Autumn

Went chinese garden wif rayna & friends yesterday night.. It's a long long ride.. it took about an hour for us to reach there from hougang though one of our friend drove us there, partially due to the heavy traffic at the expressways too.

When we were outside the garden, everything seemed abnormally quiet, wasn't it supposed to be very crowded since autumn festival is round the corner? Indeed i wasn't wrong, when we walked to the main gate, the carpark was packed and there was queue infront of the ticketing entrance. We walked in, and i got this sudden thought - "paying for walking". We climbed flight of stairs just to get up to the top of 2 different pagodas, the main difference between the two is only their height. Sounds silly right? But i think that's the 'worth thing' doing inside the park since we don't get a chance to do it elsewhere.

We carried PAPER lanterns around and it's never bored with 2 well-blend jokers around throughout the journey. It has been a long time since i last carried paper lanterns, it's fun!

Inside the park there's what they named the 'wishing tree'. You have got to pay $3 to buy the wishing plate and throw it up high and got it hanged up there on the tree. I find the organizers really have their way of earning money. Carpark fee - $3, entrance fee per person-$12, Wishing plate-$3, entrance fee for watching live tortoise-$5. When i told rayna they anyhow named the trees as 'wishing tree' & they got to earn a few hundred bucks or perhaps thousands from it. Despite saying that, it's really enjoying to see so many wishes hanging on the tree, 2 of which are from rayna & hoki. I wonder what they wished for......

Took a lot of pictures there, especially for rayna and her boy, but didn't manage to capture alot of nice images since the objects in the backgrounds turns out to be only reflections of light.

Oh ya, manage to grab a pathetic picture from bella which we took the other day at kbox in marina sq.