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.

My World Tuesday-Sentosa (Bridge at Palawan Beach)

Sentosa has changed a lot and it caters so much to the tourists. One of the main draw is the hanging bridge at palawan beach in Sentosa.

This is the entrace to the hanging bridge and the bridge can really swing very badly and if you have sea sick dont attempt to try this...lol.

I tried to video as I walked along the bridge but the people behind me kept shaking the bridge so I have to hold on to the rope to keep my balance. After crossing the bridge, I could still have the feeling in my head that I am still swinging left and right...lol.

At high tide, the water reached over the bridge and you can actually step on the bridge with seawater around your feet. It is quite fun. Please return to see more photos of Sentosa. You can view the bridge at low tide in another blog here.

A short video of the bridge and the beach.

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Growing Arrowhead for Chinese New Year

All these photos taken during Chinese New Year. I have actually forgotten about them...lol.

These are arrowhead plants which are grown for chinese new year. Need to change water regularly so as not to breed mosquitoes.

It took about one month for them to grow to this height. It's attractive, jade green arrow-shaped leaves point skywards and to the Chinese, this is an auspicious sign as it signifies continuous improvement . To read more about this you can read from the source in here.

Marbles or pebbles are added so that the plant will be stablised and not fall off.

Do you remember my previous post on this cactus plant? Well, it had given birth to more baby cactus...lol. You might want to see my previous photo of the pair of cactus in here.

Pink Saturday

My pink contribution today will be old photos from my chinese new year 2009 photos.

This is a rickshaw on display in Tiong Bahru Shopping Mall earlier this year. We dont see these rickshaws in Singapore anymore cause they were replaced by better mode of transport. In old Singapore, rickshaw is one of the popular mode of transport. The rickshaw were imported from Shanghai, China during the 1880s.

Rickshaw had to be pulled by a man and running from place to place and the rickshaw puller must be very strong cause sometimes there were be two passengers in the back. Rickshaw was so popular that a station was built for them called Jinricksha Station. You can see a photo of the station which is no longer a rickshaw station that I posted here.

These cute mascots were part of the Chinese New Year's decoration in Parkway Shopping Mall to welcome the year of the Ox. I thought they looked like my piggy bank...lol. I like the pink ox. I used to made a paper mache piggy bank of a pink pig and I think I might make one 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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