There is literally no winter in Singapore, even though the temperature can reduce to around 22-23 degree celsius at night...to give Gwendolyn a sense of winter (not that she hasn't been back to HK during winter time, but there's no snow in HK), Papa and Mama brought her to Snow City at Jurong East, which is just about 10 minutes away from home! Together were Uncle Don, Auntie Lena, Summer Mei Mei, Uncle Victor and Auntie Tonya. Before heading there, Papa and Mama bought her a new pair of gloves, so that her delicate hand will not get snow bitten!
We all waited for our designated time slot at 3:45pm, all dressed in the winter jackets and boots provided and ready to step into the snow chamber. To our disappointment, it was very small and crowded. There was only a small kids slide area and a major slope for "sledging". All of us queued for more than 15 minutes, just to reach the top of the slope and slide down within 2 seconds, in the cold temperature of -5.6 degree celsius! Gwendolyn was all ready to sit on the "floaty" to slide down, but in the end, she didn't like it, because when our legs contact with the "snow" whilst sliding down, the "snow" flew towards our face and she finds it MESSY! After the "slide" she said : I don't like snow going into my face. I don't like it and I scared! We went in for that short slide and left the chamber after that!
We can't bring our own camera into the chamber...so we bought this pic taken by them!Lyn Lyn is not ready for snow yet!
For more information, please visit this website: - http://www.snowcity.com.sg/
To our amazement, there were caucasians in the snow chamber! Wouldn't it be no fun for them, as they should have experienced real snow in their home country? Or maybe, they're actually Singaporeans who haven't seen real snow before???!!!
Oh yes, before Snow City, we went into the lobby of the Singapore Science Centre to wander around, whilst waiting for Uncle Don and Auntie Lena. This is Lyn Lyn's first exposure to ScIeNcE! She was fascinated by the 2 apparatus on: (1) the exertion of pressure in the lungs, relating to how divers dive; and (2) effects to 2 slightly inflated balloons when pressure is exerted and released in a vaccum flask...
Comments added on 29 January 2007: Not sure whether Lyn Lyn is phobic from the experience in the Snow City, whenever she sees the picture taken inside, she'll remove it from the frame and said: I don't like the snow. I don't want to go again...Poor gal...
