Quirky Singapore XVI - Reclamation (as in reclamation of land from the sea)

Land reclamation in Singapore has started in the colonial era on a fairly small scale, as early as the 1820s. Large scale land reclamation has started in the 1960s to reclaim a total of about 135 km² of land by 2003.

Wikipedia says: Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a landfill), is the process of creating new land from ocean, riverbeds, or lake. The land reclaimed is known as reclamation ground or land fill.

Flowers on campus

One morning I have walked to school

 These roads/walkways are used by people, especially in the morning to work out. Run, walk...

Singapore Sights - Chua Chu Kang

In my quest to find the end of the world, after failing on the northeast (see my adventures here), with lower expectations I have also tried on the northwest.

I was better prepared and took the bus that went to the end of the world in Sarimbun/Lim Chu Kang. I have traveled from the Seletar/Punggol area (northeast), and in the north I have seen one military camp after another. Getting closer to Lim Chu Kang, I have noted down the following: Keat Hong Camp, Tengah Air Base, Lim Chu Kang Camp, Singapore Infantry Brigade, Sungei Gedong Camp. Getting even closer, I have also noted down this: Hay Diaries Goat Farm, fish farm, guppy farm, bean sprout farm (and Sarimbun Recycling Park)...

So I have expected the area to be more rural on account of the predominantly agricultural (and military) activities, I was still surprised. The end of the world in Lim Chu Kang was (almost) really the end of the world.

Singapore Sights - Punggol

Punggol to me is (was) one of the most exotic places in Singapore. It is far away from the center and also from where I live in the west :). It is on the north shore, and after Changi (which I intend to discover on my last day in Singapore) the easternmost part of the island.

This is the final stop of the North-East MRT line, and the area around it. Convincingly in the middle of noowhere, with construction/development everywhere.

Singapore Sights - Seletar colonial buildings

Seletar is also in the north of Singapore. It is west of Punggol, and northwest of Kampong Buang Kok (my post). It is most famous for Seletar Airport, build in 1928.

These houses were built for military personnel of the British Royal Air Force. Of the 378 colonial bungalows, a lot are still in use and therefore in good repair, but 178 are condemned, to give space to the Seletar Aerospace Park that expands in the area.

The buildings are black and white, with high ceilings and a lot of windows: built to ensure good air-circulation in tropical climate.

Rain!

Mid-Jan to mid-March Singapore has gone through its longest and worst drought of its history since the end of the 1800s.

So when it started raining (last Sunday), it was an event. And we had 6 days of glorious rain! (And mindbending humidity.)

Although I realize photographing rain is a difficult if not impossible task, here are my pictures.

At NTU.