An Assortment of Farms

::An Assortment of Farms::

The weather was rather kind to us this Sunday. Not too warm, brilliant for an excursion. Hehe. A bunch of us met up at Kranji MRT to visit an assortment of farms today.

So the dudes and dudettes got into their vehicles and followed the organiser of the day; K.C, as he introduced us to the 1st programe on his farm itinerary (K.C even had an itinerary all done up! Awesome!)

I stucked to my CG brothers and was in Ming's car. Hehe. A pic of us before we set off. Me with my superbly fake smile. Hahahah. Attempt to be a morning person - fail! Am so not a morning person. Heheh. Ming busy reading map so he didnt glanced up to pose. Haha.

1st farm: Aero Green Tech and here are the pics -

It's a .....*drumrolls* Zucchini! Also known as courgette especially in Europe. Hehe. Or as a summer squash. Heee...

I have no idea what this is... winter melon? Bitter gourd? There were no signs (or I did not spot it).. so go figure!

Lime!!! Shift ur eyes to look for the dark greens in this pic and you should be able to spot the limes... =)

2nd farm: Nyee Phoe Nursery pics-

(Don't ask me what flowers are these. Am totally clueless... just took a pic of them cos they look pretty... heheh)

And next! I switch my cam to "colour accent" mode to retain the colour of the flower and everything else will be monochromed. My fave. pic of the entire farm visit!!! Ta-dah!!

=) I lurve it!! Thought this corner looked quite cosy. Oops... forgot to switch my cam back to normal mode. Still in colour accent. But ... hee... quite nice also I thought.

People on rocking chairs by the pond.

As per Ming's blog entry, Dreamfish Inc wasn't open so we went to Max Koi Farm. I like this farm best. Heee... Though I don't like fishes (nothing to do with eating ok... I like to eat fish.. but I just don't like anything scaly, don't like reptiles and also amphibians...and don't ask me why! Haha)

Looks like a resort here. Heee..

Elaine & I...

There you go .. The Kois @the koi farm. Haha..

There was this air-conditioned dark room that some of the others spotted and signalled us to follow them in (we were all scattered over the koi farm). The room was pretty cool as they had a few aquariums with some (i think) expensive and exotic fishes in it. I was trying to get some clear pics in here without much success. Mr. catfish below did not wanna pose and smile for me. Heee... so this was the best that I could do.

Then I spotted this spotted stingray (pun intended). Wahahaha. It was so dark and it was at an obscure corner of the aquarium that I almost mistook it as a sucker fish. Hahahaha. But memories from my primary school science class taught me that suckerfish are not ROUND in shape (or at least those that I've seen) and I went closer to peer into the aquarium. Unlike Mr. catfish, Mr. stingray was rather obliging, haha. I asked it to smile and it just posed perfectly still for me with a cute smile. (Really! Check out the curl of its flap!Heeeeee..) Brilliant!

So after bidding Mr. stingray farewell, we left the dark room and somehow the weather seems to have turned brighter. So I took another snapshot of the resort-like house. Okie, from this angle it looks more like a kelong. Hee...

Took a pic of some lotus (I suppose its lotus...hurhurhur) in monochrome before I left for the next stop.

Ming was right when he blogged that the next farm stop was a dreaded visit for me. It's the Jurong FROG farm. *Shudderx10* I believe I have mentioned above of my dislikes for amphibians, reptiles, scaly animals/fishes. (Note: Although Mr. Stingray was quite cute, but looking at its skin for too long sent shivers down my spine as well... ). We reached the frog farm and I was telling my CG brothers "Can I stay in the car instead???" hehhe.

The instant I set foot on the frog farm, can hear the frogs croaking non-stop. My lower lip curled. Am I up for this? I thought I should not be such a scaredy cat. So I followed the guys as they bravely trooped off in front of me down a flight of stairs. There were some bags on the floor that I couldn't see from my position what was inside. (Check out Ming's blog for a pic of those bags). Ambiguous looking bags. Hmmm....lots of thoughts flashed across my mind and my instinct told me not to go down. Suddenly to my horror, one of the bags JUMPED. Arhhhhhhhhh!!!! Ambiguous amphibians were in those bags!!! Alot of them!!! That was the deciding factor that I should NOT risk it and just observe the frogs from afar....VERY FAR to be safe. Hee hee...

At Ming's suggestion, he said I should still take a pic to at least have some memories that I've been to a frog farm. Hmmm..Do I really want such memories? Hehehe.. But he is right, just for memento's sake. Me trying to smile with Fredos behind me.

Gab captured a pic of me viewing the frogs from a relatively safe distance. Almost everyone went downstairs to view the frogs..er.. except me. Hehehe.

It doesn't mean that I missed out on the froggy action viewing them from afar ok!! Thank goodness for digital & optical zoom. I still captured some froggy pics. There were so many frogs there that I just felt queasy. Don't believe me? See for yourself!

Queasy right? Unless some of you only think of frog legs and see them as delicacies... then I guess it's not queasy but yummy for you.

*GASP*!!!! I was zooming around with my cam and I saw these 4! They were away from the rest, in a corner by themselves. What in the world are they doing?! CAUGHT ON CAMERA!! hahahaha..and smiling somemore...
Tadpole to frog process.

After frogland, we went to a goat farm. The goats' smell came to greet and welcomed us when we arrived. Hehehe. The batt on my cam was low and I only managed to capture a pic of 2 kids sleeping before my cam switched off on me. SooooO cute!!

Courtesy of Ming's cam, he took a shot of me with the kids. Heee... Grinning cos I don't dare to touch them. heee..

So after that we went to Poison Ivy/Bollywood Veggies for lunch and that wrapped up the day's visit to a variety of farms!