Vivo City - Marche's Restaurant-Little Garden-Herbs

They too grow lots of herbs and spices plants. The above plant is curry leaf. Each time I wanted to cook curry chicken or fish, I would get some stalks from the vegetable seller free of charge. The best way to get free extras is to make friends with the vegetable seller. Hubby told me that, the next time you buy any vegetables from her, she just add the cost of the free extras to your purchases...arggggg.

This is ladyfinger or Okra plant but I did not spot any fruit in this plant.

Today is April Fool's day, did any one of you get any pranks played on you? I did play a prank on my hubby. Hubby said I am so childish...lol.

I remembered my late mom would always called me on April Fool's Day and every year she would play the same joke...lol.

She would just called and said she found a huge parcel that contained a lot of money in it and we would always replied her "April Fool's Day". We are so used to the same joke every year...hahahaha.

Vivo City - Marche Restaurant's Little Garden - Fruits

The sight of this brinjal or egg plant growing from the plant really interest me. I did not know the brinjal can grow from a pot. The restaurant's staff must have taken very good care of this little garden, the plants bore fruits so healthily.

Oh I love this too. I saw so many big and round tomatoes growing from this pot.

Some actually are whittering away.

I love tomatoes and they are really very good for the heart.

If you happen to be in Vivo City, do go to the roof top and look for the little garden in front of Marche Restaurant. Very educational for the kids too.

Vivo City - Marche Restuarant - Little Garden

This may looked like a family of cows promoting the Marche's steak restaurant but on closer look, you can see a little garden with plants that actually bear fruits and there are also some herb plants too.

I spotted some chilli plants

More photos coming in later posts.

Christmas at Vivo City

Guess who is this tall man? He is looking at the going to be open Universal Studio, Singapore on Sentosa Island. Is he looking forward to the theme park as much as I am?

He is none other than Mr. Snowman. :)

Christmas Tree on the roof top of Vivo City.

Hubby gave me the idea of taking the photo of the tree with the reflection in the small waving pool. The pool is not deep, they are for kids running and playing in them.

Skywatch Friday-Huge Lantern

This is an old photo taken during Chinese New Year earlier this year. It is a giant lantern and it can revolved. I think it looked so pretty. The lantern was located on the roof top of Vivo City (a huge shopping mall near Harbour Front MRT Station.

This is one of my favourite mall but been a long time since I visited there.

A short video showing the lantern revolving.

For other sky watchers, please hop over to Skywatch blog.

City Hall Singapore

This is my contribution for skywatch. It shows our Singapore Flag flying high on top of City Hall.



City Hall was built in 1926 and has a long history. Will write more about the history of City Hall in my next post.

Thanks to Tom for hosting Sky Watch. For other sky watchers, you can go to Tom's website.

Escalators

More photos on escalators. You can compare the escalators in these photos with my previous photo in my earlier post to see the big wheels that can be seen in the transparent panel of the escalators in the previous post.

Escalators at Causeway Point

Escalators at Vivo City.

Geez, I dont think I did a good job taking photos of them, they looked untidy....lol.

Swarovski Crystals Christmas Tree

A special Christmas tree decorated with thousands of Swarovski crystal ornaments in Vivo City.

Closer look at the crystals.

Vivo City Post Christmas Sales and Cute Christmas Decorations

And I thought I am over with posting of christmas decorations for my blog....lol. But as I was shopping at Vivo City for post christmas sales, I came across these cute christmas decorations and they are too cute not to be posted in my blog. But at the same time, I am having a great time shopping at the one year old Vivo City Shopping Mall (one of the biggest mall in Singapore) with sales like 30% to 50%, everyone are having a great time shopping.

This year the theme for christmas decorations at Vivo City are reindeers, christmas trees, angels and snowman.

In the background, you can see many shops having post christmas sales.

Vivo City at night

Vivo City by night is very beautiful with the lovely skylight and the harbour nearby.

Take note of the neon light of the word vivo city, they can change into many colours within a few seconds.

I love christmas trees and the lovely fairy nights that make the trees looked beautiful.

Beautiful christmas decoration (hahaha........these are 2006 christmas decoration photo, will get new 2007 christmas photo when they are put up)

Children having a fun time with the fountains.

Vivo City (inside the mall)

Vivo City was officially opened on 1st December 2006. It is just one of the many shopping malls in Singapore (a shopping and food paradise).

Sometimes it get so crowded but the good thing is Vivo City is very big and spacious for all.

I love taking photos of escalators. But I think I did not take a good photo of it. I guess it was because of my fear of heights......lol (Look at my other posting on escalators.....http://alicesgdiary.blogspot.com/2007/11/escalators.html)

The interior and colour of vivo city is very nice and soothing. I like simple colours and not too loud colours, it make shopping more relaxing....

And who could have forgotten about food. There are many restaurants in vivo city and of course food courts with different ethnic food that is inexpensive. Kopitiam is a non-halal food court.

Banquet food court is a halal food court means it served no pork. Isn't it great with the wide range of choices of food in Singapore.

The Swedish Gotheborg

I went to Vivo City again on New Year's Day 2007. Was surprised to see a beautiful and nice ship.The Swedish Ship Gotheborg is an exact replica of the Swedish sailing vessel which undertook its third expedition to China in 1743 to 1745.