Monday, August 24, 2009

Public Housing in Singapore

In Singapore, we used to travel with MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) to every corner of Singapore. On the train, we also enjoy viewing all the HDB (Housing Development Board) apartments built along the way.
My trip to Jurong East, I taken some photos to share with you...
Passing by some station and CCK LRT tracks....

Some HDB as tall as 36 storeys....and some as low as 4 storeys...
Some train track accross Main road PIE (Pan Island Expressway)
Many muilty-storeycar park built next to HDB and the train station also well built....

Friday, August 21, 2009

ION Building In Orchard Road Sinagpore


The new building completed in the juntion of Orchard Road above the MRT station name as ION Orchard. On my August trip back Sinagpore, I capture all the photos with the angle of interior and architecture....
THe external of building and the red bench...
the metal ceiling and the glass ceiling....


The timber screen in the restaurants....


The colorful timber ceiling above esculator.....

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Visit Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

During August holiday, I went to Ho Chi Minh City with my wife for a short trip....

The popular market Bian Thiam at downtown

Live seafood & crab meat stall....

Inside the hawker stalls.....

The Vietnam coffee powder stall & the herbal with snake or scorpion.....


The street screen and the round about....

The Vietnam coffee and the rice noddle with Chicken / beef.....


Inside and outside of Hundred years Post Office Centre....

The Church & The Diamond Plaza....

Many handcrafts made from baffalo horns...

Mr. Ho Chi Minh statue...Chinese temple in Chinatown...

The scary wires and the junks shop.....

The fake watches seller and the helmet shop....

The 4 stars hotel we stay.....
The speed boat in Saigon River drive us to Vantao, another seafood village...




The nightmarket near the hotel we stay also many food stalls....
BBQ-chicken wings, Vietnam vegetable rollls, man kinds of seafood...
The shirmps I order as big as the plate, and the Saigon beer....

The night sceen at town area....

The Saigon-saigon Pub at the Caravelle Hotel, where many western dacing with the Latin live band, balcony with beatiful night light....
The Caravelle Hotel main lobby & restaurant...
Day 3 we visit the Suoi Tien Theme Park, which full of many man-made colorful huge structure and attraction spots.....


The dragon head with the temple inside....

The water theme park with the King face carving....
I am so close to the tiger first time in my life....
After lunch, our tour guide bring us to Cuchi Tunnel where Vietnam soldiers fight with American in 1970's....
The main entrance map and the tunnel entrance
The army show us the sceret entrance of tunnel....
There are a lot of traps that may kill you at anytime.....
The America tunk and missiles taken down by Vietnam been recycled on that time...
The army slippers made of tyres...the smoke of the cooking out from tunnel...

...go in to the under ground tunnel only about 1 meter height...
...when come out after 200 meters exit, my whole body wet....
After dinner, tour guide bring us to see the Water Puppet Show. The performers sit inside the water and behind the screen and show some traditional Vietnam movies....
The performers come out from the screen after the show.....

(to be continous..........)