Thursday, March 27, 2008
Trip to Pulau Ubin on Good Friday holiday
At my uncle's birthday celebration dinner in the previous week, my cousin KM asked when my dad will be going to Pulau Ubin again. He likes to go to Ubin with my dad cos my dad knows the island inside-out kinda thing.
So we all agreed on going on the coming Friday, which happened to be a public holiday!^^
Together with 2 of my aunts & cousins MQ & MM as well as Claire. Claire's my distant cousin, haven't seen her in such a long while that i cant recognise her =x
Went to the chalet on the island for the first time~
Nice well they've created over there.. but what's with the garish bright yellow words 'WISHING WELL' on it?? Makes it look so 'artificial'.. hmm i bet it is.. cos the other genuine wells on the island dun look like this.
Chalet with the ulu-ulu kampung feel.. that's what u call rustic island life? Heheh.. not my cup of tea la.. go there feed mosquitoes
Jambu plant... with so many JAMBUS!
Lunch's like a picnic at NPCC campsite
Later, my uncle and his family joined in..
Waited at the 100 year old bungalow turned vistor centre of Chek Jawa for the low tides to set in before we can view the creatures in the sand. At high tide, all that's below the boardwalk & bridge is all seawater..
Little creatures with 1 large piercer (think oversized crab front legs) so they walk in an awkward manner. I tried zooming in but they still look small in this picture, click on it to enlarge, maybe can see better.
That's the new bridge overseeing Chek Jawa, so visitors needn't get their feet muddy & step on creatures unknowingly.
My dad brought along an old kite to fly.. Weird hor.. fly kite at Chek Jawa..
My cousin MQ couldnt believe how easy it looked when my dad flew the kite, so she tried her hand at it. But after awhile, the kite began to swerve in a circular motion, ahhh.. it's zooming down... MQ and Claire quickly pulled it back just in time.
As we wanted to move on, my dad wanted to fly the kite again.. Flew so high & high & high.. till the end of the string.. Then it started to go in that circular motion again, jialat! Got stuck on a tree on a cliff at the side of the coast line. Can't pull it down, so my dad cut the string and let it go. After all that kite's like 20 years old & nobody likes to go fly kite these days. Then KM quipped wah! 等了二十年, 终于解脱了! Lol..
Jambu plant... with so many JAMBUS!
Lunch's like a picnic at NPCC campsite
Later, my uncle and his family joined in..They frequent the island, the previous time my family went, it was with them too^^
2 of my little cousins are super-duper energetic & hyper, that's why my uncle needs to bring them to the outdoors for them to expend their energies.
The 2 brothers look increasingly alike & they're often dressed alike, so if one didnt really take notice, it's easy to mistake them for a pair of twins^^ The younger brother Xuan Ji can't even stand still enough to take the 'big family' picture, while the elder Xuan Yu stood beside me~
Waited at the 100 year old bungalow turned vistor centre of Chek Jawa for the low tides to set in before we can view the creatures in the sand. At high tide, all that's below the boardwalk & bridge is all seawater.. 
Little creatures with 1 large piercer (think oversized crab front legs) so they walk in an awkward manner. I tried zooming in but they still look small in this picture, click on it to enlarge, maybe can see better.
That's the new bridge overseeing Chek Jawa, so visitors needn't get their feet muddy & step on creatures unknowingly.My dad brought along an old kite to fly.. Weird hor.. fly kite at Chek Jawa..
My cousin MQ couldnt believe how easy it looked when my dad flew the kite, so she tried her hand at it. But after awhile, the kite began to swerve in a circular motion, ahhh.. it's zooming down... MQ and Claire quickly pulled it back just in time.
As we wanted to move on, my dad wanted to fly the kite again.. Flew so high & high & high.. till the end of the string.. Then it started to go in that circular motion again, jialat! Got stuck on a tree on a cliff at the side of the coast line. Can't pull it down, so my dad cut the string and let it go. After all that kite's like 20 years old & nobody likes to go fly kite these days. Then KM quipped wah! 等了二十年, 终于解脱了! Lol..Goodbye dear kite!^^
Spent a day cycling in Pulau Ubin on such a hot day..
And it's rare that Pulau Ubin has so many visitors that there's a long queue to board bumboats back to Singapore.
yunn. at 11:29 AM