First weekend of 2025

Breakfast was at Swee Choon, T2

Took a photo at the falls

Cat Bingo

Arranging her school assignment 

Swimming pool opening soon 🥳

 

First OG of 2025 + Christmas Train Show

Spoke with fellow volunteer, Soh sim 

Pruning curled leaves at Silver Garden, 

Named silver, as plants featured here are grey, white or silver in colour

Departing from Raffles Place Mrt, the journey takes you as far as the Nordic Landscapes and even across America. It’s a whimsy ride through traditions, places and people who hold rail travel close to heart.

Nisse, no bigger than a horse’s head, the nisse is a gnome like figure from Scandinavian folklore who protects farms and homesteads. 

Moose

Euphorbia “primero red glitter”

Garden Railway Traditional in the U.S

Solomon. R Guggenheim Muesum, NY known for its bold helicol structure and World Heritage Site, built in 1959.

Garden railroading was born in the 19th Century alongside full-sized railways, as master craftmen tinkered with steam powered miniatures for wealthy European collectors. Too large for parlours and occasionally proned to overheating, these models soon chugged into the great outdoors.

Gateway Arch - St Louis, Missouri 192m tall, America’s talllest monument

The legacy of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Seattle Great Wheel and Space Needle

In the 1890s the German Company, Marklin’s introduction of “gauge-1” track the industry’s first standardised size, let enthusiasts join tracks and build sprawling backyard layouts, a trend that blossomed across the well-manicured gardens of Britain. In the U.S though, American toy giant Lionel’s similar “o” gauge trains were specifically designed for indoor play and the gardens railway stayed off-track until 1968 when German company, Lehmann Gross Bahn (lehmann’s big train) brought G-scale trains to the American market

These durable, weather proof G-Scale trains finally coaxed American modeller outdoors, sparkling a new era of garden railroading across leafy backyards and botanical gardens, where miniature trains now wind through scaled-down forests and tunnels.

United States Botanic Garden Conservatory, Washington D.C

Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan NY. opened in 1913 with 44 platforms

Statue of Liberty 

Current Collector Device - collects power from the third rail through contact with its carbon shoe. Sending it to the trains’s system to keep it in motion

Which is the longest MRT line in Singapore - 57km EWL Tuas Link to Pasir Ris

Which stations are furthest apart from each other - NS15 - NS14 Yio Chu Kang and Khatib, earmarked for a theme park

one-north MRT is the only station with a name entirely without capital letters and begun operations on 8Oct 2011

Met S at Suntec for lunch 

Hokkaido ramen - Ichikokudo