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Aristolochia gigantea Aristolochiaceae Giant Dutchman’s Pipe A robust vine from Brazil, the Giant Dutchman’s Pipe is so called due to the unopened flower’s resemblance to an old-fashioned smoking pipe. When in bloom, the large showy flowers (20cm wide) emit an odour which attract insects such as flies for pollination. Stiff downward-pointing hairs inside the flower prevent visiting insects from leaving, which deposit pollen on the stigma situated deep in the floral (perianth) tube. The insects escape when the hairs are relaxed as the pollen are released. Flower of Aristolochia gigantea, showing numerous stiff hairs for trapping pollinators Photos: Edmu…

Kim's Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee @ Jalan Eunos Branch Kims first opened a stall in a coffeeshop at Changi Road in the early 1970's. (At 5 1/2 mile Changi Road) Oveall, their hokkien prawn mee is in my opinion, better than many other comparable fried hokkien mee. What is unique about it is that Kim's always wear long sleves and pants with a shiny Rolex watch pluc a distinctive Mercedes belt. He has two large woks. His version like that of the old school style Hokkien mee is the drier version. Another famous stall serving drier hokkien mee is at old airport road. The old airport road stall gives less value as his $5/- is a small packet with sliced chil…

Prevalent in many condominiums.. with thoughtless individuals nearby.. “Please dry yourself after swim before entering the lift lobbies” Location: The Rainforest @ Chua Chu Kang

Was at Pungool for an audit. Noticed that this person had stolen a bicycle front light off an orange Mobike. He used cable ties to secure this stolen distinctive orange light... Dare not approach or confront him on this.

White variety of bitter gourd from Taiwan. This one piece costs SGP$5.00

Tanglin Nature Way: Napier Rd, Tanglin, Alexandra, Henderson, Tiong Bahru Park, Telok Blangah Hill Park and Mount Faber Park Bring Nature Closer to you: Nature Ways are routes planted with specific trees and shrubs to help animals move between two green spaces. Birds and butterflies are attracted to the variety of plants grown along these Nature Ways. See if you can spot them! Peacoc Pansy Butterfly Lemon Emigrant Butterfly Meribut tree Bush Pentas Black-naped Oriole bird And Heliconia plants

Loong Fatt Tau Sar Piah At 639 Balestier Road Not many of these traditional treats left.. Penang in Malaysia has a few such stores left.. The best way is to market and package these products and offer as a wholesale company...

Vehicles on watch... Can only find this from the year 2012 onwards...

Gay world (Happy World) Originally known as Happy World, Gay World offer an escape for families between 1930s and 1960s. Standing out from other `worlds', it housed a covered stadium that could seat up to 7,000. Top-class boxing matches, basketball, martial arts and other sporting evens were held here. Wrestlers such as "Tiger Ahmad" and "King Kong" attracted crowds. At it's prime, it was even lauded as the "greatest coveredstadium in South East Asia". The Octagonal shaped Happy world stadium was where Singapore first played host to Thomas Cup in 1952, which Malaya had famously won and reigned for three consecutive badminton tou…

This year, Traffic Police simply sent a "Thank You" card to myself, Robert Lee and according to this post-card 50% of all Singapore Drivers...

Both Bellewoods clubhouse and Bellewaters ECs have similar child or kid friendly toilets: with a kid WC + sink. Although this is quite common in many shopping Centres, it is often never given any priority in most condos or ECs

Previously Singapore Turf Club Winning Lounge was at Selegie. Today it is at Connect One, Jalan Bukit Merah. Former HDB Centre. Come and collect your winnings!

The house you live-in is not an asset.. it is a liability

Straits-born Chinese or the Baba-Nonya(s) and their Pernakan Culture, Mangkok Tingkat, Peranakan Tea Cup, costume and porcelain This is a larger photo of Pernakan Culture..in case you may have difficulty reading it earlier... Common tile motifs.. Location: Coffeeshop at Centrale 8, Tampines Central (DBSS) by Sim Lian

Singapore Improvement Trust plans on Tiong Bahru Estate was built along/around Chinese Hokkien cemetery land. Which includes land currently occupied by S.G.H. This estate consists of 504 flats and a market. From the attachment one can see that the flats are conservatively laid out in uniform and orderly fashion. As much as possible, the roads are laid out also in orderly grid. If all the wordings were blank-out; believe me - if I sat that a quick glance: I could have mis-read it (mistaken) as a colonial British naval base. With warships parked along this wharf...

Chong Pang : Soon Lee Heng (stall name) Chinese style Satay stall. I happen to walk past the first satay stall at Block 2 Changi Village and ordered their chicken satay. Pleasantly surprised to find how moist, chewy the chunks of meat were. Later realised that they have 4 or 5 photos of our current PM and his wife having satay at this same stall. Looks like there are two Chinese satay stalls and wow! Like 4 more Malay versions of satay (stalls), here!

Just a few examples that I know of... Let me know, if you know of more... #1: Residents of HDB Block 102 Aljunied Crescent get to enjoy the rare double pools views of Sims Urban Oasis for free.

This is the first time I personally come across such a scheme:- HDB Full Agent Services $2888 From advertising, viewings to documentations, our HDB full agent services are at a Fixed Rate with No Commission. Best to read the fine print if any. And do one's maths to see if it is beneficial or not....hmmm....

Many Coffeeshop toilets are simply walk-in/out designs. Without needing to push a door. The Cubical urinals are shielded by this lesser design.

Old stalls serving: Satay and mutton soup..(goreng pisang..not shown) to name a few Newer.. Penang Laksa, Tiong Bahru pau franchise

Trying this out... 1 year warranty

Red skin bananas According to this fruit seller at Block 77 Telok Blangah Drive, when it is unripe; it is brownish. But when ripen, turns red..

Beauty World Satay Bee hoon (and laksa) The Satay Bee hoon.. Not too sweet.. lovely..