Pasir Ris Park (白沙公园), Singapore

Pasir Ris Park (白沙公园) is a beach park located in the Eastern part of Singapore. It occupies 71 hectares of land, included some reclaimed land. This coastal park is among the largest in Singapore. The full length of the park is around 6.6 km.

There is a 6 hectare mangrove forest within the park. The boardwalks enable visitors to explore the forest. Mud crabs, mudskippers and mangrove trees. are found there.

A 3 story tower supports bird-watching and prominent birdlief in the park include milky storks, blue eared kingfishers and buffy fish owls.

 

 

With a newly refurnish children playground, the park includes a beach, a cycling track, barbecue pits and picnic tables. There are cafes, food courts and pubs opened till late at night.

This is a serene and peaceful location which not a place frequent by tourists. During the weekend the locals with their families will enjoy a family day outing at this beach. Lot of nature such as different types of mushrooms growing under the trees and lot of different types of wild life can be find in this serene and eco park.  Every time I am back home, will visit this beautiful park for my morning walk, a great place for photography if you are into nature as there are bountiful of wild life here.

I will totally  recommend this place to all my friends if you are in Singapore make a day for suntanning in this beach as there are so much to do in this park. There is no entrance fee for this park which is an added bonus to the package.

It is easy to travel to this park as there is the MRT train to Pasir Ris station and take a bus 403 at the bus interchange  which is next to the MRT train station which will take you straight to the park.

 

Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Singapore

We met our friends at Chinatown, Singapore and she took us to try the dessert in one of the shop in Chinatown.  I had ordered a mango dessert and a mango Chee cheong fun, it was delicious but  a bit pricey for these two desserts.

The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple is 5 minutes walk from the shop. The entrance lead to the main hall with high ceiling, it is a four storey temple. There is a bell tower and drum tower at the same level. It was a prayer day, the monks and the followers were busy chanting and praying to the Gods.

There is a solid gold two metre stupa on the Fourth floor where  the sacred relic is kept. At the top of the roof, there is a pagoda with a large prayer wheel. The temple was built in a style based on the Buddhist mandala integrated with the Buddhism of the Tang dynasty.

On the third floor is the Buddhist Culture Museum with more than 300 Buddhist artifacts from all around Asia. The little tea house is on the second floor,  where we can enjoy and relax with a cup of tea and some vegetarian cuisine.

It is a memorable experience of culture, art and history of the Buddhism. Once we finished our tour around  the temple,  we went to the People Park Centre to enjoy the local cuisine at  the food court. There are a lot of shopping malls and day or night markets in the China Town. The local shops and market stalls selling  Chinese art, goodies and dried herbs and foods.

At night the Chinatown became a busy hub where the locals and visitors come here for the  famous local cuisine and shopping. All the shops and market stalls close at 10.00 p.m.daily. Singapore is a city of shopping, clubbing and foods paradise, it is a clean and safe city to be out enjoying all night till morning.

Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Every year we went back to Singapore, my sister will get a room for 3 days at Marina Bay Sands Hotel for us.  In 2015 we went back home, We stayed for 3 days. It worth to splash some of the money at this 4 stars hotel, as we  totally relaxed ourselves at the hotel pool any time of the day,  there are also restaurants on top of the hotel where  you can have your meal without leaving the poolside.

There are several shopping malls  link to the hotel and a food court with international  cuisines to suit everyone taste buds.  The price of food from the food court is slightly more expensive than the normal food courts or hawker center.

 

I love it here especially my friends will come to the hotel to meet me and stay to talk till late into the night. We  enjoyed the musically fountains show around 7.45 to 8.00 p.m. every night or stay  at the infinity pool to enjoy the the lighting display. There is a  MRT train station within walking distance. It is so easy and convenience as everywhere there is sign board to show the direction to the tourists attraction spots, within easy access of walking distance, buses or trains.

I found the cost of foods at the hotel here was still cheaper for the foods we paid for in Hong Kong. The standard of living in Singapore is much lower than in Hong Kong.  A city of  shopping and food paradise, if you want to sunbath there are several beaches in Singapore to enjoy sunbathing.

 

Singapore Botanic Garden

Singapore is a city of shopping paradise, as well as famous for traditional and authentic Singapore dishes. One of the attraction place is Singapore Botanic Garden, which open from 5.00 a.m.  till 12.00 midnight daily.

The 74 hectare national park has a subtle feeling of Victorian times with dazzling swan lake, a symphony stage and beautiful theme gardens. In 2012, the Botanic Gardens was listed under World Heritage sites by the UNESCO.

