CHAINED UP

The watches we ended up buying

A Puma watch for hubby

A simple Titus for me

A bag I bought from Siem Reap


The face of a man poorer by a couple of hundreds after buying the watches


I will squirt chilly sauce into your eyes if you say my watch is not nice!

WATCHING TIME

Had no intention of parting my cash with a watch though I had been mulling over the idea of laying my hands on a solid-stainless steel bracelet watch.

And...lo and behold hubby and I were drawn like magnets to a City Chain store with their huge discounts of up to 70% on watches when we popped into Sembawang Shopping Centre recently. Really, I hate all these adverts gimmick and claims of fantastic discounts. Not all of these sale talks are genuine but foolish people like me do get drawn to them like ants to sugar blindly at times.

Rummaging through the displayed watches, I fell in love with one which was offered at a 50% discount while hubby was Pumamised by an irregular watch face. He, being a fanatic watch-buyer also increased his collection of time pieces after trying out a few and ended up with one more Puma watch.

I vowed to be chained to my wallet the next time I do my retail theraphy when all those placards with huge discounts stare face to face at me. Does anyone have any tips on how to resist such sales?

SEMBAWANG SHOPPING CENTRE - SPLASH PARK @SSC

Giant looking pipes and funnels spouting H2O

A burst water pipe?

Give that Peace sign to your mum who is waiting to drag you away

Colourful and striking colours to attract the kids

Another happy boy at the wet splash park

Mum and her side kick

Mum and her right arm lady

Mist of water envelops the arch

The space looking structures with 'aliens' hanging down from the poles

It was a nice cloudy that day

See the water coming out from the ground too

Slide too for added fun

For agility and balance

Enjoying the sound of water splashing down

A colourful backdrop behind us

Hear the horn blaring away?

So what are you waiting for? Bundle those kids here

Just soak in the water and fun

It's safe. The kids won't slip and fall on the rubber ground

A water haven on a hot day for the family

Run through and get wet

Mummy and daddy can keep an eye over their kids here

A H2O PARK

If you are at your wits end and do not know where to bring your kids out on a hot day, spare yourself of that 'head banging against the wall' punishment. Drag those screaming kids of yours and let the Splash Park at Sembawang Shopping Centre douse their anger, frustrations and tantrum for a therapeutic effect.

The Splash Park is located on the third floor of the shopping centre. Admission is free and the kids would be bowled over by the colours, structures and off course the wet experience of playing and running around water that spouts out from funny and colourful looking robotic shaped structures or getting drenched from bucketfuls of H2O pouring down their heads. Let them have fun and don't bother about them getting wet. Just bring some spare clothes for change and a towel to wipe them dry.

This heartland splash park is opened from 11am-2pm and 5pm-8pm in the evening. If you are wondering why it's not opened for the whole afternoon, it's because the kids would not want to be pulled back to go home after finding their 'water haven' on a third level story high concrete building. The afternoon closing hours would mean the mums or house husbands could call it "QUIT" after the morning day off at the H2O Park and go home to attend to other things. It's tough I bet. Just check with my husband who had to get a crane to pull and tear me away from the park for dinner as the 'child in me had gone loose and astray' that evening while we were there.

Good Luck at getting your kids to go home!