Little Guilin

Date: Friday, 21 March 2008.
Location: Little Guilin, Bukit Batok Town Park, Bukit Gombak, Singapore.

Today is a public holiday in Singapore. In the morning, I took a short stroll at Bukit Batok Town Park, which is not far from our current residence now. The park is more famously known as Little Guilin, because there's a lake surrounded by granite rocks similar to that of Guilin in China.

After strolling around the lake, I walked towards the Bukit Gombak MRT station and went to Alif restaurant, which is located just next to the McDonalds there, to buy back some pratas for breakfast at home. The queue is quite long and it seems that they are having difficulties to cope with such high demand. I would still prefer having my prata from Al-Azhar or Al-Ameen instead.

Trip to Batam

Date: Monday, 17 March 2008.

I went to Batam yesterday to accompany my mother to Hang Nadim airport, for her to catch the flight to Jakarta. She had a small accident during her stay here in Singapore, causing her to have difficulties in walking. So I had to accompany her to Batam since she refused to take a direct flight from Changi airport.

Took the BatamFast ferry from Harbourfront to Batam Center, and I found that the ferry is not as good as Penguin.

After having lunch at the Singgalang restaurant located at the airport (where I can taste the "real" nasi padang), I took a cab back to Batam Centre and had some groceries shopping from the hypermarket at the basement of the Batam Centre Megamall, before heading back to the ferry terminal across the road and took the next ferry back to Singapore.

Sorry, not many pictures I took. :)

Milis IndoSing Photographer

Originally posted on Indo-Sing blog here.

Dimulai dari diskusi beberapa member Indo-Sing di milis mengenai hobi fotografi mereka, akhirnya salah satu moderator milis Indo-Sing, Pangeran Panda aka Handoko, membuat sebuah milis khusus fotografi untuk orang Indonesia di Singapura. Milis yang dinamakan IndoSing Photographer ini beralamat di indosing-photographer@yahoogroups.com. Untuk berlangganan, silahkan kirim e-mail ke indosing-photographer-subscribe@yahoogroups.com atau join melalui website-nya di http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/indosing-photographer/.

Menurut informasi di website-nya, milis ini bertujuan untuk membantu orang-orang Indonesia yang tinggal di Singapore yang memiliki atau tertarik dengan hobi fotografi. Isi dari milis ini adalah tanya jawab tentang informasi apa saja yang berhubungan dengan fotografi, seperti trik, hint dan diskusi perangkat fotografi di Singapura.

Handoko juga membuat blog khusus untuk para kontributor IndoSing Photographer, yang beralamat di http://indosing-photographer.blogspot.com/. Blog ini rencananya digunakan untuk ajang photo-blogging/sharing para member milis IndoSing Photographer.

Sebenarnya sudah ada beberapa komunitas fotografer Indonesia di Singapura. Setahu saya, FN (Fotografer.Net) juga mempunyai “simpul” di Singapura, beranggotakan member FN yang berdomisili di Singapura. Yang saya tahu, beberapa anggota FN Singapura yang rajin “hunting” adalah Wellington dan Yuwono, walaupun saya tidak tahu apakah mereka mempunyai milis tersendiri untuk keperluan ini. Yang pasti, milis IndoSing Photographer ini bisa dijadikan sarana alternatif bagi para pecinta fotografi Indonesia yang bermukim di Singapura.

IMM, Jurong East

Various pictures taken at IMM Building, Jurong East, Singapore. IMM is one of our favourite shopping centres we frequently visit, since it's very close to our current (and near future) residence.

IMM is equipped with a playground, which is located on the 3rd floor of the shopping mall. There are two playgrounds, wet and dry, which are located side by side.

Not far from the playgrounds, is a halal food court called Bagus, which is managed by Banquet.

Downstairs on the first (ground) floor, there's Giant Hypermart where we usually buy our groceries.

Fruit Salad

Anyone can guess at which restaurant in Singapore we can find this kind of fruit salad? :)

Kedai Kue-Kue

Location: Bugis Junction, Singapore.

Selling Indonesian traditional cakes. Located at the basement of Bugis Junction, next to Delifrance below the escalator.

Hippo Tours Singapore

Date: Sunday, 10 February 2008.
Location: Along the route of the Heritage Tour, Hippo bus tour, Singapore.

Still making use of the 3-in-1 Duck, Hippo and DHL Balloon combo tickets promotion, at the end of the long Chinese New Year weekend last month, we took the Hippo Tours bus ride around Singapore.

There were two Hippo Tour routes being offered: City Tour and Heritage Tour. We took the Heritage Tour route, which brought us through Little India, Kampong Glam, Arab Street, Chinatown and the Civic District of Singapore.