It was supposed to be a fun day at East Coast Park beach for the kids. We drove up to the nearest McDonalds, got ourselves something to eat from the drive-through and headed over to the nearest convenient car park (E, I think?). As usual during a public holiday or weekend, the place was swarming with families and overnight campers - minahs with wet hair (obviously after a NOON-TIME shower) were in abundance, coming out of their tents.
We got ourselves a (relatively) clean table, and had a quick bite, but unfortunately Ayeed didn’t like the place and he told us in no uncertain terms that he should be in the stroller and be pushed everywhere like the pampered prince that he thinks he is. But I wasn’t having any of that and proceeded to unbuckle him from the stroller and told him to go walk about like Ajab who was busy running about. Maya was ok, sitting quietly with Trin, enjoying her first experience at the beach.
Ayeed though could not be appeased, even with mouthfuls of his favourite McDonald’s hotcakes. So I had no choice but to put him on the stroller and he, Ajab and I went for a stroll.
Both were OK for a while until we passed by the car park and Ajab thought we were going to drive off, but of course we weren’t yet, so it was his turn to throw a tantrum, which in turn ‘infected’ Ayeed who also started to get cranky. So back to Trin and Maya I went. We packed up after barely half an hour, not even going down to the beach, and went back to the car where we were frantically deciding where to go next. We initially wanted to go to Changi Beach, but a wrong turn and a few quick checks later found ourselves at Suntec City. The boys had fun checking out the Batmobile.
Time for lunch soon followed and it was another moment of searching and thinking before we decided on Siam Kitchen. It was the first time we dined at a restaurant with all three kids and we were quite relieved that all of them behaved themselves, especially Ajab who fed himself rice.
His teacher had asked us to take a video of him feeding himself as part of the assessment of his gross and fine motor skills. I’m sure she’ll be happy with his performance, although he wasn’t holding the spoon as correctly as possible, but he only dropped a couple of grains of rice and had a couple more stuck in his hair due to his habit of wiping his hand on his head.
Before going home we checkout out what the fuss was all about with Punggol Beach, a rather boring, dirty little strip of sand facing the industrial site and port of Pasir Gudang, just in our backyard. Nothing much to look at actually. We’ve only ever been there years ago when we first moved in, before Ajab was born and haven’t been back since. No parking, no facilities, not much of a view, I doubt we’ll be going back there anytime soon. Maybe after the proposed redevelopment of the beach, which should have been started years ago as planned, will we be spending time at the nearest beach to our place.
For now, I think the National Service Resort and Country Club at Tanah Merah looks the most viable option for the kids to swim. Free, ample parking, near enough from our place, nice pool. I like it! I hope Ayeed will learn to like it too the next time we go there.
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