Its the time of the year again for the Hokkien Huay Kuan's annual performance. We were a bit reluctant to let her particpate again as we have to bring Kaelyn to many many rehearsals at extended hours, sometimes 3 hours straight with parents having to pack lunch for them. Also, parents have to pay for their costumes, tickets to the show and DVD of the performance for keepsake. It's manpower, time and money all coming from the parents for the child to gain confidence and fun.
We tried to dissuade her but she was very keen so we just let her take part. This year, her class led by 叶家真 老师 presented the Red Lantern dance. Her costume was all red.. dressing just like for CNY. On the day of the performance, she have to report at NUS Centre for the Arts in the early afternoon for the final full dress rehearsal.
Finally the show started at around 7 pm with a big surprise for Daddy & Mummy. This year they have set aside a prize presentation for all levels of dance students who have performed very well during the dance exam. Only 2 per class were given the commendation and Kaelyn was one of them together with her classmate cum partner Liang Qi. We were all calling her name when she was on stage and was very very happy in her winning.
This is her first own self-earned prize which is from her own sheer hardwork and interest in dance.
After her performance, she was so hungry... wipe up the bowl of porridge in a few minutes and then pose happily with her prize.
We were very lucky to win a pair of air tickets to Australia in the Austville lucky draw. The travel agency CTC told us that it is worth $1,400 and we can choose to go to Australia or elsewhere. As we just came back from Melbourne & Sydney in June, daddy & mummy decided to go to Club Med at Bali instead. With the voucher, we only need to top up a few hundred dollars more. Club Med is an all-inclusive resort but some things are still chargeable eg. better wine, spa & etc.
Our room
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Relaxed by the beach
Cookie Making for kids
Kids Club
Swimming at the Kids Club. The staff find her very reserved so paid special attention to her..We put Kaelyn in the kids club where she gets to mingle with kids of other nationalites. She did not quite enjoyed it so we only left her there once or twice only. During her absence, we head to the quiet pool, meant for adults only, for a relaxing swim, sauna and steambath.
Daddy & Mummy try our luck at the dart competition... See mummy won silver.. hahah..
All of us had a good jump on the Trapeze... a bit scary..
Watch her maiden jump...
Nightly entertainment at very good standards. All the performers are internal staff who may be a waitress, security guard, front desk staff or life guard by the day but turned performers at night. Thumbs Up!
The resort is nice and relaxing but perhaps we are not resorts people so spending 5 days at the same place makes us feel caged up so we "escaped" to the town to sightsee other parts of Bali. Transport is really expensive so we only done it once..something like S$50 for 2 way .. feel so ripped off!
There are 2 highlights for Kaelyn during the city tour - to have her nails painted and hair braided
Another kids activity - Sand Castle Making
Another highlight of her trip is she gets to perform on stage... She told the emcee she's performing ballet... erm.. since when you know ballet? Hahaha...
This video shows the emcee interviewing her and then she went to tell the emcee the songs are inappopriate for ballet dance. The Aussie boys were instead grooving to the music....
Finally came the "right"music ... and she performed her "ballet"... the aussie boys on the other hand didn't know how to react to that kind of music... funny
We also participated in some of the activties such as morning yoga, golf, archery, swimming & sailing. I think an experience once at club med is enough. Someone told me Club Med at Bintan is better... I'll perhaps consider that option at my next lucky win!
Today parents are invited to My First Skool (Restaurant). Yes Kaelyn's school is transformed to a little restaurant and Kaelyn became waitress of the day serving food to parents who are the customers.
Little Chefs busy preparing food and little waitress served the pipping hot food to the customers
Satisfied Customer Daddy on the left and on the right, happy waiter & waitress after a busy day
