Bukit Timah Market and Food Centre

Snapshot on 1 October 2024.

This boring place has been around since 1975. 

Will be greatly missed by:
- the boring students of Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School that will eat here before and after school.
- the boring church members who eat here every Sunday and other days when they have church activities.
- the boring weekend warrior hikers who will rest here after their boring hikes nearby.
- the boring residents of Toh Yi Drive and the surrounding private housing who don't have maids, so the hawkers here are their personal chefs who will most of the time cook things to your pref because boring people eat at the same boring stalls daily.
- the boring househusbands and housewives that buy their meat and veggies and provisions for the uncle and aunties here.

 

What we won't miss:
- the grimy ceiling of the hawker centre.
- the birds that join in the fun, wow, there are even boring birds.
- the snatching of parking spaces from each other.

Fire Clouds

Some days we just need to look up and the day is not so boring anymore....

2 Pieces of the Berlin Wall in Singapore.

The Berlin wall was demolished on 13 June 1990 and was totally taken apart in 1992.

Some time ago, there were 4 blocks of the Berlin Wall at the Bedok Reservoir Park. The owners of that four blocks have since moved it back to the US.

Do you know there are 2 other blocks of the Berlin Wall in Singapore?
These 2 blocks are not as pretty and they are not enclosed in some glass enclosure.

A few of us 'bored' people had nothing better to do, so when we heard it was in Singapore, we went in search for it. The location that was told to one of us was not really clear, so we nearly gave up.

The "Display Area" that these 2 parts of the Berlin Wall is located is still under construction, so we had to climb up some muddy path to reach it. It's quite hidden and no one will know it is there!





Not sure of the whole story, but what we heard is that it was donated to Prof T Koh who is the ambassador-at-large, but he donated it to 'his workplace' (i.e. where he is Prof).

If you are bored, you can find these 2 blocks of the Berlin Wall in Singapore at this GPS location:
1°18'21" N 103°46'29" E

The Mural about Bukit Timah

The Teacher at Pei Hwa Presbyterian took time to draw this.
It shows the icons of Bukit Timah.





Painted on the wall of the Bukit Timah Market and Food Centre.
I love how they included a tap to integrate the yellow gas pipe!

Cloud Porn

I sneezed and this happened.



Yeah, boring folks love to look into the skies. It was even prettier earlier when the whole sky was orange!

Daisy

When you want to view flowers that are usually very beautiful, the place to go is at the Conservatories at Garden By The Bay.



Never fails to cheer you up if you go in.

More cloudy day.

After the rain. When it rains, and the rain stops just before evening, we are guaranteed a very colourful sunset.



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No edits. This was what it was.

Naumi Hotel Mural

This boring city does have artistic people.



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Reminds me of a similar one on Sixth Avenue, the OCBC Bank mural.

WMF Performance Cut Chef's Edition Knives

Many people have obsessions with knives. I have this guy friend from Penang who is quite a knife collector. Some of us will avoid him when he's doing his acrobatics stunts with knives.

I also have many friends who loves cooking and love a good set of knives. So many brands to choose or rather so many brands to covet!



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This was at a WMF event, where we got to preview the new Performance Cut Chef's Edition Knives. So beautiful isn't it?

We got to use the knives and it made us really covet this set. Call us all materialistic, it's ok.
A sharp sturdy knife is a safe knife.

This set of knives has been launched in Singapore the week before Christmas in Singapore.


How can you be bored, when you have a good pair of knives and you can cut and make artistic food sculptures?

Sunrise

More sunrise photos. Since Singapore is on perpetual day light saving mode, many people especially students and teachers go out of their house way before Sunrise. Today's sunrise is officially at 6:56 AM.


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This was taken today at 6:44AM. What a magnificent glow there was in sky!

What do people do when they are bored? They go to the hill and climb it! Then proceed to have a huge breakfast.

The rain in Spain, no.. I mean the rain in Bukit Timah...

Another super humid Sunday. It just rained a while and stopped.
The skies are still dark and am contemplating should I go up to the hill for a hike.


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It will be super super humid at Bukit Timah Hill. It would be nice and sticky for those who yearn to sweat it out without doing much!

Double Happiness

Double Happiness (Shuang Xi).

This is one of the many patterns/words that was projected on the walls of the Singapore ArtScience Museum during the Light Show in March 2014.


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This was taken on 7 March 2014.

Tulipmania @ Flower Dome, Gardens by the Bay.

It's hot and humid outside, but inside the Flower Dome, it's cool and dry.
The added bonus is that it's the time for Tulipmania, but it ends tomorrow.


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It was an outing day for us today and the whole family went to admire the Tulips.
The flowers are so intriguing, that there's no one bored around!

The smell of the flowers are so nice too!

View from ION Sky

It was a clear day, it was going to rain, thus the view is full of tiny droplets of rain/mist.

This view is towards the south and you can see the Reflections and Sentosa Island.

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That's not going to prevent folks who think Singapore's not boring from going up 218 metres in the sky from ION Sky.

You can have a 360 degrees view of Singapore from the 56 level of the ION Orchard Tower. Kind of reminds me of climbing up Eiffel Tower, but this is all enclosed and no strong winds to blow you unstable. LOL

I just discovered there's an ION Sky website too! http://ionsky.com.sg

To infinity and beyond....

I know of 2 very high up in the sky infinity pools in Singapore.
The big one at Marina Bay Sands Hotel.



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This smaller one at Westin Singapore.
The wife and I had a dip in it during one night when we had a staycation there. It was freezing.

If you are bored in Singapore, have a dip in a pool high up on a building!

It's nice to look at infinity pools isn't it? It seems endless and the pool seems to extend all the way to the sea with the ships!

W

The famous W logo.



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Definitely not a boring place if that place has a W property. Do you agree?

Love the design on the sign.

Creative Fusion

Wall Art.



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If you are bored, don't try to spray paint walls. Go take photos of sprayed pain walls instead.
You can find quite a few of these nice ones around.

Not telling you where, you go find them!

The Cool Blue Merlion

How many Merlions are there in Singapore?
There are a few official ones.



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This Merlion at Sentosa changes colour at night.
This is the Blue Version.
Someone I know who works for Sentosa told me it's Cool Blue.

If you are bored in Singapore, go hunt down the Merlions in Singapore and take selfies with them!

Bye Bye McDonald's Place.

This was taken sometimes in March 2014. This building was McDonald's Place at 11 King Albert Park. It has been around for so long as it's one very popular McDonald's in Singapore. Many people have fond memories here.



KopiKosongGirl says we got to go there and have a last meal. We were going off to Australia for holidays and when we are back, it would have been closed.



So here's our last supper here.
As of today as this is posted, half the building has been demolished. So fast!

We are missing it!



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The High Tech Turtle of Singapore

Think we love to give things nicknames in Singapore.

We have the Esplanade and we call it the 'durian'. This is the new National Stadium being build. I think it looks like a 'turtle', don't you think so?

Would it be called "The Turtle" or "Tortoise"?



You won't be bored in Singapore when you can watch many shows or sports that will be doing on there. It should be ready in mid 2014, a few months more! Can't wait.

Once it's completed, it would have the world's largest Dome Roof.


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