It is only a small park. But the park provides a wide spectrum of leisure activities for everyone of all ages. It is a good place to take the whole family, as there is something for the everyone young or old - playgrounds, community gardens, fitness corners, a multi-purpose court for exercising, and dancing, a small skate plaza for amateur young skateboarders, broad tarmac pathways for walking, jogging and cycling, a restaurant, a sizeable amphitheatre that is used for cultural performances during the evenings and on weekends.
Here are some pictures from the walk.
The restaurant is open again. It was closed for about three months because of the lockdown. Now that the lockdown was partially lifted, the restaurant can open for business again albeit with restrictions and safety measurements in place.
I do not know what this. I think it is a herbal plant of some sort.
This look like mint, but I suspect it is something else.
Could this be dill?
This I know for sure. They are Chilli padis. Very spicy.
Some maize?
Sweet potato leaves. They can be stir-fried with some dried prawns, and served as a vegetable dish. You can add some chilli sambal if you like spicy food.
A yam plant
A couple of sugar cane plants.
These sugar cane plants are ready to be consumed.
Not sure about these.
Or these.
This is a bush of Jasmine - if I am not mistaken
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Life lessons are learned through experiences, and mistakes. Some of the mistakes are costly and/or painful, and took us a lot of time to recover from them. Some lessons took a long time to learn. Unfortunately, time is something we do not have plenty of. We do not have enough time to learn all the Life’s lessons by ourselves.
However, we may be able to get a head's start in life, if we learn from the experiences and mistakes of others, and by paying attention to the words of wisdom, and advices of the wise people before us, – the sages, the philosophers, the gurus... – and also those who are still with us who have been through the hardships in life.
These are valuable Life lessons not learned in school. Armed with these lessons, we will be able to avoid the potholes in life. We will have an idea of what to expect of Life, and how to live our lives. There will be times when you find that these are exactly the advises you are seeking, or the answers to your questions.
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than we fall down. - Arianna Huffington
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make. Tact means not noticing them. - Arthur Schnitzler
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. - Lao Tzu
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience. - Barbara Mikkelson
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. - Henry Adams
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. - Heinrich Heine
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. - Dwight Eisenhower
Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. - Louisa May Alcott
There is no revenge as complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings
Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect. - Marvin J. Ashton
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. - Benjamin Disraeli
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Destiny: Noun – the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future.
Predestined: Adjective – (of an outcome or course of events) determined in advance by divine will or fate.
Fate: Noun – the development of events beyond a person’s control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power.
Determinism: Noun – The doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will. Some philosophers have taken determinism to imply that individual human beings have no free will and cannot be held morally responsible for their actions.
Is our destiny predestined? Do we have the power to change our destiny? I guess these are some of those questions that we can’t answer for sure. One of life’s many great mysteries. No doubt there will be opposing camps arguing about it from time to time.
We like to believe that we have control of our destinies. But there is also a small part of us that believe that our lives could have been predestined. How else would you explain some unexplainable things that happened in your life? Why else would we throw our hands in the air, and say it must be fate – that it is all predestined, when we are hopelessly overwhelmed, and at our wits end.
Destined, predestined, or determined, it is up to you to believe, or not believe.
The following people believed that we hold our destinies in our hands.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny. - W. Clement Stone
Look in the mirror for the agent of your destiny. Whether we fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but our own. - Unknown
We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. - Orison Swett Marden
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. - Irene C. Kassorla
Here’s someone who believe that we could, to an extent control our destiny
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. - Dag Hammarskjold
And there are people who believe that we can’t avoid, or escape our destiny. They believed that no matter how we try to change or avoid our destiny, we will still end up where we are destined to be.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. - Jean de La Bruyère
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - Henry Miller
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I got to know the plant as ‘Touch-me-not’ since an early age. The name was easy to remember, and relatable, for two reasons. Firstly, when you touched their leaves they closed up immediately, giving the impression that they are shy. Secondly, if you were not careful, you would be pricked by their thorns. To me, the name was very appropriate. “Touch-me-not, or I will closed up, or prick you”. Thus, the name ‘Touch-me-not’ was etched on my mind.
Touch-me-not, or scientifically known as Mimosa Pudica are hardy plants. They grow easily in the wild. As children, we liked to touch their leaves and watched them closed, and then reopened. Those were the days – simple pleasures.
Can you see the thorns?
Mimosa Pudica is a thorny plant, and thanks to that, we learned how to remove thorns from an early age. While playing with their leaves, sometimes thorns got caught in our hands. As children, we liked to run barefoot in the fields. If we were not careful, and stepped on a bush of the touch-me-not, we would spent the next few minutes picking thorns from our feet.
