Christmas Decorations from Orchard Road to Bras Basah Road

Towards the year end, our streets will be decorated with fairy lights from Tanglin Road to Orchard Road to Bras Basah Road and finally end in Raffles Link.
Last year, the theme for the decoration was Christmas in Fairyland. This year theme is Sweet Christmas in Singapore, so you can expect sweets and candy in the decorations.

This stretch of the road is Orchard Road and it was the peak hour where many office people were heading home and that explained the high volume of traffic in the above photo. Same secenario when weekend comes and people came in cars and public transport to shop...lol

Now you can compare the day and night views of the christmas decorations along the streets.

This is Bras Basah Road, which is quieter than Orchard Road and lesser tall buildings and malls.

It was more pleasant to take a stroll and admire the lights at Bras Basah Road than Orchard Road if you want some peace and romantic moments.

I enjoyed my walk along Bras Basah Road. Did you enjoyed the little trip here?

This year decorations were a bit bare compared with last year decorations in Orchard Road. But I have yet gone to the heart of Orchard Road to take more christmas photos, hope I would not be disappointed.

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Bak Kwa

My first attempt at making Bak Kwa, by the time you read this post, it's already been eaten by my youngest son...lol

To see more step by step photos of the DIY Bak Kwa, you can view my food blog.

Bakkwa, or rougan is a Chinese salty-sweet dried meat product similar to jerky, made in the form of flat thin sheets. It is normally made from pork. For more information, please view source.

Christmas Tree at Raffles City

Every year end, my part of the world would decorate the streets from Orchard Road to Bras Basah Road with fairy lights and christmas trees and other decorations.

Hubby and me were walking along Bras Basah Road with not many crowds and it was quite peaceful and romantic to see these fairy lights and the christmas tree twinkling away.

Ut Oh, I spotted one part of the tree not twinkling, the lights might have blown. This photo was taken on 17th November 2008. They should have been repaired by now.

Closer look at the tree and two short videos showing the tree twinkling.



Come visit me on Skywatch Friday, I will post more fairy lights decorated along the streets.

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Time for spa?

This is my first attempt to join Pink Saturday.

I have so many pink stuff in my cupboard so I thought it would make a good photography subject for pink saturday.

CC of lacenribbonroses is always so kind to teach me to lay a fabric as decoration/background for my subjects. Thank you CC. Psst....underneath is an ugly old armchair....lol.

Now does the mini tub and the soap and toiletries remind you that it is time to go for a spa. :)

For more pinky participants, please visit Beverly of How Sweet The Sound.

Sky Watch-Dark Clouds

These photos were taken last week. Weather like these are so common end of the year. It is the raining season. So we need to plan our outdoor activities carefully, if it rains then we proceed to Plan B outing. :)

You can guess what happen after the dark clouds over take the entire area. Yes, very heavy downpour.


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Who lived in this little shell?

Continued from yesterday post, who lived in the shell?

No matter how we tried to coax the mysterious creature out, it does not show itself. So my brother told us to place the shell back in the sea water on the rock and it would appear by itself.

True enough the little guy decided to come out, it was a hermit crab.....:) Watch the short video how it crawl away from the rock.

My niece and nephews were so excited by our find and of course I am also very excited...hehehe...did you see the kid in me?

For those who guess it is a snail, you could be tricked by the hermit crab cause the hermit crab always borrowed someone's shell when it outgrown its old "borrowed" shell. That shell on its back must be a borrowed shell from a snail....lol.

We decided to let it leave it alone and let the hermit crab returned to the sea.

Sea creatures at the beach

My post for my world tuesday is about our beaches. Although Singapore is a shopping and food paradise, we too have beautiful nature around our little island too. You can view these beautiful natures in sea creatures blog, butterflies in Singapore, flowers in Singapore, and many more beautiful blogs with beautiful places of Singapore.

These rocks can be slippery so we need to be careful when we step on top of them. There are many little sea creatures hidden in these rocks.

On closer look, we found many snails in them.

