I thought I’d share with you some of the flowers I see daily at the National Institute of Education. They’re all members of the Heliconia family of South America. Apparently there’s a Heliconia Society here in Singapore, and they’ve ensured that these things are out in force, at the Bird Park, the Zoo, and here […]
OK, it’s probably a moth. But it’s 3 and a half inches across, and was just parked outside our doorstep this morning. I saw another like it last year, but green with bright yellow stripes – they look like stunt kites. Let me know if you can identify it. I probably needed a tripod and […]
This morning I lucked out and saw wild pigs: a mother and adolescent! They were walking along the ugly new fence that now separates the NTU campus from the military training jungle. I think the fence is there to protect the Youth Olympic Games kids from rampaging Singapore servicemen. (Although I also saw about 50 […]
More kudos to Lip Kee for fine photography. This is one of the most elegantly marked birds we have at the NTU campus. The zippy stripe along the wing makes it look like a fast car.
I didn’t take this picture: It’s by Lip Kee. But the bird is the same as the long-tailed parakeets I see in small flocks on my morning walks. Sometimes they’re roosting high up among some leafless branches, and the morning sun makes their little bellies glow pink and orange. But I never have the tripod […]
Last weekend we took a trip to the Kuala Lumpur area, and happened to be in the heart of the city during Earth Hour, when everyone is supposed to turn off unnecessary lights between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. Kuala Lumpur participated, and as the hour drew to an end we took pictures of the famous […]
I think I mentioned before that this is a great walk – 13-15 kilometers of water, plants, a few animals, and a bit of peace and quiet. Of course we last did this hike during Chinese New Year, and there were some guys having a “Good New Year Yell:” they took turns standing at one […]
We had visitors last month and took them around the city. The moon was full, and we managed to get a few interesting shots of it, using my lovely FujiFilm Finepix25. Click on a picture to enlarge it. This is at the main gate to Chinese Gardens. This one is with the Singapore […]
This guy was posing for us in Chinese Gardens a few weeks back. There were lots of them near and in the lake just at dusk. Major water-monitor time! Click on these pictures to enlarge this bad boy…..
My colleague explained yesterday the precise mechanism of getting cars off the road in Singapore: you buy your car for about $100k, drive it for ten years, each year paying plenty in parking fees, ERP fees (they charge you to drive downtown during peak hours), and registration fees, as well as maintenance, insurance and gas. […]