Sun Setting on 31st March 2016

A very beautiful sun setting on 31st March 2016. The huge and fiery sun setting among the clouds and the moving clouds covering the sun. Was real hot day.

Video of the sun setting beautifully.

Haze is back

The haze is back in Singapore. It was due to burning of plantation in Indonesia. The companies involved were so irreponsible for polluting the air. Affecting neighbouring countries like Singapore and Malaysia and the worse affected were their own citizen in Indonesia. Kalimantan having PSI like 2000, scary figure. Here our PSI are above 250, already many falling sick with cough and eyes irritation.

There's government subsidy for medical fees for haze related illness, for those earning below $1800 or senior citizen, children and low income groups. For more information, view haze subsidy.

Rain at last

After an absense of rain for about two months, heavy downpour in most part of Singapore, really a welcome relief. The grasses are all turning yellow from lack of water and most ponds were drying up. If the rain do not comes, I guess we need to have water rationing.

Flood in Orchard Road

You will know the effect of the heavy rain that I posted in my previous post when you watch this video. I got the above video from You Tube.

Who would believe Orchard Road in Singapore is flooded? Actually it happened before in 1978, and I was caught in that heavy flood back then.

Many young Singaporeans have not seen flood before, because Singapore is so well organised and efficient that flood is unusual in here especially Orchard Road. So today's flood really make many young Singaporeans worried...lol.

But with so many constructions going around in Singapore (I mentioned in my earlier post), not surprising some parts of drains and canals might be choked and water cant flow. I hope the authority will make sure it wont happen again.

Flood was so common during my childhood and I ever went to school in knee deep flood.

Raining stop me from going out.

Oh no, the rain is pouring. It stops me from going out to get more photos for my blog. I am running out of photos to post...lol.

A short video of the rain.

Skywatch Friday-Rain, Rain please come again

This photo and video were taken quite some time back. With killer weather like these few days, it is so refreshing to watch the rain in action in the video. It is 34 degrees celsius today, I think I am going to melt...lol

Rain Rain, please come back again.

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Skywatch-Lightning Strikes

Now this is so scary. I know I must not stand near the windows whenever there is thunder and lightning.

But the lightning was going on continously and very fierce and it was a very good opportunity to snap the lightning...lol. I am very careful to have the window closed and standing away from the window, so I took this video through the glass panel of the window. I dont have to wait a long time to snap the lightning but am satisfied with this very short video of the lightning. But dont think I want to try another attempt to take photo of the lightning unless I am very far from it.

Screen shot of the lightning from the video.

You can see how huge and powerful the lightning was.

No wonder the poor merlion was hit by lightning the day before I took this video. (Article taken from local newspaper - Straits Times.)

This video was taken on 1st March 2009 around 3 plus in the afternoon.

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Skywatch-Moon

This photo of the moon was taken some months back.

Dont mistaken about the below photo, is not the moon versus the sun. :) The orangy glow was from the street light. It was really very dark over there cause it was close to midnight and there weren't many people and vehicles around.

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Skywatch-Rain

It's end of the year where the raining season begin.

Took these photos of the sky where you could see the rain falling and the rain drops on the windows.

This is the best time to just stay at home and sleep....lol

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Dancing Moon

It was supposed to be a simple photograph of the moon in the night. But the moon looked like it was dancing in the dark....lol

No idea why the moon appeared in this way, the only reason could be me not holding the camera properly....lol

UFO?

It's really the moon only. :)

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Rain Drops

Do you like rain? I love rain and I love hearing the raindrops hitting on the window pane.

It was raining so heavily. I decided to snap at the raindrops on the window and see how the photo turn out...lol. That is what I could only do on a raining door as I cant go out in such a heavy downpour.

Find the aeroplane

I caught this on camera.

The sky was full of small clouds that looked like cotton wool. I have no idea what this type of clouds are known as. From this link , I think they are known as Cirrocumulus.

Now can you find the aeroplane among the clouds.

For more information on clouds, you can see this website.

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

Dark Clouds above the highest hotel in Singapore

This photo was just taken in the evening. It looked as if it was about to rain. Swissotel The Stamford stand at 741 ft used to be the highest hotel in the world. For the list of the tallest hotel in the world, look here.

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A beautiful pattern of cloud

Sometimes it is nice to capture the sky. You can see the different patterns of the clouds. If you looked at the first photo, you might think it would be raining but looked at the below photo.

It was actually sun setting. Night is falling. My apartment has great view of sunsetting but I dont have a sea view...hahaha. I would really love to have a sea view apartment but then it would be very costly.

Moon

It was one of the early mornings that I was looking out of the window, as a worried mom, wondering why my son is still not back from his outings.

The streets were so quiet and then I saw this huge moon looking at me as if to tell me, dont worry your son is fine. :)

It really was huge so I grabbed my camera and zoomed on the moon and I swear I think I could see the surface of the moon...hahaha.

You can click the photo to enlarge and let me know if you think you could see the moon surface too or was it my imagination...hehehe

Scary Cloud

The weather seems to be changing everyday. Been raining heavily end of last year and we finally see nice weather in February and now it is raining heavily again.

This scary dark cloud was taken last week at around 7 pm. It was going to rain but the sky looked so gloomy and dark and scary and when it finally rain it was scary with the sound of the strong wind especially so when I stay in a highrise apartment.

Plane partially hidden in sky

Recently, we had this air show in Singapore in the east of Singapore. So there were many planes flying above us.

I managed to snap and zoom on this huge plane flying above me.
I did not realised I captured this photoshot of the plane hidden partially in my photo till I looked through the photos in my computer. I think it is cute. The front part of the plane was hidden in the clouds.

Sunset

The photo may looked crooked...lol. I just put the camera through the window and just click the button...hahaha. Cause I dare not looked direct at the sun. I like the colour of the sky but the crane looked out of place.

Sun among the cloudy sky

Inspired by my good texan friend's blog sun and moon posting. I captured this photo of sun this morning. It is dangerous to look at the sun with the naked eye, so I just raised my camera and take a few shots. Anyway I cant raised my head to look at the sun too (lol), woken up yesterday with a stiff neck....ouch.........

The rain had finally slowly clearing but looking at the cloudy sky trying to hide the sun, hmmmm, I guess it would rain again.

I remember I sang this song when I was young. "Rain Rain go away, little children want to play". Now I hope the rain will go away for a while cause I have lots of gathering this weekend and a BBQ on Xmas Eve.....lol

Rainy Day

What weather do you have? It had been raining for a long time right here in Singapore.