Seaview Aquarium 2 Seletar West Farmway 2

Was there with my retiree friend after spotting an ad in The Classifieds of The Straits Times on 2 Oct (Sat) which attracted us to take a super-long 1.5 hour journey from Jurong down to Seletar.

Before attempting to go down, I actually called up Seaview Aquarium and a sweet lady's voice greeted me who directed me to take a SBS Bus 86 opposite Yio Chu Kang Mrt huh, then u see the Sin Flora nursery and you walk about 5mins into our farm. She also assured me its not very far from the nursery that prompted us to make our way there by our Singapore's efficient Sbs bus transport system.

To ensure we have seats on the bus, we took the bus 86 from Ang Mo Kio bus interchange instead. We alighted at the 17th stage Aft The Hiding Pl  (Sbs website stated journey is 6.1km from AMK Interchange) , the travelling time took us around 25 minutes. See pictures below

We toured around the farm for the first time and I  was personally impressed with the huge stocks of tropical fishes and shrimps at very afforable prices of around 60cents/pc. And its even much cheaper to purchase 100pcs at less than 40cents /pc, for example 100pcs Cardinal Tetras at S$35.

However the prices of goldfishes, fish food and equipments have to be improved as its a bit steep. We can get cheaper at a lfs elsewhere. For example, a small Ranchu at Seaview costs around S$5 where i can get one much handsome looking Ranchu at S$2 at C328 and TetraBits Complete fish food costs around $8 here when I can get it for S$6 in C328.

Before leaving and after excitetedly paying for my 50pcs of Malayan Shrimps, we went and checked out the prices of the 4ft custom-made fish tanks with the reception lady - i believe she is the one who gave me the bus directions.

Quite surprisingly, for us to make a 4ft tank, it only costs slightly less than S$350 and some more comes with wrought iron stand and includes S$50 transport. Best of it , it only takes 2 weeks to make one.

My retiree friend finally found a cheaper altenative to make a 4ft low fish tank there after getting Cpf money payout next mth.  We enquired at Qian Hu and they quoted us at least $1000 which we felt its slaughter n cut-throat price...  lol    ;-D.

But alas! We have to take a S$18 taxi at Yio Cho Kang Mrt back to Jurong due to a back pain past injury of his. The taxi journey was a happy smooth one as the cabby was chatting away about his family's trip to Universal Studio in Sentosa and his taxi business.

The cabby also briefed us on current taxi's peak hours charges: Mon to Fri: 7am-930am, Fri-Sat: 5pm to 8pm (no morning peak). For CBDs passengers, add S$3 to go in and F1 race add S$2, on-call add S$3.50. But he mentioned he won't drive in even pay him extra S$8 during F1 season, due to long waiting hrs and congestion around F1 places, he rather hang around in CBD area.


click on pictures below to enlarge

this is the ad that attracted me to make my way to Seaview, no regrets!

the bus stop outside Sin Flora, a nursery near Seaview Aquarium

before you see this nursery , press the bell to stop the bus

you can see this road sign after 1 min walk from the bus stop

a leisure 3 mins stroll into the farm,
do look out for cars dashing by you.

strolling in ... there's no pedestrain walkway, so look out for cars behind

this signal you to turn right after 4 mins walk

the gate of Seaview Aquarium greeting you

finally we reached!
a giant fish tank behind Seaview's reception

impressive community tank

what the fish is this? parrot without the red shirt...  :D

beginning of my journey in front, look further down for prices

the shrimps comes in packet of 50pcs and
for some shrimps ,only the worker can catch for you inside the farm
i bought 50 Malayan since the Yamato are not available at the pt of time

prices of various species for the workers and customers insde the 2nd room

Tiger Air Should be called Kuching Air

What a mornig to wake up and found out tat Tiger Air planes being grounded on 1 Oct 2010.
(See news below).

I didn't expect this sort of incidents to happen in a world class budget airline owned by SQ Singapore Airline. The managment should have named the budget air-> Kuching airline rather than Tiger Air, coz' tigers dun get mcs from what i know they are fast and furious.  Cats only liked to sleep and always tired... meow~

I understand tat many forumers have already complained about frequent flight delays by this budget air and if it still doesn't improve its current standing, i guess they have to pack their bags and go back to their kampongs. 

Jusz 2 days ago, I booked a ticket to Hong Kong for the 13-17 Oct' flight. Was looking foward to the trip but the news slightly dampened my holiday mood today.

Fortunely, already purchased a travel insurance for S$39 (single) from my insr agent, which let me have some peace of mind for the time being.  No "Monkey Minds" yet and no chanting required !   :-D

The plan covers travel cancellation , flight delays, terrorism, kidnap, loss of materials, theft, baggage delay, sickness, helicoptor evacuation, public transport, etc... 
See coverage and premiums in pics at the bottom of this page.

Best of all , the plan covers the places I am going to Macau, Shenzhen & Hong Kong wih jusz one F1 Zone 4 Walkabout race ticket price of S$39. 

Imo, if  you are traveling with your  family nowadaz, its still better to obtain a travel insurance with your personal agent before you fly.

If I were to travel in the past, I wouldn't have cared less about buying any insuracnce. But now things are a bit different as compared to the times when "the policmen still wearing short pants".

Anything can happen in this time of the end, juz look at the joker Twn lady who delayed the whole plane for 10mins and have to be ordred by the Jetstar pilot to get out of his plane and have to be escorted by local police for disruption and safety concerns. See Link Here

Nowadays, you can even see a RSAF helicopter landing near your HDB home Singapore, tat's what I called Premium Service! ;)

I wonder how much we as small-time commuters need to pay for a single flight ticket to Orchard in helicoptor from Woodlands?  :D  Imagine a quick 5 min trip to beat the traffic jams and pushings in MRTs.

Hope my trip will be a smoother one ... not full of happening events.

Looking foward man !

Watch out for any of my HK's pictures and videos clips here.

I will ensure "interesting" coverage...

Alan


~TODAY NEWS~

Tiger flights grounded, thousands stranded

by Lynda Hong Ee Lyn
05:55 AM Oct 02, 2010
 
SINGAPORE - Thousands of passengers were left angry and frustrated on Friday when budget airline Tiger Airways cancelled nearly half its flights out of Singapore, due to technical faults with its aircraft.
 
The cancellations were indicated on the website of the Changi Airport online flight information system. As many as 2,700 passengers are believed to have been affected.

The cancellations affected flights to places like Kuala Lumpur, Chennai and Macau.

The Singapore-based low-cost carrier said two of its Airbus A320 aircraft had experienced technical issues over the past few weeks, and were grounded for extended checks and maintenance.
The carrier says this caused significant disruption to its flight programme, which resulted in the rescheduling and cancellation of flights.

Still, passengers said they could have been informed earlier via mobile phone or email.
Many of them arrived three hours before the flight at the airport on Friday, only to learn that the flights had been cancelled at the last minute. TODAY News Article


TRAVEL INSURANCE PLAN COVERGE

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