Showing posts with label Toa Payoh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toa Payoh. Show all posts

Monday, April 6, 2009

Toa Payoh Garden

Toa Payoh Garden - who goes there nowadays?
It was a garden that bridal couples chose to do their outdoor photo shoots.
Because of the picturesque settings .
I did not see any brides because this month is not auspicious for Chinese Weddings.
Still, it was a good place to enjoy nature - flowers and
lotus leaves holding precious water and
the reclining bottlebrush trees that look like pine trees.

Climb the viewing tower and cross the bridge when you come to it.
Sometimes we reach crossroads and then we have to make a choice.

Toa Payoh Gardens where I have been to only a few times in my life.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

A different perspective of life

A driver sees only the road ahead. As a driver I have a blinkered view of the world when I am behind the wheels. When I am not driving I take the train because it is the fastest way to get from point A to point B. On Saturday, I wondered why I needed to get anywhere in the fastest time and so I took a bus and sat on the upper deck of Service 143. Here's what I saw at leisure and in comfort on the bus from the Toa Payoh Terminal to Centrepoint in Orchard Road: