Time

A couple of months back found this place that's near to where I'm staying.
In order to finish off the remainder of the roll of bnw that's stuck with me for so long, below pics would be the result. Quaint little neighbourhood really, but not one special enuf that one could notice anything worth their time to take a little walk through these parts. Seriously I also didn't know what I was doing. Dun think I'm suppose to be snooping around these parts. After all, I suppose this area of land does not belong to Singapore. Yes, it's me. I do these sorta things all the time and sometimes I do wonder till how old when I finally stop all these nonsense. The same imprudence that kept my soul alive.
Just like any other neighbourhood..... back in the 90s that is. Time stood still here in this small piece of land. Just 2 blocks of flats. 8 storeys high. Place reeks nostalgia. Quite literally. The stench of rubbish, rats running everywhere, in other words, the good ol' days when I was living at C'wealth Cres.

Most of the units were already vacated. Some filled with old furniture and rubbish from the former occupants. The population I assume are all or predominantly Malays since this should be a domitory for *TM workers. All the kids playing on the grass patch outside were also Malay. I was the only "alien" walking around.
Children playing outside.....that's some sight you haven seen in a while. Perhaps they don't have PSPs and internet to keep them pinned down at home.

Some small building prob used to oversee the trains arriving in the area but abandoned now. Lotsa human sized holes in the fence which means......

a little stroll on the gravel.... you dun get to do this everyday. SO....

You take pics...

pics ....


And more pics!!!

Heheheh........

This playground is unlike any others I seen in my childhood. Same steel beam stress members, but of a different config. All the kids in the neighbourhood did not seem to take a interest in it. I wonder why.

Cat lazing around. Prob tired from chasing the rats around. Saw the same cat when I went back there a second time. Can't be 2nd time lucky though. One of the *TM workers was spooked by my camera and I had to convinced him I'm just a nostalgic guy not a security thread. He seems amused with the pics I've taken(I was using the D300 instead of F50 on the second trip so can preview the pics).

And the last shot of the roll would be the *TM office before I leave. Peering inside, one can also tell that time also stood still in there. The architecture of the stairs seems like from the earlier half of the 1900s. There's also a chimney at the back of the house. Somehow I can't tell which era this building belong to as I can't connect this architecture to any others in Singapore's past. Maybe cos it ain't Singapore's anyway.


Finally my first assignment, a presentation on Sports Sociology is complete. I was fortunate to be released from my reservist range much earlier. I heard the rest stayed at the range all the way till close to 7. Near the end of the range, the officers decided to cut short and asked everyone to empty their rounds on the targets that will be stationary instead of timed targets. Finally got to handle and shoot a SAR 21. Service side people is always the last to handle new technology. Heard so much about the pro and cons of it. Not as heavy as I imagined it to be. Definitely easier to handle(bullpup design and length) and aim(nice quality lens coating on the scope).

I cocked up the presentation. Panicked too much and voice quivered alot. I do know the information I was presenting and could have even done it without my flash card but due to the lack of time, I had to compromise some of my pts and rearrange my speech right as I was presenting. I'm already lucky to be able to go through it all with just a quivering voice. I just hope Dr. Ed*ar dun rip my presentation marks to shreds. Overall my group was praised as setting the benchmark. So I guessed even though I crashed in my personal score, but as a group, things are still swell.

It seems that since I have decided to get a diving cert this yr, one by one the people around me are going diving too. Colin and Guanghao/Peilei are going for their dives in May, albeit on different weekends. So tempted to join them but May is exam week for both my degree and BEC. It's always a timing issue.

Spent the entire March thinking through alot of things. Things that you will only think about when you are too free. Perhaps this sem is really too slack after all. One week of super low-key reservist contributes too. Usually idle thoughts only leads to more questions due to inaction. This time it's abit different though. I found answers and relief. Not to everything but every small bit is always welcome. If only I can think so clearly a year back. Ironically it was idle lifestyle and thoughts that sent me here today. What happened is meant to happen and couldn't have happened any other way. It was a sobering experience but one I really dun relish on going through with in my life EVER again.

April is here and the stupid Cat's bdae is just a couple of days away. Got a chock load of presents to get. 3 of them I not too sure what to get while 2 of them not sure if I should get.

Sick of bnw?
LOMOgraphy pics with weird coloured cross-processed films will be on next post!



Test of time
or purely penance?
Ultimately,
Fate says Bull or Archer?
or just
precious remembrance?