Singapore River Safari Part 2 - Pandas

The highlight of our visit to Singapore River Safari must be the Pandas Exhibit.

Kai Kai (凯凯) and Jia Jia (嘉嘉) are housed in a specially constructed climate-controlled enclosure which change throughout the four seasons emulating their original environment. The zoo grows its own 8,000-square-metre (86,000 sq ft) plantation of special bamboo specially for the feeding of the giant pandas. These pandas are a sign of the twentieth anniversary of friendly Sino-Singapore relations. The names of the two pandas were selected from entries of a public naming competition organised in 2010. The pandas, which arrived in September 2012, are on a ten-year loan from China.

Read more from Wikipedia.

Meals of Kai Kai

Meals of Jia Jia

Kai Kai is so adorable and easy to take photo of him cause he is so active.

Meanwhile Jia Jia is sleeping so soundly.

Video of the Pandas Exhibit.

Singapore River Safari Part 1 - Fishes

Recently, my son brought me to Singapore River Safari. Not a good time to visit cause of the haze blown over from Indonesia Fire Forest. But as we already bought the tickets online, decided to go ahead with the visit but did not choose to take the boat ride cause of the hazy condition.

Even the staff were wearing masks. Every where I looked is so blur and hazy but luckily most of the exhibits were indoor and were shaded from all the huge vast trees.

Many such riddles along the walk through the exhibits.

Enjoyed looking at all the different species of the fishes, looked out for more exhibits in Part 2 in next post.

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.

Mid Autumn Festival Decoration 2015

Times passes fast, it's going to be Mid Autumn Festival soon. It falls on 15th day of the 8th lunar month (i.e. 27th September 2015). Streets of Chinatown in Singapore were decorated with beautiful lanterns.

I know my grandnephew will like this PSY lantern. He loves to dance to the music of Gangnam Style.

Spotted this beautiful mid autumn festival decoration at one of the supermarket.

SG50 - a new range of S$50 and S$10 notes - with an eye both on past and future

A set of commemorative currency notes to celebrate SG50 - consists of one piece S$50 and five pieces of S$10. We can change at the bank for these new notes at face value.

The notes’ designs drew inspiration from significant milestones and achievements in Singapore's history, the multiracialism that defines Singapore as a nation and the values and aspirations that underpin Singapore's progress.

For example, the S$50 note highlights Singapore's history, transformation and future. It shows the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew shouting 'Merdeka!' - the rallying cry of Singapore's independence struggle. See source from here.

The set is beautiful. Love that it comes with the red box and folder. I managed to change 2 sets by queueing for only 30 minutes. Some banks saw longer queues. We can change only 5 sets by the first only the first two sets comes with boxes and folders.