There is this huge sea shell that I picked and gave to my little niece for her sea shell collection but my nephew pointed that someone lives in the shell....lol

Just to keep you all in suspense, you need to return to find out who lived in there...lol

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Having fun at the beach

I love taking a stroll along the beach. This beach is just next to the Safra Bungalow Resort.

I now proclaimed this part of the beach to belongs to Alice....hehehe

Helping my little niece collecting these little sea shells.

We came across several such holes on the beach. I wondered who lives there. For more photos of the sea creatures, please visit tomorrow.

Christmas Fair 2008 at Compass Point

It is the time of the year again where we get to see many colourful and shinning lights and christmas decorations. I simply love this time of the year.

I took these photos of the christmas fair from the top floor of Compass Point Shopping Mall.

More more on christmas fair, hurry to Karen of A Scrapbook of Inspiration for more christmas joy and fun.

Skywatch-Lightning

It is the end of the year where it is raining season again. I took these photos last week, it was scary to stand near the window when the lightning was strucking, I was afraid my camera would attract the lightning.

From a very dark black night to........

A stunning purple sky

Look on the left side where you could see the faint lightning which turn the dark black night to a purple sky......beautiful but scary when the thunder started to roar.

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Safra Bungalow Resort - (Part 7 Walking, Jogging and Cycling Track)

This is a walking, jogging and cycling track just behind the bungalow resort.
The track is part of the connector. One part of the path is for people walking, jogging and running while the other part is for cycling and skating.

Just to show you how big the painted foot looked as compared with my seven year old niece.

By 2015, National Parks hopes to construct 200km of park connectors - to date, half of that has been built. More will be added beyond 2015. National Parks' eventual goal is to create a connector network linking up the whole of Singapore. We could cycle from changi to east coast, etc.

Map taken from National Park website.

Isn't this wonderful, to have friends cycling and skating side by side.

A short video showing how popular the connector is with both local and foreigners.

Chilli Crab

After reading Photocache's crab season, I decided to post Singapore famous signature dish, the chilli crab- yummy.

Singapore is a shopping and food paradise, you can find yummy delicious and affordable food in this little island.

I would really recommend you to try the chilli crab, it is not spicy despite the word "Chilli". Now I think many would hate me for posting this photo, it makes them drools....hehehe.

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Eldest Son's 21st Birthday Party at Resort

One of the reason we decided to rent the bungalow was to celebrate my eldest son's 21st birthday party.


So sweet of my sisters, brother and brothers in law in helping me decorate the hall with banners and balloons. Did you noticed the extra 'P' missing from the word Happy....lol.

You could view the buffet food in my food blog.

Safra Bungalow Resort (Part 6-BBQ)

BBQ is a must when staying over at the resort. Good thing, it wasn't raining. We had BBQ over three days....lol. For more photos of the BBQ food, you can pop over to my food blog.

Safra Bungalow Resort (Part 5-Facilities)

When getting bored in the bungalow, we could choose to use the karaoke, games arcade or even bowling.

Of course we need to pay to use these facilities. And the teenagers had fun playing at the bowling alley.

Children could play in the playground.

There's even a basketball court behind this bicycle kiosk. These bicycles are for rental.

For country club members and guests could go golfing too. The golf course is just next to the bungalows.

Facilities are only for members and guests. But I think public can use the swimming pool and eat at The Deck (Coffee House) and Jumbo Seafood Restaurant.

Safra Bungalow Resort (Part 4-Skywatch-Aeroplanes)

Our stay at the bungalow was fun and enjoyable. The only complaint was that the resort was so near to our busy changi airport that every now and then we could see aeroplanes about to land and depart. The noises from the planes could be irritating too but sometimes we were enjoying ourselves so much that we took no notice of the planes and the noises....lol.
The kids were so fascinated by the huge commercial planes that they started to identify the different airlines. It is not everyday that they get to see the planes so up close and so many of them too.

A very short video of a plane coming to land at the airport runway. The ships could be seen in the sea too. So a little island called Singapore is so busy with all these planes and ships to make it a wealthy island. So we shouldn't complain at all if we want good economy for our country. :)

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