an excursion to Marina Barrage!
last sunday we visited e newly opened Marina Barrage! e place was really inaccessible.. they had a shuttle bus at marina bay mrt station, but that din benefit us since we drove there. e map of Marina Barrage in e papers was really crappy n useless, n e signages placed along e streets were also small n easily missed.
we hadda go in rounds ard raffles place before we found e place!
nice place to hang out at, but there aint many places where u can sit ard..
it was CROWDED!!!
seriously din expect so many ppl to be there. these ppl were alrdy queueing for e shuttle bus back to marina bay mrt when we got there. guess there isnt that much to do at tt place after all.. heh.
this seems to be e mascot for the new barrage!
mummy was there wif us to see see too.
i felt a lil lost at e place. it was spacious but crowded, n there din seem to be anythin specific for us to “see”. we decided to go to the “sustainable singapore gallery”.
wow reminds me of Gaudi’s work in La Pedra in Barcelona!
the babies were there too!
my one and only love..
there were some exhibits on e history of Singapore
more information in these cute water droplets
this was an interesting room
spot us!
check out this very cool interactive e-book!
after that we reached a room with a miniature of the barrage, where we learnt how the dam works.
tuck tuck reading up on how e dam works
the mini-barrage
when it is low tide (sea) n the reservoir is flooded, the valves will open to allow water to flow out into e sea. on e other hand, when e tide is high n e reservoir is flooded, the barrage has a pump system to pump water out into e sea! cool…
soon we reached e final part of e gallery..
some quirky idea again - treading on glass. they said it felt a lil scary but i din feel anythin leh.
before we left, we made some e-postcards n mailed it to ourselves!
ok end of gallery.. an informative session most suitable for primary school kids. i din mind gg thru e exhibition, but such exhibitions r not sthg tt’ll keep e customers/tourists comin back. oh wateva.. maybe e barrage will make a good hang out place after e IR is up!
we decided to go to e rooftop, but there were police n other personnel blocking e pathway, claiming tt they’ve received lightning warnings n will close e area. eeks..
this was e furthest we cld go frm e bldg..
mummy stoning.. not noeing wat to do now tt we can’t go out
here’s e actual thing! a bigger version of e dams we saw!
cld also see Singapore Flyer frm here. looks nice eh!
then we decided tt there aint anythin else to do n left e place. since it was drizzling for a while when we got there, the roads were wet and EXTREMELY MUDDY! i have no idea why e carpark lots were all filled wif mud. yuck!
it was at e carpark when cancan got bitten by a big red ant! not once, not twice, but many many many times! that stupid red ant crawled into my stocking n started biting me continuously. i tried to kill it by squeezin on it, but it jus wldnt die n kept bitin me! i was cryin for help n really wanted to take off my stockin there n then, but tuck tuck kept sayin tt we’ll reach e car “soon, soon”. boohoo… finally we got to e car n immediately i removed my stockin, only to find tt bloody ant still havin fun wif its biting game. i took it in my fingers n squeezed it to its death. i told tuck tuck i shld’ve let it die a more painful death (eg. steaming it or burning it..). saddist lol.. *ants r candy’s greatest enemy!!*
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