Can you imagine a barefooted kid stepping on this?
They have beautiful pink 'bulb' flowers. These looked to be on their way out.
Mimosa pudica is also known as sensitive plant, shy plant, sleepy plant, action plant, Dormilones, shame plant, and zombie plant among others. It is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume family Fabaceae and Magnoliopsida taxon.
Here’s a video of the Mimosa Pudica opening and closing. Enjoy!
If you are interested in the technical or academics behind the leaves movement, read the following taken from Wikipedia.
"The compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken, defending themselves from harm, and re-open a few minutes later. Due to Mimosa's unique response to touch, it became an ideal plant for many experiments regarding plant habituation and memory."
"The leaflets also close when stimulated in other ways, such as touching, warming, blowing, shaking, which are all encapsulated within mechanical or electrical stimulation. These types of movements have been termed seismonastic movements. This reflex may have evolved as a defense mechanism to disincentivize predators, or alternatively to shade the plant in order to reduce water losses due to evaporation."
"It is not known exactly why Mimosa pudica evolved this trait, but many scientists think that the plant uses its ability to shrink as a defense from herbivores. Animals may be afraid of a fast moving plant and would rather eat a less active one. " - Wikipedia
Mimosa is a genus of about 400 species of herbs and shrubs, in the mimosoid clade of the legume family Fabaceae.
This is a Mimosa tree.
This is another Mimosa tree - a different specie - taken in Spain. I haven't seen this locally. When the tree is in full bloom, it is quite a sight to behold - beautiful white and pinkish red flowers, covering the whole tree.
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The weekend is here. Time to take a break and enjoy your weekend! Below are some humorous quips. They are funny but at the same time, there is a lot of truth in them. I hope they bring on a chuckle, or put a smile on your face. Have a great weekend!
If it’s sent by ship then it’s a cargo, if it’s sent by road then it’s a shipment. - Dave Allen
Friendship is like pee in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it. - Unknown
A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her – as long as it’s a diamond. - Evan Esar
Duct tape can’t fix stupid. But it can muffle the sound. - Unknown
When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t. - Louis C. K.
If you can’t blow them away with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit. - Unknown
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. So does not having health insurance. - Joe Hickman
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news. - Bertolt Brecht
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. - Oscar Wilde
To me, ‘drink responsibly’ means don’t spill it. - Unknown
A joke is like sex, neither is any good if you don't get it. - Unknown
Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard. - Donald Hall
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Waterfront apartments of a different kind – not the kind you pay an arm and foot or more for. But hey, they still faces the water – albeit it’s only a canal.
These are housing flats. About 80% of Singaporeans live in these flats all over the island. The flats here have a ‘waterfront’ view and a very nice walking/jogging/cycling route.
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Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning. We give our own meaning to time, as we do to life. It is up to us to make good use of our time. Whether it is the best of times or worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
Time and tide waits for no man. Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. And there is nothing we can do about it.
Time flies. The seconds tick away, never to return again – gone from your life forever. Irretrievable.
This fact can be quite frightening to us if we can fully understand the implication of what it means to lose every second of our lives without making full use of them or gaining something beneficial in return. We have somehow taken this fact for granted, like we did for so many other things in life.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. So, do not waste time. Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.
Quit saying you don’t have time. There is always time. You have time for what you make time for in life. It is up to you to prioritize.
Lastly, remember to always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. - Thomas Jefferson
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Observe the surroundings when you walk - the plants and flowers, the weeds and grass, you will see the wonders of nature. Your walk will not be so taxing, or boring. It will be more pleasurable. Most importantly, you exercise your mind, mentally too.
Here are some pictures taken on my walk.
The sky so clear. This is a rarity in the tropics. Usually, it's very cloudy like in the first picture.
Some flowers. I don't know what these are.
Happened to look up a tree and there was this huge moth.
Here's a closer look at the moth.
And here's a tiny butterfly. There are a lot of them nowadays because the weeds haven't been cut due to the Covid-19 measures. The butterflies, dragonflies and grasshoppers make a pleasant change. I quite enjoy seeing them around.
Another tiny butterfly - if you can spot it. They are either very camera shy or they are very busy. Never stay still long enough for their picture to be taken.
Weed flowers. Again, we are only seeing these, because the weeds had grown. Now I see tiny weed flowers of all colours dotting the path. Nice. Unfortunately, one would need a proper camera to capture them. They just don't show up well on phone cameras.
A tree with cherry like fruits.
A tree with buds ready to bloom.
A tree in full bloom.
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