. Call their customer service line at 131171 at 8.30am SHARP every morning.
- If you call them later, or book at the office later, the earlier dates will all be gone... and you'll be left with some appointment like 1-2 months away.
- they have new dates almost every day, due to cancellations and releases of new appointments, which they won't tell you in advance. so just call every day to ask. In our case, I called today and got one for this Saturday, which is only 2 days away.

2. Ask them for the nearest date for any vicroads office IN MELBOURNE ONLY
- seriously, when I said 'anywhere', I got an appointment someplace in victoria, 4 hours drive away. hahaha. Even in Melbourne, you'll have to look up the addresses (http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/AboutVicRoads/ContactUs/OfficeLocationsAndHours.htm)
coz some of them are still an hour's drive away. I guess it depends on how desperate you are to get the test done fast.....and make sure the map reference says 'melways'... those stated as 'country directory' are reaaaally far...

Payments/Costs:
you will need a credit card in hand. they charge:
Appointment: $11.10
Car practical driving test: $35.00
for the first booking and each re-sit.
if you already have a booking for a future test that you haven't sat (or re-sat....hmm is there such a word? haha) for then they only charge the $11.10 to change the appointment.

this is assuming you already have your license and you don't need the L or P licenses... and this also doesn't include the previous 2 tests we took before this, which are the Learner Permit test and the Hazard Perception Test, both of which are computerized.

VicRoads Test #3

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okay, here goes again. we've booked yet another vicroads test for this Saturday, 2nd August. What are we doing differently? Driving lessons! And no, we're not learning to drive - we need lessons to teach us what they will assess us on. We're gonna do a 45 minute crash course each before the actual test, and bring our instructor to sit in the car with us too. Statistically speaking, applicants with instructors somehow have a higher % of passes. We're about to find out if that's correct or not ;)

What not to do during a VicRoads driving test

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ok, I'm getting used to this... we failed the test again and we're gonna have to retake it... again... and by the end of it we would have compiled a long list of not-to-do's during a vicroads driving test that hopefully helps someone else to know what not to do.

the first test we failed, we learnt the following:

1. at the 'stop' sign, you need to stop before the line, not on the line. and it has to be a complete stop too.

2. headcheck - make sure they see you doing the headcheck. if the gesture is not 'big' enough, you still get penalized

3. there's a limit as to how slowly you can drive, so driving slower is not playing it safe. you cannot go below 10km/h of the stated speed limit (at the same time, if you go above the speed limit, you're still in trouble)

today, we learnt, amongst other things, that mirrors can make you fail:

1. Before signaling left you have to look at the back mirror then look at the left mirror then only left signal

2. before signaling right, same thing. back mirror, right mirror, then signal

3. before braking or slowing down, look at the stupid back mirror again first

4. if you signal, and while turning the signal goes off, you have to turn it back on, or else its considered 'not signaling long enough'

5. if you're turning or merging with traffic, you need to take the FIRST safe gap. if you wait til the next one, too late (at the same time, if you don't stop to observe the traffic before moving out, u get penalized too)

anyway, today's story was mainly on the mirrors, coz every time the officer said turn right, turn left etc, we lost points, not because we didn't check the mirror - she said she knows we did - it just wasn't in the right SEQUENCE. so, anyone who's gonna be taking the test, as far as I understand, what went wrong is we didn't follow the sequence of back mirror then side mirror then signal. we either signaled first or did them simultaneously... both of which were unacceptable.

and believe it or not, I still lost a point for not keeping up to speed. and this time it was only for a short stretch, just from the time we turned out of the office til the first traffic light. didn't seem to help that it was all fine after that...

hope we dont need to learn too many more lessons... haha...

Sunday, Monday, today and all...

