Spring blooms in NTU

I suppose by now, most of you would have noticed... the rest of the trumpet trees in NTU are blooming! For those of you who have missed out on the flowering of these trees near Hall 11, now's your second chance.

Some good photography locations are as follows:
Yunnan Garden
WKWSCI
Hall 2 area

So what else is there to see?

The raintrees are flowering too! Don't forget to catch the little pink flowers that dot these trees. Don't they look like cute green umbrellas with pink polka dots? (Your imagination necessary.)

In addition, the white wild orchids are flowering too. Some of these can be found on the trees along Hall 1, Hall 4 and even at NIE.

For those who take the 179 bus into campus, you'll get to see many of these along the way as well.

I hope you'll enjoy these beautiful sights Nature has to offer during this stressful period in preparation for your exams.

All the best for the exams! =)

Nature Walk on 7 Mar 2009

Today we concluded our longest ever nature walk, trekking through the NTU campus from one end to the other. It is by far the most ambitious guided walk we had carried out.

From mango trees to durian trees, rambutan trees to chempedak trees - want to know where to go when you're feeling hungry?

Looking for a place to gather with friends and perhaps enjoy a picnic surrounded by birds and beautiful trees?

I hope everyone brought home something valuable with them today - memories to look back on and interesting nuggets of information that might come in handy some day.

Till next time!

Trumpet Trees near Hall 11

Hello all!

Here are some photos of the place mentioned in the previous entry, courtesy of Yong Xiang.

Enjoy! =)

For the nature walk on 7 March 2009 (Saturday), we will be bringing you somewhere near that location. If you are lucky, the flowers would still be there but time does not wait! Better to visit the location soon before the flowers all fall off. ^^

For the photographers

If you enjoy photography, especially nature photography or is simply looking for a lovely place with picturesque surroundings, allow me to let you in on a little secret!

The trumpet trees are flowering now!

If you've read my previous entries, I have likened the trumpet trees to the Sakura of Singapore. When in full bloom, the whole tree is a burst of colour, usually in pink or white with the flowers lightly scattered beneath. It is simply a beautiful place for a shot or if you like, just enjoying the flowers and some pleasant company with yourself or others. My words here probably can't fully describe to you how it is like, you've got to see it for yourself. You don't even need to go very far. There are many trumpet trees within our NTU campus. Right now, the location I would suggest is this area next to hall 11. Just go there and take a look and you'll understand what I mean.

If you require, you can email me at earthlink-actmgr@ntu.edu.sg for more details. You can even try calling me along for a photoshoot and I'll be more than happy to tag along. You see, I enjoy nature photography myself! =)

Photoshoot Location: Area next to Hall 11

(P.S. Photos in this entry were old photos taken by Yong Xiang and were not taken at the area next to Hall 11)

Spring in NTU (Hall 5)

Spring has arrived at NTU! Well, technically speaking, Singapore does not really have the four seasons but the trees found within campus here often give us the feeling that we do. So, every once in a while, we still get to experience the different seasons!

This is a picture of a frangipani tree in full bloom taken along the covered walkway towards Hall 5. If you like frangipani trees, Hall 5 actually has a huge variety of them. There are those that are dark pink, light pink and white, yellow, white and orange... Such many different beautiful combinations!

Enjoy! =)