Baby and motherhood

~* Baby princess Ting *~

Browsing through FB and smiled as I looked at the different expressions captured on photos for Ting Ting. So much so that it's enough to be categorised into the four main categories.

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27th Oct 2010 is my FSC's Princess Min Jia one month old. Haven't see the baby in person yet. Only a photo of her with this box of cupcakes. She's kinda a heavy baby considering her weight at birth is 4.1kg! Suddenly, people around me are either getting married or getting pregnant. Next month will be attending a ROM of a poly friend. Currenly, Cl, Jk, Ct, Cn is pregnant, three of them are stepping into motherhood for the first time. This makes me worried, worried about stepping into the new stage of life. Getting married, setting up a family, etc. I did mentioned previously that my ideal wedding date to be 12.13.14 which is 4 years later. 4 years time seems quite long but is it enough to prepare? Will I be able to switch my mindset to settle down? Will I and my spouse be financially able for the future together? Hmmm.

ToBeBlogged - Fright Night at Asian Civilisations Museum [Happy Halloween]

Passion Fun Walk at I Light Marina Bay route

The passion fun walk came at the right timing with the I Light Marina Bay events going on. Grace, Lis, bf and I enjoyed the nightscape with beautiful light art works by local and international artists and designers. Those light art works uses only energy-efficient lights with the aim to create awareness for energy saving technology.

The start point. It was quite messy in the beginning as we didn't know which direction to face since both side shows the start point.

Digital Origami Tigers by Chris Bosse from Germany

The crouching tiger is the first piece of art work we saw at the start point of the passion walk. Was it a coincident that 2010 is the year of tiger? Or did the artist already keep that in mind when designing? This piece of artwork combines lantern making methods with digital design and fabrication technology.  



Jellight by Pascal Petitjean & Aamer Taher from Singapore

Personally, one of my favourite light art work. The message is that the jellyfish have decided to leave our overly polluted oceans and escape into the universe as UFOs. It's made up of helium air filled balloons and energy saving light bulbs giving direct illuminatons.

Overlooking esplanade and the business district area.

And I love Singapore's iconic merlion.

The Living! project by Sun Yu Li, Kenny Eng & Allan Lim from Singapore

Right outside One Fullerton, The Living! project is an installation of 3,000 recycled plastic cups which aims to invoke a sense of beauty and urban sustainability amongst Singaporeans.

The Whirlpool by Martin Klaasen, Shane Richardson & Pascal Petitjean from Singapore and Australia.

I didn't think much about this piece of light art work initially until I read about it and I find it totally cool. The lighting effects are created in a passive interactive way. There is a camera that captures the people passing by with the ability to detect whether the passer-by is a male or female. The statistics are processed and translate into the lighting effects. Whether the illuminated mini domes are blue (male dominance), pink (female dominance) or yellow (balance genders dominance) are statistics compiled over a certain time span and not a direct reactive lighting effect and thus the colours are unpredictable. 

Singapore Flora by Warren Langley from Australia

Singapore Flora uses a sculptural as a base for base and creates lighting effects alluding to an assemblage of flowers within.

Looks like fireworks.

A series of photos taken at My Public Garden by TILT from France.

A total of 29 giant plant-like light sculpture of plants and enchanted flowers bloom in the darkness transforming Marina Bay into an imaginary landscape of a garden. I think this is our favourite and we were exclaiming at its' beautiful creations from far.  

Thankful for the giant fan that cools me down a bit from the walk.

Human Tiles by OCUBO, Nuno Maya from Portugal and Carole Purnelle from Belgium

Like The Whirlpool, this is another interactive light art work. The patterns of the tiles are actually made of people's movement and colour of the clothes which are captured on video in real time and projected over the building wall.

Positive Attracts by Edwin Cheong from Singapore

The 9 heroes each have a famous quotes written at the base and ours is a quote from George Lucas. The artist has the belief that the optimism of our mental state of mind will effect a postitive outcome of our physical state.  

Lumenocity Singapore by Sascha Crocker & Andrew Daly from Australia

An abstracted energy consumption map of the Singapore Central Business District (CBD) area. The colour of the lanterns makes up the miniature city equivalent to the amount of energy consumed and light pollution emitted, by a particular city block.

We reached the Helix Bridge!

Wattfish? by Meinhardt Light Studio Team (Dan Foreman, Cherry Wang & Zi Chang Lee)

This is a fun and interactive installation as we try to wind the reel to light up the "fishing line". It represents Singapore as a Fishing Village in the past and a glance into the future when modern materials and light sources are powered by people with human energy.

Finally we finished the fun walk and it's time to redemp the goodie bags...

...  ice-cream, popcorn and candy floss.

Not that I want to complain but the goodie bag redemption point was really chaotic. The goodie bag wasn't even packed beforehand and the volunteers are rushing to dump the items inside as everyone queue to get the bag. Ended up some of us has items that the rest didn't have vice verse. Was kind of disappointed with this scene.   

Eating the candy floss and ice-cream. Wish there's something more filing as I haven't even have my dinner yet. There's a free outdoor screening of Alvin and the Chipmunks but we didn't stay on to watch. Instead, went to the Asian Civilisations Museum for our Halloween Nights which I will blog in my next post. Overall, it's quite nice to see the colourful lights work if not I think we won't spend so long to complete the walk as we were taking photographs most of the time. Thanks Lis for this event and uploading the photos which is so frustrating at times when it hangs.

CLEO Shop-a-thon workshop 2010‏ at Heeren and Collect Passion Fun Walk Entry Pack

A half hour of workshop on how to pick out the perfect first job wardrobe with outfits from Panadda, Cindora, Lemonade and Broadcast.

CLEO Fashion director, Sally Teo showing us how to mix and match clothes for office wear. She also mentioned about ALT the new concept store.

The first set of clothes is more towards the school girl style with the mustard pinafore. Thus, it was pair with a pair of boots to make the whole style more matured. The ruffle frills white blouse is my favourite though I don't like mustard colour that much. 

The second set of clothes is what most people prefer. The black and white series. Black is a very safe colour and this set of outfit is suitable for those who felt that the first set is too girly.

The third set is a grey dress. Grey is the new black and it's as easy to play around and match with this colour too. This whole outfit looks like just a one piece long sleeve grey dress but no. It's actually made up of two pieces. How amazing. The two pieces just match on so well. Combined with a pair of booties and one is ready to go for work.  

After the workshop, each of the participants received a goodie bag.

One of the item inside the goodie bag is this box of Singapore Sling Chocolate. Quite nice, alcoholic.

Collected the entry pack for the Passion Fun Walk at Millenia Walk. Inside consist of a tee and some vouchers and the coupon to redeem the goodie bag, candy floss and pop corns on that day. Think the walk would be fun as there's also the I Light Marina Bay Festival going on. However, the movie night is showing Alvin and the Chipmunks as voted by the majority and I have already watched that before. So thinking of going off after the walk.