Sentosa Flowers: Joys of Spring

second day of Chinese New Year, 2013

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It was just a blink of the eyes before it transited from the Year of the Dragon to a new Year of the Snake. With a nearby weekend and a day of leave-in-lieu, Flying was enjoying a rare four-day break for Spring Festival since moving to Singapore many years ago.

Since visiting the Sentosa Flowers show for the first time last year, I fell in love with the joyous moments of flower appreciation in this tiny island state despite the smallish scale of the show. For a good start in this year of the Water Snake, Flying and yanzi once again went onto Sentosa Island in the early morning, just to avoid the usual crowd and the inevitable afternoon showers during the New Year period.

一眨眼就从壬辰走到了癸巳。今年适逢长周末加补休，Flying也在驻新多年以来，又一次过上了四天的春节年假。

打从去年第一次游览圣淘沙春节花会，虽然总觉得这里的新春花会有点儿小里小气的，但还是莫名地喜欢上了在岛国佳节期间赏花的感觉。所以，在这个水蛇年里，Flying也不能免俗，拉上yanzi，躲着最近每天午后的滂沱大雨，赶一大早的就又来到了圣淘沙岛。

The cute cruise ship AIDAdiva docked at the Singapore Cruise Centre at HarbourFront
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Still early in the morning, when there was not yet a big crowd on Sentosa Islandexcept outside Universal Studios Singapore®

(from the centre of The Bull Ring^™)
Flash^® panorama
The Chinese zodiac-themed decorations at Resorts World® Sentosa were less than grand this year...
The signature ‘Sentosa’ sculpture at Imbiah Lookout was promptly changed into a flowery, festive outfit
They were supposed to be of “Chinese style,” but these scenes somehow gave Flying an awkward sense of a rojak of cultural references—the typical Singaporean style
It was cloudy with occasional showers, but the queue of visitors was already growing steadily at Palawan Beach since early morning
Chrysanthemums at Resorts World® Sentosa
Giant Floral Carpet (measuring 50-by-40 square metres) and Zodiac Water Snake at the centre of this welcoming grandeur to all visitors
- Fiery cockscombs
- Elegant Cosmos
- Dewed rosy periwinkles
Staff at the booth: This is our pet. 5 bucks per photo, please. ;^p
Story of Nuwa—yet another piece of broken, rojak Chinese culture, the Singaporean style...

Whoever designed this, listen up! The head just seemed to come from one of those mannequins in some showcase, which was totally out of proportion. And the Chinese name of the goddess Nüwa is really “女娲,” not “女娃,” okay?
Cute god of prosperity and Mr. Snake will bring you good fortune in the Year of the Snake!
Spider flowers
Colourful hydrangeas
Tulips
Hyacinths
Pink roses
Four Seasons of Love: Spring Love Garden—roses symbolises external love
Stumbled upon some lingzhi mushrooms
Plains coreopsis—the new wallpaper for yanzi’s cellphone
With these elegant little flowers, basil attracts honeybees like a magnet
Cute little wishbone flowers
The String Garden (a.k.a. kokedama) created by Tivoli Gardens all the way from Denmark
Born to the purple—princess flowers
The pistil and stamens of a peacok flower
- Upper-left: Clear yellow dancing doll orchid
- Lower-left: Fiery scarlet renanthera
- Upper-right: Lucently purple moth orchid
Sneaky ‘snakes’ lying around among the exhibit
Unmistakably, it’s the spring of a Year of the Snake!
Kids always have great funs around this tiny ‘treasure island’
This group of Indian friends are also having a lot of funs with music
Monster A: Me hungry!

Monster B: Feed me!
Busy bees among the gorgeous chrysanthemum flowers
Prominent lily flowers
Surprisingly delicate snake gourd flowers
Brightly orange French marigold flowers
‘Fruity’ cyathia of Antique Spurge
Cotton rosemallow with a dash of pink—Can you tell what time it was? :^P
Brightly colourful wax begonias
A kid’s wish to the Trees of Life:

I want to get A* for my all subjects

:p
Four Seasons of Love: Autumn Love Garden—pumpkin carriage and carving to depict bridge and colourful love

... Both of us found the face carvings a bit hideously scary...
Lonely couple in the sea of common zinnias
Two lonely white hibiscus flowers
The Glittering Sandy Snake Trail on the beach

Sentosa Flowers: Joys of Spring

second day of Chinese New Year, 2013

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