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What a day it has been! and so many people to thank =) thanks Debbie and Caleb for coming over and cooking dinner (really yummy chicken soup and Caleb's special vege dish was great!), Debbie and Anna for cleaning up, Caylie, Dylan, Dayson for the get well soon cards for uncle Joey, Rachel and Dorcas for your online prayer... =) We're happy Debbie and Caleb's family came over. As usual, we had fun =)

The day is finally drawing to an end. kids have gone to bed and Joey's resting. The distant sound of cars passing by fill the night. peace and quiet... *tyres screeching* ... ok, not THAT quiet if you're living along a main road. haha. but quiet enough to reflect on the things not blogged =)

Sunday:
I wanted to write about the pot-bless (aka pot-luck) lunch my lifegroup had in our leader's house. the kids have been asking to go visit Vanessa and Valerie, which are the twin daughters of our lifegroup leaders (Henry and Marjorie), and also Sunday school teachers in church. great family, they're a joy to be with, and I must not forget their lovely little sister Vivian who always tries out the food and lets me know what's nice to eat =) what will I do without her! I don't know how we ended up in an almost-all-malaysian lifegroup. sort of just happened. anyway, the kids had a great time there and they wanted to bring Vanessa and Valerie back... although Ryan kept calling them both Vanessa. haha. another day he'ld call them both Valerie =) the silly thing that happened on Sunday was that some hopelessly forgetful person left her handbag at that house and we all went home.... fine, fine, so I did it... hey, accidents happen... err... although that's the 2nd time I've left stuff at their house. the first time was Ryan and Noel's jackets... *sigh* anyway, I've got a picture of half a twin here ;)

Anyway, they ended up coming to visit us (while bringing back my forgotten handbag...hehe) and we had some fun eating chocolate ice cream, strawberries, playing on the Wii and iPhones... and chatting away... so it all turned out good.

Monday:
I seriously wish I could have got a picture coz even I found it hard to believe that I was scraping ice off my windshield in the morning. but seriously... u know how there's like a morning mist that makes your car screens foggy? well, I took out the squeegee to clear it all off so I can drive on to work smoothly, and of all things, I found that parts of it was ice and not water... haha... had to scrape real hard at it ... and if anyone wonders... it was a rubber squeegee, so no, i didn't damage the car =)

oh no!!! we haven't read the rule book for the vicroads test tomorrow!!!! argh... bye!!

...and he's back

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ok, just got my VIP from the hospital... yes, the doc said its migraine, and he's not allowed to use the computer or TV for today and I think tomorrow too (Anne, stop laughing....) he's on MC for two days... migraine is due to various reasons including insufficient fluids and computer/tv screens ... like 'staring at code too long...'

he won't let me take a picture of him....
off to work I go!

Joey's in the hospital...

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ok, i'm gonna postpone writing about the pot-bless lunch our lifegroup (cell group) had last sunday and ice on my windshield yesterday morning etc. as you can see, I've got other things on my mind.

It's 5am, and I've just got back from the hospital awhile ago. Joey's still there. Before anyone panics, its not very serious (we hope). He had some sort of bad headache yesterday, guessing its some form of migraine. He tried to go to work, but ended up coming back a little earlier, still with the headache. When I got back from work and settled the kids, I asked if he wanted to see a doctor, and guess what? he said no, if the headache persists, he'll see one tomorrow... then... at 1.30am he was nauseous and after vomiting, we went to Austin hospital... its not the nearest hospital, but we know exactly where it is and its still nearby.

u won't believe how many queues there are.
1. queue to register - there was no queue at 2am, so, this was fast
2. wait to see the nurse - also almost instant
3. wait to see the doctor.... his turn came at 4am...
and the nurse in there did a blood test (results in an hour) and the doctor will come later.

The nurse said it may take another 90 minutes, or maybe 3 hours? they don't know yet, and both Joey and I are surprised that they're taking a blood test to begin with... he was expecting to walk in, get injected with a painkiller and come back and sleep. anyway, I had to come back coz I was afraid the kids will wake up... and NO, I did not leave them home alone. Anna is staying over tonight. She was also helping me take care of the kids earlier, so that's a great blessing.

Anyway, now I can't sleep... and I'm gonna have a bit of explaining to do if I can't get up for work =\
waiting for either Joey or the hospital to call me...

hmm... I better just try to sleep...

