Monthly Walk – Experience Buangkok2Sengkang! Sat, 8 June 2013

Post on behalf of VeronicaW & MaryT….

Please note:
From March 2013, monthly walks will be an EC event till further notice.
You are allowed to bring your adult friends who are non-SHC members (please get them to join SHC club, too)

Please observe SHC Rule –
Names & pictures of non-members are not to be shown or mentioned in SilverHairsClub.com!!

ECs for this walk: Veronica Wong and Mary Tan
Date: Saturday, 8 June 2013
Start Time: 4.30pm SHARP
Duration of walk: approx 2hrs
Meeting Place: Buangkok MRT, Exit B nearby Passenger Control Station

This walk route is relatively flat terrains.  Our route will take us past the Kampong Buangkok the last kampong in Singapore.

Mid-way we will come to the Sengkang Riverside Park.  Fruit trees of various types (such as starfruits, bananas, pineapple plants, lychee, mango, pomelo) were planted in the park.  Perhaps, we could catch a glimpse of the Fruit of the Month.

Look out for Singapore’s largest man-made wetland, Sengkang Floating Island.  Our walk ends at the Sengkang Sports Complex.

Walk Team ECs: Christina CL Chan, Joyce Tan, Charles Wee, Veronica Wong, Jeffrey Lim, Mary Tan, Alice Seah, Lydia Soh, Serene Low.

Those Coming :

1.  Mary Tan
2.  Veronica Wong
3.  ChristinaCL Chan
4.  Barbara Lim
5.  Judy Lim
6.  Ann Lim
7.  Jassmine Teo
8.  Erik Teo
9. Tan Chui Keng
10. Seok Cheng
11. Ronald Lee
12. Lee Peng Peng
13. Hew Lee
14. Zawiyah Ibrahim
15. David Pittey
16. David Low
17. Julian Mok
18. Danny Lye
19. Winnie Lim
20. Theresa Seow
21. Lee Ah Nee
22. Vincent Lim
23. Shirley Tan
24. Eddy Lee
25. Margaret Chua
26. Irene Poh
27. HelenK
28. AndrewK
29. David Low
30. Richard Lean
31. Kristine Leong
32. Esther Mok
33. LawrenceK

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Author: ChristinA Chan (Walking group leader)

Interests: Health related and socials.

28 thoughts on “Monthly Walk – Experience Buangkok2Sengkang! Sat, 8 June 2013”

  7. Hi, the WALK Team…….

    As stated on the post, the walk ends at the Sengkang Sports Complex. From there, how to go back huh?

    Ah Nee

  9. Dear All,

    MaryT still unable to login, so I will put up your names soooooooon! Thanks!

    Ah Nee,
    we will take the LRT to Sengkang MRT where there are more food
    choices :D
    so, are you coming?

    Cheerio!
    Christina

  15. ECs Veronica Wong and Mary Tan,

    Please include me in this Walk as I have missed the last few Walks due to other activities. Looking forward to seeing all of you again. Thanks.

    Rgds,
    Danny Lye

  16. Hi Christina, Veronica and Mary,

    Would join the walk if the weather is fine.
    Appreciate your efforts in organizing this activity.

    Thanks,
    Winnie

  17. Dear walkists,

    Thanks for registering for the walk.
    See you tomorrow!

    Cheers to a healthy activity!
    ChristinaCL Chan

  20. Hi ECs,

    Please include Shirley for the walk. Tentatively, I will be there if I can finish some urgent personal matters in time. Thank you.

  21. Hi ECs,

    Nice to know where to go
    Buangkok to Punggol is the show
    We walk, chit chat our SHCian spirits aglow
    Count me in and my wife, Margaret Chua

    Thank you and see you all!
    Eddy Lee/Margaret Chua

  23. Hi Christina, Veronica & Mary,

    My friend, Amy & I, tentatively will join the walk,
    if we are able to make it on time.
    Thank so much for organising.

    Olivia

  27. I arrived at Buangkok MRT around 3:45pm… gosh it was raining heavily… oops! perhaps some will not be coming I thought.

    Thanks to all (includes a few new members)who came :D :D

    We waited 10mins as some has not arrived we assumed delayed by the rain. We started shortly after 4.40pm, the rain has STOPPED! HE has been most kind! Thank YOU for the good weather, cool breeze, keeping the sun behind the clouds peeping occasionally …. “holding the rain” as Julian commented, throughout the walk!
    As we reached the stadium, we hear thunder! We speed walk to the nearby LRT …..just in time as it started raining when we head off to Sengkang for our dinner and home.

    Look forward seeing you again in our next walks!

    Thanks!
    ChristinaCL Chan

  28. A personal experience:

    A chatter rose suddenly at quiet Buangkok MRT
    As a score or more of old friends reconnected happily.
    The walk commenced; the chatter continued;
    The walkers looked cursorily at the skyscraper view.

    “Wrong way!” someone said from the back.
    The first became last as the human line backtracked!
    Unfamiliar to many, the walk route ahead lay,
    The sun shone brightly; the rain kept away.

    “Turn left” someone said suddenly.
    Into a small, no name road, the walkers turned obediently.
    The kampong unexpectedly emerged;
    A short distance away from the road verge.

    Hidden by vegetation,wild and cultivated, partially,
    We could not see into the kampong properly.
    Only a few simple zinc-roofed houses, we saw
    With ramshackle sheds in-between – nothing more.

    And now the path we trod on was well paved and pleasing,
    Running beside a wide, yellow river that needed cleansing!

    Two beautiful, fruiting trees came into sight
    And eyes and hands examined the fruit with delight!
    “A flower!” gasped a voice. “Take photo, photographer.”
    “Where?….so ugly!” and he refused to snap a picture!

    Grey clouds and darkness seemed to blend
    As we, at last, reached the Sengkang wetland.
    The bridge over the wetland loomed;
    Red flowering cannas lowly bloomed.

    And in the middle – a gigantic purple mangosteen !
    Why a mangosteen so huge? What did it mean?

    Suddenly the darkening sky flashed lightning.
    And quickly the walkers started leaving,
    And hurriedly they to the LRT station strode,
    And there ended the two- hour walking episode. :)
    ****
    Thank you, ECs, for the walking experience. :)

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