Skywatch Friday - Tanjong Pagar Railway Station - Train

There are many people on the train platform but majority are just shutterbugs to record a piece of history before the train relocated to Woodlands.


I was lucky to take a photo of the 1 pm train that was leaving towards Malaysia.

Close Up Shots of the railway tracks.

I guess all these tracks will be dismantled and recycled or sold as scraps.



A short video of the train leaving the station towards Malaysia.

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My World Tuesday - Tanjong Pagar Railway Station

Last weekend, hubby and me went to Tanjong Pagar Railway Station, not to take the train but to record a piece of history before the railway station is set to be relocated to Woodlands on 1st July 2011.

The Singapore Railway line is the southernmost segment in the West Coast Line of what first began as the Malayan Railway, now known as KTM (Keretapi Tanah Melayu) Berhad, a Malaysian corporation wholly-owned by the Malaysian Government. The terminus in Singapore is the Tanjong Pagar Station. (Source:Infopedia ). You can read from Infopedia the long history and how the trains run.

After so many disputes and discussions, finally an agreement was made to relocate the train station to Woodlands. A company will be set up by both countries to develop some land parcels in Singapore as part of the agreement to relocate the railway station. You can read more about the agreement in here.

The architectural design of the railway station is very European and said to be influenced by the architect of Finland's Helsinki Station, Eliel Saarinen.

The four statues outside the Tanjong Pagar Railway Station represents the four pillars of Malaysia. They are named Agriculture, Commerce, Transport and Industry; each personification holding symbols unique to their character.









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Bukit Panjang - Ten Mile LRT Station

The above photo shows the Ten Mile Junction Shopping Mall. It was closed for renovation.

In few years time it would be linked to the not yet completed Bukit Panjang MRT Station. At present the LRT Station at Ten Mile Junction will closed due to the renovation but I found a video in You Tube showing the LRT station at Ten Mile Junction.

The above video was not taken by me.

My World Tuesday - Bukit Panjang

Been a long time since I visited this central north-western part of Singapore. The last time I came here was about twenty years ago...lol. Singapore is a tiny island but there are so many corners of the island that I have yet to visit.


Much changes in Bukit Panjang since I last visited. Bukit Panjang is just another town in Singapore where it is self contained with amenities for the residents of the town. Bukit means hill in malay and Panjang means long. Bukit Panjang literally means "long hill" which gets its name from the long range of high hills which ends in Bukit Timah to the south. You can read more information of Bukit Panjang from wikipedia.


Residents can shop at the mall in Bukit Panjang instead of travelling far to the heart of the city to shop.

The flats are linked via the Light Rail Trains (LRT). Residents can take the LRT to Bukit Panjang Mall or connect to the MRT Station in Choa Chu Kang to take them down to town. In a few years time, Bukit Panjang will have their own MRT Station which is the downtown line.



This is one of the LRT Station in Bukit Panjang (it is not the same as the MRT you see in Orchard Road, etc). The whole line is about 7.8 km. and has about 14 stations.


Inside one of the station.

A short video showing the LRT coming out of the station.


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BMW Motorcycle

There are so many motorcycles in the car park near Seah Imm Hawker Centre but one bike caught my attention. It had a BMW logo and I thought BMW logo only appeared in cars.

Kallang - Driving Lesson

This is the car park outside the Singapore National Stadium. Since the stadium had already closed down, this car park is very quiet and deserted.

The only people I saw using the car park are these learner drivers. Hahaha, it reminded of the days when I was learning how to drive. My instuctor brought me to a cemetery to learn parking..lol. It really scared me but luckily there are other learner drivers in that area too.

And hey, I passed on my first attempt after learning for only twenty over lessons but now I rather take the public transport or be driven than to drive cause there are simply too many cars in the city.

A short video showing the learner drivers.

Map of Mass Rapid Transit in Singapore

It is very easy to move around Singapore.

This is a map of Singapore MRT system in Singapore. I got the map from the official website of SMRT. You can read more from its official website.

The circle line (yellow colour) was recently added to the MRT System.

Despite the name, the Circle Line is not actually a full circle, as there will be no through service on the section between Harbourfront and Dhoby Ghaut. Passengers will need to transfer onto the North-East Line instead.

In my next few posts, I will show you some of the stations of circle line that I visited and its surroundings.

Note:

NEL (North East Line) - purple colour

EW Line (East West Line) - green colour

NS Line (North South Line) - red colour

Skywatch Friday - Crane

Today's post for skywatch is this beautiful sky with the crane as a subject. Can you spot the tiny moon there?

It soon turn dark so fast. The lights on the crane came alive too.

I played around with my camera and shake the camera while taking the following shots of the crane. The lights on the crane looked like fireworks....lol

Does this looked like some kind of fireworks? It is actually the lights on the crane.

