There are a lot of sculptures in Singapore’s public areas, and I thought I’d post pictures of them. Let’s start with the newest in the fruit series, the Giant Nutmeg outside the new ION shopping center. It’s pretty accurate: stem, nutmeg, coating of mace, and outer fruit, which you can buy in pickled form in […]
This thing caught my eye this morning; it was attached to the evil YOG fugly fence, and it wiggled, although there was no breeze. I’m pleasantly surprised by the quality of the picture – although fully caffeinated, I didn’t shake when pressing the shutter. Something was emerging from the top end, and if you look […]
This little fellow posed on a tree for me this morning, which is kind of unusual – they’re very skittish. You may not see his spiky crest, but the elegant curve of his tail is evident. The “UMP” on the road marking behind him warns drivers of an upcoming Hump, as speed bumps are known […]
Singapore’s government likes to make a lot of noise about family values, supporting the elderly and so forth. But I learned today that there’s some real money put into at least one policy that supports the ideal. If you purchase a flat within one kilometer of your parents, the HDB (all-powerful Housing Development Board) will […]
These are growing outside one of the Technopreneuship Building. Or is it the Innovation in Technology Building? Or the Research Center for Technology and Entrepreneurship? Anyway, some fancy new building with a highfalutin buzzword name. The flowers are lovely, though; two colors follow:
They’re adding the barbed wire to the top of the new fence, just as I feared. At least it’s not razor wire. But it adds even more obstruction to the cooling, refreshing jungle view we used to have: To see how this affects your view of interesting plants closer to the sidewalk, behold: But there […]
Our webhosting service appears to have folded its tents and stolen away quietly into the night; Mei managed to get us a new domain name and move us onto a more stable (and cheaper) platform. I thought I’d just put the headers from more recent posts into this entry so that people might pick us […]
I saw not one, but two of these last week. The first was soaring above the trees, then suddenly dive-bombed something in mid-air (maybe a bird, but I didn’t see anything in its claws afterwards), then rose high up again and flapped away. Then its friend flapped out from behind a tree, and IT dive-bombed […]
I saw a pair of these high up near the top of the jungle trees. They took turns swooping around catching bugs, and then visiting their nest hole in the tree trunk. Probably feeding their babies. They’re called dollarbirds because when they’re flying, from below you can see light blue dollar-sized patches on the dard […]
This morning I had a little extra time to walk through the garden and take some pictures. They’re not an exhaustive show of all the kinds of plants in the garden, but might give you an idea of what Chinese gardening aesthetics can do with a lot of space and a tropical rainforest climate. Here’s […]