Black Swans at the Singapore Botanic Gardens

With Singapore getting more crowded, there's a secret hideout at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. If you are boring people like us, just sit down with a book (or iPad) and enjoy the sounds of these swans making noise.



If you are really boring like us, you can sit till the sky turns duck, err I mean dark.



However boring you can be, don't stay too late. There are mozzies around and no, there won't be golden eggs laid by these black swans even if you wait 20 years.


I lied. It's not as quiet as you think it is.
There are less boring people who will be around the gardens playing frisbee etc.
It's a nice place really.

Botanic Gardens Bukit Timah Gate

A new gate opens!

The Singapore Botanic Gardens have a new gate called the "Bukit Timah Gate" that's ride beside the Botanic Gardens MRT.



I am wondering, why are all the "big gates" at all the different entrances / gates always closed?
Visitors all have to enter by the side gates to get in.

A closed gate is good for photography though. ;-)

I like the design of this gate. Big and small squares.
How many squares can you spot?

Circle Line Open House.

Last Saturday evening, Momo and I went for the last two hours of the Circle Line Open House. It was a really last minute decision, since it's free and we could get to see the stations first before it officially opens.

This is probably the nearest Circle Line station from our home. We need to take around 30 minutes of bus ride to get to this station. Kind of far isn't it? To get to the nearest East West line, it takes around 5 minutes less.

One of the reason why we are 'bus people'.



Back to the Circle Line Open Day. Wow, it's unbelievable how many people are at all the different stations! It was so packed! Stations were not very ready, but they had 1 more week to spruce things up. It was a nice ride though. Circle Line trains seems to run faster too.

As a software engineer, so proud that software powers the train. The trains are driverless, all powered by software. Just wondering, how neat the codes are written!

Poo Bags available here...

The photo says it all.

The swan at the Botanic Gardens

A view at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.



A colleague who usually drops by says this swan has been around for a long time.