Out and About in Singapore

Last year, before I left for Melbourne, I went to Sentosa. This year? I rested at home.

This is my last day in Singapore before I leave for Perth. It's been a great summer, and I'll be starting a new course and a pretty interesting (hopefully!) year in Perth. Not sure how things will turn out, but I do miss Melbourne - after all, I've lived there for 3 years! Of course, I'll be missing Singapore - my home.

Before I leave, I've compiled some of the pictures I took when exploring the city by foot.

First of all - the Cartier Time Art exhibition. It was AMAZING! The gorgeous watches, timepieces and so on, the sophisticated watch-making procedures, the costly designs etc...it was just exceptional. I'm glad I went!

I also walked around the Merlion and Fullerton area. Found a way to walk from the Merlion to the Promenade on the other side of Marina Bay too! Took pictures of both the big and the mini-Merlions, and explored the Promenade a little.

Not too far away from the Promenade was an interactive exhibition of the Singapore CBD, or rather, the Marina Bay area. Had fun taking pictures of the exhibition of course! This was pretty similar to an exhibition I went to in Tanjong Pagar last July, but this was more recent and more high-tech.

Some of the icons included the Art-Science Museum, Marina Bay Sands, the Singapore Flyer, and the upcoming Gardens by the Bay, which I intend to visit when I next come back. Oh yes, and the Esplanade!













I then headed to the Art-Science museum for the amazing Cartier time art exhibition.



And of course, went to the Rain Oculus, aka the Swirling Vortex of Terror for the umpteenth time that holiday. The oculus was at full force when I went....and then started losing steam and finally reduced to a trickle. The sunlight was shining through the glass though, and it gave really good lighting effects!










After that I went back for a shower, then headed out again, this time to Orchard Central. And tried a "bokeh" for the first time. Read more about it here.





A while ago, I also went for the Jade Buddha for Universal Peace exhibition. The Jade Buddha was a massive sculpture made from extremely high quality jade, and the off-cuts were used to make pendants for others. One of my friends - Damo - actually has one of the pendants, and he was really excited when he learnt that I went to see the Jade Buddha. Eventually the Jade Buddha will end up in Bendigo, Australia, and we're pretty stoked! Hopefully I'll be back in Melbourne by then, and I can go see it again!

Whenever I look at the Jade Buddha, I feel lots of positive energy radiating from it.





Lots of people went to see the Jade Buddha too, and these included a large group of children from kindergarten.







There were also many free books for us, and I took one on wisdom energy. And of course, there were other features, like deities and altars for prayer.





And here's the banner advertising the Jade Buddha, right outside Takashimaya.

So that's about it for now! I'll post pictures from other events/phototaking sessions soon!

Till then, goodbye for now, Singapore! And I will be back!

Memories of Victoria 2 - AGGIE!!

Who would not miss Aggie? She's such an adorable and gorgeous cat!

Here's the very very first picture I ever took of her, in the kitchen garden. It's supposed to be called the Stephanie Alexander kitchen garden, but we dubbed it Aggie's Kitchen Garden because she's always there.

And yes, she was a poser right from the start.

Some of the pictures I took of her while on the go. When I got to know her better, I went specially to the kitchen garden to visit her.

She was a little apprehensive at first, but warmed up very quickly. And continued posing of course! Here are some pictures of what she usually does.

1. Sit in the sun, then move to the shade.

2. Pose ambiguously in odd places - in this case in front of an exhaust pipe.

3. Sit on cars...!!!! I caught her on a bright red car before. Named the album Automobile Aggie.

4. Half-sun, half shade! Best of both worlds!

5. Jumping onto the sink. She can do it very easily despite her carriage.

6. Enjoying back rubs from me.

7 and 8. Sitting under plants just for fun.










And of course I got bonus pictures of her! Here she is - pretending to be a monorail cat...



And here are more candid shots of her.





That's her, on the catwalk! She does this everytime for me. Something which I will definitely miss!



And of course, every now and then, I use my telephoto lens and take pictures of her.

Some of her more popular shots, including her publicity shot.





Oh and here are more pictures to prove that she IS a poser!






Went back to Singapore last November for 3 weeks, not knowing whether I would see Aggie again. Unfortunately I'll be moving to another city this year, and the odds of seeing Aggie for this year is very slim.

So I went to take pictures of her on 3 more occasions.

The first occasion was graduation of course. I HAD to get pictures of her, since she was wearing an "academic gown". That's basically the massive black patch on her back.






And for the other 2 occasions, I went specially to college to visit her. Once before I graduated, and one more time - before I left for Singapore. She posed as usual!

And yes, Aggie took up one entire post of "memories of Victoria". She IS lovable!