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5.35am... im still awake... called the hospital and checked with the nurse, Tracy.. she's quite nice. said the blood test results came back all good. and they're still giving him some kinda fluid, another litre to go. as far as i can tell, it's on an IV drip. if that works, the doctor will see if he can leave... if that doesn't work ... either more tests or more medicine....
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Where are you from ?

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

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so, you all know we visited lake mountains 2 weeks ago... and the snow covered mountain, snow-topped trees and crisp mountain air still lingered in our memories all the while.. so, with those expectations in mind, we returned to Lake Mountains again today, with about twice the amount of people and had twice the amount of fun! =D 

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting...

"Lake Mountains - The Return"

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Its 8:00am and the doorbell rings.... oh no! I'm late again!! Debbie n family have arrived, and I'm not done packing yet! Joey was checking the cars to make sure everything was in order, gas, black oil, water, etc etc.  I've got a pile of clothes that's our of the dryer, and I'm rummaging through that to find something for Ryan and Noel to wear. On the table top lies the loaf of bread that was supposed to be a tupperware full of sandwiches by now. Next to it were the plates of sausages, fishballs and square fishball-tofu thingys that Joey cooked earlier that morning... and yeah, as you can see, I said 'plates'.... I was supposed to have had them packed into containers too, but hey, I already admitted I was late... =)

after getting the food packed (Debbie helped out with the sandwiches) and into the car (which Joey actually did while I was running round wondering what else I had forgotten to pack), we were on our way! The scenic journey was relatively stress-free, as we cruised along, passing by farms with cows and sheep dotting the green pastures, and horses in their winter outfit... hehe... we didn't stop to take pictures, but its cute that only the horses seemed to need 'clothes' the other animals seemed fine... i guess winter is too cold for them somehow. we passed by yarra valley, with all its wineries, and healesville where the koala/kangaroo sanctuary is... and kept going on...

Ryan prayed for snow again... and I felt my heart sinking, coz I thought the weather report said it was gonna snow tomorrow, not today... hoping I was wrong... coz I didn't really take a good look at the weather forecast anyway, I was hoping and praying that God won't let him down... coz 2 weeks ago when we went up, he prayed for snow on the way up and it snowed once we reached the car park. then he prayed before we left, that it will snow one more time. and it did. so, I guess any parent reading this would know how I was feeling right then... sorta like, 'please let it snow, please let it snow, PLEAAAAASE let it snow!!!' lol

we stopped by Mystic Mountain Ski Hire to rent our gear and then continued on to Marysville to have our picnic lunch... yeah, its customary for us to ensure all tummies are happy before anything else =) here's Noel waiting for food...

and here's the rest of the party!

The picnic was supposed to be a short stopover, but we ended up having lots of fun as well. There was Joey and Caleb seemingly having  a photo taking contest... including taking photos of each other taking photos... this one's from Joey's camera, so u know what's on Caleb's camera... hehe...

They both took pictures of this really long log, but I don't know what the story is... hopefully Caleb actually read the inscription on the metal plate attached to it... 

and I ended up having a bird show for the kids... u see, there were these 2 ducks... and they were quite happy sitting around waiting for me to throw them some bread crumbs... but that wasn't really so interesting... then came this black bird... who snatched the bread out of the air before it landed in front of the ducks... poor ducks... not just coz they lost that small piece of bread, but because that black bird also completely stole my attention... and we had a fun time getting our little friend (friends, actually, as more and more black birds filled the tree above us) to catch the pieces that we threw up in the air

so, the kids joined in the bird-feeding frenzy and we were having a pretty good time til Joey reminded us that it was not the main objective of our trip... so, on we went, toward our destination Lake Mountain ....the trees were not covered in snow compared to our first trip there, which was a little disappointing... and we were quite worried when the signboards said the top carpark is full, and the staff directed us to the next nearest car park, which was about 2km from the mountain top... but everything worked out well, as they also provided free shuttle services to get us to the top!

the sled ride wasn't working, and we didn't think the kids were old enough to ski yet, so tobogganing we went!

