The National Science Centre is having an exhibition on Leonardo Da Vinci's works. He was a great designer, engineer, inventor, scientist, builder and artist but is nowadays more well known for having his name in a novel and a Hollywood movie.
They had working replicas and models of many of his mechanical creations like his interpretation of an Archimedes screw, an ornithorpter, a cog wheel lantern mechanism, an eccentric cam driven hammer, an aerial screw, a primitive anemomether, his famous flying machine (machinna volante), an automatic blocking mechanism, a primitive helicoidal mechanism, a clever bridge made of interlocking sticks called an emergency bridge (Ponte Salvatico) and a mechanism that translates circular motion to linear called transformazione del Moto Circolare, but most importantly, they had this photo gimmick that lets you take pictures of yourself as Mona Lisa.
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Dear Max,
Here are some things that have been troubling you lately...
1. You didn't know the name of the green skip carrier and purple forklift on your Bob the Builder sticker collection. Mommy found them for you, they are "Skip" and "Trix" respectively.
2. The script writers for Disney's Cars forgot to give names to the tractors in the movie. Your daddy suggested that maybe their names are all, out of some coincidence, "Tractor", but you strongly suspect this to be untrue.
3. Your mommy bought you some Wiggles puzzles on ebay and when they arrived, you saw that the yellow Wiggle was somebody other than Uncle Greg. Your parents finally broke down and explained about Uncle Greg's condition and retirement and about Uncle Sam's taking over the yellow turtleneck, and although it remains unsaid, we think you're starting to realise that nothing is permanent in life.
4. You don't know the lyrics to the Little Red Tractor theme song and even the Internet wasn't much help. Your daddy never misses the chance to be the first to post something up on the net, so he put the DVD in and remembers this much...
Little Red Tractor,
He's king of the field,
Getting the job done,
With Stan at the wheel,
He's not the biggest,
But he's a hero,
Little red tractor,
Let's Go!
Will post up the rest of the song when your daddy gets really motivated and brings the DVD along with pencil and paper to the TV.
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Dad: Max, go and see only ah? We're not buying any toys today ah?
Max: Macmac got so many toys at home already.
Dad: Huh??? Er ya, good boy.
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Max: Daddy, I want to watch this Chuggington.
Dad: Max, it's late already. We watch tomorrow.
Max: Macmac want to watch Chuggington. Yes, yes. Macmac want to watch Chuggington. Yes, yes.
Dad: Huh? Daddy didn't ask you whether you want to watch or not, wor.
(Somehow he thought Yes was the 'magic word').
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Max: Daddy, Macmac ear pain pain.
Dad: We go home and put eardrop.
Max: Have to see doctor.
Dad: Er....doctor's office not open la, I think. Nevermind, doctor already gave us eardrop, we go home and put eardrop ok?
Max: Doctor's office is closed.
Dad: Ya.
Max: Doctor's office is not really closed.
Dad: Huh?? Erm, I think it's closed lah. Now is time for doctor to eat dinner.
Max: Macmac want to see doctor's office is closed.
Dad: Okay, later we see, now we go home and put eardrop first.
Max: Doctor's office is faaaaar.
Dad: That's right.
Max: Macmac house is neaaarr.
Dad: Ya, baby.
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Max: Daddy where is Uncle Army?
Dad: It's not Uncle Army, it's Uncle Soldier. He drives the army truck.
Max: Mama, where is Uncle Army?
Mama: Uncle Soldier. Uncle Soldier had to stop at the petrol station. He's somewhere behind.
Max: Daddy, where is Uncle Army?
Dad: He's still at the petrol station lor. Maybe he needs to pump petrol and pump air.
Max: Mama, where is Uncle Army?
Mama: I think he has gone to the army camp already. All the soldiers have to go to the army camp and park their trucks there.
Max: Where is Uncle Army's daddy and mama?
Dad: They are at home lor. Er...maybe their house is near the army camp.
Max: Daddy, where is Uncle Army?
Dad: I think he's gone to the army camp lor. Maybe it's in Port Dickson. Right, Mama?
Mama: Right.
Max: Uncle Army go home already... and take off his baju and helmet and oy oy.
Dad and Mama: Ya, that's right.
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Max: What is Tim Ku Ku doing?
Dad: She's talking on the phone.
Max: Who is Tim Ku Ku talking to?
Dad: Er... her friend, maybe... I don't know who she's talking to.
Max: Have to find out on the Internet.
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Dear Max,
Lego toys are so fun. You're almost old enough to play them too!
Daddy
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Hari Raya at Uncle Faisal's mama's house
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