Sunday outing in Civic District

Car free Sunday is back and this time, together with a few friends, I cycled a few loops around Shenton Way, Raffles Place district and had a closer look of the building facade around the civic district. It was a perfect morning. Didn’t rain at all.

New friends roller skating. Even dinosaurs evolve.

Bicycle Train

Happy Diwali, coloring in front of the National Gallery.

Have a coffee. Bikes can be rented for free in front of the City Hall steps, sponsored by URA.

Friends forever.

Buy some groceries.

Nice day for photo opp with BFF.

Culture vulture at the National Theatre. Free performance.

Pick one up with chopsticks. Bite a hole and let steam escape. Suckling soup and put the spoon with dumpling into mouth. Repeat.

From Supreme Court bus-stop, take bus 61 and stop along Neil Road for some 小笼汤包 steamed xiao long tang bao and 锅贴 panfried guo tie.

Jing Hua Xiao Chi
Chinatown
21 Neil Road
6221 3060
1130am-3pm and 530pm -930pm

My personal view is that standard here has dropped and we crossed the street to Maxwell Market to pack some 锅贴 home for the family. This is the former Queenstown Shop which has shifted to Maxwell Market. Try the Shanghai fried rice cake while most tourists will be queuing for Tian Tian Chicken rice.

Walking nourishes the soul, Singapore Night Festival

Wordsworth’s life was shaped by walking. He walked for hours in the rain. He generally composes his verses out of doors. Even at seventy, he climbed Helvellyn, at over three thousand feet the third-highest peak in the Lake District.

Henry David Thoreau – “I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits unless I spend four hours a day at least, and it is commonly more than that, sauntering through the woods, and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

Walking is not mere physical exercise, but is more akin to a spiritual activity. Since walking cannot be seperated from the process of thought, “you must walk like a camel, which is said to be the only beast which ruminates when walking.

Never mind counting the cats in Zanzibar, Thoreau says: There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles radius or the limits of an afternoon walk and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never become quite familiar to you.

In “Walking” Thoreau writes “Two or three hours walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.

– The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux

Where to walk: Singapore Night Festival
Bras Brasah/ Bugis
Getting there: CIRCLE Line, Bras Brasah station
Download walking trail from URA:
Free admission, sponsored by Singapore
What to expect: World class performance, acrobat and light show
When: Starts from 730pm, this weekend and next weekend
http://nightfest.sg/
Schedule of performance:
http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/the-night-is-alive

If you can’t sleep tonight, no … don’t call me. Come for the 9th edition of the Singapore Night Festival. Walk there.