:: A Walk in SengKang Forest ::
Sunday, September 05, 2010 @ 1:06 AM
::4th September 2010::
Remember the online nature trekker, SiYang, who I asked directions on how to get to the Tuas Grassland’s pitcher plants? Link to post Well, I contacted him on Facebook message; asking him questions regarding these nature treks. And yea, he has invited me along one of his many field trips of forest bashing; with his friends. Whee~ This time round would be at the forest just opposite SengKang riverside park. I managed to get Joshua invited in as well; so that I won’t be lonely during the trip. Heh :X
We were to meet at Fernvale station @9.30am. And also to wear long pants, hiking shoes and comfortable long sleeves shirt - necessary for forest bashing activity. However, I do not own any hiking shoes... so I have to make do with my sneakers :X Moreover, to be prepared to get dirty 'cos the trail might be muddy D: Hopefully not!!!
Met up with Joshua first on that day and we made our way to Fernvale. SiYang texted me and told me to alight at Thanggam station instead; as it was nearer to our destination. Joshua and I were twenty minutes late :( Wasn't very sure about the SengKang LRT line. My very first time taking it. SiYang and his friends - Hazelina, PeiYa and WenQing (btw, they are all like NUS people!!) were already there on time! So they went off to scout the area for a bit.
Totally nothing around the station @@!
We all met up at the trail entrance which is at the left of the station, introductions made and let's move on! SiYang told me that there are many forest fragments in Singapore; and it's interesting to bash in to see what's inside. And for this particular forest used to be a plantation, evident from the lots of fruit trees - durian, rambutan, starfruit, growing there.
Caterpillar found! :P
SiYang leading the way~
Ipomoea tricolor;
morning glory with heart-shaped leaves :)
Going down a side forest trail!
So cool to see that someone actually maintaining the trails!
Small piles of swept up leaves xD
Entering the forest and crossing over a small river!
Luckily for me, I didn't miss my footing. If not, I will end up with dirty wet shoes D:
Through the forest...
... and out the other side! :D
They nicknamed this, the "chee-bye" plant...
due to that slit at the stalk (^///^)
A slug that WenQing has found!
This Malayan Banyan, Ficus microcarpa attracted lots of hungry birds.
Mass chirping sounds filled the entire forest!~
These are the tree's figs!
Cricket :P
& with that, we were out of the forest and into the open!! :D
Doing random stuffs xD
Mini watermelon???
More like round mini cucumber (@@)
There's a climber patch filled with Gymnopetalum sp.
SiYang wanted to taste the fruit of it; but decided not to after opening it up! D:
Why??
'cos the fleshy part covering the seeds looks like bird shit! D:
& looks worse than Koko's, yipyip's or Ocean's!
Pretty Clitoria sp. :D
(Many vernacular names of these flowers in different languages are
similarly based on references to a woman's sexual organ)
Wanted to backtrack back to the LRT station...
but we decided to walk down the slope and head back to Thanggam station.
Hazelina, WenQing, PeiYa and SiYang :D!
Caterpillar found! :P
SiYang leading the way~
Ipomoea tricolor;
morning glory with heart-shaped leaves :)
Going down a side forest trail!
So cool to see that someone actually maintaining the trails!
Small piles of swept up leaves xD
Entering the forest and crossing over a small river!
Luckily for me, I didn't miss my footing. If not, I will end up with dirty wet shoes D:
Through the forest...
... and out the other side! :D
They nicknamed this, the "chee-bye" plant...
due to that slit at the stalk (^///^)
A slug that WenQing has found!
This Malayan Banyan, Ficus microcarpa attracted lots of hungry birds.
Mass chirping sounds filled the entire forest!~
These are the tree's figs!
Cricket :P
& with that, we were out of the forest and into the open!! :D
Doing random stuffs xD
SiYang, going forth to scout for more plant species.
I think he has spotted a Hoya sp.
I think he has spotted a Hoya sp.
Mini watermelon???
More like round mini cucumber (@@)
There's a climber patch filled with Gymnopetalum sp.
SiYang wanted to taste the fruit of it; but decided not to after opening it up! D:
Why??
