Sheep Man & Bread Man

Yesterday, I brought some kiddos to far-flung upper serangoon road, to an academic institution to listen to Dr Alan Colman give a seminar on reproductive & therapeutic cloning. Yes, he is the famed stem cell expert who's behind Ms Dolly the sheep - the world's first cloned animal in 1997. He's now based in S'pore, recruited by our ever-efficient govt to be the Director of the Singapore Stem Cell Consortium and PI at the Institute of Medical Biology.

So you can imagine my excitement at the opportunity of getting up close & personal. =) Seriously though, the best thing is he didn't make things too complicated. My kiddos were able to understand him perfectly, and found the seminar interesting. For that, it's worth the long long journey up north... Been a long time since I've personally brought kiddos to science enrichment activities.. Nostalgia!

Here's Dr AC in action:





And the icing on cake was, as we were walking out of the institution's gate, we saw a scene out of the 1960/70's - an old, bent-over indian man peddling his brown-crusted baked bread with kaya & butter, in a square metal box, hinged on a 2-wheeled crikety bike!! Solid. He must have transported from my dad's childhood times. Bought bread for my kiddos who snapped away (politely) at old uncle and his wares. First time they have seen such 'roadside hawker'.



Bet you've never bought bread this way. =) Head down to 1033 Upper Serangoon Road and set up an ambush at abt 5.30pm then.