♥ Tuesday, June 14, 2011I'm glad to announce the june 2010 post is here, ha ha finally. Had been busy.Actually it's just part 1 of 3. LOLS. Featuring only 01jun10 and 03jun10 with 82 images. - First of june, went out gaigai with greentea, pink and berd.  I like my shoes which made me grow by 10cm (although sadly by now the straps have already broken).     A process known as toileting.  We were in direct view of some doremon performance at marina square from the food loft. They were dancing, but doremon's limbs were too stiff to move much (it doesn't even have joints at the elbow and wrist), damn funny lo. The really funny part when the show has ended and doremon tries to get into the back stage. The head was too big! Cannot walk through the door WTH. Doremon has to walk sideways very slowly (like a lame crab) to squeeze through the backstage door. Epic fail.  Parting shot. - Next up is a long chapter on the ulu kranji farms trip on 03jun10. Lols looked damn chui, full-powered sun and full-bodied sweat.  168 is my recommended bus of choice to get to the northeast side, because i always take one mah lolsss. I like long distance ride through the speedy expressways (although i know they always drive at around 40km/h only) but yn is always sleeping on bus one lols. Two train stops from woodlands to kranji.  Waiting for the countryside shuttle bus outside kranji mrt.  Aboard the minibus that brought us to the kranji countryside.  Some roadside views.  As planned beforehand, we alighted at bollywood for lunch because there were full of raving reviews online.  Some whimsical stuffs in the compound that welcomed us.  Don't know why i looked overly happy.  Introducing the cast while waiting for lunch to arrive: pink, kim, wee and berd.  I had the fig drink because i always like to eat figs. It was quite bland but still refreshing. The lemongrass drink on the otherhand, was stronger in taste. Aloe vera drink was rather typical and expected.  We ordered three dishes for four of us. Surprisingly, the "four rice" came in a big bowl. Felt homely ha ha. Closeups coming up below.  There was chicken curry and banana curry. Since banana curry is more special, i suggested it. LOLS but i think we'd prefer the chicken one. Actually the bananas used were the hard ones, which didn't taste like our typical bananas.  Stir-fried veggies of the day. Very homely dish lols.  Sweet and sour fish, another homely dish ha ha. They were very thoughtful to provide serving spoons for us to share, if you haven't noticed!  Most of the time, guys never take good photos when requested! LOLS really. All failed.  We tried their home-made desserts yay.  Me and pink's banana cake with ice cream. All cakes taste good with chilly vanilla ice cream heehee.  Wee's old-school chocolate cake.  Berd's mango pudding, which we protested the unfairness LOLS. His little cup was way cuter than our white plates! Damn it.  The toilet environment reminded me of those in zoo, sentosa or something. Always imagining people might peep from the bushes LOLS.   Yanni's attempts at nature shots ha ha.  Toured around the plantation. This is one of their many banana plants.  Peeping through some fences, we saw a nice beautiful mansion in the distance, across the pond. Must be the owners' palace. Yup, PALACE. Numerous domestic dogs started to appear behind the pond and barked at us fiercely. Caught sight of a great dane! I knew great danes are really huge, but i have never seen one in real life until that day. Long legs and it's really freaking huge! LOLS sorry no pictures.   We then left bollywood to explore other farms. Being impractical to wait for the next shuttle bus (1.5h intervals), we boarded the vehicle 11. (11 refers to the legs in case you happen not to know.)  Btw that's snow white with my purple umbrella, because snow white cannot be turning black ha ha ha.  Immediately noticed some roadside mushrooms. =D  Snow white says our slippers and legs made her mushroom shots look ugly. T_T  Walking and walking and sweating and sweating.  Pretty roadside flowers!  Still walking.  Saw some radio mast and towers across the field. After some checking, these belong to the kranji transmitting station (media corp technologies). Two other relay stations in the vicinity belongs to bbc and singtel.  Snow white's nature shots.  Another shot at another road convex mirror.  We passed by a fish farm and decided to drop by for a visit, and waaaaa this scene is just like paradise wor...  Greeted by two big parrots with robotic voices. They really said "hello?" in that freaky tone as if a human had a horrible throat infection LOLS.  O hai! This is a blue-throated macaw parrot, according to wiki.  