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Sunday, August 31, 2008
30 September 2008 You can't really blame us city dwellers for getting all excited and crazily snapping photographs of Mother Nature on Centre Island. The fascinating flora and fauna, blue skies, blue sea was simply captivating and new! It was a lovely day to be out on an excursion with other international students and I really fell in love with the place. It's like every corner you turn, every other second, there's a postcard-ish, photo worthy moment! The following are just the highlights, carefully handpicked from the 375 photos I took just that day. I have to add that the photographs really do no justice to the beauty of the island. ------------ The day started bright and early.. and us Singaporeans were kinda excited because we are finally going to be taking one of those yellow school buses that we always see on TV!   I made loads of new friends, from all over the world, but I didn't get a chance to take photos with all of them! Anyways, here's Misako from Japan( she's studying liberal studies! cool!) , and Grace from Australia at the ferry terminal. And gosh, it was crowded!! There were a lot of people giving freebies there! Just in 10 minutes you could get shampoo,   I think we probably got exited over everything there! Diviya for one, was excited that the lake was sparkling, while I was excited that the water was actually a pretty sky blue.. If only East Coast Beach had clear blue water!   We had some ice-breakers at the island and played some random games before we were left on our own to explore what the island had to offer :)   Oh, and this is May! She's on a Malaysian govt scholarship to study Music composing! Isn't that cool! We were saying maybe she'll compose a new Malaysian national anthem! Heh!  After walking for about 2 hours, we decided to rent one of these cool quadri-cycles to explore the island. It takes a lot of leg muscle from all of us to actually move this thing and by the end, we were moving at snail pace cos we were all exhausted!  Anyways, here's presenting the beautiful pictures I took of the gorgeous and charming island!                  Aren't the pictures pretty? People here picnic a , sun-tan on fields, read under trees a, go out as a family a lot. Ithink i'll go back to centre island soon, just to read a book under a tree :) don't really get to do that in Singapore.. I think I'll be infested with crawling red ants in Singapore.. -_- And people would think I'm weird..Then the gang of us went to walk around the harbourfront before heading back to nurse our aching feet! Been walking so much here from place to place everyday.. Kinda eases the guilt from eating fried stuff (just cos the stores only sell fried stuff!)... And did I mention the portions here are monstrous? I think I could eat breakfast and da-bao the rest for breakfast and dinner! I felt so guilty for eating fried stuff I put on my running shoes and had an evening jog that night! It was freezing!!!     Let me end with the picture of the day..  We see a lot of these things scrurrying around our roads and paths here in Toronto. Initially, all of us Singaporeans were screaming "squirrel squirrel!"... Then a local came to tell us that it was a chipmunk! haha! :P But look at this highly athletic chipmunk! :) It froze in this position for a while, while so many of us whipped out our cameras!Alrights, I'll go for an evening walk now.. just to digest the dinner! I wrote this entry while watching the sunset. I get to watch the beautiful sunset from my room, and planes fly past every few minutes cos my uni's kinda near the airport. I feel like screaming "EVERYTHING HERE'S SO COOL" now!!! :)
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