57) A ride to Coney Island
Pulau Serangoon, also known as Coney Island in Singapore. It is a 45-hectare in size and located off the north-eastern coast of the Singapore mainland. Back in about 30 years ago, you still be able to make your own way when the tide is low, as the closest distant to the shore is just about 100metres. Fun seekers will just ignore this and have their fun in this sunny island.
Currently, the island is closed for future quality housing developments. The only residents here are the coniferous trees and the breeze shuttling between trees. While some visitors watch over the waters with approving admiration.
Coming in by Waterway@Punggol direction, a red-soil route welcome you like the red carpet.
Pine trees, ripples with the wide horizon make up an account for Coney Island beyond words.
A pavilion with an irregular arc comes with semi-open concept allows viewers to capture the beautiful scenery at the same time to hide away from the rain and sun.
The inner side of the arc, laid with reflective aluminum ceilings, mirror the bleeding red ground and turn him to a blush!
Rest enough for the day, let’s carry on with the red carpet trail and explore the next destination.
30) Song of wild flowers
Wild flowers, my dearest wild flowers
Spring is your day
Spring is your mom
Spring is your holy faith
Poem within your palm
O!
Wild flowers, my wild flowers
Aren’t you turning down my admiration?
Aren’t you releasing my nuisance?
Aren’t you realizing a fool is waiting for your enlightenment?
Wild flowers, my dearest wild flowers!
Dawn is on you way
Dawn is by your side
Dawn never fade away
Praises within your lovely farm
O!
Wild flowers, my wild flowers
Wont you care about my admiration?
Won’t you release my sorrows?
Won’t you able to feel my sympathy?
Wild flowers, my dearest wild flowers!
Rippers living by your side
Rippers waiting for your ride
Rippers need your smile and make him bright
Pleasant within your kindly eyes
O!
Wild flowers, my wild flowers
Won’t you still be seeing me tomorrow?
Won’t you be able to?
Wont you able to speak softly to me again?
Tell me where is your next destination!
19) The most creative and wonderful creatures
I love watching both western and Asian ghost movies. These movies don’t scare me out of my butt but cheers me up. I’m not drawn by the scary costumes or distorted features but rather by the dramatic, or should I say the creative and elusive form of it.
I observe and make study about their special characteristic and the way they portray themselves. They come out with different attributes as I conclude them as follows…
Note: This is under PG(Parental Guidance) category.
Some take indoor sky diving as a hobby.
Some come knocking on your door after the Tsunami.
Some habitually crawl out to have fun with human.
Some never let his arms rest in peace.
Some had flop cosmetic surgery.
Some are as handsome as ‘Blood Pit’.
Some come and lure you in the form of sweet candy.
Some I strongly believe they have come a long way….
56) Leave your footprints behind
When you visit Green Pavilion, Singapore Botanic Gardens, the easy environment not only keeps your mind free but the fresh air also leaves your lungs empowered with oxygen. The footpath leading to the basement car park is as enticing. The raw cement foot base is imprinted with bona fide leaves. I believe it must have something to do with this charming and creative organization (owner of the park) that is much into biodiversity.
Personally, I love Raphis leaves a lot. They’re always asking you for a dance with their swinging leaves.
The exotic Yam leaf with its broad shape reminds me of its undetachable relationship with the dew. Not forgetting the yummy yam underneath the soil that provides aplenty of nutrients and nourishes our taste buds.
This fan palm looks exactly like the straw fan I am holding now! Both have similar characters but different owners, but they are still standing green as eco-ambassadors.
Do stay a bit longer in a so-call un-expecting place in your next visit here. Listen to their Hellos before you take a life up to the outer green! Sometimes, your inner green is greener than others!
That is why I keep coming back to this little heaven; I just can’t get enough of it!
55) Crouching Tiger and the Hidden Dragon, Why are you hiding there?
The wood sculptures are display at the Green Pavilion, Singapore Botanic Gardens. They were carved from disused tree stumps with different hidden animals.
Perhaps they are happily gossiping behind us in their very own enclosure.
One here, trying to hide away from us!
Another one here!
At last, I caught a Dragon. Oh no! Is a Godzilla!
Beware! They always come in a pair.
Come on, don’t be as slow as the tortoise!
How many of them are there? Hmm…yet to figure out.
Oops! Is that an octopus or a snake or other thing else?
Are you the octopus or an “automated push button”?
Are there anymore?
Most probably the Tiger has escaped in the bush!
29) All these are happening in my Secret Garden
When spring arrives and visits my Secret Garden this morning. I am enchanted as it sprinkles his hand to fertile us.
