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Descriptive Essay: Ride The Wacky Duck !

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It is without doubt, the strangest looking vehicle I've ever boarded. The smiling face of a duck, with an upturned orange-red beak and eyes fringed with lashes stares at me over the front of what looks like a brightly painted boat and yet, this contraption has enormous wheels. A red awning serves as a roof and splashed across it is the phrase, 'Ride the wacky duck!' There are no windows, just metal bars on either side. To get in, you'll need to climb up a flight of steel steps, just as you'd board an aeroplane.

It is a typical summer's afternoon in balmy,tropical Singapore. Weighed down by shopping bags strung onto a sturdy stroller (that was more spaceship than pram) and with two kids in tow (then thirteen and three years old), I am at the entrance of Tower 5 at the sprawling Sun Tech City Mall. I fish out our tickets from my voluminous purse and stare at it rather doubtfully. 'Is this the Duck Boat?' I ask in disbelief. 'Oh yes, all aboard but only after you've viewed the safety video!' yells the cheery guide, waving us back in the direction of the mall. He's dressed casually in jeans and a black T-shirt, but somehow gives the impression that he's readying for a safari while simulataneously playing host at a dinner party.

A ten minute safety video explains the basics to riding …show more content…

Flanked by steps and bordered by sensational skyscrapers is a statue of a breathtakingly beautiful white merlion, a mythical creature that's part lion, part fis Constructed in 1972, when Singapore was little more than a fishing village, it lent the city-state its name since Singapura means 'Lion city'. Weighing a whopping 70 tonnes, the statue is made of cement covered with delicate white procelain. A clear steady stream of water pours out of its parted jaws. The 2500 sq ft area behind it is called Merlion Park. Here are some of the island nation's most impressive skyscrapers and heritage

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