Dancing lights

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My World Tuesday-Taking a Bus Ride 1-Train Station

OK, enough of walking for my friends and me. After the long walk from Henderson Waves to Alexandra Arch, my friends and I decided to reward ourselves with a meal...lol. We decided to take a bus ride from Alexandra Road to Shenton Way.

A double decker bus came along, so we boarded it and went to the upper deck. It is so comfortable with the nice air conditioned and clean bus and with mobile TV on both decks, better and cheaper than taking a taxi...lol

Sorry about the darkness in the bus, as I did not want my camera''s flash to disturb some snoozing passengers.

This is the first time that I am taking this bus route and was surprised to see so many beautiful scenery on the way.

I managed to take a photo of the train station when the bus was slowing down and stop. As if the driver knew I wanted to take photo of the station...lol.

Tanjong Pagar railway station also called Keppel Road railway station or Singapore railway station, is a railway terminus owned by Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM), the main railway operator in Malaysia. The land on which the station and the KTM railway tracks in Singapore are situated is held by KTM on a 999-year lease.


There are so many problems with this train station as the train tracks was taking up so much land in Singapore. You might like to read the disputes between Singapore and Malaysia from wikipedia.

Two short videos of the train station and trains. Warning, it might cause you to have a headache cause the video is quite shaky...lol




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Advertisement on Bus

Another beautifully decorated tour bus. You can guess it that it promoting the BirdPark Attraction on the bus.

Geez, been a long time since I visited the Bird Park, I think I got to visit it but is so far west of Singapore. I guess I have to wait for my nieces/nephews next school holiday. It would be more fun to go in a group.

Pink Saturday-Bus

My contribution for Pink Saturday are buses with pink features in them.

I noticed the new buses over here, have very pretty pink railings in them. Most of our buses are air conditioned and fitted with a mobile TV. No eating and drinking allowed in the public transports to keep them clean. The old buses always ended having cockroaches cause inconsiderate people eat and drink in the buses.

Oh I like these open top buses. Did you spot the pink bus in the photo below? This was taken at Bras Basah Road.

These open top buses are known as Hippo Bus and they are mainly for tourists.

Each Hippo tour lasts approximately 60 minutes, depending on traffic conditions. The Hop-On Hop-off system allows tourists to tour at their own leisure pace. Spot an interesting place or sight and simply inform the captain or HiPPOtainer. Hop off and walk around at your on pace and tourists can always continue the tour later by hopping onto the next HiPPO bus.

You can get more information and the prices for the hippo bus in their official website.

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Joke

I posted this photo of a motorbike to tell you a joke that my favourite uncle told me.

My late uncle (my favourite uncle) used to have a scooter. Once while out dating his girlfriend (his wife), they were riding the scooter and my uncle would always love to chat while riding.

Then they had to stop at a traffic light when it turned red. His wife came down from the scooter to retrieve her scarf which had flew off the ground. So when the traffic light turned green, my uncle just rode the scooter off without her...lol.

And the funny part was my uncle continued chatting while riding without realising his wife was not in the back seat. Then he was wondering why other drivers kept looking at him...hehehe and why his wife was so quiet. So he turned around and realised his wife was not behind him.....hahaha

When he told us the joke, we were all laughing so hard.

My uncle and his wife is no longer around and I hope they have fun riding wherever they are now. Hopefully they get to meet my late parents too and they can have a game of mahjong...lol

Times are Bad

Look at the long queues of taxi waiting for passengers in front of Centrepoint, Orchard Road. It used to be long queues of shoppers waiting for taxi and this is on a Saturday afternoon.

Geez, times are really bad. We should come out and shop and make the economy better but of course we must not overspend our budget.

I know I am shopping this week with my childhood friend, there's a lot of good promotions and discounts on the things that we needed. I need to get some new clothes on good discounts to replace some old clothes hanging in my wardrobe for a long time...lol, and a nice evening dress for another nephew getting married this year. :)

Tomorrow post will be shopping malls opening soon.

Journey to Sentosa Part 1-Monorail and Tram

There are few ways to go to Sentosa Island from Singapore. They are by cable car, bus , car, taxi or monorail or if you preferred, you can walk or cycle there.

I went there by monorail. The monorail station is at VivoCity Shopping Mall.

You can purchase your monorail tickets from these machines. But if you preferred to purchase the monorail tickets together with the admission tickets to attractions in Sentosa, you could get them from the counters. The queues are long because of the flower show during chinese new year. Normally the queues is not that long.

You dont have to wait very long for the monorail trains.

On arriving at the beach station, you can take the trams to go around the island. I dont want to get stuck in the queues so I choose to walk to Palawan Beach from here. Only ten to fifteen minutes walk from here.

You can see the beaches(left is Palawan Beach and right is Siloso Beach) just next to the monorail station, so make sense to just take a little stroll to the beaches.