Saturday, November 27, 2010

"Gan Chang"

My friend inspired me with regards to this post's title. LOL. Not because my girls are already trained to perform on the "getai", but simply because of the mall shows that we were trying to catch this fine Saturday.

I knew that I would make it to Dora and Hi-5 sometime during this school holiday season. Never did I expect it to be today! A simple message from Serene this morning and lo and behold! We were scheduled to watch 2 shows today. Intricate planning was required because we had to contend with (1) long queues at the malls for entry to watch the shows (2) navigating through traffic and looking for parking lots between 3 shopping malls (Dora @ Raffles City, Hi-5 @ Marina Square) (3) bringing the girls to their art lesson at Clay Cove in time.

So, this is where the Daddies come in handy. With PapaKim out of town, I really had to rely on the other 2 couples to help out. Boy, what teamwork! Thanks lots for standing in the queues and ferrying us between the malls! You know who you are!

With all this planning, our objective of course, was for the kids to be happy. Were they? Absolutely! I believe all 4 girls really had a ball of a time. Dora and Boots were pretty much entertaining by bringing them to the Carnival. Seo Yeon, she enjoyed herself the most at the Dora show! *big smile*

Hi-5 was definitely the bigger crowd magnet. We could easily have been the 20th in the queue, considering that Shannyce's Papa started queueing almost 2 hours before the show started! The group was on stage for about 20 minutes, a little short of the 30 minutes we were hoping for. But hey, we got passes to take photos with Hi-5! That was a very good consolation.

Shannyce was really happy to see her idol AGAIN! She practically flew into Stevie's arms! Wowee! En Bi shared the same idol but a tad bit shy. Luckily, she managed to make a u-turn after taking the photo and get a nice, big hug from Stevie dearest. Awwwww....

And we all got nice souvenirs from the show. A 6R picture and a double-sided keychain with pictures that we took with Hi-5 (one on stage and the other super-imposed). $25. Steep? You tell me.

Of course, we managed to bring the girls to Clay Cove in between the 2 shows. Phew! Hectic, hectic.

All in a day of a mommy bringing her girls to "gan chang".