Why do we love?

We are going on a blind date with...

Nature!?

Yes with mother nature. There we are embarking on our

blind date. A silent one. We are supposed to focus on

nature silently and do our best not to be distracted, but

we all know, its human nature to drift away in our day

dreams.

Mother Nature in Dairy farm!

We had to experience the 'dirty' side of mother nature - Mud

Well at least we enjoyed eating this leave! Because it
tasted like HAM! SERIOUSLY!

But as the saying goes, the grass is much greener on the

other side. In this case, it is true! In the 'jungle' we

experienced how 'unglamorous' the 'jungle' was.

Before our walk in the jungle, one of the facilitator told us to split into 2 groups, the first group are those who loves nature, the other group are those who dislikes nature. I chose to join the group that loves nature, because i always believe in saving the earth as it is our only home. I believe we should do what we can on our part to be environmentally friendly. As soon as we grouped ourselves, the facilitator said, "after the walk, you may or may not like nature anymore, it is alright to change your mind.", after hearing that all of us prepared for the worst, or maybe it was just me. Walking through the 'jungle' was an enriching experience as we were able to see for ourselves what it was like before developments, before Singapore became a concrete 'jungle'. It was also very fascinating to be able to taste a leaf given by our facilitator, that taste like ham! People who live in the jungle would probably be eating those kind of leaf everyday!
After coming out of the 'jungle' we saw this huge quarry, and our facilitator asked, if one day a contractor wants to take this land to build a condominium would you fight for this piece of land? Many of us said yes we would fight to protect and preserve the natural habitat of this dairy farm, as it is beautiful after all.

After the trip to dairy farm we went to the botanical gardens.

We were asked to compare between the botanical gardens and the dairy farm, which was more natural, and which one do we prefer more. For myself i think dairy farm seems more natural as it is what it is, untampered by the hands of men. However, as for the botanical gardens it seems less natural because many of the trees and plants are grown by man and planted at specific places in the garden, therefore it seems less natural but it is still nature after all.

I personally feel that i want more dates with nature, as i'm falling in love with nature more and more.

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