Barney Show

I haven't been planning much for the children's holiday programme till the school holiday started. While I was packing for the Malacca Trip, I recalled the advertisement about the Barney Live Performance.

I had never brought my boys to any live performance before. However, through my experience of passing by some stage show in the shopping mall, I know my boys doesn't feel comfortable with the weird looking mascots. In fact, they don't like the loud and powerful voice either, so I wasn't sure if they will enjoy the Barney Show.

But we must always start to explore somewhere, otherwise we will never know the answer, so I went on to book the tickets from the Sistic website. To be on the safe side, I decided to bring 1 child for the first time, I sacrificed Aron. I felt more confident handling Asher alone. So I bought 2 tickets. As the tickets were on sale for very long, all the tickets in Cat 1 were sold out, so I went for the Cat 2 tickets. Its was a good move, I know Asher would be frightened if he is seating too near to the stage.

When we stepped into the theatre in the Suntec Convention Hall, the light was rather dim. I can feel that Asher was nervous and uncomfortable. His eyes were slightly teary. When we got on to our seats, I tried to keep him occupied by stuffing some gummies, mesh mallows and pocky into him and distracted his attention to looking around.

When I told Asher there were lots of children coming for the show, he replied that their daddies also came. I wasn't sure if there was much implication to his words, cos his Daddy was working overseas at that moment.

5 mins after the show started, Asher was much more relaxed. Throughout the show, he remained to be quietly seated and watching it, focused, but without much movement and expression. I couldn't really tell if he enjoyed the show.

By half time, having 20mins of break, I suggested to go out for a walk, Asher refused. I told him if he was scared, we could go home, he said no, he wanted to stay for the show.

Towards the end, when Barney sang the "I Love U, You Love Me..." To my surprise, Asher sang along very loudly, to the extend that the parent & child sitting next to us turned and stared at him.

Though Asher wasn't expressive towards his feelings and emotions, I knew he liked the show.

I also felt very good, having to spend such close and personal time with him, without anyone else around, as I hardly had the chance to do so, I really treasured it.

Its an enjoyable show for both Asher and Mummy.