HUGH JACKMAN

Hugh Jackman, the Wolverine, dropped by the Gardens by the Bay and went into the Flower Dome to catch a glimpse of the floral display. Attached are photos taken by staff and not by me.

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

I was looking forward to watch this movie but I must say I was disappointed by it. Starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell and so on, it continues from the 2011 movie "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" starring Andy Serkis and James Franco.

It was quite a long movie and the story took place in San Francisco, ten years after the Simian Flu Virus that escaped from a research facility following the first movie spread throughout the world. Caesar, the leader of the Apes, and his community had not seen humans since two winters ago and thought all of mankind perished until they came across a few human survivors led by Jason Clarke's Malcolm. The storyline was weak and didn't quite pick up after that and it was a letdown all the way to the end, even with Andy Serkis and Gary Oldman around.

The ending was once again open-ended, possibly as a lead up to any possible sequel. However, judging from this movie, I doubt the box-office takings would be optimistic enough to warrant a continuation of the this movie. Thank goodness James Franco didn't act in this movie.

Andy Serkis's Caesar, leader of the Apes

Koba, the ape who only learnt hate from the humans

Malcom and his team in search of the dam to restore power to the city

Malcolm

a visibly older Keri Russell of "Felicity" fame as Ellie

LANDSCAPE

Amongst the shades of green, three colours stand out - pink, orange and yellow, to provide an interesting composition.

DUSK

The sundown in Singapore hardly gives the same effect as those in some overseas countries.

SUPERTREE

These are panoramic views of the garden taken from the Supertree's OCBC Skywalk.

View of World of Plants

COOLED CONSERVATORIES

Rat Tail Cactus

It was quite a while since I visited the conservatories.

The Flower Dome has interesting plants such as Rat Tail Cactus and Grevillea while the Cloud Forest has mostly interesting orchid species and a number of interesting gesneriads.

a Grevillea

an orchid

close-up of the orchid

Kohleria

close-up of the flowers

Masdevallia pinocchio

BAY EAST

good contrast of background e.g. dark sky, brown grass and green tree!

This is a series of photos of Bay East.

double-petaled Bougainvillea

the flowering Delonix in the background

the grove of Delonix

SINGAPORE GARDEN FESTIVAL 2014 LAUNCH

These photos were taken at the launch of the Singapore Garden Festival 2014. 

The plant decoration was simply breathtakingly amazing. Even the brown cloth or gunny sack material was wrapped so professionally. Kudos to the team who put all these together. Even the pleated Ficus were stuffed with yellow Carnations.

DRAGONFLY & SUPERTREES

What has dragonfly and Supertrees got to do with each other? Absolutely nothing except for the fact that they were captured in these photos where the view of them overlapped.

CAMELLIA CHANGII

This is one amazing Camellia that doesn't require any cold treatment and seems to enjoy the warmth conditions of our hot and humid tropics. They have been flowering like crazy non-stop since they were planted.