6 posts tagged “nature”
Above: Bumboat ride from Changi Jetty.
Right: Ixora, plentiful along the road in Ubin.
Galls don't just come in green! Infected rubber/tapioca leaves on the left. The leaves in Ubin looked generally a lot unhealthier than both L. Peirce and BTNR. Fallen branches and browning leaves (no, not red young fake ones) everywhere. Many plants had been ravaged by galls.
Chaque jour passé plongée dans la nature est un bien passé.
On apprecie la beauté incroyable de ce monde sur lequel nous vivons.
Today on a whim, I set off on 190 and walked around Chinatown. On the bus, I was debating whether I should get off at Peninsula Plaza (to look for cameras and Roxy) or One Central or at the interchange (to eat Yong Tau Hu). I decided to get off one stop before interchange - first sign of craziness, since this wasn't even in my top three options - and walk to the temporary hawker centre opposite the National Dental Centre.
After a less-than-satisfactory chicken rice lunch at a corner stall, I went to sniff around the CD stall. To my surprise, I saw Beth Orton. I bet Gramophone doesn't even have Beth Orton!! Besides that most of the stuff there are staples.
I got a watermelon-carrot juice and set off for Emerald Hill. I kind of got distracted, but I'll save that part for later. Walked along Kreta Ayer Road, which brought back quite a few memories of childhood Sundays whiled away eating ham jing peng at the now-closed stall on the 2nd floor of the hawker centre. Then there was Ming Fa Fishball Noodles (still exists, thankfully), the splendid mi jiang kueh that I first fell in love with with its crispy edges, zhu cao hidden behind Ming Fa and the free tissue boxes, and so much more. Oh, and CK Departmental Store - where I got my first coin collection book. Mmm. Such fond recollections...
This place caught my eye. You can't see what's inside, and I didn't really intend to press my camera to the glass door or something. I'll explore inside another time, maybe. [Note to self: Saturday by appointment only.]
Here's a Chinese medicine hall with free consultation. Funny enough, the clinic next door had 5 people, but there was no one to be seen here. And I thought Singaporeans were cheapskate... Guess there are exceptions, then. Or perhaps the notion of TCM is unattractive? This is Chinatown, still.
Left: Red moped seeks respite from the sun.
Turned right after Kreta Ayer and the first thing that caught my eye was this passageway.
Doesn't it remind you of some European alley? With all its white walls and overhanging clumps of green.
Vox is being uncooperative, I'll update tonight.
20h01:
I walked down Neil Road, risking my life as I dodged cars walking the fine (yellow) lines, only because they had conveniently installed their green dustbins on the pavement fit for a single file of people. I crossed before the eBay building into Craig Road. Unintentionally following a man munching on his ma la gao I spotted a ZoCard stand and immediately set upon it. And I think I was lucky, because when I turned around, right in front of me was a beautiful building.
This is the kind of place I would spend an entire day in. But obviously I didn't have that kind of time to spare, as I'd promised myself that I'd be at Tanjong Pagar MRT by 1pm. I indulged for a short while anyway. I was blown away - the shop had old angel statues, camera obscuras, and even an old ship compass ($8500 if you're interested)! There's a second floor, too! I can't wait to go back. :D It's Thong Mern Seng Antiques shop. I'll add the details from the namecard soon.
Grudgingly I left. I can't remember what happened next, really, only that I ended up at Tanjong Pagar hawker centre near ClimbAd and while balancing on the kerb (for lack of pavement) a butterfly suddenly fluttered at my feet and settled on a leaf.
I'll let the photos speak for themselves first. I'll elaborate in my journal and update this another time maybe...
Today was such an irritating day. But I throw my arms around it and embrace it tightly.
That is only because my head is whirling and I have not bathed and I am not making sense of anything.
1. We had a relief teacher for Mrs. Tan. Her name was Ms. Tan. This is how she looks like:
2. Sets went to IKEA today. A milestone, really. I cannot believe we have finally got down to doing something instead of sitting around in the Props room pretending to be inspired about how we should arrange the whole damn thing. We should have just sat in for the rehearsals and observed. Grarh. Here are a couple of photos, because I need to run off to study for tomorrow's History test:
On the right you see Sherrie's butt print.
When I am more inspired I will post my more inspiring photos. Ahhh what the heck, here's one for you:
Ben, j'ai sommeil. Hier soir, j'ai appele Claire et nous parlons pendant longtemps. Il est dit que on apprends un nouveau chose chaque jour mais hier j'ai appris beaucoup de choses.
My thumb hurts. I painstakingly carved out on an old book cover
NE RESPIREZ PLUS!
and the Earth spewing unrecognisable objects from the Philippines. By that I mean that the Philippines happened to be the Earth's mouth. The design's not fantastic, but I like my bones and starburst and my secret embedded (and admittedly unintended) picture. Inspired by Jaime Hayon and quoted from an article in L'Express.
I hope people like it. So far I've decided on "NE RESPIREZ PLUS!", "NE BUVEZ PLUS!", and "NE MANGEZ PLUS!". I told Wenny I'd do four though, so I'm a little stumped- quotable pun from Miss Tan Beng Chiak- right now.
The sky is pink, I note.
Everything's pink.
I'm too lazy to get my camera.
07/01/06
I had a weird dream last night. I was a public bus driver making a route around some food streets when an emergency came on. So I had to get people to go into a shelter, which wasn't much of a shelter because it looked strangely like the school hall. And had wooden doors. Then people started walking around the roads and with great annoyance I had to yell at them to get off the streets because other buses were coming in. Hm.
Lack of sleep?
Today I made good my promise to learn some Chinese on my own (no more tuition!) and revised Math. Plus, I finished the "NE BUVEZ PLUS!" so I am satisfied. Wish I'd do more exercise though. I'm seriously gaining weight by the kilo. On other more interesting things,
I read something really hilarious in the Sunday Times today in the Gen Y section.
Some person roughly uttered these words of wisdom:
"It's a public place so we can do anything we want, what."
Sometimes I wonder if my expectations are very high, like Ms Picca suggested, or that I'm very proud, as my parents always say. But I really can't stand imbeciles. Complete ignoramuses. When someone is slower than I am, I find that really very painful. I hope it doesn't result in my downfall, or something.
If you don't understand what I mean, basically I mean that the girl who said that isn't very clever.
I expect she wouldn't mind if someone on the seat next to hers in the train spilled a drink, or indiscriminately took photos of her, or did some immoral acts.
So what if we've got the brains? Someone help us.
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Taken from Mr. Lim's blog: Rhythms del Mundo. Good stuff. Also found the Artists' Project Earth, which sounds quite like what I'm doing now for cafe except it doesn't go directly to any environmental foundation. Did you know, too, that Leonardo DiCaprio has an eco-site? Which puzzles me because he's a smoker. Maybe he quit. I hope.
