marina barrage
i went down to marina barrage with my family yesterday. wait. more accurately, i
drove them down haha. and ok this must be the first time out of XXX no of driving sessions since i got my license that i didnt get horned at. its quite an achievement for me actually haha. ok. anw, we decided to go there cos we missed the grand opening, and wanted to take a look at how our reservoir in the city looks like.
ok, i must admit that the actual reservoir itself looks less grand than what one would expect from looking at the model of the reservoir and blueprints. but the scenery from the top of the barrage, plus the various water facilities together make the barrage itself quite spectacular and a place worth visiting haha.
when i first reach that place, i noticed that there were not one, but two couples taking their wedding photos at that place. haha felt it was a weird place to take wedding photos at though, since that place was once reclaimed land, and the barrage is newly opened, so that couldnt possibly be the place they first met or something haha.
what i liked about that place was the "sustainable singapore gallery", where they actually explained the history of the barrage, how it works, and also tells us about the water resource in singapore.
haha heres me beside a giant water droplet. next to these droplets is this touch screen book where u use ur finger to "flip" the page by touching a side of the page and doing a "flipping" motion. that kinda amazed me for a while lol.
theres a model of the barrage, explaining how it helps prevent flooding at surrounding low-lying areas. heres what happens when theres heavy rain, and it is a low tide. the walls of the barrage will be lowered and the excess water from the reservoir will flow into the sea, but seawater will not be able to backflow into the reservoir.
and when there is heavy rain, and it coincides with a high tide in the sea, these special pumps at the side will be activated. cant remember how many olympic-sized pools they can empty in how many seconds haha.
ok. i have something against the gallery at this point in time. after weaving through the numerous exhibits, and arriving at the final exhibit, there were no exits, and we had to walk all the way back to the entrance and leave from there! anw, the top of the barrage allows people to have a glimpse of the surrounding city area. and heres a view with the singapore flyer in the distance. i wonder if the view will be nicer at night...
heres a view of the barrage itself. at that point in time, it started raining. haha i wonder if it is low tide or high tide at sea...
some static water display at the entrance of the marina barrage. haha theres a kids play pool nearby, but i did not go there cos number one im not a kid, and number two i didnt want to get wet haha.
after visiting the barrage, we went to have lunch somewhere around tanjong pagar. wanted to eat fishball noodles but all the fishball noodle stalls in the food centre i went to were closed for the day. SAD. so in the end had to settle for lor mee.
next up, we went to suntec to visit the food fair cum home electronics fair. i thought it was a really weird idea to put these two together in a common exhibition hall. when i stepped in, on the left hand side was all the food stuff (including cooked food which could be purchased there), and on the right side were all the electrical appliances. weird.
ok actually we went there cos my mum wanted to buy something. i was generally kind of bored there. there were some items like laptops and mp3 players that caught my interest, but it was very much a home appliance fair, and not an IT fair, so the variety wasnt as huge, and the discount wasnt tt great either. most notably, sony and creative did not participate in the fair too.
haha. so after wandering around a little, i found this stall which had a huge banner "学魔术", and decided to go and check it out. the stall owner continuously performed magic trick after magic trick, and even though ive seen some of those tricks before, i still could not figure out how the tricks work, so i was mesmerized for quite a while.
only when it was time to leave did a thought pop into my mind: so how does a magic stall fit into a food and home appliance fair? HAHA.
on a side note, maydays 你不是真正的快乐 made it to number 1 today on the charts! 3 weeks to number 1. that was real fast! huang jing lun's 月光 also charted! thats a really nice song and i really love it. in fact, i have listened to huang jing lun's entire album, and really love his voice and his songs.
consilio et animis
11/16/2008 09:59:00 PM
