4) Another Gardens by the Bay
On one of the Saturday mid morning, we went to Gardens by the Bay for a second time. This time we did not visit the flower dome, but went for the super trees. I think it's prettier at night.
5) 1st of May
Since I'm updating, I shall go into the first week of May too. Finally we went for MacRitchie Tree Top walk, after it had been opened for such a long time. I have heard many times before that the shortest route is still quite a distant (5 to 6km). That morning, we cheated big time, and did only like 3 - 4km, hah!
WK knew that the nearest entrance to the jungle is at SICC, which is just 600m to the Tree Top walk. We drove up to SICC, then he realised that it is suppose to be open to members. We were extremely lucky, the very kind security guard allowed him to drive us in and drop us at the entrance to the jungle. The road in was long, must be more than 1 km!
After he dropped us, he drove out, parked, and walked in. But he walked fast, so we waited for him for less than 1/2 hr.
See this map, we waited for WK at the the Rangers Park, which is 300m from the entrance to the jungle at SICC. From here, it is another 300m to the Tree Top walk.
When we reached the entrance of the Tree Top walk, there a queue to enter:
We saw 2 monkeys while waiting. This one was munching on a whole pack of Kit Kat. From the look of the packaging, I think it must have snatched the whole pack from some people.
Nearer to the entrance, there's another monkey. At first, it was at our left, just sitting on the tree, waiting.. Then, see the woman in black holding a young child in this picture below, she gave her kid a biscuit. The monkey saw or smelt it, and came rushing onto the right side of the bridge.. That family was ignorant, but they were very lucky that morning. I told the daddy that it was the food that attracted the monkey, and he immediately understood, and guarded against the monkey. Then in the next minute, it was our turn to enter the tree top walk, so we all moved on. The monkey didn't follow.
From the start to the end of the tree top walk was short, probably less than 1 km. However, from the exit of the tree top walk back to the Ranger's park is about 1.5km. Then from the Ranger's park out to SICC and then to our car outside SICC is definitely more than 1km. All in all, we probably walked close to 4km.
Lynn complained, and asked her daddy to piggy back her for a short distant, but overall, she did extremely well. I didn't expect 4km, so I'm glad that we all did it without much trouble.
6) 4th of May
Yesterday (Saturday) evening. Suppose to go Marina barrage, but end up at Merlion park again. These pics were taken at about 7pm. Lynn's orange T glowed strikingly against the jewel blue..
7) A shock this morning
I woke up early today, to update my blog before Lynn wakes up to monopolise my time. Yesterday night before sleep, I set out 2 pieces of lizard traps (sticky sheets) in the kitchen. This morning I went to check, and to my horror, I saw one of the hamsters trapped there. Luckily I manage to get it off the sticky sheets, and he (the Gor Gor hamster) seems unhurt and I placed it back into the cage. I saw that one of the tube holes on the cage was opened, so I just assumed that we forgot to close it, so I closed it. About an hour later, WK's mum woke up and said that a hamster was on the loose. I told her not to worry and that I had taken care of it. Then she said no, the hamster was still running around the kitchen! It was Gor Gor hamster again. When i placed it in again, I noticed that the hole was opened. This hamster is extremely smart, and actually manage to open the hole by itself. So now I got to tape it (the hole) down.
These creatures are really like little kids who are unaware of the dangers around. I hope they don't get hurt again.
8) Our "Neighbour"
Our neighbour country is holding election today. A lot of news and buzz over this election. Lots of folks in our office are hot blooded people who made effort in going home to exert their rights.
Our next door neighbour (the family with 5 kids) were not in since yesterday.. Probably they went where their hearts belong and where their families were too.
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