We found this at a school, on the steps between the science room and the gym. Over the objections of certain members of the family, I brought it home and kept it in the living room. I’m pleased with the focus on the individual diamonds that my camera managed to achieve. I didn’t realize […]
Here’s my best shot of the water monitor who lives across the road from the apartment block: He’s about six feet long in total. Here are pictures our offspring took of a water monitor in its natural element, at Sungeh Buloh: I think this guy is a mere 3 feet long. But these are better […]
Another specimen from Sungeh Buloh Wetlands. This is a series of three pictures, and the last one has the best quality. But I’ve inserted them in the order taken, to show you the progress of the snake’s lunch: Quite a handsome green snake, and a nice yellow-bellied lizard. These leggy lizards are the ones I […]
Another reptile at Sungeh Buloh. The focus isn’t that great, but you get the idea. This was snapped during a series of school outings, a week during which the class kept going to the nature reserve four days in a row. This snake (or one closely resembling it) was spotted in the same shelter three […]
This particularly plump water monitor was resting on a walkway at Sungeh Buloh Wetlands Nature Reserve. There are actually water monitors all over Singapore – one even showed up in the girls’ bathroom at a school off Orchard Road – but it’s rare to have a camera handy when one is close by. This one […]
Here are some pictures my spouse took at the student-run event with his new camera. Better than last year’s! This is an over view from the top of the steps that lead to Yunnan Garden. The marquee to the left is where you could pick up your free little lantern. The stage is to the […]
It’s the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, and you know what that means – Moon Cakes! Buy them for your friends and family! Spend $50 in a single receipt and get this free Mooncake Thumb Drive! Or at least that was the come-on at our local mall. We’re only 2 weeks into mooncake season, and alas, […]
Over the weekend we explored the upper levels of ION, a new shopping center on Orchard Road. Almost all the stores there are designer boutiques. But there’s an art gallery called Opera that we went into, to see what’s available. Most of what is available is really BIG, designed to fill up that 2×3 metre […]
We were given free tickets to a student-association dinner in a nice hotel, so we went. Interesting experience. The crowd was mostly students, of course, and that’s great. They’d worked hard to find sponsors for a high-end social experience they could share, in the ballroom of a downtown hotel, and they provided the entertainment as […]
While I was gone for 2 months I didn’t post on my blog, since it’s supposed to be about Singapore and I wasn’t here to report anything about the place. But according to my blog statistics, 849 hits were generated in July, of whom 356 were new to the blog. So first, my thanks to […]