Christmas Street Light Up 2015 in Orchard Road Singapore

Last Saturday , had fun taking photos of christmas decorations along Orchard Road. Was great that the Orchard Road was closed to traffic that day. Every first Saturday of the month, part of Orchard Road will be closed to traffic. That Saturday was to be the last Saturday for 2015 for part of Orchard Road closed for pedestrian night.

Christmas will be round the corner, Orchard Road was beautifully decorated with christmas lights. Activities were plenty along Orchard Road to celebrate Pedestrian Night.

Pedestrian had fun taking photos with the vintage vehicles.

Free ice cream too if you download some apps to your mobile phone.

Choirs singing christmas songs.

Beautiful huge christmas tree infront of Paragon Shopping Mall.

Christmas Decorations at Tangs Shopping Mall.

Decorations at Centrepoint

Live the window display at Centrepoint

Snowman decorations at Orchard Gateway

Christmas Decorations at Mandarin Hotel

Christmas Decorations at Ion Orchard

Sesame Street Show 2015 at Plaza Singapura, Singapore

It's the school holiday in Singapore and with Christmas round the corner, parents are bringing the kids out. Chance upon this nice Sesame Street Show at Plaza Singapura. The kids were so happy to see the characters from Sesame Street.

Sesame Street Meet & Greet Date: 4 to 20 Dec 2015 Venue: Main Atrium, Level 1

ShowTime : Mon to Fri, 1pm & 7pm (no show on Tues) Sat & Sun, 1pm, 4pm & 7pm

For more details view the official website of Plaza Singapura..

Singapore River Safari - Manatee Exhibit

Seven manatees have been moved from the Singapore Zoo to the River Safari which houses the world's largest freshwater aquarium. They are part of the River Safari's Amazon Flooded Forest exhibit, which showcases the annual flooding of the Amazon rainforest where fish and other creatures swim among the trees. Read more from source.

Video of the manatees swimming, they swam so beautifully, looked like mermaids.

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.

Mid Autumn Festival 2015 - Hazy Moon

Today is the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, where most Chinese celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival. This year the moon looked so red and hazy cause of the haze blown over from Indonesia Forest Fire. The haze is really bad , choking us, all my siblings are coughing and visited the doctors.

I looked out of the window and saw the moon so red and hazy, decided to zoom on the moon. My camera is Panasonic Lumix and could zoom 20X, it looked as if the craters on the moon could be seen or is it the haze. I am not sure but definitely is not the cloud cause I did not see any clouds passing by the moon when I took the photo.

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.