The day the flowers bloom

We headed to our first experience at the Singapore Garden Festival held at Suntec City. We were invited by Miss Angela, who wanted our company this year to visit the Festival, as she had visited the event alone in the past years. Being very nice peeps, we agreed to keep her company, as we were curious about the event as well.We even got a huge discount off our already discounted price courtesy of my OCBC Debit card =)

Us posing at the entrance of the exhibition hall

One of the rare exhibits featuring a huge statue of a farmer squatting down, which is made of grass

Our SUPER DISCOUNTED entrance ticket: ONLY $4.50!!

Croak! Croak!

Plants being planted in boots as the vases

Mr Frog is fishing a ball of plant

Shane tied her hair with a paper flower door gift

Colourful arrays of flowers on exhibit at the event

Group Photo Time!

Another reflection shot with Angela's camera

A crane made from a pandan leaf

Forever the Bored Expression =P

Alan shaking the hand of a glass figurine

Up-close view of the glass figurines playing checkers

Beautiful display of lightings on the plants

Andrew, Angela and Shane trying out the art of brush painting

The Threesome!

Poor Andrew has no space to sit cos he has the biggest butt amongst us =P

Lala and Shaney in action

Posing in our own world

Up close view of a recycled product: Guess what it is?

It's a bag!! And Shane loves the design!

Andrew trying to listen to the heartbeat of the ladybird. Hope he really hears something...

HEART ^.^

The symbol of love behind us

A colourful painting of flowers and butterflies on display

Shane trying out the swing she longs to have for her wedding day

Angela wants one too!

 

We are eggs and flowers =)

Innovative model of the Singapore Flyer made from recycled materials

A model of plant made from seashells and wires...NICE!

Beautiful flower exhibit courtesy of our Esplanade colleague Helena Yeo =)

Another proud display courtesy of another colleague, Aileen Lim

After a long day of strolling around the Singapore Flower Festival 2010, we headed to Suntec Swensens for a deserving glass of sundaes each. We had a fruitful day appreciating the wide variesties of plants and flowers and gaining our knowledge of the different creative ideas plants can be turned into!

Wendy's Critics (Jurong Point Version)

Drove our way to Jurong Point on a lazy Sunday afternoon for some window shopping. We decided to try out the Wendy's fast food restaurant there, as it has always sounded so fascinating from the words of our friend Angela, who happens to live around the area where the restaurant is located.

 Wendy's!

 We find the food was only so-so, as it did not really live up to all the hype and expectation we were anticipating. Furthermore, the service was pretty slow during our point of visit and we even saw several staff members lazing and chit-chatting at the patrons' dining area when the queue is pretty long. The dining area is also quite small, as compared to most of the other fast food restaurants in Singapore.

Alan enjoying his double cheese pounder

Chilli cheese baked potato!

Saw our favourite Chip and Dale character pillows at MCKY in Jurong Point and we bought it home immediately! It was a lovely pair of pillows and Shane loves to have lots of pillows all around her bed when she sleeps; thus she was very happy with the loot =)

Celebrating National Day at Padang 2010

We got a pair of complimentary tickets courtesy of Shane's buddy Yiwei to watch the preview of the NDP 2010 at Padang. The parade is held at this venue only once every five years and we were excited to get the chance to be part of this event. Every participants were clad in the national colour of red and white it was a spectecular view sitting at the top of the spectator stand. Though the view of the actual parade was rather disappointing, as the main event were mostly facing the grand stand, which was meant for the ministers, it was good enough to be part of the nation's 45th birthday.

Shane looking excited!

 All getting ready for the commencement of the parade!

 The Padang is packed with everyone in a sea of red and white; the NDP motivators cheering everyone ON!!

 A look at the structures beneath the stands of NDP 2010!

 One of the designs of the goodies bag given to the participants of NDP 2010

 Inside the goodies bag, we found one of our favourite traditional biscuits with the 'icing' on the top!

Cute biscuit we found in the goodies bag

 Mimicking the design of the biscuit *.*

Another goody we found in the bag - The Singapore Flag Clapper!

Posing for a pic =)

The choppers bearing the Singapore flag doing a fly-past across the Padang

Followed by the F-16s!!

And the paratroopers decended onto the Padang

A nice shot of the F-16s flying across the Marina Bay Sands

Alan got a tattoo of the F-16 on his face

And Shane got a Flag Bearer on hers!

Showing off our new Tattoo!!

An overview of the marching contingents

A nice scenery of the sky scrapers around the Padang

As darkness decended upon the area...

Alan got tired of the whole event =P

A shot of the supreme court at night

Every participants took out their clappers to cheer the performers on as the sky grew darker

The brightly-lit car exhibits made their way into the Padang

The main performances commence

Our best shot of the fireworks display

Posing with the fireworks

Shane posing with the closing performance of the night behind her

Now it's Alan's turn =)

Shane and the NDP 2010 banner board

Posing with the banner of NDP 2010

Our final capture of the night scenery of Esplanade Theatre from the stands at the Padang