On Sunday we went kite flying at Marina Barrage. About 10 to 15 of us turned up. The first few of us reached there at about 10am. Brought Ruffles (my dog) as well. She was so hyperactive on the way there. Most of the kites were from my family. We bought 1 or 2 from China before and the rest were from many many years ago. Took the lift up to the grass field, laid our things down on the ground sheet, and I immediately started setting up the kites. The weather was perfect! Not too hot and the wind was sufficient to fly our kites without much problem.
To fly kites comfortably you really have to have sunglasses. The glare from the sun would give you a headache if you look up to the sky for too long.
To really enjoy the flying of kites, you need to have kite string winders/wheels (unsure of the exact name) so as to have better control of the kite and tension of the string. It also prevents string burn which I suffered from for quite a few times that day. Control is important whenever you are just bringing up your kite into the sky. Once the kite is high up in the sky, you can just stick the "wheel" under some heavy object on the ground and the kite will fly by itself!
Only 1 or 2 hours after we started flying did someone notice that I actually owned a super long tail which belonged to a kite that we were already flying in the air. LOL. So excitedly, we attached this super long tail to the kite and WOAHLA! It flew like a charm! Almost 100% of the time I could just throw the kite (by myself) into the air and it would just fly up by itself, of course with me providing tension to the string at the same time. I bet that this particular kite of ours attracted the most attention through out the whole day as it had the longest tail. It was so long that it often got caught with neighbouring strings that were attached to other kites that belonged to other owners. Haha. LOOK. IT'S DOMINATING THE SKY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lerie enjoying herself...
The aunties brought lunch! There was bee hoon, bread with vegetarian meat, watermelon, and even cupcakes, baked by Auntie Patricia I think.
This should be just before Simon started to get a headache... He borrowed my shades soon after lol. Looking up into the sky to fly a kite without shades is really annoying and quite impossible for long periods of time.
Like a string pointing towards heaven...
Uncle Seah Ho joining in the fun...
What other way to have a great photo by flying a kite in front of MBS.
The string magically disappearing into mid air... This is Lerie.
Frank.
Simon.
Pastor Bayu.
Ruffles certainly enjoys being outdoors.
LM's turn to take over the wheel.
When you look up too much and too high up into the sky, your neck becomes painful. Hence lying on the ground solves the problem!!
The girls re-living their childhood days!
This is our kite with the super long tail. The tail is so long I spent at least 10 minutes rolling it up lol. It's really a beautiful kite though :)
Hydon's turn to take over the long-tailed kite.
BEAR ABUSE.
Our long-tailed kite STILL dominating the sky..........
Everyone's skin was cooked especially mine! My skin was so red by the end of the day.
At night we went to Makansutra for dinner, located just beside Esplanade. The hokkien mee is seriously good. Around the same standard as the one I've eaten at Food Republic at Suntec.
Overall it was a great day flying kites and bonding between us. In total we were at Marina Barrage from like 10am to 6pm+. More than 8 hours! Flying kites is certainly a fun and pleasurable hobby/sport to have as it can be very challenging and yet fun to master the control of your kite. We certainly thank God that we had good weather and that we had a fantastic day!
More photos
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