Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Long Read - If a picture paints a thousand words, many pictures paint a memory?

Thanks to smartphone, we are able to snap numerous numbers of pictures without worrying the roll finishing. Thanks to smartphone as well, we have too many pictures saved in our phone's gallery. I have a problem. I always find it a problem deleting chunks of pictures from my phone's gallery. I think I might be a photo hoarder 😕

Anyways, this post is not to discuss about hoarding pictures in our phone memory or SIM card.

While I find it hard to delete pictures from my phone, sometimes I feel restless seeing too many pictures in my gallery.

Therefore, here are some pictures from various venues/location/event which do not make it to my social media but are pretty enough and would be such a waste to be deleted without being posted somewhere.

Sakura Blossoms @ Gardens By The Bay, 2017

A little backstory. I think dad or mom had always talked about wanting to see the tulips exhibition. Somehow we always miss it. So when we saw there is Sakura exhibition, we went for it to make up for missing the tulips. Different flowers but still the same floral family! The surprise flower at the end of the visit was not the sakura was not as blossoming as I was expecting it but the somewhat illuminating purple flower (last picture on the right below)! They seemed to be glowing in the dark!


 
Christmas Wonderland @ Gardens By The Bay, 2017

This used to be a free entry event but became chargeable just recently. Each year we would expect similar lighted up venue sprinkled with Christmas songs yet we just would want to go and visit the Wonderland. Why? Probably to soak in the festive atmosphere. To take nice instagram-worthy pictures. Or perhaps to have a chance to play with the man-made snow! 

There are some rides too but chargeable as well. Once, I was so looking forward to take this particular ride only to find out it's actually more suited for young children 😅


 




The carousel roundabout or merry-go-round as I used to call it when I was younger which somehow seems so magical in the distant. It gave me somekind of Disney fairytale vibes when I first saw it at the Wonderland and now the picture is still giving me the same vibe. 


Not Wonderland related but this is the view you would see before reaching to Wonderland. Singapore lighted up at night. Very much like a Wonderland if you ask me. 

Geylang Serai, 2018

Not much need to be said about this. Each year comes Ramadan, Geylang Serai will be showered with lights and decorations to welcome Hari Raya. And each year I will be mesmerised by the lights and will attempt to take the most perfect pictures. 







Gardens By The Bay - Surrounding Area

Can't remember when these were taken but it's nice. Plus it's difficult for any one place in Singapore to remain as it is and look the same in 10, 20, 30 years on so let this be a form of memories of how it looks like at present. 









           




Monday, August 27, 2018

Long Read - Look around

Hello again. This time I want to share my love for Nature's beauty that we sometimes tend to look past in our hurry and rush to continue with our daily life. 

I have not been lucky enough to witness sun rising or sun setting. But I have been lucky enough and blessed to be able to see and witness the beautiful and pretty skies. Pictures below captured randomly.





 



Some people would not understand the obsession and love for the sky as they feel such sights are common and there is nothing amazing to look at. I beg to differ. You get to see different colours in the sky. Sometimes it's orange. Sometimes pink. Sometimes it's a mixed of colours.

Not just the sky, I love seeing the Moon too! There is just something magical about them. Something romantic, mysterious.



 It's just a pretty sight, don't you think so?



Monday, August 20, 2018

Long Read - Westwood

It was just for a short period but plenty of memories here at Westwood.






The makeshift office for CSO.






 
I was supposed to be in the MA team but joined the CSO team first. Slowly it became an inside joke of me swinging both ways to support External (MA) and Internal (CSO).


There were several occasions spent working overtime till it was this dark. 

 
The surrounding views from level 14 or was it 18, the highest for the development.