Escape to Muar

For the sake of many of you who didn't go for the Geography field trip to Muar, here are some photos for you to ogle at :

We didn't have a good start. Were stuck in a humongous jam where the coach moved like 2cm every 5 minutes. So what else was there to do but zzzz...



We visited a pineapple farm. But instead of showing you how a pineapple looks like in a farm (which is the same as what a pineapple looks like in the market), how about a different view from the top:



Do the arrangement of the leaves obey the Fibonacci number series? Can some bright sparks find out and let me know?

When city kids go to a rubber plantation, out comes the cameras!



A closer look at the palm oil fruit, which when squeezed, gives you the palm oil, which gives you Palmolive soap, and also forms the base of many types of cooking oil.



Here I'm standing under a durian tree and looking up through its lovely yellow foliage! (No durians found on the tree though, which is just as well. The smell would have driven me away!)




Someone's stealing the coconuts!



Kampung kids having a swell time in the longkang. Our students were going "eeks!" and "yucks!" but hey, at least they had a carefree childhood!



An expert showed us how a gasing is spun. The record, we were told, is a jaw-dropping 1 hr 45 min of spinning. That's the amount of time for you to finish the English Paper 1 exam!



Finally, a picture to remind us that just 3 hours away from Singapore, there is an oasis of tranquility, where time moves a little slowly, and you get to catch your breath, and admire the splendours of nature.