Saturday, June 2, 2012

Ever Seen a Mermaid?

If you recognized this at first glance you'll instantly know where I'm heading. These structures my lovelies help transport incredibly heavy trading goods that comes in massive steel containers that probably weighs a tonne? Also one of the main factors that contributes to Singapore's flourishing wealth is our sea port. When I was typing this out it reminded me of my geography and social study lessons, where we had to write about the diversity of the growing and ever evolving economy. It was a nightmare but it was fun to write, cause it was all basically bullshitting.
the eminent cable cars. i'm not sure if anyone still took them but they've been up there in mount faber since 1974 till 2005 they evolved into the the not that shiny jewel box they called it.
now if you're singaporean, you definitely know where this is. if you don't let me enlighten you, this particular weird alien like structure is known as vivo city and it has been designed by the amazing toyo ito. but too be honest i don't think it's that fantastic. it might be because they were on a tight budget or toyo ito didnt have time to fully maximize his design due to time constraints, whatever it isn't impressive.
that's one of the star cruises that people spend a lot of money for to be in a ship for a couple of days. why? beats me, i guess the voyage is awesome? might want to try it some day
no sentosa was not as crystal clear as this, how unfortunate right? i think i practically squealed when i entered underwater world. the last time since i've been to this fish haven? probably back in primary school when it was free and the government paid for trips like this using edusave. boy was it fun
the pool by the entrance was particularly shallow to allow you to touch the fishes (that's if you can catch them)
lucky for us we managed to make it just in time for the amazing dolphin shows. this dolphin lagoon is home to several intelligent indo pacific humpback dolphins. i forgot why they were pink=(
amazingly cute little fur seal paid with fish to entertain us all.
enlightening us about the difference between seals and sealions
even though they both look the same, they were built very much differently
firstly seals equipped with special tails enables them to walk flop about on land, while sealions can't because their tails aren't designed that way.
humor me please.
and but of course the magnificent humpbacked dolphins.
in order to measure the scale of the humongous crab, i asked matt to stand beside so you could understand the scale of it all
sea horses are always dainty to me. it's they way they float around like little ballerinas.