Uniquely SG-3 : Singapore Flyer – Royal Selangor Pewter

Afterwards, it was a trip to Singapore Flyer. For those who has not been here, the Singapore Flyer is the world’s largest Giant Observation Wheel at a height of 165m overlooking Singapore’s Marina Bay and capturing glimpes of Malaysia and Indonesia. Each capsule can hold up to 28 visitors and a rotation takes about 30 minutes. Singapore Flyer was conceived and designed by Dr. Kisho Kurokawa and DP Architects, Singapore. It held its groundbreaking ceremony in September 2005 and was launched in 2008.

As Serge had been in the Singapore Flyer, this visit wasn’t at the top of his visiting list. Nevertheless, seeing Singapore in the late evening was a rather nostalgic feeling as he knew that in just a few hours, he’ll be leaving the city-island back to Malaysia. When we arrived at SG Flyer, we were greeted by one of the staff who brought us press release kits for us to use and to read. As he read the kit, he is amazed by the fact that the Singapore Flyer stands on 33,700m2 or 363,000 ft2 – an area that will fit 172 tennis courts or 1,120 parking lots. A typical parking lot is 30m2.

Like any typical visitors, the bloggers here started to camwhore and took pictures of the very lovely scenery. Half an hour gone, we left and headed of to the Royal Selangor located at Clark Quay. The Royal Selangor is a name synomynous with epic pewter product and we were given the opportunity to watch the pewter makers carve and make fabulous pewter. Did you know that pewter is a malleable metal alloy, traditionally between 85 and 99 percent tin, with the remainder consisting of copper, antimony, bismuth and lead.

After viewing some pewter making, we were given the opportunity to make our own pewter bowls. At the workshop, a round flat pewter disc was given and we were then asked to knock any words we wanted on it with specially made metal sticks that had letters at the end of it. Once that was done, we hammered and hammered and hammered until it curved into a bowl. It was a tiring experience just to just one, imagine trying to do a lot and to maintain consistency.

With all the knocking and banging done, we kept the pewter and the apron that was given and was given a certificate for our participation. After this, we had some free and easy time to explore Clark Quay and Serge will talk about it in his next post.

Singapore Flyer Flickr Set
Royal Selangor Flickr Set