Skywatch Friday - Whampoa Part 3-Fishing

My skywatch is still in Whampoa Estate. This canal leads to the open sea.

Can you spot a man fishing in the above photo? He is at a corner. Look at the below photo for a closer look at the man. I wonder if he ever catch any fish?

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Please return tomorrow for interesting post on the market place in whampoa estate.

Whampoa Part 2-HDB Shophouses

Continuing from my post about Whampoa Estate, here are shophouses that been here for a long time, at least more than 20 years.

These shophouses are known as HDB Shophouses located in the heartland of Singapore where majority of Singaporeans lived. Most of the times you can bargain for your products for about 10 to 20% discount unless they are fixed price. Sometimes, you can find things you cannot find in big shopping malls. You have to return to visit my post on the market place in next few posts.

Most of the shopowners lived above their shops and these shophouses are not cheap, some are sold for about a million dollars and the owner would then rent out or use for their own. My sister had one shophouse just like the one on the right. She stay above her shop.

Please return for more interesting post on whampoa estate.

Community Club

This area used to be a sleepy small village with many attap houses. Attap houses are houses with attap leaves as their roof and the name attap is named after the tree.


I remember seeing cows and goats in here when I was a very young child. Now flats are spotted here. I used to stay around this area but shifted out when my brother bought a flat and my other sisters and myself got married and got our own home too. This area is very old at least more than 30 to 40 years old. The flat that I used to stay are all demolished, I will talk about it at later post. I will post a photo of my old home in later post.

This area is known as Whampoa named after a well known Chinese named Hoo Ah Kay, Whampoa (1816-1880). You can view his history from here.

This is Whampoa Community Club where residents can come here to meet up or join any activities that the CC organises. Noticed the name of the CC are in four different languages, Malay, Chinese Tamil and English. We are a multi racial country and the CC is for all races.



Some of the activities organised by the CC.

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Singa the Courtesy Lion

This is our courtesy mascot, Singa the Courtesy Lion. Why Singa? Singa means Lion in Malay, we are called Lion City or Singapura.

The National Courtesy Campaign was a campaign launched in June 1979 by Singapore's Ministry of Culture as a means of encouraging Singaporeans to be more kind and considerate to each other, so as to create a pleasant social environment. You can read more about the campaign in here.

The campaign is very successful, now we are so used to queuing for our food, taxi, paying bills, banking, etc. Yet we do have inconsiderate and rude people too even though the campaign is successful.

But recently with the H1N1 affecting so many people and our lives, Singa has to remind people to wear the mask if they are unwell and also to see a doctor.

I find him so cute.

Ikea

What I did on a lazy Saturday Afternoon?

I went to Ikea to look at some home furnishings. Oh yes, I spotted a desk and cabinet for my son. So I took the measurements just to make sure it fitted the corner of son's room.

I might return another day to purchase them unless I found a better and cheaper desk at another place...lol.

Skywatch Friday

Time passes fast. It is Friday again. I seems to have luck seeing nice images in the sky. Last week, sky looked so heavenly and today, the image looked like an angel holding a book and singing. Looked like there's a halo above his head.

Not sure you can see what I see. Now what would I see next week. :)



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Iluma Shopping Centre-Bugis Area

This is the new shopping mall in Bugis Area. I have featured it in my previous post in here.

The mall is now open and it is very spacious inside. I love the highest floor, it has a nice food court and many restaurants. :)

These little kioks are for those DIY and sovenirs. Mostly are youngsters selling their own handmade stuffs.

A short video showing the very long escalators up to the highest floor. My friend and I, of course took the ride up the escalators...hehehe. We are just like kids. :)

My World Tuesday-Bugis Street Shopping

Sick of shopping in those big malls? Try shopping in Singapore Largest Street Shopping Paradise in Bugis Street.

Bugis Street was previously well knowned internationally for its nightly gathering of transvestite beauties who paraded its sidewalks.Today, the original Bugis Street is now a shopping street. On the other hand, the lane presently known as "Bugis Street" is called "the largest street-shopping location in Singapore".

Over here you can find good bargains and if they are not fixed price, you could actually bargain about 20% discount unless it is your lucky day you could actually get 30% discount, that's what J and I found out...lol.

It is no longer so stuffy shopping in here cause they have renovated the place with higher ceilings and huge fans.

There are many stalls selling food and snacks.

Now this is cute. That is a jackfruit and it is decorated with a wig and tomatoes for eyes and a carrot for its nose and banana for its mouth...lol


It belongs to this fruit juice stall. Oh I love watermelon juice.

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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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Skywatch Friday

I was visiting a friend's home when I saw this beautiful sight outside her window. So I quickly snap this shot with my camera.

At first glance, I thought the sun was behind the cloud and the rays emerging from behind the clouds but if you look at the second photo, it is sunset and the sun is further away from the cloud so the "rays" behind the clouds are just line or clouds formation that looked like the sun's rays. I thought it looked amazing.

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My World Tuesday-Registry of Marriage

This is the Registry of Marriages for all races except muslim. Muslim will be in another hall (see below photo).

The two parties come to the Registry of Marriage register for a date.

They will then be put to a petition for any objections for 30 days (21 days minimum) and to wed before 3 months.

I love this miniature bear couple sitting in a miniature sofa....so cute.

This is the registry only for muslim marriages.

Muslim marriages are solemnised and administered by the Registry of Muslim Marriages.

Lucky me, manage to take this photo of a muslim wedding couple and their families.

To know more about registry of marriage in Singapore, you can view source from wikipedia.

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Visit to the Singapore Museum-Part 11-Other purposes

I have finally come to the end of my museum posting. The museum is not only a place just to view the exhibits of Singapore history.

It is a beautiful place to have your wedding photos taken in here.

I wish I had mine taken 25 years ago in the museum and then I can put my wedding gown in the museum as exhibit......lol

This is a very nice shot.

As it is the school holidays for Singapore kids, the museum set up special corners for the children to have some fun.

You can see how big and spacious the museum is.

Pipes and wires are fun to play with too.

That's all folks on my visit to the National Museum of Singapore. To know more about the museum you can view its official website in here.

Visit to the National Museum-Part 10-Wayang and Fashion

This wil be my second last series of posting of the museum.

Now this looked so scary and spooky. It is in the fashion gallery of the museum. Admission to this part of the museum is free of charge.

The bridal gown looked like a headless and limbess ghost at first glance....lol

These hair rollers looked so familar, I remember using them when I was young...hahaha.

Noticed the lower and short sewing machine. That is powered by hand. I used that during my secondary school, you use your right to turn the wheel of the sewing machine and your left hand to guide the fabric while the other sewing machine is powered by legs.

Nowadays the sewing machines are all run by electric and computerized.

This part of the exhibits are in the wayang gallery. I love the costumes and accessories displayed there. You should actually watch a live performance of the wayang. You can see my posting of a local wayang in here.

There are so many more interesting exhibits at the museum, you need to go there to view.