Post CNY 2010 Outing

[Blue Whale]

Latest Weather update:
Woodlands Reading
Hi: 32° Lo: 24°

There is a 0% chance of precipitation. Partly cloudy. Extremely hot, Muggy. Temperature of 32°C. Winds ENE 18km. Humidity will be 76% with a dewpoint of 28° and feels-like temperature of 44°C.

Bedok Reading
Hi: 30° Lo: 25°

Rain showers. There is a 60% chance of precipitation. Cloudy. Hot, Humid. Temperature of 30°C. Winds NNE 10km. Humidity will be 70% with a dewpoint of 24° and feels-like temperature of 34°C

NEA Reading
27-35°C
Showers with thunder mainly over northern and western Singapore in the afternoon. Next 12hrs Showers over North and West. Till 10am none.

Latest Satellite Map Reading
Currently a large chunk of clouds off West Coast to Jurong Islands, estimated to reach Boon Lay, Jurong West, Bukit Batok, CCK, Sungei Kadut, Woodlands, Sembawang, Yishun area factoring wind direction. Still mostly white, 50-50% indicative that it will rain.

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Logistics Reminder:
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1. Bring Water. 500ml each
People who forget one can goto NTUC to buy but won't be cold.
Freezed bottle of mineral/distilled water use newspaper to wrap it. Leave a bit of space for you to pour a bit of water in.
2. Dress Lightly. Wear jeans if you have sensitive skin.
3. Hat and Sun Shade/Glass is good.
4. Sun Block if you need to.
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[dkk08]

Where is the place of meeting?

Dkk08,

what is your contact number?

Wacky bro we're meeting at sembawang at 9-915am for breakfast but leaving at 10am for the farms, I'll pm u my contact hope it's not too late

[felix_fx2]

Good morning. See you all there later.
Big breakfast, here i come !

[Blue Whale]

Hi all,

Overall a very good trip. Especially Seaview but can't help to notice the receipt printed out Nanyang Trading Aquarium P/L. Later then I post the pictures up. Hot Weather is still the killing one.

[Wackytpt]

There is nothing wrong. The other name for Seaview is known as Nanyang Trading Aquarium Pte Ltd.

Nice meeting you guys.

[dkk08]

Glad to have some last minutes addtions

Thanks guys for making the trip possible and nice knowing and seeing some new faces, and I know more folks staying near me too

Let's hope the next one would be even better...

[Blue Whale]

I am using my trusty Samsung handphone (Pixon M8800) to take pictures so some of the pictures are skewed to blue color more. ^^" not because I am call Blue Whale that why the pictures are blue. DKK, you could help to edit to fill in the different Stop 1 and 2 names since you have admin rights now.

First stop off Pasir Ris Drive 12 was full of bettas.
Felix you were asking me about the bricks at Stop 2, so here is the pond I am talking about.



Instead of looking at bettas which we pretty much seen them, a few of us decided to wander off to another pet shop...hey, it's air-con we are talking about here. So I took two shots of a cute kitty.

Do you want to bring me home? Sorry folks, I am too cute to be on sale. ^^


It got tired like a small kid and starts to rest. Shhhhh.....quiet please, the kitty needs a rest.


Stop 2 we were greeted by harmony and serenity as we enter the main gate. And WOW!!! Giant Fishes! I managed to capture 2 of the 3 in the pool.


See some magic of the kois. Blink! Blink!

I guess when TimeBomb ask Thio about the rocks, and Thio was talking about 50kg? That's an understatement! This were what we found. Okay, not so much about Iwagumi rocks and driftwoods, but here are some of the stones majority used for interior design, aquatic and marine tanks.






Wackytpt was doing some serious discussion with Reveru and Edward.



One of the display pond I found.


Eddy, are you looking at these? As if used by FengShui Masters....


Some ornaments I found that could be used for both exterior and interior designs.


Cute fatty fish, ain't it? ha ha (Bottom right)


Alerts!!! Alerts!!! Found poison which will rip you off $2+k!!!
Felix with his girlfriend and myself wander into the cupboards and fish tanks! Both of us don't like the sump. Thickness...arrr....a bit argumentative....Hey! We are talking about 5ft here!!!


Other tanks and cabinets of smaller size. These doesn't fit those who are doing serious competition, tear down and rebuilt, iwagumi hobbist. It looks more for the casual hobbist. Seriously, I do agree when you are looking into doing iwagumi, thickness and height should be a factor.


and so! Seaview! Oei? No pictures? Ha ha...okay, firstly there is a no photo taking sign. Secondly all of us are busy ourselves to the aquatic plants and equipments, we forgot to take any pictures except Desmond taking a frontal picture. So do wait for Desmond to upload the pictures.

