January 28, 2008

apr 07 - marine parade

[290407] because one day the cat will no longer be able to recognise this place:

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CHIJ Katong primary school before demolition:

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Where Cat-cat & Pig-pig had their first ever chance to vote in a general election:

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Once upon a time, while studying in the school across the road, they watched this school building being built. Now they watch it being destroyed.

Once upon a time it was a big fat field, empty but full of memories & fun for the cat:

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This extension building stands where a row of angsana trees used to be, beside the carpark where the cat & buddies crawled beneath teachers' cars to retrieve tennis balls when playing hantam hola.

The cat has heard educators discussing placing such Chinese characters & building Chinese-style arches over the main gates as a strategy to reduce the enrolment of non-Chinese students in such schools:

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apr 07 - final days of City Shuttle Service buses

[140407] nothing lasts in Singapore:

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apr 07 - misc

[070407] Toshiba harddisks seem to last only 2 years each:

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[140407] matcha slice from BreadTalk:

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[260407] banana plant finally flowers:

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January 27, 2008

apr 07 - colleague's plants

[190407] colleague's cacti:

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& waterlily:

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[190407] before:

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[200407] after:

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mar 07 - misc

[040307] once upon a time the cat used to love carousels:

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Especially the huge one at Funworld(?) in Parkway Parade, in the space currently occupied by Banquet food court. Actually it loved climbing up & hanging from the poles on the carousel rather than riding on the seats.

[090307] lab dinner at Holland Village Vietnamese noodle restaurant Pho Hoa, wall mural from left to right:

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The cat likes such 'utopian' propaganda-ish art from (former) Communist countries - the more 'kitsch' the better =) Everyone is well-fed, well-dressed & smiling, rivers & lakes full of big fat fish, emerald green fields & abundant harvests, a hundred flowers blooming, rainbow across the blue sky...interesting how the first picture has what looks like San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge in the background ;)

[110307] where Indonesian domestic maids are displayed like aquarium fish =|

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Once a maid fell from the second storey of this place, think she was trying to escape? All the times the cat has walked past this place, it has never seen any of them smile.

[160307] opposite Clarke Quay MRT bus stop:

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Another long bus ride, this time on SBS 12:

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[170307] Pig-pig's shop?

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[310307] after Khatib Bongsu, Sungei Simpang Kiri & Tanjong Irau, an elated birthday fish-eating cake-burning session with the wushu family:

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The cat thought it would be fun to watch everything on the cake burn out just for the heck of it:

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Not enough to trigger the smoke detectors & fire alarm in Esplanade Ichiban Sushi. But enough to freak out baby-in-law? ;)

mar 07 - sungei simpang kiri + tanjong irau

[310307] Sungei Simpang Kiri & Tanjong Irau beach in blazing hot afternoon sun:

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[1] does baby doctor come here often to 放飞机 (fly people's aeroplane)?
[4] looking towards Sembawang Park from Tanjong Irau

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[1] Yishun Indistrial Estate heavy vehicle carpark
[5-6] strange place to find an armchair
[9] a rare natural unreclaimed white sand beach in Singapore
[10] the ugly-fied concretised canal-ised Sungei Simpang Kiri

Plenty of trash:

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Including a Malaysian driving licence, a small pillow, many motorcycle helmets, a packet of economy rice from some Johor stall (according to the plastic bag), manymanymany cigarette butts, a television set, & manymanymanymany plastic bags.

mar 07 - khatib bongsu 05

[310307] almost 360 degrees:

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click on images to link to larger versions on the Flickr site

Out-of-reach catfood, so near yet so far:

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Not long after taking these shots, we headed to Northpoint on man-maid's bike for lunch before moving on to Simpang Kiri.

Back to HDB world:

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mar 07 - khatib bongsu 04

[310307] colourful sandpaper:

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