I got the front seat to watch the fireworks last week, just one step away from the waterway. Actually not seats, just steps leading to the bay water lah...next time I will try another location further away so I can framed the whole shot nicely. There's another display this Saturday, but I won't be in Singapore. No worries, there's the week after that, and more in August, due to our 43rd National Day celebrations. Just got to find the time to go and find someone who's willing to carry my tripod for me. For this one, I managed to get my 9 years old nephew to help me ,of course with some grumbling from him.

With our the national day coming soon in August , the participants of national day parade have been having regular practices at the floating stage by the bay since early this year. Three Saturdays this months has been allocated for all students of primary 5 to compulsory attend it. It's the full dress rehearsals , with full aerial display by the SAF commando parachutists and the elite pilot squadron with the water display and the fireworks . The public can only attend the actual parade through balloted tickets but those without tickets can still see the aerial display, water display and fireworks from the public space around the Marina Bay area. That's what I did , with my sis in law family yesterday. We sat near the Merlion and had a front seat view of the aerial and water display. What a fun and exciting prelude! we could see the students from where we sat , screaming with excitements at each show which unfortunately not very visible to us, but hey , we're not complaining! We can see those performance during the live tv show during the national day. We had the best seat for the aerial performances !



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commando parachutist



one of the jet going to land on the moon.


the floating stage and seating gallery, from where I sat.

Come back for more photos on fireworks soon, ok?.

Heloooooooooo, anyone free to visit me at Toa Payoh Park?

The Town Garden used popular with couples in the 70s for their wedding photography.Toa Payoh was one of our early satellite town built to replace the slums and kampung area.

Despite the pressure on land for housing, this garden was the result of an enlightened decision by the Housing Development Board in the early 70s, to allocate a large area of the New Town for a landscaped park. Recently it went under upgrading in par with the recent redevelopments around the housing estate. If you have not been to Toa Payoh recently , there's a lot of changes you may have noticed including the demolitions of older blocks of flat and rebuilding in it's place a newer, bigger and higher block of flats.

I was at the park during the weekday, it's quiet deserted except for few strollers, kind of serene place to hang around , watching the turtles in the pond and enjoying the breeze, that is if you can block that traffic noise from the road just next to the park.

Mummy ni memang pantang nampak bunga, mesti nak ambek gambar!!

With the usual mummies gang off we went to Bottle Tree Park in Yishun again for another photoshoot. The place is named after the huge Bottle Tree which looks like a bottle. Too bad with such hot weather, most of the lotus flower in the pond had dried up, the last time we went, they were thriving beautifully. We decided to revisited Bottle Tree Park because the other mummies couldn't make it the first round with our 'shifu'. This time around our shifu was not free to join us, and so do some members too.


we became each other model!



the huge bottle tree.

I love to photograph kids, you don't have to tell them to pose, they'll do it willingly!
These beautiful kids belong to my good friends, Lynna and Ratna, the boys are brothers while the cute little girl was actually having slight fever but still she's game when she saw the camera.

We met online in a local forum for moms, then met for the first time during gathering years ago and firmly bonded till now.I appreciated their warm friendship despite the fact that I'm much much older than them. We are very much into photography, and goes for photoshoots regularly as time permit.We all started with compact point and shoot camera but now already upgraded to prosumer camera and DSLR.



that's me in pink top and black pants.

along Singapore River.