A Trip to the Vegetables Farm

I went to many places on the 14 September 2008. The final stop was at a vegetables farm just beside the Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve. It is an aeroponics farm. It means that they grow their vegeatables plants in an air or mist environment. The plants are not even grown in water (hydroponics). Can you see the roots of the plant hanging in the 'air'? Anyone of you know the name of the plant??

There are so many plants there and I don't even know their names. I know that they are edible, but I do not know how to cook them. Enjoy the photos...
An unripe strawberry...
A corn (maize) plant...A papaya tree...A stool?? That was what I thought at first. But I was wondering why was the stoll place right in the middle of nowhere. Upon a closer look, I realised...
It was a pumpkim...
A starfruit plant...

A cotton plant... That's the fruit. When it opens up, you can see the cotton inside. (Sorry, forgot to take the photo of the cotton inside. My son was busy plucking out the cotton and I was trying to stop him.)


A toad?? I saw a group of children crowding around it and so I went to take photographs of it too...
A ginger plant... The ginger is underground...
A Indian Cherry plant...

A grasshopper... Can you see it?



A pineapple plant...The watermelon flower... (so sorry, it's not very clear)

There are many species of gourds... I'm sorry... I am not familiar with them. Let me know their names if you know them. They were hanging there, looking fat and juicy...










I must go to the vegetables farm again to learn more about these plants. The next thing is to learn to cook them... See ya!

Climbing up the Bukit Timah Hill

After going to the Kranji War Memorial, we went to the Bukit Timah Hill. Jia Yi has been there before, when he was 3, and now has no memory of it.

Jia Yi was pratically running up the steep slope of the hill. I was behind him trying to catch up, but my legs were unwilling. He tried to ask me questions about the signs that he saw at the side of the path, but I was too breathless to answer. It was the determination that I would not lose out to the rest of the group members, and to 'save face' in front of Jia Yi, that made me climb all the way to the summit.

There isn't many pictures to show because my hands were shaking so much that I could not take any nice pictures. But, I had to take the evidence to show that I had reached the summit.

I will go there again after I have trained up my stamina. And I will bring my husband along, to show off my stamina.

A Trip to Kranji War Memorial

My son and I went to Kranji War Memorial on the 14 September 2008. That was my first time there. I was there in the morning at about 8am. The air was refreshing. It is a good place to go to.

Having forgotten to bring along my digital camera, I could only take the pictures with my handphone, so the pictures may not be very clear.

This is where the first and second president of Singapore lies.

The one above is Yusof Ishak. He was the first president of Singapore from 1965 to 1970. Yusof Ishak died in 1970 at the age of 60. You can still see the picture of his face on the notes used in Singapore.

The one below is Benjamin Henry Sheares. He was the second president of Singapore from 1971 to 1981. He was then 74. The Sheares Bridge was named after him.

As we entered the Kranji War Cemetery, we can see rows and rows of tombstones. However, it was not frightening at all. Instead, I felt very peaceful there. There are no bodies buried under the ground, but the tombstones were there to remind us of the number of deaths caused by the war.

As we walked up the aisle, we saw the following,

Behind this, are walls and walls of names. Names of the people who had died in the war. (I just realised that I didn't take photographs of those walls.)

They even keep a register of those who had passed away in the war.

My son, who wants to be a soldier, wants to fight for his country. I am proud of him. But, I wouldn't want to see a war start just so that he can fight to protect his country. In a war, many people die and their families suffered. Let peace goes on forever.