I'm Singing in the Rain...

LK had a team-building session in Bintan last week, and so dropped by Singapore en route to Hong Kong.

As promised, we had pepper crab and deep fried baby squids for dinner. Took plenty of photos of Victor Tan's exhibition at the Esplanade (I like!). Did the touristy walk to the "Spitting Singapore Chimera", then along the Esplanade Walk to the sounds of a 'live' Bhangra performance. In fact, we had the whole 'live' Bhangra performance to accompany our dinner...

Off to a late start this morning. It being a lovely day, we threw caution (about any unhealthy readings of PSI) to the wind, and decided on an al fresco breakfast buffet at Halia in the Botanic Gardens. We found the new Visitor Centre and carpark/foodcourt. Hiked through the park to the restaurant, and found that we had missed the breakfast buffet. Nonetheless, we had a delicious a la carte lunch of "Char Siew Salmon" and Tandoori chicken sandwich instead. Yums!

Other brilliant idea we had : to take a walk through the rainforest section, even with the skies clouded over and threatening rain...

Did we wise up to the name serving as a portent of things to come, thereby nudging us towards a wiser course of action? Nooo... It started raining when we were halfway through, so we took shelter under the canopy of the RAINforest. After a while, it REALLY started pissing down, so much so that the leaves were no longer effective as shelter. Since we were getting soaked standing there, we decided to just walk all the way back to the car in the rain. By the time we got out of the rainforest, we were DRENCHED. So of course, the heavens decided to clam up then...Tails between our legs, we trotted back to the car...