UNESCO gardens

I adore the botanic gardens although I visit Gardens By the Bay (GBB) more frequently. The place holds a lot of memories for my family and I and the nation as a whole. I am thrilled that it has been made a UNESCO world heritage site. Who knew it had so much history hidden in plain sight? I had no clue and I visited the place since before I can remember.

The Singapore Botanic Gardens became a UNESCO world Heritage site on the 4th of July 2015 by a unanimous vote.

This is just to remember. 

Congrats Singapore!

May K.

Fort canning

I dropped by Fort Canning after visiting the national museum. This is one of the best parks to find squirrels. You can literally hear them around you. You might mistake their sounds for birds but after a while you catch one. This is one of my favourite parks. The forbidden hill it used to be called, home to the Kings of Singapore in the 14th century. The place is filled with history and wildlife. Can you possible combine two things that fascinate me any better? I should visit more often.

 See, I told you there were squirrels. I am not sure what this one is eating though

 I am waiting for the otters to come eat these too.

 Another squirrel!

The only creature which is not a welcome sight in the park, the parking Uncle.

By the way, that's not my car or I won't be taking the photo







Garden City :)
May K.

Botanic ala Chicken!

Just a short post. On the 14th of June, my family visited the Singapore Botanic Gardens and guess what we found? As you can guess from the title, we found a chicken. Actually I think the correct term is a jungle fowl but it bears an amazing resemblance to its domestic cousin. Or is it the other way round since the wild species came about first? Well, you get the idea.

Wahla! A Jungle Fowl. Please do not turn this fine specimen into KFC or chicken rice, thank you. 

Just kidding

May K. 

P.S: Actually, I wonder what happened to it. 

Nus National history musuem

Being a student of NUS has its perks. I get to visit the new natural history museum for free. This visit occurred during the Year 1 summer holiday according to my notes. I went with my sister but I won't be showing you what she looks like in these photos. It's a pity because I used her as a size reference. Still, privacy. I think that one word says it all don't you?

But enough chatter. Photos!

This is one of the dino skeletons in the museum. Big isn't it? Imagine turning around and seeing that looking at you when you least expect it. Good thing it wasn't alive. I got nasty enough a shock as it is.

 A close up shot of it's head. Small head, big body... not a great combo but it seemed to work well enough.

A shot of the dinos from the second story. Man, they are tall.

 An orangutan, stuffed. I have seen the live one and I prefer the live ones. This looks exactly like its current state, dead. By the way, the reflection is due to the glass case the animal is in.

 I prefer butterflies alive too but the dead ones are much easier to photograph. But, taking photos of dead ones kinda kills the meaning. They have whole cases of pinned insects.

 This... is just creepy looking. A Malayan sunbear cub I believe.

This is huge! At least as big as my sis and she is 1.5 meters tall. I think it's a leather back turtle but my memory is rusty.










And that was the Lee Kong Chian Natural history museum. Quite a fun visit. I especially like the part about it being FREE. Hey, what can I say? I like to save money and nature gives more than it ever asks of you.

Ciao,
May K.