Category: Singapore

  • Stonehenge

    Stonehenge

    It is early morning in Cosmopolis in Singapore. The cafe’s are not open yet. I am surrounded by buildings with names like Fusionopolis and Synthesis and other futuristic names.  I had to wait till 7 am to get my regular coffee infusion this morning. To my pleasure there was a henge of benches. Stone benches,…

  • Simple but Elegant

    Shopping is dead. I am not sure if the timing was not right, it was around 3 pm in the afternoon, but there was no shopper in this elegant shopping center. And of course nobody was sitting on this sleak and elegant bench. Even I treated it more as a piece of an exhibition than…

  • The Queen of the Djungle

    The Queen of the Djungle

    Despite living so close to the Kentridge Park, we haven’t made a walk in it for quite some time. Somehow over Christmas  the whole family was ready to revive our past time activity. Kentridge Park has one of the most spectacular tree top boardwalks in Singapore. One can have a really nice view across the…

  • The 5 Empress

    I don’t know what struck me to come out with the name for those 5 benches. Yet if you could see what I can see then you would observe that royal pride on the faces of those 5 benches. I guess, now you want to ask me, where are the faces of those 5 benches.…

  • Sungei Ulu Pandan

    Sungei Ulu Pandan

    Recently I have been riding a few times along Sungei Ulu Pandan. By the way  “Sungei” is the Malay word for river.  Sungei Ulu Pandan is a river in the west of Singapore. Rivers in Singapore are actually all man made canals. Even the Singapore River is a canal. On hot afternoons one can be…

  • Facing black and white

    This two benches are facing each other but are not able to talk. I would not want to mention, that one of them looks a bit female, the other rather male. Yes I know you might call it a bit strange, but you even might guess, which of the 2 is the man. What a…