ITCOW 360

It’s that kind of feeling, you know it’s in you but it doesn’t strike you till you visit that place and all those feeling comes sprouting out of you. You know you’ve been here before but it’s like 20 years ago when you were a kid. Upper Seletar Reservoir is one of those places for me.

“”Upper Seletar Reservior, Singapore’s thired impounding reservoir, was built to cater for the surge in water demand after World World I. Completed in 1940, it was damanaged during Japanese air raids in 1941 but was subsequently repaired. In 1969, the capacity of the reservoir was enlarged by over 35 times. It was officially opened on 10 Auguest 1969 by Princess Alexandra when she represented Queen Elizabeth II during the 150th anniversary celebrations of Singapore’s establishment as a British trading post. In 1981, the capacity of the reservoir was increaed by another 13 per cent. Originnaly known as Seletar Reservoir, the reservoir was renamed Upper Seletar Reservoir after the construction of the Lower Seletar Reservoir in 1986.”"

18 National Day Parades
Opened July 1973
Seating Capacity 55,416
Parking capacity for 4278 cars, 110 motorcycles, 4 handicapped lots and 69 lorries

Walked all the way from Bugis to take this after seeing Bugis has this building going on for a tent for something that’s going to happen maybe for the coming weekend…

I wanted to explore how small space can I have and still take a successful 360 Pano. Here’s my small room and the house’s toilet. Any smaller, I may have to try a Point and Shoot camera with mirrors or something…

The newly Mega of Megastores. Under ERS’s Warehouse Retails Scheme, the 3 companies, Giant, Ikano (which operates IKEA) and Giant (The supermarket well, giant owned by Hong Kong’s Dairy Farm Group ) have their retails and warehousing consolidated here.

Fun Facts I gathered…

Courts Megastore - 280,000 sq ft including 116,000 sq ft is solely dedicated to retail.
- In Singapore Since 1974 and has 10 stores.
- Opened on 13 Dec 2006
- Cost 80 million SGD
- http://www.courts.com.sg

IKEA - 387,500 sq ft
- In Singapore Since 1978 and has 2 stores.
- 40,000 visitors on opening day, 20,000 on avege day and 22,000 visitors to IKEA Alexandra (the great tasting meat balls and chicken wings must have a part of the reason why!)
- Opened 30 Nov 2006
- Cost 125 million SGD
- http://www.ikea.com.sg/

Giant - 139,000 sq ft
- Opened on 14 March 2007
- Has 62,000 products! Comparision, Vivocity’s branch has 55,000.
- Car park space of 740, free of charge
- www.dairyfarmgroup.com

My Block repainted with new color scheme. At night…

First pano taken using my Sigma 18 - 200 @ 18mm throughout. More photos needed but it works. Same settings with the Nodal Ninja 3. No need to change anything on the rails at all, that’s ower Rail 41 and Upper Rails 93, in case you’re interested.

If the weather is good tomorrow, a 360 pano I have been thinking of…heheh