Some may take it one at a time.
Some may take a bigger share and keep it for rainy days.
Some may not be able to catch it on time.
Some can’t even feel it at all.
Some sobbed and are moved by the divine touch.
Some are just glad with their given portion.
Some are overflow with it.
Some stick out their neck day and night begging for the mercy of nature.
Yelling out, “Here, here, we are here!”
Then, they are stretching out each and every day, taller and taller, higher and higher!
All these are happening in my Secret Garden.
18) Check you luck over here
Sydney bump into a shopping complex “Nex” in Serangoon Central, saw twelve animals talking about their luck in 2013!
Sydney share with you.
Before listen to their conversation, please check your Birth year below and zoom into which animal you belongs to.
Year of Rat
Year of Ox
Year of Tiger
Year of Rabbit
Year Of Dragon
Year of Snake
Year of Horse
Year of Goat
Year of Monkey
Year of Rooster
Year of Dog
Year of Pig
Hope the resolution is fine to you! If you can’t see it clearly, this might be your another kind of luck too!
Sydney believes luck, is all in you!
And this is just a fairy tour!
6) I saw my parents this morning
To day, my family and me spent half a day doing prayer to my ancestors and deceased parents. The little Buddhist temple located at Paya Lebar road, where tranquil and serenity lived.
This is the place for holding the prayer for the deceased and the tablets. My parents are somewhere at the left near the front.
But strangely, I couldn’t see them!
I walked to the back yard, saw a young papaya tree waved and said hello to me.
And walked further, asked Phalaenopsis,” where are my parents?”
She just smiled at me in return.
I asked the pearl drop, do you know where are my dearest parents?
I approached the aging bench.
I feel a balmy and gentle hand pat on my shoulder, and I looked up.
I saw daylight resting on the leaves. I saw them!
Dad and Mom said:” son, not to worry about us! We have friends, many friends here! You should take good care of yourself and live meaningfully each day!”
I kept nodding in sob.
Raindrops witnessed and shared with me this moment.
My dearest Dad and Mom, I missed you!
24) Unfolding my kitchen cabinet
Once again, I am talking about the old days and my sweet and sour story. I beg your pardon for the continuation of this part two of my old house kitchen.
Back to the olden days again, to own a refrigerator is like owning an expensive continental car. We have a special cabinet designed to store the unconsumed balance foods for the next day as foods are precious and we can’t afford to throw it away.
The design allows air ventilation so that food will not turn foul easily in this humid climate. The netting also keeps away flies and other insects for sharing the food. The legs were supported with bowls filled up with water sprinkled with kerosene or salts to deter ants from entering the food cabinet.
Well, some ants still managed to swim over to the flourish land in exchange with some number of drowning incidents!
Some of the cabinet compartments came without doors for storage of bowls and plates etc. It’s is easy to pick up whatever you want just at a glance!
Offering prayers to stove god, Vesta is also quite a tradition among the Cantonese here. The altar is always placed on the ground in the kitchen area. It is believed that the stove god will protect the owner and ocuupants of the house to have a full stomach throughout the year and guard the kitchen in a safe condition.
23) My fanciful day
Remembering when I was a little child, I fell sick and lie on the floor with my mum by my side. Those days, a family of seven, were all cramped in a one-room flat. I have to sleep on the living room floor left with not much choice. That night, my mum used this straw fan to cool me down and put me in comfort.
I remember clearly I told my mum something from the bottom of my heart. “Mum, I’m okay! I am alright!” Since then, I never forget the story about this kid and his mum and the fan in her palm. This is one fancy memory I have.
In those days where air-cons and electric fans were considered luxury items, to cool ourselves down we either relied on the nature’s wind direction or the hand-held straw fans. This very authentic fan made of straw is one essential item in every household to refresh each individual soul. With the humid weather we are having on the equator, we just have to keep fanning till we reach our dreamland.
This simple light-weigh fan has many usages and it emits fragrance of natural straws each time you use it! The Satay man needs it for his wavering stove. Some use it to chase away mosquitoes while some use it to tout business.
Olden days, to express herself more dramatically, grandaunt matchmakers carry it with them all the time. Or most probably is she trying to cover her hard-sell body language on the potentially singles that she is trying to unite?
But for now, it is no longer a drama prop in my house. It has its special role to play in my home. It beautifies a corner of my home and it brings back some warm memories I can’t erase.
While the light beam seeps through the fan, a glow seeps through my heart with reminiscence. I wish I could be the fan in my mum’s hand.
What this simple fan has provided me is not just the precious cool wind, it is the uncountable fanciful days I had with it and going to have with it. Would you agree..?
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