{"id":15970,"date":"2012-02-11T19:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T11:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=15970"},"modified":"2017-02-25T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:47:08","slug":"punggol-waterway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/02\/11\/punggol-waterway\/","title":{"rendered":"Punggol Waterway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Punggol Waterway is a pretty easy spot to find for us, since we\u2019ve driven past it before when on our way to Hannah\u2019s nursery school. The place was officially opened on 23 Oct last\u00a0 year, and features a roughly 4 km walkway on both sides of the man-made waterway. We checked out the place after dinner and just now at about early evening, so the colors look just a mite washed-out.<\/p>\n<p>The lenses that came for the trip was the new Sigma 70-200mm f2.8 (first four pictures in this post), and 50mm f1.8 (the last picture). I wasn\u2019t the only visitor totting around a DSLR for sure. Counted at least half a dozen other photographers carrying DSLRs equipped with something other than kit lenses.=)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5589-punggol-my-waterway-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5589-punggol-my-waterway-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5589-punggol-my-waterway-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the several bridges linking both sides of the waterway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5590-punggol-my-waterway-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5590-punggol-my-waterway-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5590-punggol-my-waterway-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Took a couple of short videos too. Hannah&#8217;s always interested in watching herself on video, and will ask us to rotate the viewfinder just for her look-see.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5593-punggol-my-waterway-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5593-punggol-my-waterway-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5593-punggol-my-waterway-flickr\" width=\"325\" height=\"488\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street pilferer in the making.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5644-punggol-my-waterway-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5644-punggol-my-waterway-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5644-punggol-my-waterway-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posing.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5687-punggol-my-waterway-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5687-punggol-my-waterway-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5687-punggol-my-waterway-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Took turns to piggy-back her.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Judging from the pictures taken by other visitors in better light, I imagine we\u2019ll come by here again soon in perhaps mid-morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punggol Waterway is a pretty easy spot to find for us, since we\u2019ve driven past it before when on our way to Hannah\u2019s nursery school. 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