Monday, May 20, 2019

Visit To Jurong Lake Garden


20 May 2019, Monday

We visited Jurong Lake Garden this morning since it was Vesak Day Holiday in Lieu and the guys have no school. We decided to bring some food and drinks to have picnic and to clock some active hours. Quite a nice place to walk though the weather was warm and heaty.

Car is most convenient but via bus or MRT is still viable within few minutes walk. We reach by bus 180, walking from Lakeside MRT, the walkway is partically sheltared until you reach the first entrance.




We walked along the lake to enjoy the scenery of Taman Jurong flats. How lucky to own this part of view! The JLG otters family was here, we spotted them this morning for their morning swim and breakfast, how lucky we were! Oh but we spotted 1 of them who caught a water snake, OMG.






There were so much to see. May kinds of flowers and plant which caught my attention. I love taking a close up shot of beautiful flowers, knowing that they don't last long, photography is perhaps the only way to preserve their beauty.



These 2 rocks bring out the feel of "Chinese Garden" which is just opposite


Chinese Garden is just a link beidge away. Before we arrive at Chinese Garden, we passed by these 2 rocks which has Chinese scripting on them. Yes, they reminds us of Chinese Garden which is just opposite.





We lay our picnic basket at Passionwave area and enjoy our picnic in the shade. There were several families having their picnic as well. Probably because washrooms are available.


The sun was still scorching hot, not easy to walk with joy, though, 心静自然凉, but 热也会让人发狂!

By the way, here is the website link to Jurong Lake Gardens
At the PassionWave Area

If you are interested to find out more about the garden and how to get here, click it.

We only managed to walk half the garden and not exploring all yet due to the sudden down pour, it was such a disappointment!



Canoe kept at PassionWave Centre

Indeed a good view of Chinese Garden from the PassionWave area where we had our picnic.





This hammock area is where we enjoyed ourselves before the rain started to drop.

At first we planned to walked into Chinese Garden so that we could walk towards Chinese Garden MRT to take MRT. Our plan changed because of that. We also did not complete the lower half of the garden where it was linked to Japanese Garden.

Perhaps it's for another day where we would have our next outing, Till then, hope to see you ya.


Saturday, May 18, 2019

Vesak Day Eve Lamp Offering at Hai Inn Temple

 18 May 2019

Every year on Vesak Day's eve, the children will go to Hai Inn temple for Lamp Offering 传灯.
Do you know why is there lamp offering and lighting up and passing the bulb of fire from one to another?


I extract this explanation from  SAMYE INSTITUTE website


Light means understanding because light represents wisdom. And light removes and dispels misunderstanding. All of our suffering comes from not knowing and not seeing. Offering lights or butter lamps indirectly removes confusion. Moreover, to be successful in life we need to have clear ideas and good understanding. And we should not just believe that success and good results are based on luck. Instead, when we have problems, we need clear understanding and wisdom to solve those problems.


Chinese explanation on the meaning of 传灯 at Nanputuo.com  website
http://www.nanputuo.com/wz/html/201410/2914541673499.html

传灯有两大意义:
一是代表佛法辗转相传,代代相传,普世相传。
二是代表智慧光明,能破除幽暗,破除无明烦恼。
传灯还有薪火相传,光明不断,奉献自己,帮助别人之含义。


祝大家, 法喜充满, 卫塞节快乐!HAPPY VESAK DAY 2019 _/|\_



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