Gorgeous statues are scattered around the gardens, and the Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage, which looked like turtle shape in the middle of the artificial lake. It has becomes the venue for concerts for the locals and tourists.

 

There is an entry fee of $5.00  for the National Orchid Garden, it close at 6.00 p.m., give yourself more times to venture into the garden. As we reached the National Orchid Garden at 5.00 p.m and left with only 1 hour so we decided not to waste monies and go there when we are in Singapore again.

 

There are various theme gardens such as the Ginger Garden with different species of ginger family, the Heal8ing Garden, the Fragrant Garden, the Evolution Garden and the Orchid Garden. The main attraction is the Orchid Garden which houses nearly 60,000 orchid plants, 2,000 hybrids and consisting 400 different species found species throughout the world.

 

 

 

 

GoodBye 2015

I think I have done quite well for my 2015, completed my 1st year university and had 2 exhibitions shows held in Birmingham. Been to several countries and gone on holidays with my relatives and best friends.  We have so much fun, adventure, sadness, laughter and sharing heartfelt thoughts.

My first time venture to Turkey and simply fall in love with this country. The heat of the sun is killing but the scenic view of the country had made a great impression in my memory. The friendly and kind  locals are so extraordinary amazing, I couldn’t wait to visit the country again so.

My first trip to Taiwan with my friends is beautiful and gorgeous. The second trip with my family and friends are so wonderful and fabulous. My brother-in-law’s Taiwan friends show us a different side of Taiwan which we haven’t seen before. With friendliness  and warm welcome, they  recommend us to all the famous local cuisine and places we have never seen or been before. This is an eye-opening experience for  us and every day with a full belly of good foods.

Hong Kong is my husband’s home town and he has been away from the  country about 38 years. His parents  are immigrated to England for 45 odd years but went back to Hong Kong when they retired. We have been to Hong Kong several times to visit them and also sight-seeing this beautiful city. Most of the people think Hong Kong is great for shopping but it also great for sight-seeing. There are lot  of beautiful nature in Hong Kong. Especially the islands and is a great place for trekking up to the mountains/hills within easy reach by bus or tram.

Singapore is my hometown but I have immigrated to England for 24 odd years. I have been back home a few times and there are some beautiful places in Singapore which tourists have not been venture to. One of my favorite place is Pasir Ris Park full of nature and wild life.

Went to Penang – Malaysia is a neighbouring country to Singapore. Enjoy ourselves so much,  have a rowdy and mad holiday.

My friends came to England to visit us, so we arranged a trip to England and Europe. First we visit Wales, Lake Districts and Scotland and drive to France, Belgium and Holland. We have a great and wonderful times touring round UK and Europe and here  to share some of the photos of these places.

Wales – The Bont

Lakes District – Windermere

Scotland -Edinburgh

Scotland – Culross West – Scottish Highland

France – Paris

Belgium -Brussels

Lastly Holland – Windmills Park

I think I have pretty much reflecting 2015 with my photos as documentation of what I am doing and also keeping a record for my own keepsake. I had lost both my parents-in-law in 2015 and become a  first time grandmother, in total  it is quite a great achievement for me and my husband. Our emotions are like yo-yo up and down but in the end happiness overcome all the lost and sadness. Hope 2016 will bring Peace to Earth and wish all my friends A Happy 2016 with “Peace & Love”.

 

 

 

 

Jurong Birds Park, Singapore

We went to Jurong Birds Park, Singapore and it is value for monies. There is 4 bird shows on every day.  Spread across 20.2 hectares in a western corner of Singapore, this sprawling park is Asia’s largest, with a collection of over 5,000 birds from 400 species.

the Waterfall Aviary, one of the world’s largest walk-in aviaries, home to more than 600 birds and a 30-metre-high waterfall.

There are other star attractions at this sprawling park, including the world’s largest walk-in lory flight aviary at over nine stories high, where you’ll get close to 15 colourful lory species, and the impressive Penguin Coast where you’ll find many species of these flightless birds.

There is also Flamingo Lake with hundreds of these strutting birds, and nearby Pelican Cove, with the world’s most complete collection of pelicans.

Be entertained by these majestic creatures of flight too. Witness the heat of the hunt as mighty eagles, falcons and hawks show off their moves during the Kings of the Skies Show, or be part of the flock at the High Flyers Show.  I enjoyed this show as all the mighty eagles , falcons and hawks showing the cunning way of getting their prey.

We have a whole day here enjoying the colorful feather friends and till about 5.30 p.m., we went to Jurong Mall Shopping centre for our dinner.  An enjoyable day  taking photos of these mighty hawks  and fully recommend this place to anyone when you are in Singapore. It is a  birds paradise to get in touch  with all different species of birds you ever seen. I have been told by a friend that this wonderful place will be move to the zoo as the government want to development the land for future homes and business center.

