Pink Saturday-Chinese New Year Decoration at Plaza Singapura

Today my contribution for pink saturday is the big ball of flowers with so many pink and red flowers. It was part of the chinese new year decoration. Chinese New Year starts on 26th January 2009 and lasted for 15 days.

If you think the decorations are familar, you are right, they were recycled from the christmas decoation. You can view them in my previous posting angels and angels flying.

The chinese characters meant "Ying Chun" or Welcome Spring.

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Skywatch Friday - Changi Boardwalk Part 5-Sailing boats

Continued from Changi Boardwalk Part 4, this post will be all about sailing boats. There is a sailing club over here too.

It was very cloudy and I thought it was going to rain but good thing, the clouds soon clear.

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Changi Boardwalk Part 4

Continued from Part 3 of Changi Boardwalk.

Along the walk, we could see private clubs and they have their own private swimming pools but members still prefer to head to the beach and swim in the open sea.

I spotted these two dogs (I think they are golden retreiver), they are so obedient (note they are not leased), they dont run wild nor disturbed anyone on the beach/boardwalk and they just sat beside their owner. They are so beautiful.

These are sailing boats waiting for someone to take them to the sea.

I will featured them in my next post.

Please return tomorrow for the sailing boats in skywatch (sailing boats)

To be continued.....................

Changi Boardwalk Part 3-The walk

Continued from my previous post on the Boardwalk.

It is a long walk for me.

Well, I get to stop and look at some flowers and take some rest.

I guess we are too noisy, we frightened the cat.

On the way to the kelong walk. The kelong walk is the best spot to take sunrise and sunset photos.

Did you spot the bride walking for a photo shoot, I featured her in my earlier post. The pavilion is the best spot for fishing in the below photo.

Lots of greenery over here. Nice to be here with family just to relax and destress.

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To be continued.....

Puppet Show at United Square

It's part of the chinese new year celebration at United Square. I love this huge puppets from Yangzhou, China.

A short video of the performance. Do watch it, it is very interesting but I did not take a long video otherwise it would take a long time to load into blogger.

This girl is very talented, she could made the puppet dance and move the fans in the puppet's hands. Very interesting.

A very short video of the performance.

Giant Puppets Performances from 9-18 Jan

Showtimes: Tue-Fri, 1pm & 7pm

Sat-Sun, 1pm, 4pm & 7pm (no shows on Mon)

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Changi BoardWalk Part 2-Chalets

Continuing with my walk along the boardwalk, we could see some bungalows and chalets in the fenced compound. And I can recognize the above bungalow, having been there when I was a teenager. Wow, the bungalow still exist...lol.

Holiday makers BBQ in the compound.

To be continued...........

Pink Saturday-Chinese New Year Decorations at Liang Court

My pink contribution for this saturday is this giant gift box decoration at Liang Court Shopping Mall. The Chinese New Year is just around the corner (i.e. 26th January 2009) and it lasted for 15 days.

Red, Pink and Gold are the favourite colours associated with Chinese New Year.
These chinese knots are so beautifully knotted and they are real huge.

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Skywatch - Sunset at Changi Village

Changi Point at Changi Village is a very ideal place to take photo of sunrise and sunset. But I am not a professional photographer so my photo is not very well taken. But I am contented with the way it turn out. :)

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Changi Board Walk - Part 1

Changi Board Walk is the latest attraction in Changi Village. It is about 1.2 km walk from Changi Village to the other far end of the island. It will be another 1.2 km when you walked back to Changi Village, so total walk is 2.4 km. But I only made the 1.2 km walk caused we took a bus back to Changi Village after completing the 1.2 km walk....lol (Ok, we cheated....hehehe...too tired and hungry to walk back.)

Closer look at the map. On the right of the map is the bridge (I featured the bridge in my earlier post.) and I am supposed to walk from the bridge to the far end of the map on the left (Kelong walk). The bridge leads to the picnic area.

The jetty (circled) was featured in my earlier post.


The Changi Boardwalk consists of four sections namely, Sunset Walk, Kelong Walk, Cliff Walk, Sailing Point Walk.

I have already shown you the bridge, jetty and please return to see my walking trails. :)

Changi Village-No Fishing

Back to my earlier post on the No Fishing Sign, I now realised why the sign was there...lol. After sorting the photos and watching the video, I realise this place is not suitable for fishing. Yes, Jim is right that the water is not safe for fishing.

