what the majority think may not be always right

in her email to the people in the walking group, seck yeong mentioned the 'visitors centre' at botanic gardens as the meeting point. most of us had assumed that the visitors centre was the one nearer to tanglin gate, near the taman serasi food centre.

as it turned out, we learnt that the official visitors centre is the one located in the central core of the gardens, nearer to the symphony pond. jennifer was the only one who went to the 'right' place but she had to make her way to meet the rest who had gathered at the mistaken place.

albert, nah and i parked our cars at the free car-park near the royal tanglin golf course and walked the 200m to the assumed meeting point. ron sim - who has always been busy and away on business trips - joined the walk for the first time. also with us for the first time was chung hoi's husband. so, today, we had ten walkers.

sometimes when you have a new member, you learn new things. today, ron introduced us to the rainforest trail located with the botanic gardens. there is a write-up about the trail here.

as usual, the highlight of our walk was the makan session at taman serasi food court. we walked for about an hour and ate and talked for about two hours. much of the talk centred around the present teaching scene.

this is the balestier group's second time at botanic gardens.