Ethics and religion

There is a philosophical page which says "Religion does not always correlate with ethics". It illustrates that people become good and evil regardless whether they are religious or not. I beg to differ.

Most religion teaches you to be good. If you do evil after knowing what is good then you defiled it purposely.  It is not the fault of the religion.

Those who do bad without religion simply does not care what is good or bad thus does not even have ethics.

Ethics (moral philosophy) is not equal to religion. Religion does guide people to have good ethics (but not all religion does so). Ethics is a practice to know what is good and what is evil. It does not tell you what you should do after learning it. Religion does.

Thus religion is a higher order of ethics which teaches you to do good instead of evil. I would say "religion correlates with good ethics". Don't bad mouth it if you choose not to follow the good teachings.

Pandan Reservoir

Pandan Reservoir is situated in Jurong area sandwiched between Buloh Road and West Coast Road. The nearest MRT access is Jurong East MRT.  This trip is by far the quickest for the same distance as the two Kilometer from the MRT to the reservoir is on foot path. There is not much plants to take note of except those that are in the gardens of private estates and commercial buildings.

The reservoir path is slightly more than 6 KM. It is devoid of facilities except a canoe club and two short floating bridge on the north side of the reservoir.

It is also lacking in variety of plants available. All I get is plenty of Morning glory, Common Asystasia, Mimosa plus some other weeds. There is not even a shrub available on the whole stretch of path ways not to mention any trees. This path way is raised about 3 meters above ground level. The water in the reservoir is actually higher than the surrounding by at least 2 meters. Trees were planted below the walkway and quite far away from it.

It is so open that at 8.30 am, the sun is unbearably hot after walking for a quarter of an hour. I end up doing a brisk walk instead. Mid way along the reservoir path I extended my hiking stick to help propel myself a bit rather than let it hang as a dead weight.

Only after I exited from the reservoir then I retracted my hiking in its storage position. While doing this, a cyclist coming from behind me was caught by the stick's handle. He almost fell because I was holding the stick tightly with two hand to release the locking system.

The trip ended back at the Jurong East MRT (actually at Jcube).

There were very little people using the path at the time I was there. Partially due to the fact that half of the path is next to industrial buildings. The other quarter of the path is next to the Pandan River. Only one quarter is housing board buildings. Moreover, this place is 2 KM from the nearest MRT not a convenient meeting place to go.

There is only one picture worthy of showing. The two plants that I took pictures of  is listed just for fun. One thing is that the Common Asystasia picture is very clear.

You can see the recorded route here at WikiLoc.

Please don't look at the bing map. It is showing that I walked across water at the western end of the reservoir. The Pandan river is broken into two. One short one near the coast and the other end actually joins to Pandan Reservoir. This map is probably WW2 map. The pandan reservoir exists decades ago. I am surprised that it has a location tag of the place that has over 9000 "likes".

Sengkang Riverside Park

Sengkang Riverside Park is situated near Punggol. It is a relatively new park which is split into two by a river. It does not have much facility in the park and is mostly used for walking or jogging.

This walk starts from Farmway LRT. Within a short distance, the park is reached.

This is probably the only prominent human made structure here that can be viewed far away.

The eastern part of the park is quite empty. Except for the newly planted trees, there is practically nothing there. Luckily, I am looking for trees and plants. Thus, it is still quite interesting to look around.

The very first tree I met is one of those I could not find the name.

The next plant I found is actually not from the park. It is found growing over the fence of a nearby construction site. This Butterfly Pea is a very small flower.

The next tree is Brownea capitella. The purplish thing is not a flower. It is also a leaf.

Kayu Matahari is one tree whose name I am not very sure.

Thus far, the trees are pretty small. Some has already grown more than twice my height. Unfortunately, my Android camera cannot zoom in to take the picture.

The next few trees are probably originally grown there. This Peacock Flower tree looks very nice.

Sea Hibiscus is a curious flower tree. It's flower is yellow yet there is another reddish one on the same tree. I really not sure if the reddish one is a flower.

The Oleander is a beautiful pink flower. It is found behind the Senkang Sports Centre on the PCN.

This Flying Goldfish Plant is also found nearby.

The Putat Laut is a very tall tree. Luckily the foliage is low enough to take picture with.

There is a bridge linking the eastern half of the park to the western part. There are plants with flower grown on the middle island but is not accessible.

You can find papyrus plants along the other half of the bridge. This one is Papyrus Sedge.

This is one plant that has a name tag. Its name is found on the name tag. Unfortunately, the name plate is not made to last. It has already worn out quite badly.

After the bridge, I cam across a lonely oil palm tree.

This Palmyra Palm is also standing alone.

The Putat Kampung tree is already bearing fruit. Its flower can still be seen on the ground.


We normally eats banana but never expect some specie being used as decorative tree. This Bronze Banana is very small. It is currently shorter than two meters.

Musa Onata Purple is from the same family as the banana tree. It is also ornamental. You can see some tiny banana below the flower.

Bunga Lidah Kucing looks like a trumpet flower unless you get a closer look.

This part of the park is again divided into two by a road. The crossing is near the river.

You can find a Carambola plant growing after you have crossed over to the other side of the park.

There is a lake at this side of the park. Unfortunately, there is no access to the lake. Took a panoramic view of the lake on the far side of the park earlier.

The route leads back to the path connecting to the previous part of the park. En-route, I found this tiny flower whose name I have not found.

While across the road, I took a picture of the Mushroom restaurant there.

This Duranta plumiera is a small shrub.

The outer part of the park on this side is quite barren except this palm lined section. There are shrubs in between the palms.

Since there isn't much to see here, and the return trip is similar to the entrance route, there is no more picture taking. The route ends at Farmway LRT.

You can find the route with waypoints as plants here at WikiLoc. (click on the word to go to the site).