My closest guess that this could be a yellow-shouldered amazon parrot. Might not be correct though. They are both huge species in the parrot family as compared to my tiny lovebird parrot (which can be easily squashed by the palm).   Saw some really huge koi and arowana (aka golden dragon fish). Giantic... Till the extent whereby i suspect they might be as tall as me if they could stand upright ha ha.  I cannot really quite remember, but i think this shot is definitely posed! LOLS.  A really scenic place. Walking ever to explore the hut.  The hut was empty but full of excretion all over the wooden walls and floor. Probably bats' waste? They looked too big to be lizards' waste anyway.  There was this old-looking dog roaming around there.  Oh really?  Indeed. Anyway parrots are basically similar. They like to make noise to seek your attention if they see you somewhere away. They somehow appear to recognise people, and are able to interact and be trained. Hence, parrots make good pets in my opinion.  Pull-ups? No problem! We moved on to another farm, which is strongly recommended by wee because he used to intern there. Nyee phoe.  The whole compound is another scenic place. So nice.   Resting. So nice.  The place sells some garden furniture and this is a paranakan-styled window with a mirror (i think). So nice. We set off to our last sightseeing location of the day. Sungei buloh wetland reserve yay.  After entering, we were lucky to see a monitor lizard. I cropped a slightly closer-up below.  Here it is, yay.  We were very kind to feed the animals there, in particularly the mosquitoes and ants.  A typical scene at the wetland reserve.  To be honest, we didn't really see a diversity of animals and plants as claimed in online sites. Or maybe it's just us. No patience, no experience, no observation skills. Ha ha.  Well, except for a few occasional typical white cranes which could be easily seen in bedok anyway.  I strongly believe the land across the water is johore bahru.  Sunset time. Okie not really.  A view from our location inside the observation hut. Meant for you to focus on the scene to spot rare birds and stuffs.  That was how we were supposed to view the nature.  Well... We saw almost nothing there. No birds!  We saw a small lizard too. But that's all. Boohoo. =c LOLS. To our surprise, the last bus for shuttle service to kranji mrt was already gone. Strangely. Should still have, according to the timing. But somehow, there was no more bus for us WTH. Hahahhhas.  Wee had gotten the whole legs full of red bites, very bad. I only got a few bites, not that bad. Yup it's always like that, mosquitoes aim the most attractive person first, if you go adventure with a group of friends. It's like, they literally become the meat shield LOLS. Attractiveness mmm, did a quick research and the articles say that mosquitoes prefer certain body smells. The smell in one's sweat is dependent on different proportions of carbon dioxide, octenol, processed cholesterol, bodily chemicals and salty food consumed.  Normally you can see the pretty sky accompanied by a very hot sun.  The very-tired people resting by the roadside curb/kerb.  And making plans on how to leave this place before sunset.  Some dog munching some meat (looks like roasted chicken or something). Reminds me of a scene whereby we saw a decomposing dead bird (or chicken) by the roadside, very very disturbing... With the flesh, blood and houseflies. Not sure if it was killed by wild animals or what. We didn't take picture of that because it did not seem morally right to record a tragic incident due to respect, and the scene might be slightly traumatic. Attempting to walk out to the nearest bus stop (which is really very far, for your information), we managed to hitch a van belonging to two malaysian workers! They are so nice to give us a free ride to yishun mrt. =D  We sat in the goods area, looking out at the roads.  Ha ha.  Across the kranji dam. It is always a joyous thing to be on the way home after a long tired day.  Soon, it started to rain. Luckily we were already in the van instead of walking.  Looking chui but happy to meet helpful people. Heart-warming ha ha.  We eventually arrived at yishun after some time on the road.  Our dinner at some yishun coffeeshop yay. Took 969 back to tampines. And so that's it. Stay tuned for two other parts LOLS. Might not be soon. Too busy, coped up, stressed up, depressed and blah blah lately. Hardly have quality time for myself. Thanks again for reading. Part 2 of 3 should be general june stuffs, and part 3 of 3 should be about meiqi's 20th birthday picnic at marina barrage. See you! Still happy that 4.5 years of relationship is still as smooth as before, as happy as before, as strong as before, and more fulfilling than before. =D 11:41 pm
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