Seen & Heard - Samsonite's Step Out

Changi Airport

East, Singapore

December 2012

 

One of Samsonite's latest adverts at the airport. Food for thought : Have you been listening to your inner voice? Following your heart? Embracing every possibility?

 

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The Sun Sets In The West At Pandan Reservoir

Pandan Reservoir

West, Singapore
January 2013

To Merlion Wayfarer, Pandan Reservoir is the sister reservoir of Bedok Reservoir. (See "The Sun Sets In The East At Bedok Reservoir") Like Bedok, it has a jogging path around the entire elliptical shape of the reservoir. Like Bedok, the path is filled with gravel instead of smoothed with cement. And like Bedok, you can see an amazing sunset there. One in the East and one in the West. Truly of brother and sister capability!

 

Total isolation in the middle of a gravel path - No birds, no cars, no people!

Potholes can be found on a road leading to it - Truly ulu... 

A floating platform with adjustable bits which can be detached...

Two huge pipes from the reservoir which pump potable water to the nearby West Coast industrial area...

The beautiful sunset in the West starts around 1800 hours with a slow change of the light to a yellowish tinge. The cool evening breeze shreds the puffy cumulus clouds into wispy thin strands...

These strands catch on the long rays of the spectrum and are transformed

into patches of pink, purple and orange as the sun itself turns golden...

|  "Between The Stalks & The Gravel"  |  "The Sun Sets In The East At Bedok Reservoir"  |



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Romantic New Year Countdown By The Sea

By The Sea
Singapore
01 January 2013

It was a cold rainy day. It had rained most of the morning with the rain continuing into the afternoon and evening. The water deluge looked set to continue throughout the night. Hmmm, does not augur well for the upcoming new year!

Fortunately... the rain stopped in late evening and Merlion Wayfarer was set to step out to celebrate the countdown festivities.

Her criteria for the countdown this year were simple:

• Far from the Madding Crowd (Good title, Thomas Gray & Thomas Hardy!)
• Yet a place where one could still soak in the excitement of a countdown

She ventured along the roads in search of one which is not jammed with people with party poppers, blaring music and flashing disco lights. Finally, one was found at a cosy beach in the romance of the night.

With the faint sound of the countdown from the revellers behind, the countdown started. Seconds later, the signal flares from nearby parked ships and the blaring of fog horns blast in the New Year by the sea. In the distance, the faraway blasts from Marina Bay fireworks added to the festivities...

A truly romantic way to start a brand new year...

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