Showing posts with label singapore. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Long weekend - Changi Boardwalk

Long weekend. I don't know what we did, except we spent an awful lot of time going out for meals. Most interesting was our quest for Saturday's dinner.

We left the house at around 4pm. Not exactly sure where we'd go, we ended up driving to Changi and stumbled upon the coastal walk. We started from Changi point (P18 on the map), walked all the way to Changi village for dinner and then back again. I think it's about 1.5-2km each way. Spent some time along the beach. It was low tide and we found quite a few hermit crabs, some baby crabs and a sea snail without much effort. Other creatures we spotted - a pair of 'common kingfishers' , one macaque and lots and lots of bats! Arh red ants too - and yep, the boy got bitten yet again. He was running his hands along the fencing ropes and one of them got on to him and bit him. Very few homo sapiens though. We think they must have all migrated to neighbouring lands for the long weekend.
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Monday, August 10, 2009

National Day 2009

Stayed 2 nights at the St. Regis Hotel

Invited a couple of friend over... at one point, we had 4 fully dressed kids sitting in the 'boat' (on the right) watching TV (in the toilet) and then much later, after their swim, the same 4 kids jumped into their 'boat' again for a rub-a-dub-dub, bailing enough water out of it to drown the rest of us living outside.

Watching the parade
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Family was invited to a parade viewing party at The Sail @ Marina. Really cool to watch the planes and helicopters fly past ... below!

Top left: boy looking out Top right: one of the nicer shots

Bottom left: heart shape fireworks Bottom right: me sitting down quietly.