Saturday, 27 December 2008

Hort Park

The day started with a visit to the Hort Park @ 33 Hyderabad Road, Off Alexandra Road.

As this is the last Saturday of the month, the Guided Tour is FOC. But as we have some free time before the Guided Tour commences, we have decided to wonder around the podium area and take some pictures.





As the sun was shinning brightly and weather was good. The kids decided to run around the park and explore the neatly trim vegetation. You can tell from the picture that they are loving it, right?

The Guided Tour lead us through a several themes within Hort Park. Descriptions were given on the types of plants grown in our environment, like kitchen, living rooms and so on and their suitability on the types of watering it need.

Our tour guide, Gary, was also able to relate some of the smells that comes out from the respective leaves/flowers in the Spice Theme area and I thought this is rather interesting as we are nowadays too busy with our urban lifestyle to notice the softer side of things.





The tour ended after Gary briefed us on the type of Greenhouse flowers they had bred and in ideal condition, the flowers will bloom all year round. Interesting!



Monday, 8 December 2008

Ho Ho Ho......Merry Christmas !!!

I can feel the Christmas spirit early this year.

From Recession Christmas

In terms of decorations in Singapore.... I would rate this as so...so..... though good effort has been put up by the Government to shine up the place, I can vividly remember the Good Old Days when Hotels and Shopping Malls are competing to win the best decoration award. Those were the best few years when you can walk down Orchard Road and see those amazing decorations, glittering in the lights. The atmosphere is superb!

My Christmas wish is...... World Peace....... :-P

meanwhile..... enjoy some pictures I have taken.....