tobogganing downhill is really soooo much fun, but trudging back uphill with THIS isn't as easy as it looks:

what's wrong with that? oh, nothing, except that the kids are really heavy and we had to pull them back uphill? *puff,puff* *pant,pant* oh well, it was all good =) err... besides the one time (later on) that I was too tired to pull Noel uphill and accidentally let go of the rope as we were reaching the top of the hill... so... he started sliding down the slope on his own, much to my horror... I leapt for the toboggan, and managed to hang on to a corner of it as we both continued sliding down for a short distance til some kind lady lent us a ... foot. hehe. she put her foot out in front of the toboggan, effectively stopping it long enough for me to pick myself off the snow and pull the toboggan back up. lol... no, I wasn't on the toboggan, i was sorta lying on the ground, flat out on the snow, hanging on to a toboggan that was going downhill... looking back, it was hilarious. thank goodness the guys didn't get a picture of that!

okay, the more fun things... look at this snowman!

would you believe me if I said we made it? =D 

*sigh* no, we didn't.... but Joey did make a snowduck...

then got quite carried away with his natural refrigerator

while the kids were making snowballs

and bigger snowballs...

and now that we've gone far enough from that impressive snowman picture, here's our little one sitting beside the snowduck =)

the carrot was compliments of Ryan.... I don't really know where he got it from, but Joey said someone else's snowman got smashed and so, that spare part became available. I was quite thrilled to see it though... apparently a little too thrilled, as Ryan happily ran off again and returned with another 3 carrots.... err....

the highlight of the trip, for us at least, was that it SNOWED! and it snowed even more heavily than it did 2 weeks ago. In fact, it snowed so much, it was absolutely beautiful, like something out of a movie or something... and the first thing I could think of was, 'Thank You, Lord!!!!'.... Ryan on the other hand, didn't seem surprised at all... he was happy, and he started adding extra snow on to daddy

but we reallllllly so happy bout the snow shower. Its almost like we were out in the rain, but not getting wet =)

okay, I'm really sleepy now, and I think I'm writing too long for a blog... but let me begin my ending with pictures of the kids making a snow angel...

so, that was our day today, really fun, ended with a nice dinner at home together. thanks for 'joining' us!

Stone man!

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just wanted to show you guys something we saw at Westfield Doncaster!

looks pretty harmless doesn't he?

that is, until he looks back at you =)

but he's a pretty friendly guy... and yes, he's a real fellow dressed up to like like a stone statue or something. and his job is to slowly (like slow-motion style) walk round the mall. if u're walking really fast, u'ld pass by him without noticing him move. but if you're looking at him, u'll realize he's moves every now and then ... hehe. say 'cheese!'

Migrating to Australia - General Skilled Migration

Every now and then, people ask us, how did we become Australian Permanent Residents. so, here is some info we would like to share. These are the steps and processes we went through to apply for an Australian Permanent Resident Visa (PR).

There are a few ways to apply for it, but we fall under the category of 'General Skilled Migration'. So, we need to have a minimum of 120 points based on their points system. You can refer to the "General Skilled Migration - Booklet 6". This booklet contains all the info you need before you start your application. If you meet the basic requirements then you are eligible

to apply.

At that time of our application we didn't know much about this process, so we engaged a migration agent to assist us with the application. Our migration agent is Ms. Khoo Li Lu, and her company is Ausasia Migration at Sri Hartamas (Tel: 603-23001128)

Back to the steps ... you need to have your skills assessed by the relevant assessing b

ody in Australia. For IT, the assessment is done by ACS (Australian Computer So

ciety). For other professions, please refer to Booklet 6, it will tell you which assessing body you will have to get your accreditation from.

In this step, we prepared our documents and submitted it to ACS. For those who want to know what the documents are, it includes your degree certificate, resume, full transcript of the course (yes, every single subject and your scores throughout the course) as well as

a reference letter from your current employer stating your designation, with detailed description of the work you're doing, and how long you've been with them etc. Anyway, our agent submitted everything for us and after ACS reviewed it, they replied with an official document stating we've got our accreditation, and with that, we can begin our application with the immigration department.

