Orchid Festival
My original plan was to go to the Botanic Gardens in the afternoon, before my mom, but it was raining too heavily, so... :(In the late arvo my mom and I went to an auntie's house to collect the flowers which she had arranged yesterday... and brought it to the Botanic Gardens to prepare for the Orchid Festival (http://www.singorchidfest.org.sg/). She's exhibiting in the Ikebana section, and has three little matching vases of carefully-arranged flowers with orchids as the subject. The other aunties in O'Hara also came along to prepare their exhibits.
By the time my mom and I arrived at the Gardens, it was fast approching dusk. I carried my gear with me anyway, and tried to do some birding. I kept hearing calls, but couldn't see any. I heard my first wild owl hoot ever... a slow, haunting and booming 'Hooo-OOT', right in front of me. It struck me how eerie it could sound, but since I haven't seen any owls in Singapore before, I was more excited than nervous or anything... scanning the branches and leaves, I couldn't see anything except for unidentified shapes. I kept hearing it though, and I wished I had brought my torch along... but who'd knew I'd come this late. I gave up a little while after, and walked along. It was boring... dark... misty... wet... my back was already wet with sweat after a short while. Walked a circle from the visitor center to the end of Swan Lake, and back again. There were small hopping things along the path which I assumed were toads. Back at the visitor center and at the Orchid Festival set-up, I started taking pictures of... orchids. I'm not into flowers but that was better than nothing. There're so many different kinds of orchids, hybrids, foreign and local, plain, colourful, patterned... some of which I have never seen before. After that, I took shots of the Ikebana exhibits.
After my mom and the aunties were done, it was already past 9pm. Went to Baker's Inn at United Square for dinner... and came home past 11. Am planning to go to the Botanics again tomorrow morning.
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