Week 6 : Weekend Learning

It was Total Defence Day yesterday and I totally forgot all about it. I only got mildly curious when I heard sirens around noon. I did a quick google and realised I have missed that out this week. I didn't go through with Sophie what Total Defence is or its 5 pillars. However, I managed to find out that there is an interactive exhibition at National Museum of Singapore so we took the kids there today. Consider this as a learning journey or some sort of supplementary class. 

This is the interactive exhibit. I'm sorry, but I'm disappointed. It's interactive because you can choose to learn about 5 different characters according to your… mood? I don't really get it and neither did Sophie.  Perhaps I should have studied it before bringing her here. We looked lost and confused in there. In fact, the whole museum was quite messy. We didn't really know where to go and what to see. Honestly, I am not much of a museum person so maybe it's just me.

Traditional game stalls were probably the most appropriate for the kids. The rest were too wordy or abstract for them to appreciate. I think they should have made the exhibit a little more child oriented if they hope to see more children learning about TDD. We also visited the gallery with paintings from the 50s to 70s. Sophie likes Liu Kang's painting of some Burmese temples (thinking they were castles). We also saw an installation art which Sophie found very interesting. There were a dozen or two human shaped cardboards in a gallery and images of individuals were projected onto them. 

 

Frankly, I haven't got the faintest idea what this vehicle is suppose to be. It look like those 'taxis' you find in Thailand. Sophie wasn't very keen to sit in it but she complied because I told her I needed pictures. There was a screen inside but she wasn't at all interested.

We found a 'Reflection Wall' and Sophie eagerly went forward to leave a note there. She wrote 'I'm thankful to my parents' and 'I love Singapore'. She also helped Alfee to write his note although I'm skeptical that he actually meant it. He claimed to be thankful to God and love Singapore too.

Next week, I'll try to explain to Sophie what all these actually means to a Singaporean. Perhaps we might even go to the National Museum again for the Forum Theatre (which I just found out) and the TD Walking Trail (which I don't really fancy).