The agent will advise as to when you will need to take the IELTS test, medical tests etc. Altogether, the process took us about 10 months, then we received that long-awaited letter saying we've been approved. From there, we had to get our passports to the Australian Embassy to get the visa onto it. Its basically a big sticker they paste inside that says you've got a permanent resident visa for 5 years. And yes, you have to maintain it. Easiest way (but not the only way) to do that is to stay in Australia for at least 2 years in total (does not have to be consecutive years. Just a total of 365 days x 2 will do)

After that, there's another phase you'll go through when you are coming to Australia, but that would have to be posted as a separate blog =)

To make it clearer, we've copied some of this from another website. These are the steps to apply:Assess your skill with the relevant assessing body in Australia

1. 
   Required documents :-
   1.1 Reference letter from your employer(s)
   1.2 Your current resume1.3 Passport
   1.4 Birth Certificate
   1.5 Transcript
   Note* If your documents are all in English, you can submit them at once. If not, you need to have an australian accredited translator to translate them to English (official translation, stamped by the accredited translator) before sending.
   
   You have to attach the above documents with the application form for your assessing body. If its the ACS form you need, you can download it here. While waiting for the results, you may have a reference number (depending if you're with ACS or something else) that you can go to the website and trace the progress with.
   After you get the letter of accreditation from ACS/whichever assessing body, then you can go to the next step.
   


2. Apply for PR at Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
   If you're with an agent, they will see to this. Again, there are forms involved, not to mention a whole bunch of passport sized photos.
   
   Now you have to prepare yourself for IELTS
   
   You should get the IELTS test result before lodging the application. This is to make sure that your application won't be rejected. You need to get at least 'competent level' of all component of the test. As of 1 September 2007, the minimum band score of competent level from IELTS test is 6 (six) of all 4 (four) components to get a score of 15 for your migration points (of 120). A band score of 7 will get you 25 points.
   
   The documents that you need to prepare ...
   2.1 Passport
   2.2 Birth Certificate
   2.3 IELTS result2.4 Reference letter
   2.5 Evidence of fluency in Community Language
   
   
3. After you have lodged your application, you will receive feedback from Department of Immigration by e-mail. You shall know your file number for further reference.
   
   
4. After your application is assigned to case officer, you may be requested further documents such as, police check and medical check up. At this step, you just follow the request in your email. After all of your documents is complete, your application will be sent to decision maker and you have to wait a little bit more ...

VicRoads - 2nd attempt

Ebbie manage to call VicRoads and carried forwards our appointment to next Wednesday 30th July 2008. So do pray for us that we will PASS this time. We are trying to get the licence ASAP as my Malaysia licence only valid in Australia for 3 months and our 3 months is due on 17th July 2008. Shhhhh .... In other word we are currently driving illegally, even thou our Malaysia licence is still valid till 2011.

Is a weird system, if we a here in Australia under a temporary Visa, Student Visa etc ... we can used our Malaysia licence indefinitely as long as your Visa is valid in Australia. Just because we are a permanent resident in Australia, we only have 3 months validity.

Scienceworks and more

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... guess who's blogging? =D

It was a fine Saturday morning last weekend, perfect for our planned day at Scienceworks. First, we went to Coburg to pick Anna, Debbie and the kids, and then we were on our way! 

[sidetracking here, for all the hopefully relevant things I've not had time to blog...hehe]

"Scienceworks"

... now how did we choose to visit that place? well, taking you back a little, it all started when a colleague of mine brought his son to work. We got into a conversation about where he liked to go, and (aside from lake mountain, puffing billy and the more commonly-heard-of attractions) he said 'Scienceworks'. That was seriously the first time I heard of the place. Google-mapping a little, I found that it was approximately 5km west of the city.. not too bad!  So, we decided that we would go there on one of our Saturday escapades. Huh? what are our Saturday escapades? argh... I need to start another blog for that... haha... but since you asked, =D 

