IndoChine Waterfront Restaurant

IndoChine Empress Place @ Asian Civilisation Museum

i was attacked by my hunger pangs and i needed food! and so glad that in the museum there is a nice place for us to have tea... not we didnt order snacks! almost everyone ordered something heavy! for the coffee-drinkers, each had a vietnamese coffee... smells good and lucky i am not a coffee lover! Vietnamese spring rolls to share... i was the only one who had pork chop rice which was nice, i love the pickles! Most had beef noodles soup while Aunt A had burger!

Cousin Lety had cheesecake and shared fries with baby R....

they both were happily sharing the fries...

but Why did baby R cry?

baby R started to love dipping her fries into mayo which she knows its safe for her to eat! She tried that many weeks ago when i had Mos Burger but the weird thing is when there is something for her to dip her fries into, she would use the fries to spoon the sauce into her mouth more than eating the fries... when she was stopped by daddy... she burst into tears! she can be told off by me but whenever she gets it from GX, she gets all upset and teary! stubborn little baby R didnt give in and wanted to dip and not bite her fries... so gx took the sauce away and she burst into drama cry... i believe baby R was truly upset but she wanted me to help so her cry got louder but i jus snapped her cute little crying face and told her to do as daddy told her... only when Lety yiyi talked to her, she did exactly as told to eat the fries and sauce... GX just sigh... but at least our gal did what he wanted in the end...

there is an outdoor area for kids to be explorere to dig out parts of terracota warrior in the sand and gx was trying so hard not to let baby R run into sand! The only way was to get yiyi out of the place and baby R followed suit! then we crossed the bridge sending mum to uncle J's car cos we had to head to another destination Chinatown to look for mum's bdae stuff... also we walked over to fullerton hotel where aunt O parked her car to get a huge goody bag from her! Lucky baby R and mummy were given smurf tees! baby #2 had 3 carter rompers and i have a new black and gold carter baby bag which i can share with daddy! i  feel so blessed... thank you Aunt O!

chinese teahouse

after the Terracotta, we walked to see the other permament exhibitions
and we rested our feets at the teahouse exhibit room!

somehow baby R's 3/4 pants became shorts!

in the bottom left pic, guess who we met at the exhibition?

my cousin K and wife were doing museum hopping after sis'consultation!

baby R sure look excited when she saw bao but she somehow knew its fake!
cos she didnt touch them at all

the other exhibits were on religion...

the hall was dark and makes everything look so mysterious

Filial Piety
While parents are alive,
one must not travel far.
If one must,
Ones's whereabout should always be made known.

Terracota Warriors Singapore

I am not a history freak like GX is... but i love things that seems out of this world...
Great Wall, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pyramids and other amazing structures and art works...
Terracota Army is one of them too.



Terrible pics!
damn my shaky hands... no flash allowed and tired body...
where's GX?

as usual my dearest hubby would read everytihing, see everything...
so my gal had no patience for him and she followed me for awhile before she ran back to daddy
cos she wanted to be carried in the midst of the crowded small exhibition hall!



Thou its not the entire clan that came to Singapore...
was still glad to see some of the warriors here.
If i have a chance i would still love to visit XiAn to see the entire army!

my aunt A dressed like some treasure hunter looked good with the warriors!
mum and aunts A&Y stayed together,
my cousins were A&W+gf were walking together
while Aunt O was with cousin L doing some research for school homework!
Both uncles J&J were missing while my hubby was alone looking at the exhibits!

looking at these warriors kinda reminded me of Night in the Museum...

there were other few exhibits of things found in tombs of other emperors...
of cos nothing can beat the quantity and quality of things buried with the 1st emperor!

Asian Civilisation Museum

After the short meetup and we had to hurry off to meet the rest of the family for the Terracota Army exhibition! We were half and hour late! Because of the F1 race there were some blockage and gx dropped us pretty far at Arts House and we had to walk with a napping baby in popo's arms to the Asian Civilisation Museum! I did tell mum to jus talk to baby R alittle and she would wake up and walk on her own... she is pretty good at knowing who can carry her and who can't! If she knows daddy is the one carrying her she would continue to nap but knowing popo's leg can't walk well, she would wake up and true enough baby R walked on her own all the way to the museum! wished mum trusted me from the start... "old people" all so stubborn!

this museum doesnt have their own car park and there are limited roadside lots... to me, parking at the Fullerton hotel would be the closest you can get but it would be expensive! if not the nearby offices are definitely closer than where gx managed to find lots... the parliment house. We werent on time but we were not the lastest! love these long benches and while waiting for the rest, we stop by to rest.

So my info for free entry was right but for the special exhibition Terracota Warriors is chargable!
With 3 Passioncards, we paid about $27+ for 11 adults and Cousin L got in free with her student card!
Baby R went in FREE!

we checked out the Singapore River exhibition before heading in to the main exhibition.
I joked with Uncle J that he should backcomb his hair more and wear black frames...

the kiddos were shocked when the pieces fell off the terracota warrior!

there were 2 sculptures for people to try their hands on fixing the armour for the soldiers!

there were some modern art pieces before the actual thousand years old art work