Classmates!

Bukit Timah campus photos

The gorgeous Angsana tree - the highlight of the campus - at night

Football on the Upper Quad

 And cricket!

Romano Prodi, ex-PM of Italy with Dean of the School Kishore Mahbubani. Prodi speech was titled "Has the European Experiment Failed?"

Bollywood Veggies

As part of the Sungei Buloh trip, we stopped off at Bollywood Veggies (bollywoodveggies.com) for an organic lunch. Bollywood Veggies is one of the few farms in Singapore. After lunch, we were taken on a tour of the farm by a wonderful old gentleman.

Mushrooms...

Our tour guide,  talking about castor oil:





Sugarcane

Selfies

 Jade, Usman, Seun, Vijay, Zaigham, Karn

At the Indonesian stall on Cultural Night!

 Kim Gove, one of my classmates in Social Policy Design

Visit to the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve

 Vibhat and I went to the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve in the north end of Singapore on an outing organised by the MPA Class Committee (thanks guys!). Gorgeous place ..

Johor Bahru of Malaysia, across the straits

 

This small snake we saw freaked Vibhat out. Need to spend time with him to educate him about animals so he can be at home with them  

 I was very happy to see mangroves for the first time..

Crocodile. I guess.

Photos - visit to a ceramic factory

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Click through for photos from a visit to the Thow Kwang ceramic factory in Kranji

Urban greenery in Singapore

One doesn't hear much about Singapore's urban greenery, but I find it one of the more spectacular things here. Singapore is fortunate to be at the equator and blessed with lush greenery. But in making Singapore a world city, they could have easily de-emphasised that. Instead they've beautifully incorporated that greenery into so many aspects of the urbanity. By far the best of the cities I've seen. One of the best parts of this design - forest walks that are at a height above the ground so you can see the trees from a height. Sometimes called canopy walks.
We went on one such today, a zig-zag of an elegantly designed metal walkway that coursed through some forested areas. At multiple points you have an option to get off the walkway onto a hiking trail on the ground below.
Design in Singapore in general is truly of the highest standard.

The spectacular Hendersen Waves walkway

Epiphytes - plants growing on a tree. They're everywhere in Singapore

Four shots to get it right :-)