Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

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Straight after our very first fishing trip at Punggol Beach, we got ourselves ready for our next family outing.

Courtesy of the Singapore’s Blog Awards (who gave away 10 pairs of tickets to 10 lucky finalists), we went to catch the one-time Magic Show at Jurong Bird Park called ‘Magical Wonders with Birds’, featuring Singapore’s own illusionist Priscilla Khong.

It was our very first time watching such a magic show LIVE!

AND, it was our first time visiting the Bird Park AT NIGHT! (Lots of ‘firsts’ for our family today!)

Now I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been somewhat sceptical when it comes to magic shows.

As I watch, I’d think, ‘Ahhh … she must’ve had the cards up her sleeves!’ or ‘Now there, they didn’t show the back of THAT box! The bird must’ve been placed THERE!’ or ‘She must’ve had the keys to the handcuffs inside the box!’. Blah blah blah.

[It sure is EASY to be the spectator who gives comments than the one performing on stage, huh!]

Anyway.

Despite my attempts to guess HOW magicians do their tricks and illusions, I do find magic shows entertaining. Especially when I totally have NO idea how they did it.

Like, when Priscilla ‘teleported’ a chicken from a box (placed in the middle of the stage), to a wooden bucket that was held by a man from the audience (and he was standing at least five meters away).

I was totally amazed by that trick!

Another trick that I thought was a good one was the ‘sewing a man in half’. A classic one that we all know and have most likely watched on TV.

The guy was picked from the audience, and I could really see how both his legs ‘slanted’ downwards and there’s ‘nothing’ underneath the box that was lifted up!

After I downloaded the photos to my computer, I zoomed in to see the trick in ‘detail’, and I still can’t figure out how it was done!

And you know what, Wilson happened to meet the guy (who was ‘halved’) on our way out after the show, and he said he ‘didn’t feel a thing’! Now THAT was interesting!

Anyway. The kids loved the show too, and I guess it’s also because of the music, the dance and the birds involved in the show.

As we watched the show, Vai did say things like, “Look! Look! She’s going to make that man disappear, Mommy!’ (and he was pointing at the crew holding the cable in the background, haha)

And Anya did ask us her many questions as usual,

‘How did she do it? How did she make the birds appear? What is she going to do now? How did she halve the man? Wow, she made herself disappear from the box, how did she do that?’

And to her questions, we explained how they’re all magic tricks, how they’re not real, how the magician has learned how to do the tricks well and how one day she could learn to perform simple tricks too if she knew how they’re done. She’s happy with our answers.

Now guess what else happened at the show.

We met a blog reader and her family, who happened to sit next to us and said Hi when they recognised us! Now that was nice! (Big Hi to Kar Fung, Bryan and their two little ones!)

Yup, we had a good family time at Jurong Bird Park today! Loved it!