Kite flying at Marina Barrage

K and I took advantage of the fantastic weather and headed to Marina Barrage for another kite flying session some time back.

Little did we know, it was really crowded that day because NTUC income was having an event there as well.

Lucky Marina Barrage is quite big.

Kites nowadays are getting so high tech. Instead of the flat surface ones, you have those like balloons, shaped into dragons, cartoon characters and the like. There's also the ones controlled with two hands, the ones floating in a trail, the ones with hollow centres. How do people even come up with such ideas.

One section was cordoned off for the NTUC income event, but they ended around 4 plus, that's why we managed to take pictures of the display.

Marina Barrage is really a family-friendly place I feel. What's more, it's so convenient and accessible now with the circle line. It gives off a really cosy and happy vibe. And the scenery is just amazingly beautiful.

Singapore doesn't really have much green spaces left and places like Marina Barrage just makes me all the more grateful.

We walked back to the Marina Bay Sands area using the linked pedestrian walk way. This is Gardens by the Bay, situated along the pedestrian walk. There were so many people roller blading or walking their dogs. I also want leh.

Gardens by the Bay

We went to Gardens by the Bay over the weekend, to see what the hype was all about. We reached there quite late, and by then all the lights were lighted up alr.

We had our dinner at Bakerzin, because we wanted to avoid the $20 chicken rice. Hahaha. The food there was okay, but they ran out of clams and then they mixed up our orders.

And we also met Frog Prince who was out for a stroll!

Honestly, I never knew what the hype about Gardens by the Bay was about. To me, it seemed a complete waste of money to be spending so much to artificially import a garden into the city centre. Moreover when it's evident that not enough planning was done prior.

If you've been there, you would notice that the field, and grass patches were dying, with brown spots showing up all over, possibly from all the human trampling and whatnots. And the lights that they used to light up the park at night was too strong, and the heat was actually killing all the plants around the light source. You can see all the plants drying up and turning yellow.

Seriously, it's so expensive to maintain the park and yet they put so little consideration into it.