Hidden trail

I took half day of work a few days ago to go trekking, right in this urban city of Singapore. I wouldn't have thought that the city has something like this to offer, what with the low Bukit Timah as the highest natural ground in Singapore.

I was with PL and her two friends. Our objective was to see the Henderson Wave. It is the tallest pedestrian bridge in Singapore and its shaped like a wave, hence the name.

We started trek started from somewhere near Vivocity, after having lunch at Superdog. As an aside, it was my first time eating at Superdog and I quite like the fish burger that they serve. Oh, their fries come with a beef-and-onion sauce, which I think is similar to the kind of sauce on A&W's coney dog. The fries were lovely when eaten with the sauce.

Anyway, we started with the Marang trail and ended up at Mt Faber. Mt Faber is where the expensive Jewel Box is, which houses a few high-end restaurants that has a wonderful view of the harbour and Sentosa.

View from Mt Faber, at the Jewel Box

The weather was just great with the sun mostly hidden behind clouds. It was a pleasant hike to Mt Faber. It is like trekking in wild forests, but with nicely paved paths. Not quite back to nature where the trail itself would be soil and not tiles or cement.

Some of the fauna which we managed to catch sight of.



The lizard above was pretty well camouflaged on the ground but one of us manage to spot it. Its shiny scales were deceiving; I thought it was a very short snake. But really, it was beautiful and utterly motionless while we were snapping pictures 3 feet away.

Finally we reached Henderson Waves. It looks like the deck of a ship with its wooden floor and sail-like wave design. There was a cool breeze blowing which enhanced the effect of being on a ship.









From Mt Faber to Henderson Wave, it took us about 2 hours as we stopped quite often to take pictures. I was pleasantly surprised by the very existence of this trail. Indeed, one of the hidden gems in Singapore.

Eye candies V

The final part of the Cleo's Bachelors. Was actually considering not putting these last few up as the results were already known two Fridays ago.







The winner was number 33, Daren Tan, who was some reality show winner (can't remember which one).

Eye candies IV

This is part four of the Cleo's 50 Bachelors. This is also the one where Jaded Jeremy has been waiting for.







This leaves the final ten guys. Coming soon!

Eye candies III

Sorry for the delay, this is part 3 of the Eye Candy series.







Nothing really great here. Joakim Gomez is actually quite cute, as seen during the play Chesty Nutty Bang Bang. But with the nerdy combed-flat hairstyle, it totally spoiled his looks!

The next installment of bachelors will be better. Stay tuned!

Eye candies II

Here's the part two.







If you noticed, I have left out a page with three contestants. Trust me, you did not miss out anything. I am just being mean trying to save the upload time for readers.http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8532639#
Post Options

For this group, I like no 11 (look at that swimmer's body, just nice; not too bulky) and no 17 (studious look, hmmm I like!).

Eye candies

I bought the March edition of Cleo Singapore more than two weeks back. It was then latched into the hands of Jaded Jeremy and now finally, it's time I share some of its contents ;-)







I just love number eight. Such a cutie, with such sharp features. I am sure QR would agree.

More to come!

An afternoon in the city

Since I had such an eventful weekend, I was dead tired on Monday. As such I took the afternoon off. But then, instead of resting, I went out with Frankie.

These are some of the random shots of places we visited. They were taken at the Singapore National Museum.






The next picture is the Singapore Management University (SMU), located right in the city and near to the National Museum.


The Singapore Arts Museum was our next stop.

There wasn't any description on this, but probably is to inspire the Singaporeans
to procreate more, as their birth rate is one of the lowest in the world.

The corridor outside the Arts Museum

This picture looks so wrong!

Oh, apparently colleagues think that my hair looks quite nice. I didn't think it was that great initially ;P

But now I seem to like it more and more!