been korean duolingo-ing for 2 years liao but 惭愧地说, "no where near conversational"...maybe and only maybe can pick up a vocab here & there occasionally if the speaker speaks super duper slowly and keeps the sentences short & basic...
expanding my learning with videos this holiday cos duolingo refused to let me practice more unless i pay... nopx, i'm not paying... =S
hopefully i will have more motivation and more determination and a lot more hardworking-ness so that i will be able to understand more Korean by our Korea trip in June 2026...
'collating' all the videos here for easy retrieval for repeated listening...
this series of short stories remind me of the Peter & Jane books that I had in primary school... i need the repetitions... 😅😅😅
my first korean song from Kdrama Full House 20 years ago... 😂😂😂
July is Andy Goldworthy's hatchday.... he's my favourite land artist and i had always used his work as an inspiration for kiddos' work even before land art (transient art) was officially introduced into the curriculum...
想想想, surf surf surf for 2 days, 就是没灵感 on how do i go about using natural materials to create July monthly & weekly spreads into my bullet journal?!?!?!....
then 就是这么神奇, first craft activity under current big big boss in 3 years was on pressed flowers!!!... collected all the left overs from fellow table mates and 'reused' those that i had framed during the session for the following weeklies...
omg... the flowers were so difficult to work with; too delicate and flimsy for my liking...
the month of Mark Rothko, an artist famous for all his rectangular paintings.... an artist whom i used as inspiration when there's no such thing as an art curriculum in school...
followed the colour scheme of his artworks (most of which are titled "UNTITLED" for the weekly spreads... used acrylic markers for the first time... am surprised that the colours are thick yet doesnt bleed through the pages... just doesnt like the streak lines...
Month of Pablo Picasso, the founding father of Collage Art... heng i have a habit of 'collecting' paper & carboard for recycling!!!
the 'gold' was from the mount fiji jelly wrapper that mx gifted, 'brown' was from the xmas mousey wrapping paper that mab gifted, kitty cat was the tag on the tote bag that i gotten from JB last week... letters & numbers from packaging or flyers left on my gate & letter box...
new discovery> beside being famous for his blue, rose period paintings, collage & cubism style, Picasso was also into linocuts!!! He's really multi-talented seh!!!
2025 year end 蔡家 holiday is a stayca @ Colugo Camp in Mandai.
check in @ 3pm
welcome drink... would be perfecto if the dinning hall comes with unblock view...
we were allocated tent 10 & 11 as they were accessible by ramps and nearest to the communal toilets and showering rooms
it had been raining since last weekend and weather forecast & news both stated that it would rain these two days as well... i was (sadly) mentally prepared to stay in-tent throughout this stayca...
i was donned in water resistant jogger pants & jacket with slippers & had asked the chuas to bring snacks & games as wet weather program... 😅😅😅
quick quick take pic with 蔡妈咪 with the amazing view from our balcony before any bad weather was to happen...
this pic had been digitally brightened!!! there were lightnings and drizzles at 3+pm...
our cozy tent !
nua nua abit while we waited for 蔡小宝 & wifey to join us at 4pm...
being the smaller in size, i volunteered to take the upper bunk, leaving Alfred to stablise the lower bunk... wahahaha
can bring home the two animal soft toys in the tent!!!
to the zoo we went!!!
took along the 4 gigantic umbrellas provided in our tents and was glad that we didnt have to use them...woohoo!!!
we only had 1.5 hours OTOT in the zoo which was only enough for a walk past the pelicans', orang utans' and otters' enclosures, watched the sealion splash splash show & took a tram ride around the zoo...
back @ the dinning hall for our buffet dinner at 6.30pm... not much variety of appetizers, mains & desserts but every dish was yummy... luv the vermicelli noodle salad and bread budding the most!!!
chop chop done with dinner, took a 45 minutes break in our tents then off to the Night Safari we went!!!
had VIP seating @ the show and a 专 tram just for Colugo Campers with humourous live commentary by Guide Raphael... saw plentiful of active animals; white tigers, elephants, rhinos, hippos, in the dark with some the deer & tapir roaming really near to our tram... so exciting!!!
by right, we had about an hour to go on the walking trails OTOT before heading back to our campsite for a simple supper of milo & sandwiches by 10.30pm...
by left, we enjoyed a self-paid supper of yummilicious laksa, grilled prawns & satay at the food corner of Night Safari and still headed to the dinning hall to collect our 7 cans of iced milo & a sandwich back to our tents... hanging out with the chua brothers will really fat-die-me!!!
pretty pretty floor light...
the communal toilets & showering rooms, though basic, are spacious and very clean.
Lights out @ 11pm... We / I was too loud and received an in-tent reminder by the Camp-in-charge to keep our volume down... 🙊🙊🙊...
given my easily excitable nature when i hang out with the chuas, it would be very difficult for me to hold a soft conversation, especially when i was lying furthest from everyone on the upper bunk seh... so had an early night instead... 😂😂😂
8.15am > Rise & Shine for our tent 11 while tent 10 was all ready when i walked past in my PJ with my toothbrush in hand... 😂😂😂
今天天气有好好 !!!... 😍😍😍
checked out followed by a simple 饱饱 breakfast...
luggage tag for all our barang barangs so that we could 手空空逛 River Wonder at 9.30am before it was opened to the public!!!
guided tour by a very passionate Ming who job his love!!! can still hear his energy in his narration despite being on the job for 10 years?!?!?!?
staff placing the prawn paste on the branch to let the archer fish practice their shooting after pampering the lung fish with one to one feeding...
breakfast time for kai kai & jia jia too!!!
highly suspect this part of the building was built to accommodate this tree seh!!!
this agouti is so adorable!!!
my favourite of all is the Red Panda... its cuteness made me immediately 下单 on this casing which i had just put into my Shopee cart a few days ago...😍😍😍
though the merchandises are quite cute but the practicality in me told me "no no no"...
Everyone here had a great time!!!
3 Parks, 2 Tours, 1 Stay is Colugo Camp's tagline... it can also be 3 meals, 2 soft toys per tent, 1 very worthy package!!!
@ $200 / pax for this fun packed stayca really is quite worth it...
Thank you Alvin for the yummilicious departing lunch @ Roberta's