'cos the fleshy part covering the seeds looks like bird shit! D:
& looks worse than Koko's, yipyip's or Ocean's!
Pretty Clitoria sp. :D
(Many vernacular names of these flowers in different languages are
similarly based on references to a woman's sexual organ)
Wanted to backtrack back to the LRT station...
but we decided to walk down the slope and head back to Thanggam station.
Hazelina, WenQing, PeiYa and SiYang :D!
With that, we strolled back to the Thanggam station; where they all retrieved their bicycles (yes, they rode here on their bicycles!!) And said to meet up at SengKang mall for lunch :P After lunch at Kopitam, we went to the event space in the middle of the shopping mall; where there's some Gundam event/exhibition going on. Joshua is really interested in Gundams... for me, I think they are GunDAMNs... not my cup of tea :\ So we just hung around for a bit - checking out the Gundam displays and gachapon machines.
Gundam in chibi form(?)
Proper Gundams...
(really! I've got nothing to talk about for these things D:)
Me, wanting to steal the kid's Gundam gachapon capsule!
Giant gachapon machine with only Gundam stuffs...
YAY!!! Dragonball!! :D♥
I would have to admit that I think this Gundam is pretty cool :X
Joshua's and my gachapon Gundams (@@)
I don't even know what they are!!
& ♥ the cute Beat City bees! :D
☆＼( ^ ^)/〜〃｡.:*:･'°☆ﾊﾞｲﾊﾞｲ!
[=END=]
Gundam in chibi form(?)
Proper Gundams...
(really! I've got nothing to talk about for these things D:)
Me, wanting to steal the kid's Gundam gachapon capsule!
Giant gachapon machine with only Gundam stuffs...
YAY!!! Dragonball!! :D♥
I would have to admit that I think this Gundam is pretty cool :X
Joshua's and my gachapon Gundams (@@)
I don't even know what they are!!
And so, we home'd!!
MRT, BUS, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION!!!
IMO, I had loads of fun with this forest bashing. Learnt a lot more about plants; although I didn't quite get their scientific names... SiYang and his friends were identifying all the plants with their scientific names! All sort of plants; even those plants with no interesting features, just plants with common green leaves - they could even identify them. They are like in a whole different league from commoners like me D: I really admire them!♥ Thanks so much, SiYang, for inviting me and my friend Joshua, along for this trek! :) (even though you only know me online.)
MRT, BUS, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION!!!
IMO, I had loads of fun with this forest bashing. Learnt a lot more about plants; although I didn't quite get their scientific names... SiYang and his friends were identifying all the plants with their scientific names! All sort of plants; even those plants with no interesting features, just plants with common green leaves - they could even identify them. They are like in a whole different league from commoners like me D: I really admire them!♥ Thanks so much, SiYang, for inviting me and my friend Joshua, along for this trek! :) (even though you only know me online.)
& ♥ the cute Beat City bees! :D
☆＼( ^ ^)/〜〃｡.:*:･'°☆ﾊﾞｲﾊﾞｲ!
[=END=]
Never regret anything,
because at one time
it was exactly what you
wanted.
because at one time
it was exactly what you
wanted.
Labels: event, nature trekking, plant
--xoxo,
Akira Star
Akira Star
:: The Runaways ::
Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 2:47 AM
::29th August 2010::
This very photoshoot is our first photoshoot with XueNi as our wonderful photographer :) We (XueNi, Puikwan and I) have planned this photoshoot one month before. Actually... we wanted to do a photoshoot way before, but it was really hard to think of a theme :( It must be some outfit that all of us (the models :X) can put together and form a theme! So yes :D We managed to set on a theme and the location as well :D
The reason for having a photoshoot is to help XueNi up her skills on photography and for us, her posers to receive beautiful pictures of ourselves to use for display picture :X So this particular shoot was for XueNi to try out and practice on her portrait shots :)
& thus the test subjects of the day will be Puikwan, Yvonne and me :D
The theme would be black/white lolita/kodona style.
The location... the abandoned Clementi railway bridge!
Groovy~ :P
THE DAY!