[Aquanoob]

Hi Guys,
Thank you for making the outing a pleasant trip, as I have not been to a few places that we went to yesterday. The only issue is with the weather as it is killing me as I was sweating non-stop. Hope that the next outing will be in a much cooler month.
Thanks to Desmond and David for organising the outing.
Thanks to Eddy for taking us around in his car and talking about his coming BIG project, which I really want to take a look if he did an open-house.
Like what Desmond said, it is good to know that some fellow hobbists living near me, like Desmond and Michael.
The Iwagumi workshop is also a good one as it makes my hand really itchy to get another tank to do a presentable aquascape. I certainly hope that more hobbists will participate in the 2010 contest as the excuses of being busy and lack of natural resources cannot be stopping us to get a more respectable Top 10 or even Top 5 placing.

[Blue Whale]

>"< wow, I have been hanging the plants I bought from Seaview in the sun. I see pearling effect..ha ha. I haven't plant it yet. After the workshop finishes, I find myself gasping for oxygen due to confine of space. Knock out after I got home for some 6-7hrs or so before I woke up.

The plant is sealed in a plastic bag so I don't think there is much of CO2 inside. Pressure of the bag is still ok.

[reveru]

It was a good trip and nice meeting you guys. Seaview is a really complete LFS. Almost everything can find there. Now i know where to go to hunt for items. Thanks guys for organizing this short but fun trip! Hopefully got a next time... can visit some other LFS when weather not so crazy.

[ADA SG]

Hi Guys,
Thank you for making the outing a pleasant trip, as I have not been to a few places that we went to yesterday. The only issue is with the weather as it is killing me as I was sweating non-stop. Hope that the next outing will be in a much cooler month.
Thanks to Desmond and David for organising the outing.
Thanks to Eddy for taking us around in his car and talking about his coming BIG project, which I really want to take a look if he did an open-house.
Like what Desmond said, it is good to know that some fellow hobbists living near me, like Desmond and Michael.
The Iwagumi workshop is also a good one as it makes my hand really itchy to get another tank to do a presentable aquascape. I certainly hope that more hobbists will participate in the 2010 contest as the excuses of being busy and lack of natural resources cannot be stopping us to get a more respectable Top 10 or even Top 5 placing.

Sorry for posting in this outing thread.
Please consider participating in our local contest, as everyone is a friend to each other and there will a critique session for the tanks, from highly skillful aquascapers that have won prizes in the international contests.

We should not be too focussed on getting the "right" materials before we can develop a layout plan. We do not have natural resources in our country, no river stones, no driftwooods available out there, so are there really no solutions to our lack of materials to scape? Or a lack of idea generally, or perhaps happy to remain status quo?

[felix_fx2]

It was a good trip and nice meeting you guys. Seaview is a really complete LFS. Almost everything can find there. Now i know where to go to hunt for items. Thanks guys for organizing this short but fun trip! Hopefully got a next time... can visit some other LFS when weather not so crazy.

Wait for the next one after AL76's kid is older.
AL76+ddk08+eddy_planner = WHOA! viva frenzy.

The last trip was a cooler one as we visited places more sheltered and had alot of time to explore.

[felix_fx2]

Sorry for posting in this outing thread.
Please consider participating in our local contest, as everyone is a friend to each other and there will a critique session for the tanks, from highly skillful aquascapers that have won prizes in the international contests.

We should not be too focussed on getting the "right" materials before we can develop a layout plan. We do not have natural resources in our country, no river stones, no driftwooods available out there, so are there really no solutions to our lack of materials to scape? Or a lack of idea generally, or perhaps happy to remain status quo?

Thank you guy for showing us basics of arrangement

[ADA SG]

Thank you guy for showing us basics of arrangement

You are most welcome We wanted to bring back what Mr Amano had showed us and share with all interested parties. We strongly feel that the local community is too passive to show their passions. It is time to show to the world what we are capable of, through our layouts

Cheers!

[David Moses Heng]

Hi Guys,
Thanks to Desmond and David for organising the outing.

you are most welcome. I didn't do much. infact i felt bad leaving you guys last minute

Glad that the event turn out fine.

Meanwhile I am in the midst of planning for outing no3.

Do watch out for it.

[David Moses Heng]

We strongly feel that the local community is too passive to show their passions. It is time to show to the world what we are capable of, through our layouts

Cheers!

Ever thought of approaching schools that has got Eco/enviromental clubs?

If we can get schools to do this as elective module, it will surely help. But for this to be considered as elective module, there must be a market demand for it as in career opportunities.

[ADA SG]

Ever thought of approaching schools that has got Eco/enviromental clubs?

If we can get schools to do this as elective module, it will surely help. But for this to be considered as elective module, there must be a market demand for it as in career opportunities.

As the discussion towards this direction might involve many other considerations, we suggest that we can pm you to discuss further.

Thanks

[David Moses Heng]

As the discussion towards this direction might involve many other considerations, we suggest that we can pm you to discuss further.

Thanks

I am free on thursday morning before 11. Afterwhich, I have got workshop at MGS.

[warrenlee]

Hi everyone,

glad to know everyone of you in the outing. You guys all are very friendly and outgoing.

Certainly, I will go for the next outing again.

Regards,
Warren

[David Moses Heng]

Hi everyone,

glad to know everyone of you in the outing. You guys all are very friendly and outgoing.

Certainly, I will go for the next outing again.

Regards,
Warren

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