Farm Day

I have finally made good my word and had a weekend well spent!

Brought along Dear, Derek & hx along for self drive half day farm visit!

Started the day with Breakfast at Jalan Kayu (somehow the prata sucks big time on sunday morning...), and then drove off to the first farm by following my GPS, driving through Neo Tiew Road, catching lots of countryside views along the way that we don't see in our everyday life.

Passed by the Kranji Dam along the way, but I think the Seletar Dam looks better even though I see it day in day out.

0930 - Reached our first stop of the day, Hay Dairies.

Though I visited this farm on many occasions, this is the first time that I managed to catch the milking session live.

Guess this is the first time that derek and hx is visiting this farm. Bought the fresh goat milk from the counter and wooo, hx was amazed by the taste of goat milk. Ha ha.

As the barns were closed for NEA inspection, we moved on to our next destination, but a missed turn has ended us up at the LCK Jetty. First time here though. Looks really rustic and feels so "Pulau Ubin"

LCK Jetty

After a few attempts, then we found out that the cow farm that we are trying to locate has closed down, so we moved on to the next farm that is nearest to us then.

Jurong BullFrog Farm (my first time here too!)

Its pretty noisy from the moment we stepped out from the car.
This farm has its interesting moments too. If you look closely enough at the below picture, you should be able to see a pair of mating frogs. (which was VERY obvious in the other ponds)

I thought this farm might smell a bit, but surprisingly, no odours at all.

Frogs don't stink...

We caught a few glimpse of a nice and big orchid along the way, so we turned back and went into the orchid, and asked the boss if we could just tour around the area, and the boss was nice enough to let us walk around freely. (it was pretty evident that this orchid was not designed for retail sales or educational tours, but more as wholesale orchid supplier to major florists and hotels, especially since there wasn't any other visitors and this orchid was not on any visitors brochure)

This place is huge!

Lots of different species of orchids!

Found some interesting and educational sights.

(Left)These are pre-planted trees, usually used for new built-up areas where there is no time for the trees to grow from small seedlings into big tall trees.

(Right)We suspect we will see these pre-planted palm trees at the IR next year...

We then went off to the Qian Hu Fish Farm for some fish therapy.

Its my second time here, but I still couldn't get used to the nimbling feeling when the spa fish bites on my feet, and kept fidgeting around... (no pictures taken, too ticklish for me to settle down...)

Dropped Derek off at the MRT after this as he had to go off for another appointment, then we went off to the FarmMart, which was rather disappointing for us. It was basically just a miniaturized version of all the farms which we had just visited, plus a lot of touristy stuff.

(it just pales in comparison as our earlier visits to the bigger farms really overshadows this place, but some of the stuff here could definitely be better...)

Ended our farm visiting day at FarmMart, as we proceeded to visit JurongPoint for lunch. We have not really been back to JP for a long time, especially after the place was upgraded. It was a pleasant surprise to see that JP has really been spruced up with all the new shops and stuffs.

Shokutsu 10 Japanese Food street

This is the infamous Jap food street of JP, but it was a bit short of the number of resident Jap restaurants. Nonetheless, good attempt by the JP management to give a theme to the place.

Spent some time walking around JP1 and JP2 (new extension), and we were flabbergasted by the sheer enormity of the place and shops. Too tired by that time to visit the shops one by one, so we just ended the day shortly after and went home.

Conclusion: A day well spent, visiting the places I like and seeing new stuff, and of course, the great company helps too. Made it feel like a Saturday to me and I thought so too, until the rest reminded me that it was a Sunday...

Must make it a point to make my weekends more memorable with stuff like this. At least the years won't pass us by so quickly this way. Life is not only about work work work (anyway, I'll touch more on this some time later)