Aun's fotos' corner

Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Kidz Play

Kidz Play at nex - Serangoon Central

It is a hot and sunny day.

The children are having fun in the playground.

They enjoy being drenched and cooled by the splash of water or sprays of water. Shiok!!

Just like water festival in Thailand.

waiting to go down the slide

quick leh

nice place to cool down on a hot day

children having fun

wet wet walk

Splash!!

waitng for her turn

now it's all mine

oh oh wrong position

taking up position

making adjustment - beo chun chun

ah ah !! here it come !! Shiok man !!

drenched n cooled

the coolest meeting place

panorama view - Kidz Play-water theme children's playground on Roof level, nex@Serangoon Central

Friday, 22 June 2012

Do you have a girlfriend ?

Do you have a girlfriend?
Caught on camera. Battle for the eye balls
and pocket of SAF soldiers at Pasir Ris MRT Station.
Guess the product.

Do you have a girlfriend?

?
A handphone without the camera.

Friday, 11 May 2012

Tembusu Tree

The tree

The tree is native to Singapore. It is a large evergreen tree and can grow up to 40 metre tall.
The trunk is dark brown in colour with deeply fissured bark.

Tembusu Tree

Dark brown trunk with deeply fissured bark of Tembusu tree

Uniquely perpendicular branches of Tembusu tree

The leaves

The leaves are oval shape and light green in colour.

Oval shape leaves of Tembusu tree

The flowers

Creamy white in colour and open in the evening and exude a distinct sweet smelling fragrance.
Flowering seasons are around May to June and October to November.

Flower buds n creamy white flower of Tembusu tree

Creamy white flowers of Tembusu tree

The fruits

The fruits are bitter tasting red berries and eaten by birds and fruit bats.

Flower buds n unripe green berries of Tembusu tree

Ripe red berries of Tembusu tree

Uses

The trunk is a very hard wood and is used as timber to build houses, bridges, telephone and electric line posts. It is also the preferred material to make chopping boards.

Others

The back of the Singapore $5.00 note shows a very well-known Tembusu tree in the Botanic Garden. Many visitors had taken photographs while sitting on the low lying branch. The tree could be more than 150 years old.

The photographs shown above are taken at Pasir Ris Town Park.

Sunday, 6 May 2012

The Dragon Fruit Cacti

The Dragon fruit Cacti

The dragon fruit cacti is a vine-like cacti of the genus Hylocereus undatus. It is a native of Central America. It is also grown in South East Asia, especially Vietnam and Malaysia. A few of the vines are tied around support post up to about 3 feet high and then allows to droop down.

Dragon fruit cacti tied to support post.
A wilted flower that will soon grow into a dragon fruit.

The flower

The flower blooms at night. It is huge - around 9 inches in diameter (size of a dinner plate).
The flower exudes a sweet smelling fragrance to attracts night moths and bats.
Its is pollinated by the night moths and bats.

Dragon fruit flower side view

Dragon fruit flower - front view

The flower wilts in the morning.
The cacti flowers between 3 to 6 times a year.

The wilted dragon fruit flower in the day after blooming last night.

The fruit

The young dragon fruit after the flower has been pollinated by night moths or bats.

Young dragon fruit

A nearly ripened/ripened dragon fruit.

Dragon fruit

There are white flesh, red flesh and the less common yellow flesh dragon fruit.

White-flesh dragon fruit

Red-flesh dragon fruit

No photograph of yellow dragon fruit because seldom seen in market.

The cacti can be propagated by seeds or planting a broken off stem in the ground.

Note: The photographs of dragon fruit cacti, flower n fruits on cacti are taken at Pasir Ris RC Zone 5 Eco-Garden besides Coral Primary School.

Sunday, 1 April 2012

The Pink Tecoma Tree

The Pink Tecoma Tree

The tree is a native from tropical America. It is a small tree with tiny pink flowers. When it blooms, the whole tree is covered with the tiny pink flowers. Location: Pasir Ris Park, Singapore.

Pink Tecoma tree in full bloom

Pink Tecoma tree in full bloom

Close-up of pink tecoma flowers

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

The Putat Laut Tree

The Putat Laut Tree

The tree
Evergreen and can grows up to 30 metres tall.It grows along sandy coast and seashore.

The flower
Opens at night and drops off the following day. It is pollinated by night moths and fruits bats. Its looks like pom-pom from the side because of its numerous pink tipped stamens. It looks like fire works from the top.

Pictures: From buds to flowering and then dropping off.

The leaf
Tear drop shaped, dark green and leathery feel. Length from 20 to 40 cm and width from 10 to 20 cm.

The fruit
Box shape and tapered to 2 round sepals. Size is about 3 to 5 inches square.
Matures from green to dark brown colour and has a tough fibrous husk.
This helps the fruit to float and be dispersed by water just like a coconut.
The fruit and oblong seeds contains a toxic poison saponin.
It is crushed and put in water to catch fish.

Note: The above pictures were taken in Pasir Ris Park.

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Huangshan Jade Gully

The clear Jadeite water of
Jade Gully

Friday, 9 March 2012

Pasir Ris Park, Singapore

Noni fruit

Why did the chickens cross the road ?

Answer ??

Rooster.

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Huangshan Sedan Express

Too tired to walk? No problem, you pay we carry.

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

sun bathing squirrel

Sun bathing on a sunny day

Huangshan China Crossing the Carp's back 黄山 - 过鲫鱼背

Huangshan: Crossing the carp's back to reach Lotus Peak
黄山 - 过鲫鱼背

Sunday, 4 March 2012

Young goats ramming heads.

We were on the way to Huangshan. We stopped for lunch. I took a walk outside the restaurant and saw these two kids ramming their heads. Just like adult males fighting for mates. Initiation to adulthood.