Belated Celebration with Lena & Felise

29th Birthday

Yeah, it was my bday yesterday, my last year in my 20s. Thanks to my colleagues for making the effort to get the birthday cake. Sincerely touched and thankful to all my friends who remembered my birthday and sent me the well wishes: riki, jeff, weiyang, jennifer, leepeng, julian, jason, kenneth, kenny, jane, fungling, lena, zeathereal ... and last but not least, my parents for their love and care and concerns shown to me over the past 29yrs + 10mths. May i continue to practise the Dharma diligently for the new year.

Southern Ridges Walk - 9km

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Decided to try the Southern Ridges walk which is reported to be 9km long. Places we passed by:

1) Vivocity - starting point
2) Murang Trail - leading to Mt Faber (lots to stairs to climb)
3) Henderson Waves - a new interesting bridge made of wooden planks (worth visiting)
4) Hilltop walk - an old park which has lost its appeal. The walls and flights of steps have turned from white to blackish, the grass patch which was once filled with nicely grown flowers are now left with withered plants
5) Forest walk - my fave 2.1km stretch, very interesting (worth visiting)
6) Alexandra Arc - next to my former work place HP, okay la, not very interesting but its a new bridge
7) Flora walk (HortPark) - its a v nice place with horticulture, but erm, i cant appreciate (may not visit again)
8) Kent Ridge Trail (with Canopy Walk) - been many times, so no longer find it interesting
9) Science Park Trail - i wonder why is this urbanized stretch considered part of the southern ridge walk? just because they want to link HortPark to West coast park? very forceful la......
10) Heritage Trail - this is none other than our Old Kent Ridge road, where u can find PGP, K.Edward7 Hall and the various research institutes behind sci fac (waste my time cos been there so many times)
11) Mac Donalds - Decided to end my walk at NUS Mac which offer a much lower price than outside.
12) Clementi Woods - I didnt walk there because i dunt find it interesting
13) West Coast Park - I didnt go there because i dunt find it interesting either

Conclusion: If you want to walk the Southern Ridges, i suggest you start off from Vivocity -> Mt Faber -> Henderson Waves -> Skip Hilltop Walk -> Go direct to Forest Walk -> Alexandra Arc -> HortPark -> Go Home. If you havent been to Kent Ridge Trail and Canopy walk, you may give it a try, but falling out from there is difficult. Good Luck!