An Amazing Journey!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Logan visiting
It was wonderful to finally have one of our boys over for a brief stay. Below are a few of a selection of photos of his visit. We tried to get him around most of the popular and exotic places of Singapore.
The floating platform...always an amazement that this huge stage can float and it still totally amazes me just what sort of activity they use this platform for. Here they are getting it ready for a soccer match.
71 stories up is a very, very long way and everything looks so tiny down below. 
This is one of the famous churches that everyone goes to visit while in Singapore...we prefer to look down upon it from this height.
We treated him to a walk through Little India on Sunday night...ask him about how many men were there...and we were early.
Another stop has to be the Fairy Bar...the architecture of this building is amazing...even now it still blows us away. As it was nearly Wayne's birthday we treated him to a bottle of wine...a New Zealand Chardonnay...at the lowly cost of $95. It was worth it just to see the fairy go up and get the wine.
A cool dude at a cool place. Getting Logan to pose for photos was almost impossible, but we did get this one.
The beautiful fairy pouring the extremely expensive wine.
The floating platform...always an amazement that this huge stage can float and it still totally amazes me just what sort of activity they use this platform for. Here they are getting it ready for a soccer match.
71 stories up is a very, very long way and everything looks so tiny down below. 
This is one of the famous churches that everyone goes to visit while in Singapore...we prefer to look down upon it from this height.
We treated him to a walk through Little India on Sunday night...ask him about how many men were there...and we were early.
Another stop has to be the Fairy Bar...the architecture of this building is amazing...even now it still blows us away. As it was nearly Wayne's birthday we treated him to a bottle of wine...a New Zealand Chardonnay...at the lowly cost of $95. It was worth it just to see the fairy go up and get the wine.
A cool dude at a cool place. Getting Logan to pose for photos was almost impossible, but we did get this one.
The beautiful fairy pouring the extremely expensive wine. One night we went to Chinatown and did some shopping...a favourite place of mine. This Hindu Temple is on one of the backstreets and as it was Deepavali it was well lit up and many people inside, judging by the scores of shoes outside.
Waiting for a train at our MRT to take us into town
Lau Pa Sat is a must place to visit...satay's barbecued on the street. They close this street off at night time and all the bbq's come out and cook and people eat and drink in a wonderful atmosphere.
At last I have seen a Hornbill...all be it at the zoo. We had breakfast with the Orang-u-tans and then wandered around until it was time for us to leave for work. We left Logan there and met up with him later in the day. 
We went to visit the white tiger and found this art class from one of the local Japanese schools, they were drawing picture of the tiger asleep on the rocks but funnily all their pictures showed the tiger standing.
A visit to Singapore is not compete without a Singapore Sling at Raffles Long Bar. Each drink costs $22 each but it is an obligatory thing to have. We even got Wayne to have one today!
A wander up the Singapore River is a must. We did this on our way to Check In for Wayne's birthday gathering.
And of course the Merlion is a popular tourist spot.
And then there is the two dimensional buildings. They seem like a quirk of nature and a quite freaky but an awesome sight.
For once I am taller than Logan
We did a quick visit to Sentosa. It was beginning to getting dark and the amount of cranes across at Singapore is incredible.
And the Songs of the Sea is incredible...entertaining as well as amazing...it is a laser light show.
After a walk along the beach we found this shop and couldn't resist
Waiting for a train at our MRT to take us into town
Lau Pa Sat is a must place to visit...satay's barbecued on the street. They close this street off at night time and all the bbq's come out and cook and people eat and drink in a wonderful atmosphere.
At last I have seen a Hornbill...all be it at the zoo. We had breakfast with the Orang-u-tans and then wandered around until it was time for us to leave for work. We left Logan there and met up with him later in the day. 
We went to visit the white tiger and found this art class from one of the local Japanese schools, they were drawing picture of the tiger asleep on the rocks but funnily all their pictures showed the tiger standing.
A visit to Singapore is not compete without a Singapore Sling at Raffles Long Bar. Each drink costs $22 each but it is an obligatory thing to have. We even got Wayne to have one today!
A wander up the Singapore River is a must. We did this on our way to Check In for Wayne's birthday gathering.
And of course the Merlion is a popular tourist spot.
And then there is the two dimensional buildings. They seem like a quirk of nature and a quite freaky but an awesome sight.
For once I am taller than Logan
We did a quick visit to Sentosa. It was beginning to getting dark and the amount of cranes across at Singapore is incredible.
And the Songs of the Sea is incredible...entertaining as well as amazing...it is a laser light show.
After a walk along the beach we found this shop and couldn't resist
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Bottle Tree Park
We finally found the time to visit a park we view from the train while tooing and froing.
The park always looks busy and interesting.
We caught the train down to Khatib and decided to walk in through the side gate. This was beside an HDB (like our housing corp flats) and then through a small park. It was a pleasant enough walk until we came to a group within this area that looked like they were having a misunderstanding. We had no choice but to walk through them...it was a bit scary but we were fine.
We finally found the side entrance and this is sign outside.
This tree show why it is called Bottle Tree Park!
There are a number of restaurants in the area...we were between times so did not get to try any of them. Walking around we found some small ponds where people were fishing for prawns...which they then had cooked for them. You pay for this privilege. There was also a pond where children could fish for some little guppie type fish that they could take home for their own tank.
It had been raining just before we got to the park and the lily pads had droplets of water all over them.
Waiting for the bus to take us to Ikea I snapped this shot of the train passing. We usually try and get near a window so that we can see the view of the park and the reservoir on the other side.
The bus too us to Tampines and we then took the free bus to Ikea where we had dinner for under $20 and that included coffee and sprite. We then wandered around Ikea and dreamt what we would like to have in our place. Its a wonderful place to shop and dream.
The park always looks busy and interesting.
We caught the train down to Khatib and decided to walk in through the side gate. This was beside an HDB (like our housing corp flats) and then through a small park. It was a pleasant enough walk until we came to a group within this area that looked like they were having a misunderstanding. We had no choice but to walk through them...it was a bit scary but we were fine.
We finally found the side entrance and this is sign outside.
This tree show why it is called Bottle Tree Park! 
There are a number of restaurants in the area...we were between times so did not get to try any of them. Walking around we found some small ponds where people were fishing for prawns...which they then had cooked for them. You pay for this privilege. There was also a pond where children could fish for some little guppie type fish that they could take home for their own tank.
It had been raining just before we got to the park and the lily pads had droplets of water all over them.
Waiting for the bus to take us to Ikea I snapped this shot of the train passing. We usually try and get near a window so that we can see the view of the park and the reservoir on the other side.
The bus too us to Tampines and we then took the free bus to Ikea where we had dinner for under $20 and that included coffee and sprite. We then wandered around Ikea and dreamt what we would like to have in our place. Its a wonderful place to shop and dream.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Singapore Night Race
We went for a walk one night after our tutoring and found ourselves down by where the night race was going to be taking place. It was like daylight and even then the atmosphere was incredible.
We wandered around the area and found we could actually walk on a part of it and this was amazing. It is the closest we will ever get to the night race.
The night of the race we bought a bottle of wine and went home to watch it on TV. The folowing photos are from the TV.
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