The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

Flower Dome - Mid Autumn Among The Lantern Flowers

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Gardens By The Bay
Marina Bay
South, Singapore
September 2013
   
The new Mid-Autumn themed floral display in the Flower Dome features three striking dragonfly lanterns perched amidst a field of vibrant flora such as "lantern flowers" like Begonias and autumn-blooms like Chrysanthemums, Astilbes and Celosias, while Chinese lanterns add to the festive ambience and traditional paper cut-outs illustrate the myths and legends behind this festival. 


Huat ah!

Little Mid-Autumn Festival icons...

Lantern trivia - How many did you spot?

A butterfly among the blooms...

Lanterns and brocades overhead...

Mooncakes on sale...

Drums herald the arrival of the autumn harvest..

Where birds prepare their nests for the incoming winter chill...

The fair maiden, Chang'E smiles benevolently down at Earth from her home on the moon...

Autumn flowers in full bloom...
Dragonflies nestle among the flowers...

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SuperTree Grove - A Treetop Walk To Remember

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Gardens By The Bay
Marina Bay
South, Singapore
September 2013
  
For the first time since its opening, Merlion Wayfarer had an opportunity to ascend the OCBC Skyway at the Gardens By The Bay...

The Singapore Flyer in the distance, and the Cloud Conservatory oh so far away 
- Testament that the Gardens is really huge!

The magical golden path amidst the SuperTrees...

The majestic vertical splendour of the SuperTrees...

The brightness of the F1 tracks is visible...

A romantic stroll in the blue-tinged SuperTree Grove canopy is truly a walk to remember...

    


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Pandora 3D - Loving Earth In Recycled Luminescence

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Gardens By The Bay
Marina Bay
South, Singapore
September 2013
Pandora 3D is one of Keppel Club's main attractions showcased at the Earth Week Exhibition 2013 in March. As part of the Club's Go Green initiative and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, the green message is conveyed through a visually stunning 3D exhibit to remind everyone about the ailing earth and the pressing need to stop exploiting it. Made from 100% recycled materials with the staff's bare hands and taking 5 full days to set up, Keppel Club hopes that every visitor to this exhibition leaves with insights on the importance of human co-existence with Mother Earth.

The long queue outside the Pandora 3D tent -
Everyone is given the full opportunity to experience the exhibit in full...

Enter by stepping through ankle-deep dried leaves...
Do you get the feeling that you are in a forest?

When the curtain is lifted...

The explosion of colours just fills you...

Flowers glow in their luminescent rainbow...
   
A Keppel Club volunteer explains how the flowers are made from plastic bottles
and painted over with glow-in-the-dark paint...

How the flowers look like - in 2D and in 3D...

 A rubber frog on a leaf that glows in the dark...

A Navi warrior stands guard by the exit - Watch out, he moves!

Leaving the tent with a greater appreciation of the environment...


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