Nanowrimo Day 6 Update: Giving Thanks

This is an old familiar bench on Saraca Stream Walk, found close to the Tanglin Gate of the Singapore Botanic Gardens.  Just five months ago, this was a rest stop for me on my recuperative walks.  As I run past this bench this morning, I cannot help but pause to give thanks.  To remember gasping as I took each slow step, wobbling and trying to keep balance, determined not to have to hold on to Loving Husband for support.  For more details, follow this link.

Share Your World: Heliconia Caribaea

As I was running through the Ginger Garden in the Botanic Gardens, I chanced upon this unusual heliconia.  I stopped to take a look as it is not the usual “Birds of Paradise”  that we see all over the garden.  I believe this one is commonly known as a Lobsterclaw.

Five Minutes with a Mother & Child

One of Singapore’s most popular tourist sites is in my backyard; well, it is just across the street.  So, I fortunately find myself there a couple of times a week.  One of my favourite features in the Botanic Gardens is this sculpture, Swing Me, Mama, sculpted in serpentine (spring stone) by Dominic Benhura (1995).  

Guess who I met at the Singapore Botanic Gardens?

I don’t always exercise in the morning as I sometime have driving commitments. When I do, I like to get out at dawn; I love the magnificence of the sunrise, the quiet of that time of day, and the drowsiness which curbs negative self-talk (read: too sleepy to mull over reasons why I shouldn’t hit the pavement).

My Backyard: loving what we have

When we travel, we put in a great deal of effort to research places we want to visit: museums & shows we want to go to, food we want to eat, vistas we want to gape at.  And yet, we often hear that one does not have time to visit places of interest in one’s own hometown.  I wonder why that is.

Recutting the Road

There has been a lot of construction around our neighbourhood.  Roads have been diverted, bus-stops moved down the road, U-turns reappearing in strange places.  I decided to explore one of the biggest changes in the area this morning: Tyersall Avenue.