Mid-Autumn at Lower Seletar Reservoir and the Koel

Our house overlooks the Lower Seletar Reservoir. In fact, it's just 5mins walk to the beautiful lake yet we had never brought Zhirui there.. until.. this year's mid-autumn festival!

It all began when Daddy brought some flyers home. "See Zhirui, these are called mooncakes. They looked delicious don't they?" I said while pointing enthusiastically on the flyers. Then followed the zealous talk about mid-autumn festival, not mentioning how ya tou fell head-over-heels in love with mooncakes. So Zhirui had the idea that mid-autumn festival is about mooncakes and lanterns.

A few days later, Auntie told us about the mid-autumn celebrations at the Lower Seletar Reservoir and urge us to pop over. As days near, we saw the park illuminating with attractive red lanterns and water lanterns. Zhirui was clearly showing intense eagerness to visit the park with her paper lantern. (She's got a fish lantern traditionally made with 'glass' paper from Daddy and a paper helicopter lantern from Auntie.) So, we planned it on the 13th and invited Auntie to join us.

Dragon water lantern that can 'swim'

Illuminated Fountain

We can't forget Mr Moon



Ya tou displaying her photography skills again. Picture took by ya tou.

Recently ya tou expanded her animal vocab to include 'Koel'. It is the bird that calls at dawn and dusk in our quiet neighbourhood. I guess it's habitating at the reservoir park. Ask Zhirui about the Koel bird and she will start rattling away whatever she knows about the bird. haha.. but the fact is she hasn't seen the avian before.

This is a picture i grab off from naturestops.com. It is a male Asian Koel spotted at Singapore Botanic Gardens. Resembling a crow, it is unfortunately not a friend to the former. The Koels are parasites to crows as they lay eggs in crows' nests and get them to rear their young. So are female Koels good or bad mothers?? Well, i shall leave the answer to the baby Koels. :)