A visit to the Mandai Orchid Garden

I have been visiting more places in Singapore because of photography. The Orchid Garden is one of them. Did a short visit on Hari Raya Morning. I've read news that this place will be closed down in Jan'11 because the STB wants to extend the Night Safari and that the owner will move to Neo Tew if necessarily.

We were there on time.. but looks like there were some manpower issues and so.. nobody opened the gates when it is 830am. We waited and waited for 30 mins before dyeo did a leopard crawl under the gates to find help !


This is how the gate looked like
In the meantime.. we entertained ourselves first with this fellow which dropped from no where..
This little hut is entrance to the place.
You need to pay an entrance fee though.
- Adults $3.50
- Kids under 12 $1.00
- Photographers $1.50 (don't ask me how they define)
It is an interesting place.. It is made up of a few sections such as orchid garden, private property, orchid nursery, restaurant. You can also hold your wedding there too.

Adding a couple of photos.








Haven't got enough time to complete the walk.. hopefully will be back soon..

Another piece of heritage that is going to disappear. GO AND VISIT this place before it gets teared down.

To see the rest of the photos : Mandai Garden Photoshoot

To view a virtual tour of the place (by Mr F in the comments below and use Internet Explorer for this) : Virtual tour of Mandai Orchid Garden

Latest toy - Lumix G 8mm F3.5 Fisheye for M4/3

Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah hey!

Got my little fishy eye once it is here in SG.

















Took it out for some testing and fun.
Don't you just love the way it views the world from another dimension.

Suntec city with the water fountain


It is an ultra-wide prime lens although I wished that it was F2.8 instead.
No choice then, since nobody else was willing to produce, I had to spend a bomb on Panny's fishy eye.

Some more samples - Produces pretty nice bokeh too..

It can do some marco too, on paper it states minimum focus distance is 0.1m

The world looks different from a fish's eye.

CBD Area

After 3 days of rain....

The weather went back to its usual hot and humid self again...

Sky's very blue today though.. not much clouds.. most of which must have gone into our reservoirs.. =P

Reality check..

Who actually reads my blog ?! Hands up!!


The reason why I blog is because I'm trying to escape from my books.. muwahaha.. Do u take that?

Job change again.

Accepted a new role in the level 3 team. Moving from the level 2 to level 3 might seem like a promotion to most people. However, that's just on the surface. In actual fact, its more like a role change. The focus in the 2 teams are not the same. In level 2, you deal mainly with escalations on break/fixes and more monitoring or maintenance. In level 3, its more on implementing projects and stuff like that. I would say more in depth specialisation.

This came as a surprise as I wasn't really thinking about a change yet with just 2 years into my current job. I knew about my current technical limitations in this field. However, the chance was shown to me in the face. I thought about it and decided to move out of my comfort zone again and face new challenges. Might be years again before a similar chance pops up.

Its Friday again. We've decided to go for our lunchtography again.

Let the photos do the talking..



The original action


Hainanese Pork Chop


We had this after a health talk.. wahaha... how healthy is that..


New toy that I bought today - Arrancar Grimmjow

Random photo

I took this and I like the feel of it..

Photoshoot was completed

Hey hey.. haven't updated this for a long time. I would say I'm pretty pleased with the wedding shoot... I'm glad that I didn't ruin things for them =)

End of the day