Saint-sational DZY

Go-Kart

2010-05-29T08:29:00.000-07:00

I like cars so my parents brought me to the Go-Kart circuit at Taman Jurong on my sixth birthday; that was 5 years ago! Even my birthday cake was a 3D racing circuit in the shape of number 6.

Can you guess what this ticket in my hand was for? This was my first time driving Go-Kart and I was very excited!

My parents reward me with Go-Kart rides when I do well in my tests and examinations. I had accumulated about quite a few Go-Kart rides over the last few years, and had always claimed my rewards at the Taman Jurong circuit ran by Mr. Spencer and his nice assistant from China, who said that I’m one of the fastest in my age group he had seen!

This is a picture of me when I spun out of control and went onto the grass. Mommy and Meredith gasped “Oh Dear!”.

The nice Chinese man helped me back onto the track. I was not tall enough so I had to be given a cushion to lean back against so that I can reach the pedal. If you look carefully, you can see that I was wearing a light pink helmet that had a Hello Kitty sticker on the back, but it was the only one in my size and I understood that it was to protect my head in the event of an accident.

However, my last ride on 23 May 2010 was at the new circuit across the road from SAFTI. The old track had closed. I am a little sad because the adults who ran the old Go-Kart were friendlier than the adults who ran the new circuit. They also looked more relaxed and efficient because the two of them could run the whole place, whereas the new place had about 11 people running it.

The Go-Karts at the new circuit felt about the same in terms of speed and handling. I had fun driving there because the circuit had more humps and had more challenging sharp turns.

Siem Reap - March 2009

2009-09-20T23:41:00.001-07:00

I visited Cambodia during the March school holidays (15 to 17 March 2009). We stayed at Prince D’Angkor. The pool had salt water. We had dinner at the salt water pool side. We had delicious Cambodian food in the candlelight.

I took a picture outside the NYDC restaurant but Godpa said there shouldn’t be one in Siem Reap. I also went to the wet market. It was hot and dark but it had many things on sale. My mommy bought a few of the local handicrafts, including silk table runners. She also bought some clothes at Wanderlust.

We had lunch at the beautiful Hotel de La Paix café and saw some paintings by a local Cambodian artist in the gallery which are for sale. We saw a documentary on Channel News Asia about this hotel just before we went to Siem Reap. It was near to our hotel. We could have a meal on huge black swings that had a table cushions on it. The swings looked like they can accommodate up to about 6 people. We also had dinner at a cultural show where we watch many pretty girls dancing.

The next day, we visited Angkor Wat. There were many, many carvings about ancient stories in this gigantic temple. We went up on a balloon and had a very nice view of Angkor Wat and its surroundings from the air. We took a few pictures from the hot air balloon. These were the best photos we took. We took Angkor Wat too! I was so tired that I tried to rest but I couldn’t. Now, I was making fun of myself! I pretended to take a picture of the camera. Now do you think its magic?

Next we went to the Bayon temple and I took a ride with daddy on an elephant. The elephant stopped beside a tree and helped itself to some leaves. I’m tired again. These are carvings of elephants in the temple. This temple has big faces everywhere. We also went to Angkor Thom were the trees overgrew the temple.

Finally, we went to Bakheng Temple to watch the sunset. It was fun! A lot of people were here too! Guess what! We took even more photos of the sunset than on the hot air balloon!

I had cup noodles on the plane ride back .I took many pictures of the clouds and land. Although it was short trip, it was wonderful!

My very first post

2009-01-31T23:57:00.000-08:00

I wrote to uncle Siva about blogging. Do you like my photo at the Ford Factory?