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My family and I went to MacRitchie Reservoir this afternoon as we wanted to try out the walk at the HSBC TreeTop.

We reached there at the Venus Drive open car park at around 4:15pm and we were told that the gate would be locked by 5:00pm. So, we hurried ourselves so that we could be in time for the TreeTop visit.

Fortunately, we managed to reach the TreeTop two minutes before the Ranger locked the gate. Lucky Boy! Phews….

MacRitchie TreeTop Walk – Pic1 :

This is a free-standing suspension bridge that connects the two highest points (Bukit Peirce and Bukit Kalang) in MacRitchie and offers a bird’s eye view of the community of plants and animals that live in the forest canopy.

MacRitchie TreeTop Walk – Pic2 :

The total length of the walkway is about 250m and its height from the forest floor varies, with the highest point at 25m. The walkway only allows for one-direction traffic. The entrance to the bridge is from Ranger Station via Peirce track.

We saw many monkeys hanging on the poles as well as along the roadside.

MacRitchie TreeTop Walk – Monkeys :

I snapped a picture of this tree that doesn’t have any leaf.

MacRitchie TreeTop Walk – Leafless Tree :

Although the weather was not too hot today, we still perspired profusely after walking for close to 3 hours at the MacRitchie Reservoir.

Anyway, it was indeed a fun walk hunting for the MacRitchie TreeTop today.

I received a phone call from my friend after 6 o’clock this evening to ask me whether I would like to join her for a walking exercise. 

Although I felt that it was quite a rush to go for a walk after work, I made a swift decision and told her that I will be joining her after 8pm.

As the petrol was running low, I drove my car to the nearby petrol kiosk to fill up the petrol tank. Then, I bought a couple of Delifrance chicken pies at the counter. 

I went home to take a shower and then a light dinner as I was running short of time. I did everything pretty quickly and I was set to go for an evening walking exercise.

I met my friend at the national park and we started our walk after 8pm this evening. As expected, there were not many people at the national park as compared with doing the walking exercise in the morning.

I find it nice and cooling to walk in the evening so I won’t have to worry about getting sun-tanned. It is indeed a very relaxing and cooling walk in the evening after a hard day on the work.

My friend and I have resumed our Friday walking exercise this morning after resting for a week. I’m not sure how much weight I have put on for not doing any exercise last week 😛

Well, it is time to burn away some fat and reduce the calories because my pants are getting tighter than before. In fact, this is a good indicator to tell myself that I have to do more exercises so as to keep fit. After all, it is always good to keep fit rather than to keep fat 🙂

We walked to the Changi Village and took our breakfast first before moving on with our walking exercise. I think it is very important to take some food in the morning so as to give our body energy before doing any strenuous exercise.

Otherwise, we might not have enough strength to walk further and make ourselves tire easily. Furthermore, I need to have a sip of coffee or any sweet drink to keep myself alert if not awake especially in the morning. If not, I will have headache starting from noon time to night time.

After having Wanton noodle as our breakfast, we walked to the nearby Changi Village Hotel to pay a visit to their washroom as well as to explore what the restaurants have to offer for buffet meals. We might come back next time to try their food there if we have a chance.

Then, we carried on with our walking exercise and took those routes that we used to walk through again. After walking for quite a while, I think it was quite taxing to walk under the hot sun. Needless to say, both of us perspired profusely and we had to drink more water so as not to get dehydrated.

We timed ourselves and estimated that we have had walked more than 13 km in today’s walking exercise at Changi Village. Wow, I think the result is quite good and hopefully it has burnt away enough fat for our effort in walking the extra miles for today.

I just read an article on medical health tips and one of the chapters that interests me most is on walking exercise. It says that walking for 30 minutes, 3 or 4 times a week is enough to combat aging.

Wow, I think this is a good news for those people who loves to walk a lot. My usual walking friend definitely likes to hear it 🙂

Here is an excerpt of the article :

According to researchers at the University of California, one of the principle causes of deterioration of the human organism’s physical faculties is its diminished ability to metabolize glucose.

And they showed that even leisurely exercise, like taking a walk, plays an important role in keeping glucose metabolism functioning smoothly.

Well, most of the working people are cubicle-dwellers who spend the whole day sitting at the desk or in front of a computer screen inside the office. They spend most of their time exercising their fingers and hardly have the time to walk about much.

The right thing to do is to get up occasionally and do a few minutes of physical exercise so as to relax or to de-stress themselves. It helps to freshen up their mind and loosen up their muscles before they carry on with their routine works.

Furthermore, walking exercise helps to combat aging besides helping you to stay slim. So, the advice is to find time doing some walking exercise per week if you wish to stay young and healthy.

Today is the second Friday the 13th of 2009, I went for walking exercise with my two friends at the national park. One of my friends was retrenched recently so she got the time to join us for a walk on my rest day.

I drove to the nearest MRT station to pick her up at around 7:30am and then headed to the national park to meet my usual walking friend. 

When we reached the national park, we were surprised to see a big crowd of people was gathering at the field. Then, we realised that it was a cross-country day of a secondary school. 

Each student was tagged with a 4-digit number on their T-shirt. The colour of the number tag was black fonts with orange background for the girls. Whereas, the colour of the number tag was black fonts with green background for the boys. 

We also saw many small kids below the age of 7 were playing at the playground in the afternoon. Coincidently, today is their outing day with the guidance of their nursery teachers. 

So, we saw many small children and big children everywhere today. Probably, my friends and I had chosen a wrong day to come to the national park for our walking exercise as it was too crowded to make a relaxing walk.

I didn’t update my Blog post yesterday as I was too sleepy and my mind was too tired to organise my thoughts. I think it is always difficult to write something when your head is nodding in front of the computer as you are agreeable to go to your dreamland 🙂

I was so tired because I  was staying up late at night recently. I only had had a 3-hour sleep before waking up on Friday morning. 

As Friday is my rest day, I usually stay at home to read books, surf net, write Blog posts, practise on graphic design, go out with friends, go for shopping with my sister and so on.

My friend told me that she was planning to resume her walking exercise on Friday so I joined her yesterday for a walk at the national park. She reminded me to bring along a bottle of water, a cap and maybe an umbrella as it rains quite often recently.

The reason for bringing a cap is because my face turned so red when I was walking with her under the hot sun near Changi beach two weeks ago. 

My two chubby nephews were mistaken that I was angry with them when I was fetching them after their swimming lesson on that same evening. They saw my face was so red and thought that I was angry as they were coming out late from the swimming pool that night. So funny 🙂

Yesterday, my friend and I went to the Pasir Ris park and started our walking exercise on the walking path. We saw big ships were parking at the bay for people to board them and buy goods inside.

Then, we walked to the swarm and saw many small crabs coming out from the sands. It was indeed an interesting sight. 

We talked and joked as we were walking. It took us about 2.5 hours to make an 11km walk at the national park. It was really very relaxing to go for a walk on a rest day. What an enjoyable walking exercise at the national park with a good friend!