Just trying out

Singapore Garden Festival 2006

Hibernating garden in Philadelphia.. brave the cold

Chritmas In A Philipines Village - nativity hut, stone path walk, trees w lanterns

More pitcher plants than those i found in Mt Kinabalu..

" Invasion of the Green kind" - This is what happen if you ignore your PC for too long
and turned to gardening instead

Peeled off a chinese cabbage, keep the outer greens and starting pasting around the
perimeter..

from AVA..

The light green - puffy balls are
Asclepias phyllocarpa
a helpful guy at info counter promised to help me with the ID
in the evening I received his sms!

Neat rows of cactusYou will find a good selection of the pretty chryanthemum there!Inside the Dream Dome - a surreal world depicting destroyed /deformed forest ..
Strange folliage from Down Under with kangaroo's Paw as foreground
Thousand Eyes staring back
The 'plum flower labyrinth' ? think chinese swordfighting ..
Flow of a chinese brush3D wall-plug
Take you time.. enjoy these large and exquisite chrysnthemum

Roses, roses.. and baby breathe
Too pretty to sit on..

Ho Chi Minh Nov 10-12 '06 - D2c

As our SQ taxied towards the runway I noticed the 'lotus' flower painted on the tail fin of a Vietnam Jet. It was the National flower of Vietnam - a very common sight indeed in the countryside with its lush green padi fields( even with ancestor tombstones etc) and lotus ponds. I vividly rememberd a guy standing waist-deep in a pond harvesting lotus flowers while our 15-seater tour bus whizzed by.

Sunday morning - after an early breakfast
we decided to take a walk around the neighbourhood and did some last minute shopping in a nearby bazaar.

Ho Chi Minh statue.

What's in the cooking?


A little crowd gathered around the lady on the left
she was selling sliced fruits - guavas, jambu to go.

Pomelos

Pineapples seller - the pineapple rivals the sweetness of Sarawak pineapple.
I have looked hard on roadside stall but fail to see any 'rojack' store
in this part of the world.
Mouthwatering nanas..

Basket seller's wares

Traffic cop leading the way for marathon runners

The street was filled with young marathon runners

The painted white tree trunks add another dimension
to the park
Sunday mass at Notre Dame and the lady in white standing near the entrance
we decided to check it out..

... some sort of donation drive

Believe it or not - this is a Tanjong Tree in
such a creative form