Fo Guang Shan (Singapore) 新加坡佛光山

Fo Guang Shan (Singapore) had moved to its new building at 1 Punggol Place, a 5-10 minutes walk from Punggol MRT. Recently, I made a quick visit to it before its official opening ceremony on 8th Jun 2008.
You can find these mini garden design & small stone sculptures of monks in different postures around the building. At level 4, wall paintings of Venerable Hsing Yun and calligraphy. Hmm, I wonder what are some of the artistic characters & meaning about...

At level 3, you can find its tea house cum bookshop, Fo Guang Yuan.
At level 2, there is its Sutra Calligraphy Hall & Library.

At level 1, its main shrine and you can view the lighting of "Diamond Sutra " Lapis Lazuli Wall on 8th Jun...
You may find out more about FGS (S) from their web: http://www.blia.sg/

Forest Walk

The Henderson Waves is just a 10minutes walk hence we move on towards the Alexandra Arch that links from Forest Walk of Telok Blangah Hill Park to Alexandra road. This is a much longer walk so please make sure you do not go on an empty stomach.:-)

Guess who we met on the way......

We are rather lucky to experience a good weather that day, if it rains, it could be quite slippery on the metal bridge walk and there is no shelter except at 1 point (real shelter there:-)) near the residential area.

It is a nice walk though to be near the canopy of secondary forest and along the way we also saw some fruit trees: durian trees !!! and at least 4 monkeys !!!

But please do not feed the monkeys when you next meet them in case they attack future trailers for food.
For more information on the Southern Ridges, you may visit http://www.nparks.gov.sg/southernridges.html#cc

Henderson Waves

Much had been heard about regarding the Southern Ridges hence on a fine morning, we decided to embark on our adventure tour. We started from Telok Blangah Hill with the Henderson Waves.






Henderson Waves is currently the highest pedestrian bridge in S'pore, at 36metres above Henderson rd. It connects Mt Faber Park to Telok Blangah Hill Park.
Along the way, it has a number of wave shelter that you can rest & be sheltered from the sun. However, not from the rain:P Personally I find it strange that why they did not include a rain shelter design. They only expect people to use the bridge when it is sunny weather? But there could be sudden storms along the way....:P
Just a thought...Always find Spore such a sunny country but the solar energy aspect is not well explored. They could add the rain shelter by building solar energy receptive cover? That will reap 2 benefits at 1 go...