I'm True Blue™: Trip to Marina Barrage

Went to Marina Barrage today. Omg, it's so damn cool and i tell you, it's definitly a must go place. Why do i say so? Explaining it out would be a little hard to convince you. I manage to snap some pictures with my phone. Let the pictures say the words.

The first place we went to was called the

Sustainable Singapore Gallary

Theres more to come inside! Basically, it is made up of different parts of gallery. We call it gallery 1, gallery 2...... i think there's 5 or 6 in total. Sry can't remember.

These are the things that you can find in Gallery 1.

Yea this picture looks like a tree isn't it. It's called the organic tree. There's not just one colour to it. There are 3 colours which are Red, Blue and Green. Hmmm the tour guide said that red meant challenges like haze etc.etc. Blue meant the environment. Sry but i can't remember the meaning for the colour green. Oops.

Does this look like you are in space? There are actually words written inside. One very cool thing i thought was that there was a picture of a mountain inside. Then when the moment i move to the other side, the image was gone. When i moved back, it image was back right where it was.

Ah this. What does it look to you? Holes? Nah, they are bottles! Can you imagine how much bottles there are all together in there? Well, maybe if you have time, why not consider counting them out.

Newspapers! HUH? yeah, thats a lot a lot of newspapers in there. They've all turned yellow. It's amazing to see how waste can be used.

Nothing much but just some introduction about Singapore's reservoirs from 1970 to err not sure.

Gallery 2

This is the part where we learnt more about rivers. Nothing much

Gallery 3
About the nature?

A model of Marina Barrage

Omgosh. I can't remember which is which. As in the galleries. Argg i'll just not name the gallery and continue.

This thingy here is cool. It looks like a hop-skotch? This is something i've never seen before. When you step on it and then move your feet away from it, you can actually see this browish white thing. This is meant to make you feel as if you are in the water

I love this. See those orangy stuffs there and the word "Sea"? This is actually a mini size Marina Barrage. The guide explained to us how it works. Actually oppositie the "sea" is the "reservoir". Hmm i'll just briefly explain how it works. I don't think i can remember that much though.

So first, when it rains, the reservoir will 'collect' the water. When the water reaches a certain amount, the orange thing will be activated. (Sry i forgot the name of the thing) It's like a coast guard. When it is activated, the water will flow to the other side, which is the 'sea'. Actually i also not sure why must be release to the sea. I heard it is to make fresh water through the process called desalination which is the removal of salt from sea.

Second scenario, whereby if the sea water reaches a very very high height, the water will flow into this section here. (zz sry, again, can't remember what this is called)

So you could see how the water flows in.

These are the 9 facts about Marina Barrage. Oh yes and the guide did told us why the barrage is of a shape of the number 9. Translate 9 into chinese. Which also means chang chang jiu jiu. Kinda like Long live.