"Saturday escapades"

... as you know, both Joey and I are working now, and our usual weekday is wake up - drop kids - go to work - come home - dinner - bathe kids - sleep .... yeah, I know you didn't ask about that, but I thought I'ld tell you anyway =) so, ANYway, we usually think of something fun to do every Saturday or Sunday (church here gives us choices as to whether we want to attend the Saturday or Sunday services... so we've actually been to church every single week without fail!) .... well, most of the time, our plans land up being on Saturday... mostly because its so exciting we don't wanna wait yet another day for it. hahaha.... so far, we've spent some weekends 

- visiting different shopping malls (we've been to Northland, Chadstone, Knox City, Westfield Doncaster, Victoria Gardens... hmmm... that's all!?), 

- looking around at houses for sale (old houses, new houses, houses that are yet to be built, display houses, north of melbourne, east of melbourne, etc etc)

- shopping

- cars for sale (we've successfully bought our car already, so that's the end of that)

- shopping

- going for picnics (only at coburg lake and ruffey lake park so far... yes, it IS cold in winter... )

- shopping

- and the most exciting one was Lake Mountain... which you've seen Joey's blog on... (and we're going again with Debbie's family soon... twice the number of people and twice the amount of fun!...coming right up!) Did we mention we made our very first snowman? err... he was about 1 foot in height and had twigs for hands and a leafy twig for a nose, compliments of Anna, but still, our first snowman! yay! and its actually hard work scraping ice with your gloved hands and equally hard work trying to make it resemble a roundish shape. Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse did not reveal that when they scooped up perfectly rounded snowballs off the ground and you seriously can't roll the ball round and round and expect it to grow proportionately bigger, nor is it perfectly round anyway... oh yeah, we had fun tobogganing too.... though the climb back up the hill wasn't too much fun for a certain someone who perfectly happy with the lack of exercise in her life ;) but it sure was fun enough to go sliding all the way back down again! especially sharing the toboggan with Ryan and Noel. we all had so much fun! [Note to anyone toboganing with a small kid in front of you... do NOT dig your feet into the snow to slow down if your kid's face is right where the snow is flying at... the little guy would turn into a snowman way faster than it took me to make my 1 foot snowman. lol...]

err... where was I? Scienceworks? yeah...

[continuing my original story now]

So, we arrived at Scienceworks...

And we fueled up on some food first 

(the fried fish fingers and chocolate chip cookies that Debbie packed actually tasted better than the sandwiches at the cafe..!)

The weather was perfect for chasing birds (haha), so, we let the kids run around outdoors for awhile

Scienceworks actually has a few different parts to it. There's the planetarium and some invent-and-learn thing which we didn't go to (why? coz they charge them all separately and we only had enough time for one anyway. maybe another time)... anyway, the one we did go to was the main Scienceworks exhibition (which turned out to be free for kids, by the way!) and we also got tickets for the Lightning Show, which was pretty informative, although all the kids remembered were pretty lights and a mascot bunny. For those who are abit older though, there were alot of interesting facts about nature and energy and I never knew that paper clips could save my life =)  give it a guess!

There were quite a number of things on display that the kids had fun playing with ... an all time favourite would be that little ball you drop into the ... hmm... bowl? not really a bowl... u know, how you can throw a coin into that big plate-looking-thing where it goes round and round before finally going down the funnel into the hole in the middle? yeah, that one. and no, i didn't take a picture of it coz it seemed so 'normal'. haha. 

there was a section on sports, though...

like wall climbing...

tree climbing... errr..... *ahem*

and kayaking...

another fun one was the race track where they let 2 people run side by side and they track the time you took to finish what I believe was a 100-meter run, and they show you the lady that did it in 2 minutes... and as much as Ryan, Noel, Caylie, Dylan and Dayson tried, they couldn't do it in 2 minutes =D

They did, however, spend way more than 2 minutes at the playgrounds outside! 

Its hard to take pictures inside, so we took some outside...

well... we all had a great time together ... and looking forward to more fun this weekend! =)