Travel back home – Singapore

I am totally out of contact for a few weeks, due to I am so sick. had 2 weeks off from college and stay in bed to recover from a bad cold.  During this New year 2015, I have bad and good news. bad new is within 6 months, my father-in-law had just passed away and I am going back to Hong Kong for the Funeral wake. The good news is I become a young grandmother as my daughter has just given birth to a new baby boy on Sunday.

i always enjoy going back home to Singapore, as all my relatives staying in Singapore. The opportunities where I can eat lot of wild and exotic fruits such as durians and rambutans etc.  As my friends and relatives will buy lot of durians for us and we will have a durians feast at home, yea, I will get fatter each trip back home.

This trip back home we stay 2 days at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore we have such a wonderful times at the hotel where we  enjoying the pool at the top of the hotel, we can see the lighting shows on every night around 7.45 p.m to 8.30 p.m.  There are musical fountains and lighting show ar the garden at the bay.  There is a pathway through the hotel to see this show free without entrance fee.

I spend two days at the hotel where we  enjoyed window shopping and having various cuisine from different countries at the food court or restaurants in these shopping malls.  The pathways also lead to Raffles Shopping Center and Orchard Road Shopping malls but we were just too lazy to venture out of the hotel.  My friends and relatives came to visit us at the hotel to chat and we went window shopping with them. I simply love this 5 stars hotel where I can totally relax and enjoy being lazy and doing nothing but just eat and relax. A cool way to relax but not for Singaporeans, they are hardworking lot and seldom take times for a break as they spend most of their waking hours working hard to earn a living so they can have a better life.  A small island full of places to go and shop if you wish and if you don’t want to shop, there are lot of empty beaches where you can relax and sun tan. There are East Coast Beach where lot of sea foods stalls open in the night after a day outing, Pasir Ris beach is a place you can have a bbq there on the beach, the beaches are only busy in the weekend and it is pretty quiet in the weekday. All these beaches are free of charge and there is also the Santos but the entrance fee is expensive  with lot of attractions places to visit and theme park to enjoy.

Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

Busy with college works and research so I have no times for myself where I can enjoy myself. Have lot of works to catch up, and today I going to post some of my photos of flowers which I have taken at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. I was in Singapore for about 18 days and the days seen to fly and now I am back in England. I stay at the Marina Bay Sand Hotel for 2 days.  Beside visiting all my relatives and friends in Singapore and have some wild times with my old school friends.

Stand in awe of the amazing Supertrees. These uniquely designed vertical gardens of 25 to 50-metres tall have large canopies that provide shade in the day and come alive with an exhilarating display of light and sound at night.

These unique trees of up to 16 storeys in height can be found all around the Gardens – twelve at the Super tree Grove, while the remaining six are placed in clusters of threes at the Golden and Silver Gardens.

Providing scale and dimension to the Gardens while marrying the form and function of mature trees, the Super trees also create height to balance the tall developments in the Marina Bay area. Take a stroll along the OCBC Skyway, a 128-metre long walkway with a height of 22-metres that connects two Super trees at the Super tree Grove, and take in a different view of the Gardens. Chill out at the 50-metre Super tree-top bistro and be captivated by the panoramic views of the Gardens as well as the surrounding Marina Bay area.

My five days black & white challenge in facebook

  At Fjovargljufur Canyon, Iceland – this look like a painting but it was a village on top of the mountains cover with snow.

I was nominated by Lawrence Graves, a photographer in facebook to take up this black and white challenge for 5 days and each day I have to post a  black & white photo and nominate a photographer to take up the challenge. For this 5 days I have to name five different photographers to take up this challenge. I would like to thank my friends  Jackie Brooks, Kwok Kin Yau, Tri Joko, Hilda Murray and Mamede Harfouche for taking up this challenge, to carry the chain of promoting black and white photos in facebook and other networking. Today is my 5th day of posting and happy to say “A Big Thank You to all my friends who take up this challenge”

At Krafla Volcano, Iceland

I have never enjoyed black and white photo processing before but I simply love this opportunity to look into my photos and think how make it look better in a black and white print.  I am please with these processing and would love to share it with my all my friends in wordpress.

On our way to Vik, Iceland

At Wong Tai Sin Temple, Hong Kong

At Trees at the Bay, Singapore – There are tree make of wire and planted with plant climbers around it and the walk way up above and around the trees to view the city of Singapore,

A big salute to all the photographers who take up these challenge in all different networking to promote black and white photos.