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I stumbled upon one of those parenting blogs recently and one of the activities done by the kiddos was playing with crystal soil water beads. It looks pretty fascinating to me, although I've seen them being used in plants before, I never thought it can be used in water play, what more for educational and entertaining aspects!

I immediately googled for more info on how these beads work and where to get them for cheap price.

With the crystal soil water beads activity, I got our kiddos to be patient in waiting for the water beads to grow bigger, letting them scoop out the water beads colors that they like using a spoon (motor skills?) and taught our 5 years old boy what is transparent (one of the beads color)

I'm just thrilled to see our kiddos' faces in amazement as they observed the water beads getting bigger and bigger as time goes by. Fun activities I would say!

**** Warning: Parents / caretakers please take note to pay full attention to your kiddos when playing with the water beads in case they put them into their mouth etc. Must always exercised precautions as these colorful beads are cute to play with and the bouncy jelly-like feel might attract kiddos to put them into their mouth (our kiddos squashed some of the water beads causing quite a wee bit of mess) Do also take note that the longer the beads are soaked in water, the bigger they get and the easier they crushed and break easily.

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About a month ago, we went to check out the RMAF Museum or Muzium TUDM (in Bahasa). We went there on a Sunday afternoon (can't recall exact time, probably 3-ish?) and spent almost 2 hours there! Anyway, this post is to document down our thoughts and feedback on our visit to the Muzium TUDM (RMAF Museum)...
 

It takes us a while to locate the place as we were coming from another direction of Sungai Besi but to be honest, once we could see the landing base in Sungai Besi (big huge space), you just sort of navigate towards the area and you'll reach there in no time. You see a big guarded entry to which you take an immediate left turn to drive in a wee bit and reached your destination.

You will be greeted with an aircraft on a huge pedestal the moment you stepped into the museum. Then you will see a helicopter and our 5 years old boy immediately shouted that it looks like the one in Transformer show (err... the one that morphed into a giant robotic scorpion in the desert?) There's a blue small tank as you ventured further in.

You will then see a small lake and you walked further in, you will be greeted with a sight of loads and loads of aircrafts nicely parked in the huge huge field. On the right hand side, you will see a huge aircraft hangar.

We turned left and started exploring and checking out the aircrafts out in the field. A big signboard warns you not to stepped into the exhibit area but yet I've seen some blogs around with pictures of the bloggers and their family members INSIDE the aircrafts. Oh well, we are law abiding citizens, so we stayed in the proper areas.

Somehow our 2.5 years old girl ventured off tracks and started picking up the things she sees on ground, flowers, plants, anything! She runs around under the hot hot sun. Gaaaaa, this mummy is too tired to chase her off the track since I was also pushing our 6 months old girl in the stroller. So I just let our Alyson roams free and snapped all these gorgeous shots!

Once we checked out all the aircrafts out in the field, we turned towards the hangar and explored inside. There's an aircraft you can climbed into and pretends to fly it hahaha...

To sum up our review on Muzium TUDM (RMAF Museum):

PLUS POINTS:

• FREE entry!

• Lots of nice clear signboards with more details on the aircrafts.
  

• The walkways are stroller-friendly (though some are a wee bit bumpy for the outdoor aircrafts exhibition site)

  

• If you are lucky (or stay long enough) you might even get to see an aircraft lands (we saw a small plane landing)
  

• Opening Hours: Mon - Thurs (9am to 5pm), Fri (close), Sat - Sun (9.30am to 5pm)

BAD POINTS:

• Not enough shelters/shades and benches for people to sit and rest

If you plan to go there, do remember to bring caps for your kiddos, spare shirts and pants, lots of water, umbrella. Sorry I can't comment on the amenities (toilet, nursing room etc) as we didn't need to use these facilities during our visit there.

Overall, a very very nice place to visit, lots of fun and educational stuff enough to attract your kiddos and it is free!

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We had recently checked out the kids playground in Taman Tasik Perdana (aka Lake Gardens) and boy oh boy... I think I'd go crazy if I'm still a kid! That playground is hugeeeeeeeeeee! I sort of panicked initially at the sight of it because with 3 kiddos (and thank God the 3rd one still strapped in stroller) else I don't know how am I going to be watching out all 3 kiddos when they zipped and zapped everywhere in the playground! Anyway, hubby took over the hawk-eye ala CCTV monitoring task, making sure our older 2 kiddos are within our eyesight and everything is fine and dandy while I stood nearby with our almost 6 months old girl in her stroller.

Anyway, this post is to document down our thoughts and feedback on our visit to the Taman Tasik Perdana Playground...
 

We reached the Taman Tasik Perdana Playground around 11am. We didn't ventured in to look for the parking, we parked at the roadside as how all the other cars there did and walked down towards the playground. There is proper signages at the place, the public playground is open from 6am to 8om everyday.

I think for a second when we were all standing at the entrance towards the playground, I could see our 5 years old boy standing there, not sure which area to 'attack' first hahahaha...

There are lots of nice themed playground setups all around. Coolness!

I mean, wouldn't you go crazy with the sights of all these? Look at that long bridge! My mummy instincts immediately scanned for the ladder/stairs up to these contraptions and whether our kiddos could get themselves up there without us going in as well. Anyway, I did go into the bridge one just because I have to satisfy the kiddo in me, you know?!

After all the playground madness, we strolled up to explore the areas around Taman Tasik Perdana. Nice walkways, nice sceneries, there's a lake, some man-made waterfalls, and this long long long long walkway with forest look-alike background.

We spent just an hour there, though it was really tiring and we were all hot and sweaty by the time we got back into our car. Would have spend longer time there but it was close to lunch time and we wanted to get back home to rest a bit as we have a movie outing few hours later in the day. To sum up our review on Taman Tasik Perdana Playground:

PLUS POINTS:

• FREE entry!

• Most of the walkways are stroller-friendly

• Nice city view and yet you are surrounded with nature and flora environment
  

BAD POINTS:

• Not enough shelters/shades and benches for people to sit and rest

• Playground area is too huge, really need to be very careful if you have a number of kids to watch out for
  

If you plan to go there, do remember to bring caps for your kiddos, spare shirts and pants, lots of water, mosquitoes repellant, insect bites ointment (just in case), umbrella, picnic mat if you want to rest on the grass, some light snacks.

Overall, a very very nice place to visit, lots of fun playgound stuff enough to tire out your kiddos and it is free!

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