Gardens by the Bay,Singapore -II

The Cloud Forest :

Its smaller than Flower dome , covers 0.8 hectares.It has plants from cool moist conditions found in tropical mountain regions.It has 35 meter tall mountain with tallest indoor waterfall .There is a  'Cloud Walk' where one can walk and see different plants at different height.There is also Silent Garden .

Waterfall

The Mountain

+5 Degree .. A presentation about Global Warming

The Model of Garden by the Bay... 

Silent Garden

Both  conservatories also have of lots of sculptures .

Gardens by the Bay,Singapore -III (The Super Trees)

The Super trees are man made vertical garden.The garden has totally 18 Super trees each measures upto 16 storeys in height.There are 12 Super trees at Super tree groves and six more are placed in group of three in Golden and Silver gardens.

There is  128 meter long OCBC Skywalk which connects two Super trees 25 meter apart.11 of these Super trees are embedded with photovoltaic cells to harvest solar energy.These Super trees are made of four parts : reinforcement concrete core,trunk,planting panels of living skin and canopy.

Gardens by the Bay,Singapore -I

The latest attraction in Singapore landscape is the beautiful park 'Gardens by the Bay'. This garden was constructed on reclaimed land at the heart of the Singapore.The total area is 101hectares.The park consists of 3 waterfront gardens:
1)Bay South Garden
2)Bay East Garden
3)Bay Central Garden

But the main attraction of the park is the two beautiful conservatives:
1)The Flower Dome
2)The Cloud Forest

Due to lack of time we visited the two domes first.The Flower Dome is the larger of the two covering 1.2 hectares.This dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions.It houses the plants from deserts all over the world.The Flower dome consists of 3,332 panels of 42 varying shapes and sizes of spectrally selective glasses.Enter into the world of beautiful plants and flowers.

Dazzling array of flowers and succulent garden comprises of so many beautiful desert plants.Below are some of the photos taken inside the Flower dome:

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Madhubaanakadai(மதுபான கடை )

I really enjoyed watching this movie,this film tops avant-garde movies in recent times. The story unfurls on the eve of Gandhi jayanthi.There is no hero or villain. The bar is the hero and the people drinking there are the realistic heroes.There is no storyline or plot , the characters and environment takes the center stage.

The director Kamalkannan spent two and half months visiting different bars and studying different people visiting there.This study really helped him to portray the characters realistically.Petition money is one such character- he is everywhere and he is nowhere. Apparently the actor who played the Petition Mani role, Rajkumar , is a Tamil poet and had written seven books which were translated into French,English, Malayalam,Hindi,Kannada and some other languages.He is from Nagerkovil.

Petition Mani

Art director Vino Mirdad had recreated the TASMAC setting realistically in a Marriage hall at Pethaampalayam near Perundurai, in fact while shootingg many people enter into it and started asking for drinks.Well done!It seems the team struggled to find the drinks combinations to make the liquor looks perfect at last they settled with Kesari powder mixed with coconut leaves soaked water combination.Music by Vedshankar was good and his re-recording made the bar alive.He is one of the first batch student from A.R Rahman's  music school. Bhaskar's camera works wonders inside the bar specially night sequences.

There are some memorable characters which will remains with me for a long time -Petition Mani with his one liners ,Ramu as old singer with his songs,the educated man who always sits head down and the two guys who dressed up like gods.

The director also highlights the adulteration of alcohol and cleaners/sweepers needs of alcohol for their work. The good thing about the movie is that the director is not teaching that drinking is wrong or evil, he is not teaching anything, he leaves all those things to viewer .And there is also a beautiful story of love,jealousy and friendship.

I remembered these words of Mads Nipper when i watched this movie :

“Children are fantastic little creatures,because next to drunk people, they are the only truly honest people on earth.” 

The witty one-liners  and beautiful performance by the drunkards make this movie a special one.