[240405] sunday

[240405] along Still Road South: anyone knows what this creeper with pink flowers is called? was way beyond my reach, more than ~2.5m above at e top of e hedge, which I think is e reason why my mum hasn't kope-d any home to plant ;)



240605 UPDATE: name is Antigonon leptopus aka. 'chain of love', 'coral vine'; native of Mexico

e hedge:



same kind of hedge lines e perimeter of my primary school field. Xinying & I used to play catching & our own variation of e 'police & thief' game with e class boys in e hedges, running & crawling in e space between them & e fence that e boys referred to as a 'secret tunnel'. e space was also a good place to hide from e prefect on duty & e vice-principal - even if e latter spotted us in there he couldn't crawl in to get us =)

think I can tell which neighbours along e street are my mum's friends - in their gardens they will have clones of my mum's plants, grown from cuttings that they got from her, especially this hibiscus with big fat yellow flowers. but then again, there are also sneaky people who 'help themselves' to her plants when they think nobody's looking, pulling out or breaking off something & then making a fast getaway in their car, like how they kidnapped a tiny too-cute-for-its-own-good white kitten with blue eyes from our gate....

Grand Hotel along Still Road South:



e part of e building that used to face e beach, before e beach was 'moved' when land was reclaimed to build Marine Parade & e ECP:



e other creepier half of Grand Hotel, on e western side of Still Road South. think it was separated into two halves when e road (Still Road South) was cut right through e middle of e property?



close up of e section adjoining Katong Park, which was once by e sea:



at e other end of Katong Park, what used to be e first of 4 kindergartens that I attended:





e field at e front of e old church building that housed e kindergarten has been concretised into a carpark. there used to be Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus, source of vinblastine for Hodgkin's disease & vincristine for leukemia treatment) growing at e school gates, which we kids would pluck:



~21 years later at e Ban Huay Mae Sai school in Mae Yao, e Ban Apa kids would pluck periwinkle flowers from e plants growing along e school corridor & stick them in my hair, transporting me back in time & space =)

[160405] yet another visitor to e house



290405 UPDATE: e Still Road/ECP interchange completed in 1984 that split Grand Hotel into two; on e left of e photo are blocks 30-something of Marine Crescent.

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