Garden By The Bay Excursion

Our company being so called ‘GENEROUS’ contributed a sum of money to Garden by The Bay for their Audio Equipment. This equipment is mainly for tourists as a guide during their tour in the premises… guiding them to know the plants better.


With this contribution, my colleague HL organized an outing for the company to visit the garden. When we arrived in the morning, we were led to the function area for the opening speech of our GM and presentation of the cheque of SD85,000/-.

After which, we were divided into groups of the departments and there was a ‘tour guide’ attached to each group so that she can explain and tell us more of the plants during the tour. Sad to say that the equipment we were using for our group did not work too well and at times, we could hardly hear her. (Thank goodness it was the equipment that we sponsored!)

She brought us to the Cloud Forest as our first venue of visit and though I had been there before but there was no briefing of the plants they have there. With the guide around, I somehow found the place more interesting and got to know more plants during the tour.

In the Cloud Forest, it’s pretty misty and I would say that I got to see and know different types of ferns existing. The crystals area was somewhat interesting with some explanation done and though some are not exactly real but they certainly gave us an idea how the real ones looked like.

At the Flower Dome, it was a different feeling of course; it was more refreshing as there were lots of flowers around. We went to check out the cactus and it was indeed an eye opener to know that there are so many types of cactus rather than the usual ones we see on TV. She also showed us a particular tree that was about 100 years old and was flew in from Brazil. Pretty cool stuff.

Half way through the tour, our little one got bored but we managed to let her hang out with Kate. She seemed to enjoy her company and held her hands to walk around. It was really nice to see them hanging out happily together.

After the tour in the Flower Dome, we went back to the function area for our lunch. We did not stay for lunch as our little one was getting tired and we thought it was a good idea to leave before she gets cranky…

It was an enjoyable 3 hours of tour at the garden despite the scorching hot weather! Thanks HL for the smooth arrangements.