Sentosa outing with NPC support group

Saturday, 13 March 2010 - 3 of us from TRC joined the NPC (nasal pharyngeal cancer) support group on one of their fringe activities. The theme for their fringe activities is 'exercise, eat right and be happy' and this time it's a nature walk in Sentosa.

Having not been to Sentosa for a long time, I was surprised to note the many new developments and changes that have taken place. The flora was evident and plentiful but unfortunately, the fauna was missing, the free-roaming ones, that is.

We took the monorial from Vivocity at Harbourfront. A return ticket costs S$3.00 and we could either get the one-time return ticket from the station counter or use our transitlink card.

The monorial consists of 2 carriages and each has limited seats. One of the bench-like seats in our carriage was occupied by several young and healthy-looking men (very likely from China). We, a group of middle-aged and mostly greying-haired people, were left standing around them. They were looking at us chattering and laughing away but none bothered to offer a seat. Courtesy is dead. Not surprisingly, they got off at the very first stop, which is the Resorts World. I wonder why young men like them cannot stand even for a few minutes and every seat they come to, they have to grace it with their bums. Fortunately, that incident did not dampen the liveliness of the group. We certainly do know how to enjoy ourselves.

We alighted at the Imbiah Station and wandered and walked, up on the elevated boardwalk, through the nature walk, past the waterfalls and on the sandy beach of Siloso, and all the way to Palawan Beach where we lunched at Samundra Restaurant. This restaurant served North Indian Food. The owner of the restaurant is Mr Wong Chak Wai who is also an NPC member. After a sumptuous meal, he showed us how to make yoghurt using organic milk and we went home with a box of yoghurt each.

It was indeed time gainfully spent and we made new friends and learnt a lot from the NPC members, who is a very active support group.

The monorial

Merlion

Flora providing delightful colours along the way.

Luge - part go-cart, part toboggon

The 'Tiger Sky Tower', Singapore's tallest observatory tower.

The elevated boardwalk, forming part of the nature walk.

Imbiah Falls

Part of the nature walk

Siloso Beach

Learn how to surf from here

My lunch - chicken curry on naan.

Interior of Samundra Restaurant - nice ambience.

From the Beach Station