Southern Ridges

-


My Dear and I trekked from 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm on this serendipitous afternoon, 8 to 9km of the trail of the Southern Ridges, which includes the following: Marang Trail, Jewel Box, Faber Walk, Henderson Waves, Hilltop Walk,Forest Walk,Alexandra Arch,Hort Park and Flora Walk.
The trek was really refreshing to our mind, body and soul... not to mention what a good workout it provides! The whole trail is really very scenic and interesting! and full of twists, turns and surprises!



I cannot help but marvel at the excellent plan of land use by the Singapore Government! Singapore is such a small island, yet we can have such great natural wonders as the Southern Ridges, a mini-European county in Clarke Quay, great places of interests, wonderful parks and places of interests, rustic charms in Kranj Countryside, marvellous shopping belts and many more! (see my label for places for some of the interesting places in this little island that I have visited)


Some Singaporeans say there is nothing much to do and see besides window shopping in Singapore but I would like to prove them wrong! I would like all Singaporeans to really discover our little island for there are really tons of great places to relax, explore and discover! Some places of interests are free, while others are not, but they offer Singaporeans great places to bond with their loved ones and to enrich their lives!


And not to forget, besides the myriad choices of interesting and happening places in Singapore, there are also events and 'festivals' coming up: F1, Heritage Fest, Museum Open House, Arts Festival, The Biennale, Food Festival, Learning Festival, Clean and Green Week, and many many more!


I applaud the Singapore government for creating such a nice, orderly and wholesome place called home where there are so much to anticipate for the average Singaporeans! Definitely, at times not all policies are popular for Singaporeans and there may be some about-turns at times in policies, but nevertheless, I can say Singapore has provided SO MUCH to all.

Do tune in to the sequels to this post, where I will share with all the fun, excitement and discovery of each of the places I visited along the exciting and rewarding trail!

I am going to sleep now....it is such a rewarding trail!

Comments

Post a Comment

Singapore Stocks Investing

Loading...

SG STOCKS INVESTING: Your Money & Lifestyle Magazine!

Loading...

Popular posts from this blog

Lee Wei Ling: “Why I choose to remain Single”?

-
An article written by Dr Lee Wei Ling, Director and Senior Consultant of the National Neurology Institute, who is better known to Singaporeans as the daughter of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew appeared in “The Sunday Times” today. The article was titled “Why I choose to remain Single?” in which Dr Lee shared with readers the reasons for her choosing to remain single. Dr Lee began her article describing the great love, care and bonding between her parents, especially during this period when her mother’s health is not as good as before. Few paragraphs later, she brought readers back to her reasons for choosing to remain single, though it was mentioned Dr Lee has suitors and dated before. As gleaned from the article, the two reasons Dr Lee gave for choosing to remain single are: “Firstly, my mother set the bar too high for me. I could not envisage being the kind of mother and mother she has been” … Statement 1 “Secondly, I am temperamentally similar to my father. Indeed, he once sa...
Read more

Performance Bonus

-
It is the time of the year civil servants receive their performance bonuses (PBs). In the coming two weeks, civil servants will not only receive their performance bonuses, special ‘growth bonuses’, would also await them for the very first time. These PBs and growth bonuses are only applicable to performers, defined as officers with assessed performance gradings above the ‘D’ grade. Typically, civil servants receive their performance bonuses in March, a 0.5 month of bonus in July and a 13th month plus AVC in December. Are all the bonuses good? To be frank, the bonuses dished out in Civil Service are averages at best. With the various bonuses being given out in these months: July, December and March, a civil servant who would like to quit would most likely try to find a ‘suitable’ month to quit so as not to forfeit his bonuses. The December bonus is generally the most generous portion. To quantify for this bonus, an officer would have to be in service till the end of January ne...
Read more

Vernon Leong Jun Wei

-
What happens to the 31 year old bride groom, Vernon Leong Jun Wei? As the news of this latest unnatural and bizzare death developed, it seemed that Vernon did not jump from the 24th storey of Hilton Hotel as was believed earlier. There were 3 video camera footages which might prove otherwises for the cause of Vernon's death. The first video footage showed Vernon at the 24th storey, making his way hurriedly into the fire escape staircase. The next video footage showed Vernon at the 2nd storey which also holds some shops and the final footage showed an unconscious Vernon motionless at the ground of the hotel. Vernon was cladded casually in a T-shirt and pants and have left his hotel room while his wife was taking a shower. It seemed that he might be escaping from something or somebody or that he might be chasing after something or somebody. What did Vernon see and experience at his last moments? The police is still investigating the case. It is really a very tragical and sad ...
Read more