Being a babe-magnet at Marina Barrage
Bauhinia purpure — aka Orchid Tree, Purple Bauhinia, Butterfly Tree — at the Marina Bay MRT station. It’s a small, deciduous, sometimes evergreen tree that grows to 10m high, and is often grown as an ornamental.
Indonesia: bunga kupu-kupu. Malaysia: Tapak kuda, Tapak unta. Thailand: Chong-kho. Vietnam: Mong bo hoa tim.
Skyline with hardworking foreign labourers in the foreground. There are many of them as there’s much construction in the area.
Those are not specks of dust on your screen. They’re kites.
Some pretty good architecture…
The large winding walkway with grass in the centre…
:) One of my favourite pictures of the lot.
Singapore skyline.
Another one of my favourite pictures…
My babe magnets!
Something so fun about kite-flying. I felt my spirits rising :)
There it goes, up in the sky…
By babes I mean small people. I handed the string over to about five sets of toddlers and children when I was there.
The kites were bought in China’s Temple of Heaven, and were popular with the children for the novelty factor: There were many of them and they flew close to the ground.