Rainbow Warrior

Ooooo! This is the thing that inspired my path in life, the Rainbow Warrior!

Since I was 12 years old in fact! Greenpeace was the reason my whole life journey took the path it did, from majoring in environmental studies and forest science to my work experience. An aside: I found an old Greenpeace petition for the moratorium on whales dating from when I was 12.

Anyways, when news came yesterday afternoon that Rainbow Warrior has berthed in Singapore, I was determined to go onboard! Joe Lai of the Homeschooling group was nice enough to organize a visit for the homeschooling parents. We had a tour of the ship!!! It's a 55 meter boat and there's a North American totem painted on a part of the ship. The ship's name was inspired by a North American Indian prophecy which foretells a time when human greed will make the Earth sick, and a mythical band of warriors will descend from a rainbow to save it.

Arannatee Drumming

We went to a friend's house last night for a birthday party and ended up jamming! There was a keyboard, drums, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, zaphoon (of course) and lots of amplifiers! Farid took turns playing the guitars and the zaphoon. Sharon was on the drums and Malti on the keyboard. And Arannatee had her own set of drums! I wished I had a photo. She played for an hour, trying to keep to the rhythm, switching her drumsticks from one drum to the other, and stopped and started with all the music and took bows after. It was adorable!!!

She played for a whole hour, like a real professional. We are really happy she had the opportunity to try this out. Thanks Cindy, and Cindy's mom and dad! And Cindy, kudos to you for an awesome meal!

National Museum

We visited the newly renovated National Museum on Deepavali. It was quite nicely done. The whole family went and the first thing that happened as we walked in was that I got wet! I put Arannatee's diaper bag on what I thought was a solid surface but turned out to be a water filled wall! Oops. The whole bag got wet and my skirt as well.

Arannatee had a grand old time making rangoli with coloured rice and glue. She completed 3 plates worth! We did not have time for the henna painting but I'm sure we can do it ourselves.