They headed over to my house in the morning @11am. But it was raining :( For a moment, our plan was heading to destruction... Either we find another place to shoot indoors or postpone the other shoot to a further date :( But it was really hard to do either of the ways... we didn't know any places to shoot indoors and there weren't any dates in the near future that all four of us are free and not occupied.
Meanwhile, Koko also had an exclusive photoshoot :3
He must be thinking, "I'm so handsomeeee~~ Pose more!!" :D
However in the early afternoon, the skies were no longer sad and crying :D Lucky~♥ Quickly, we put our make-up on, dressed and out of the house we went!~
Heh, haven't put on my wig :)
Took a bus to Clementi to have our lunch (lots of people staring at us @.@) and another bus to some HDB area in Clementi. From there, we have to walk through the HDB blocks and finally reached to some soil path that leads the railway tracks. The weather was so humid after the rain! I think we were practically trying our best not to perspire D:!
Heh, void deck xD
To the bus stop~
Heh, void deck xD
To the bus stop~
XueNi was rather stunned when she saw that the soil pathway was covered with tall grass. She almost didn't managed to find the railway tracks because they too were covered with grass. So we followed the tracks which lead us to the abandoned railway bridge~
Sneaky grass trying to cover the tracks! D:
& here we are at the abandoned railway bridge :D
left our bags at the start of the bridge, hoping that no one would steal them.
At first, we were really scared to walk on top of the bridge covered with rust and old wooden planks. Each step we took on the bridge, caused it to creak and groan loudly D: And what's below us was a fall of death. It was pretty high and below us was a really huge canal. We were slowly inching across the bridge so that we can begin our photoshoot!! But after awhile, we got used to the painful sounds the bridge was making and started walking normally like we were on flat land.
And so,
Presenting:-
Omake!
And so,
Presenting:-
_THE RUNAWAYS_
photographed by Windy Yeo
***
***
We:
Groups/Pairings:
Omake!
Introducing:- _Yvonne Hime
with her aura of seduction_
Introducing:- _Jermine Leong
with her rays of sunshine_
Introducing:- _Akira Star
with her pulse of subtleness_
***
_終わり_
***
_終わり_
Our shoot was brought to an end when the sun was no longer high up in the skies. Went back to start of the tracks to get our bags... and to our ultimate horror, our bags were crawling with ants!!! SMALL BLACK ANTS!! We immediately picked up our bags and rushed back to the HDB area. At the closest void deck, we began getting rid of the ants by shaking and sweeping them off our bags. XueNi, Puikwan and my bags weren't very serious; the ants only crawled on outside.
But as for Yvonne's... it was a nightmare. Ants were everywhere; inside and outside. Ants could be found in every single pocket and compartment. Apparently, she brought sweets in her bag... and that might be the reason to her ants infestation. Yvonne had to take everything our from her bag and shake the bag vigorously to get all the ants off and out!
After the ants excitement, we took some finishing shots and made our way to the bus stop to board the return bus back to Clementi train station.
But as for Yvonne's... it was a nightmare. Ants were everywhere; inside and outside. Ants could be found in every single pocket and compartment. Apparently, she brought sweets in her bag... and that might be the reason to her ants infestation. Yvonne had to take everything our from her bag and shake the bag vigorously to get all the ants off and out!
After the ants excitement, we took some finishing shots and made our way to the bus stop to board the return bus back to Clementi train station.
At the station, we (Puikwan and I) went to the toilet first to change out of our not-so-ordinary clothes and into our oh-so-ordinary ones :P Puikwan took off her wig; as she couldn't wear it any longer! As for me, I'm rather used to wigs :X So I wore it till I got home :)
Final shot before I change out! :3
TRANSFORMATION!!! :D
Final shot before I change out! :3
TRANSFORMATION!!! :D
... we left the toilet in disgusted... someone was actually expelling her feces in the public toilet... we couldn't stand the pungent smell at all! With that, we all home-ed and began our anxious wait for the pictures to be process :D
Credits to XueNi for the pictures that were used.
[=END=]
Plumbers are Red
Hedgehogs are Blue
Press start to join,
And be my player Two.
Hedgehogs are Blue
Press start to join,
And be my player Two.
Labels: dressing up, nature trekking, pet, photoshoot
--xoxo,
Akira Star
Akira Star
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