While we were in Singapore we went to the Underwater world a large Oceanarium in Sentosa. The first Oceanarium that I went to was in Manila and was built by the same company as the one in Singapore.
Luckily we arrived just in time for feeding the stingrays. A small piece of fish is put between your middle finger and your pointer fingers and then you slide your hand down the glass. The Stingray will then suck the piece of fish from between your fingers. Very, very strange, it feels kinda like a wet vacuum cleaner.
The aquariums are very large, with hundreds if not thousands of different fish. A tunnel runs through and underneath a number of tanks. Some of the fish are longer than 3 meters and it is really overwhelming the first time you step on the 83 meter long travelator (think horizontal escalator). The photo of Helen came out very nice. Since I was on the travelator with Helen she is in focus and the everthing else is slighty blurred.
"What a clean city." I sad to myself as we pulled out of Changi airport and proceeded to Jeff's house. Everything that I had heard about Singapore, about it being clean and organized was spot on. The city is immaculate, the streets are organized as if designed by a kid with obsessive compulsive disorder playing SIM City. The MRT system is fast and efficient with trains leaving every 3.5 minutes to the sound of "Please mind the gap." The city is covered by bus, MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) and LRT (Light Rail Transit) systems that efficiently move people throughout the second most densely populated country in the world.
This is my saltwater aquarium, its much easier to find fish and much cheaper to maintain then I thought it was going to be. Then again its easy to maintain, because I do not have to do it. There is a monthly service that cleans and checks all the settings.
I am just starting to pick out the fish and other creatures for the tank.
Here are the fish currently in my aquarium, however I find most only last about a week then they go to the porcelain fishtank.
Clownfish, Maroon Clownfish, Blue Damsel, Foxfish, Bown Tang, Sailfin Tang, Rusty Angelfish, 3 Stripe Damsel, Laserous Snail, Turbo snail, spiral Tube worm, Moray Eel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damselfish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroon_clownfish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfin_tang
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6667
These Photos where put together with Photoshop, The first one was made up of 32 separate photographs taken while I was hanging out of my window. I am about half way up my 40 story building giving me a great angle for the shot. The second was improved by Jeff who introduced me to HDR. It uses different exposures to make a 3D look and feel. Neat stuff read more at the link at the end of the post. I have been taking photos all week in blocks of 20 to 50 playing with the panoramic feature, but these are the best I have made so far.
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
Kung Hei Fat Choi That means Happy New Year in
Chinese, well actually it means "Congratulations and be prosperous" but thats the main gist. In honor of this the Year of the Pig I have chosen dragon fruit as the next victim in my continuing vegetarian massacre of all things fruity. The slaughter can be watched in the short video.
Dragon Fruit taste very plain to me. It has lots of small seeds that have almost a burnt flavor and feel very strange on the tounge. Its very similar to kiwi in the texture but the taste is not nearly as sweet. For a fruit with such a cool name and weird apperance I was quite disapointed. To learn more about pitaya and see some more photos click here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_fruit
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Bryan (Elimister) said:
That is funny, but have you ever seen someone eating a durian on the MRT? ;) read more
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stroud said:
at least when you bring a durian in a singapore MRT, you dont get fined. i actually think its quite... read more
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no. if i do, i will skin him alive read more
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