Situated at the western slope of Jurong Hill within the Jurong Industrial Estate and had a landmass of 49 acres roughly about 0.2 square kilometres, the Jurong Bird Park is managed by Wildlife Reserve Singapore together with Singapore Zoo, Night Safari and River Safari of which they are situated at Mandai Lake Road come 2021 the Jurong Bird Park will be moving to the same location within the Mandai Lake Area. The Bird Park consist of the free-flight aviary, waterfall aviary, and all the exotic exhibits, it was opened to the public in 1971, it is a world-class bird zoo with a magnificent amount of birdlife from around the world playing second fiddle to Germany in the future we will be able to experience the new bird park at their new home, see you there.
Deepavali or Diwali is the Indians festival of lights which usually last about five days and comes around between mid-October and mid-November one of the most popular of Hinduism. Diwali symbolizes the spiritual victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. The festival is widely associated with Lakshmi the goddess of prosperity.
Since the Covid19 pandemic, the Supertree Grove and the OCBC Skywalk had not been opened to the public and only recently they start to accept booking online. There are 18 tree-like structures which dominate the Garden by the Bay landscape with the height ranging from 25 and 50 metres high the Garden Rhapsody was suspended it usually plays between 7.45pm and 8.45pm daily then there is the 128-metre long aerial walkway offering close up view of the Supertree Grove and also the recently renovated Supertree Observatory with an open-air rooftop which offers a 360-degree view of the garden and the marina area which was open in December 2019 before the pandemic and is still closed.
Yesterday set out with Singapore Photography & Imaging Networks (SPIN) founder and its member to locate the lost railway to Jurong with the weather, not in our favour but we still set out, first we went to look for the railway tunnel along Clementi Road climbing down a very steep slope and slippery due to the bad weather and then proceed to the old Bukit Timah Railway Station with the Railway bridge and ran across Bukit Timah Road and also our very own green corridor.
Singaporean woke up to the news that Robinson Department Store is closing down and peoples from all walks of life flock to seek for bargain sales others are there to redeem whatever points or coupon they might have. A British man by the name of Phillip Robinson joint hand with James Gaborian Spicer set up Spicer & Robinson in 1858 and after two years James Spicer left and in 1859 the company was known as Robinson & Co with a new partner George Rappa Jr, Commercial square was later named as Raffles Place and Robinson & Co moved to North Bridge Road and Coleman Street. When Robinson died his son Stamford Raffles Robinson took over the business in 1886 and in 1891 it moved back to a bigger store in Raffles Place, soon they acquired John Little and held the franchising of Mark & Spencer in 1958 Then in 1941 they moved to a new and bigger store Raffles Chambers and later the Japanese invaded Singapore and in 1972 a huge fire at the department store claimed the lives of nine people and after it moved again to Specialists Shopping Centre and in 1983 it moved to Centerpoint. In 2006 OCBC sold its shares to Indonesian Lippo Group but in 2008 Al Futtaim Group bought over Robinson & Co and in 2018 the store celebrated 160 years of retailing in Singapore and in 2020 all fell whether to blame on the Covid19 pandemic or the emergence of e-commerce well life has to go on.
The Flower Dome is one of the two conservatories found in Garden by the Bay it is the largest greenhouse in the world and was verified by Guinness Book of World Records in 2015 standing at 1.2 hectares. There are altogether 8 gardens comprising of Flower field, Baobabs, Succulents, Australian, South Africa, South American, California, Mediterranean and Olive Grove, you could find exotic flowers and plants here.
