my birthday! - camera and flyer experience!

Brilliant ideas fished out of the complex net called our brain always amazes me -- Arul usually makes wise and happy choices in the presents he gives me. This year is no exception. Canon Digital Ixus 870 IS -- A Gold Metallic-colored stallion of a camera appeared before my eyes as I was told to open them slowly after shutting them tightly for a few minutes in awesome apprehensive wait. True love never found each other in a more perfect match; the stallion greeted his mare with a neigh! Only this neigh was greeted with chuckles of joy and unabashed excitement. The gift was well given. Repeated chuckling and jumping while sitting still was experimented and successfully accomplished. The art of maintaining one's composure and merging sitting squarely and jumping upwards was well balanced, though one from far might not agree. My mind's eye showed a fairly idiotic image of a chick clucking and fluffing her feathers while attempting to fly.

Well settled in the car, we next took plenty of pictures and tried out different modes and played all the way from Gombak to Clarke Quay where we took the bumboat to the Flyer! What fun! After being together for 4 and a half years, we finally have a chance to keep visual momentoes properly! Yes -- our camera!

Here are some of the pictures taken along the way... more photos can be found on facebook if you're enthusiastic but these are sufficient.

Mom is the Captain!!

Best Satay at Lau Pa Sat - The satay is bigger, fleshier, and tastier!
My Sesame Street bag bagging attention

A very fun, exciting, scenic flight overall ! Ratings 5 star - depends on the crowd you go with. Throughout the whole flight, we were busy admiring the scenery, what with financial buildings and hotels nearby and the bay with cruise ships and lighted boats floating on the waters. The view was unbelievable as we were high up in the air - which made the cars and motorcycles look unreal. We could hardly believe our luck as we stared - with our hands covering the sides of our faces - outside the glass window at the darkened view. Couples were taking photos nonstop and posing with the beautiful view outside.

At one juncture, wind blowing from the open bay could be heard howling outside through a small vertical slit in the flyer. Vroom! Vroom! It roared, sounding like an aeroplane flying above us. I shouted "Aeroplane!" and everyone looked. There was none and I was thoroughly embarassed.

There was the chingay rehearsal far away in the roads near Esplanade and we could see lots of performers dressed in bright colorful outfits crowding the road below. Another celebration caught our attention, as we heard raucous firecrackers from below. It was the annual Chinese New Year Summer at the Bay. Wow! I have never seen firecrackers being lit in Singapore ! What an occasion!