Kids: Dylan's 2012 Field Trip - Part 2 - Dolljoy Museum

September 22, 2012

Now we come to the 2nd Part of Dylan's Educational Field Trip.  To see what happened during the first part, check out this post.  For the 2nd part, we all proceeded to the Dolljoy Gallery and Museum in Caniogan, Pasig to see how dolls and stuffed toys are made.  They have different collections of  dolls and stuffed toys which everyone loved taking pictures with and the first part of the tour involved everyone walking through their exhibits.  Check out this giant panda that Dylan's hugging :)


Apart from the exhibits, the kids were asked to participate in a "Dress your own Doll" activity.  Boys were given male soldier dolls to put together and Dylan enjoyed this activity :)

This was a fun activity because it was timed so the kids were really excited and were racing to finish dressing up their respective dolls.

Continuing with the tour, our next destination was the simulation room where you get to see a sampling of what goes on in the making of dolls.  Everyone saw where they made the hair and how it was styled for a specific doll and how they painted the faces on.  Imagine all the work that goes into one doll.  Everything was hand-painted by these artists.  We even saw how they put the stuffing into the stuffed toys!

Since we took a lot of pictures, I just put them together in a slideshow so you can see the other dolls in their collections.

Our last stop was at the Casa Santa at Jardin de Miramar.

Kids: Dylan's 2012 Field Trip - Part 1 - Meralco Museum

September 22, 2012

Today, it is Dylan's 2012 Field Trip.  Though it was hard for him to wake up so early, once he found out that today was his field trip, he got up in no time at all.  They were going to have a full day ahead so it was essential to start out early.  The assembly time was at 630 AM and the first stop was going to be at the Meralco Museum.  Here he is in the bus looking a little sleepy and there we are at the parking lot of Meralco in Ortigas.  Apparently, we arrived early and they were still setting up.  That was T. Karen with us.

I honestly didn't have any idea what to expect when we got inside.  But, I wasn't disappointed.  There was a lot you can learn about electricity and the history of Meralco (which they showed through a film showing although I don't think the kids have any appreciation for that).  The kids loved the interactive parts of the museum, like where they can hop on and off on the tram, generating power through manipulation of the exhibits and turning the light switches on and off.

The highlight for Dylan was being able to ride in the Meralco bucket truck.  He also loved taking pictures with the huge trucks around the parking lot :)

Here are some of the pictures we took while we were there.

After the Meralco Museum, we all proceeded to the Dolljoy Museum in Pasig see next post.

Cars: Hyundai Lateral Drift

September 08, 2012

Today's event is the Hyundai Lateral Drift challenge held at the Luneta Grandstand.  When Patrick mentions that he's going to an event and that we may tag along, we don't usually question what goes on and we just find out when we get there.

To our surprise, the event was about cars fighting for the top spot in Drifting.  We were aware that there's a rapidly growing car drifting fan base in the Philippines having attended several of these competitions in Greenhills and Eastwood.  So, it was nice that it was held at the Luneta Grandstand because at least you can actually see the cars drifting and yet be far away enough to be out of danger in case the cars spins out of control.

While waiting for the event to start, guests were treated to a buffet.  Dana really enjoyed eating their nachos and ordinarily she would ask one of us to accompany her to the buffet table, but in this instance, she kept going back by herself which just goes to prove that she loved the nachos so much she was able to overcome her shyness.  I think she went back three times! :)

Dylan on the other hand was more interested in watching the cars drifting than in eating.  It was thrilling but it felt painful to watch when one of them makes a mistake costing them their position in the running. There was one that ended up scraping his car on the sidewalk! Ouch!

After, there was a drifting exhibition showing off the new Genesis Coupe.  The cars were driven by Atoy Llave and Gio Rodriguez.   You can find the video from Top Gear Philippines here.