The above photo might looked beautiful of the lone guy fishing in the sea, but.........

on closer look, there are many boats and ship passing in the open sea.

And there is this jetty where boats cross over to another island of Singapore called Pulau Ubin (Hahaha, I was borned and raised in Singapore for more than 40 over years but I never step into this island, maybe one day I will go there and take some photos and share with all). So the authorities are right to put the No Fishing Sign there. :) But seems like some dont care about the sign.

Two short interesting videos showing the coast of changi village.

I was walking along the 1.2 km boardwalk of Changi (i.e. from changi village to the kelong walk). On the way, I saw many things such as the above.

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Weddings Photography

Changi Village is located at the far end of east Singapore. It is famous for its beach, fishing and food. The latest attraction at Changi Village is the Changi Boardwalk. I will post about it at later post.

I spotted so many wedding couples taking their wedding photos at the boardwalk.

This professional photographer bending and making all sorts of angles to take the best shot of the wedding couple.

Wedding couples of different races having the same idea of having their wedding photos taken at the boardwalk. They are all so beautiful. Now my 20 year old niece is planning to have her future wedding photos taken here too....lol

This is how the wedding car would looked like. Most of the time, mercedes are used for the wedding cars.

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No Fishing?

Last week, I was at Changi Village taking a stroll at changi point. Been a long time since I come here and there's lots of changes in this little village. Will post more photos of changi village in future posts. This is a lovely place where many come here for picnic, fishing, jogging, sailing, swimming, eating and etc. And I saw many wedding couples (chinese, malay, etc) taking photos further down the beach. Very interesting.

It was evening and the tide was low and best time for fishing. (Note the above photo where I circled the couple fishing.)

Take a closer look at this couple, there's a sign (circled) which reads no fishing. Seems like noone like the no fishing sign ....lol. I saw many people fishing in the river which leads to the big sea.

Some came with fishing rods, nets and two guys (circled) came with a styrofoam box. The fishes must be plentiful here. I wondered why the "No Fishing" sign is there.

Pink Saturday - Pink Christmas Tree at Takashimaya

My pink contribution is this huge christmas tree at takashimaya. Love all the pink christmas ornaments. Hehehe...ok no more christmas posting after this....:)

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Skywatch-Lion Dance

This is so beautiful. I was strolling along Singapore River with hubby when I heard the sound of drums. So I hurried to where the sound comes from cause I knew there must be a lion dance somewhere.

The background of shophouses are restaurants and pubs. They used to be warehouses during the earlier days of Singapore. You might like to read an article about the warehouses which were also used by the Japanese as screening centres during WWII. (Source: Loyang Primary School )

The building in the background with colourful windows was once upon a time "Hill Street police station" which was also Singapore first jail during the Japanese Occupation. To know more about the building you could read it at Wikipedia.

A short video of the lion dance. These lion dancers are from Hongkong, they were rehearsing for a lion dance competition. This is the southern lion dance.

Types of Lion Dances

There are two types of lion dances, namely the Northern and Southern lion dance which differs in the appearance of the lion and the performance style.

Northern Lion Dance

The Northern school, practised in Beijing, is more acrobatic with the lion balancing on balls and on see-saws whilst being enticed by a pugilist dressed as a 'warrior'. The pugilist teasing the lion uses a fan or a ball and the interplay between him and the lion is the focus of the dance. The Northern Lion evolved from a Mongolian animal puppet placed on a post and paraded during festivals. The Northern Lion is furry with an orange and yellow, woollen coat.

Southern Lion Dance

The Southern school, which is more popularly performed in Singapore, originated in Guangdong. It involves a less hairy Lion which is taunted by a big-headed clown. They traditionally perform outdoors, the cai qing or literally "plucking the green", referring to the acrobatic act of picking up a sprig of lettuce from as high as three storeys, achieved only by using a pole or forming a human pyramid. The Southern lion has a 'skin' of white/yellow and brown/ black patterns. Whilst the Northern Lion is reputedly fierce, with a serious temperament, the Southern Lion is tame and playful. (Source: infopedia )

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

Here wishing all my blog visitors a very Happy New Year and may 2009 be a better year for all of us.

I started the new year with a photo of Terminal 3 of Changi Airport. :) It is part of the christmas decoration in T3. To view more photos of T3 in changi airport, you can go to my airport blog

Hopefully, I get to travel more in 2009. Terminal 3 is one of my favourite place in Singapore.