places
they say how fast Singapore changes. like you could go away for a few years and when you come back, the whole landscape has had a makeover, you can't find your memories anymore.
clifford pier closed down for good on friday to make way for the marina bay whole bunch of new stuff upcoming. I'm not against the IR + new singapore landscape things, but it's still sad that all these places that have so much history and memories for everyone, that have probably become a part of their lives now disappear. and I didn't know about it earlier, so I didn't even get a chance to take a photo.
I remember going to clifford pier only very occasionally. It's more like the place where I rushed and ran like crazy to catch my one and only bus home when I still lived at my old house. but i remember taking a boat ride there, on the cheng ho for some silly high-tea which was all very fun and exciting. we went to kusu island which had nothing but turtles and took photos! (which have been lost but no matter) faint memories left behind, it was raining that day and to get to clifford pier, we took a shuttle from hyatt! ah hyatt. i felt like a tourist and it was happy-inducing. I doubt i did an entry on it, but if i did, i can't find it!
or like the now non existent pathway between one fullerton and esplanade park? it's now the satay club or something. the pathway's there but the tiles are different, the 'furnishings' changed. once dark and empty and avoided, now the exact opposite: brightly lit and very noisy.
baker's inn becoming bakerzin. those are the few that come to mind. cafes closed. marina macs revamped and unrecognisable. little things like that but i'm sure there are greater examples and more changes that will be made.
if only i could get a camera to capture every single thing that might change before i lose the chance to preserve it in print and forever. develop all the photos to have something i can hold on to keep by. because it's so easy to remember things now, and homes and parks and swings in the playgrounds, but come the time when these disappear, and as you grow older you forget how important they used to mean to you. i think that's sad.
clifford pier closed down for good on friday to make way for the marina bay whole bunch of new stuff upcoming. I'm not against the IR + new singapore landscape things, but it's still sad that all these places that have so much history and memories for everyone, that have probably become a part of their lives now disappear. and I didn't know about it earlier, so I didn't even get a chance to take a photo.
I remember going to clifford pier only very occasionally. It's more like the place where I rushed and ran like crazy to catch my one and only bus home when I still lived at my old house. but i remember taking a boat ride there, on the cheng ho for some silly high-tea which was all very fun and exciting. we went to kusu island which had nothing but turtles and took photos! (which have been lost but no matter) faint memories left behind, it was raining that day and to get to clifford pier, we took a shuttle from hyatt! ah hyatt. i felt like a tourist and it was happy-inducing. I doubt i did an entry on it, but if i did, i can't find it!
or like the now non existent pathway between one fullerton and esplanade park? it's now the satay club or something. the pathway's there but the tiles are different, the 'furnishings' changed. once dark and empty and avoided, now the exact opposite: brightly lit and very noisy.
baker's inn becoming bakerzin. those are the few that come to mind. cafes closed. marina macs revamped and unrecognisable. little things like that but i'm sure there are greater examples and more changes that will be made.
if only i could get a camera to capture every single thing that might change before i lose the chance to preserve it in print and forever. develop all the photos to have something i can hold on to keep by. because it's so easy to remember things now, and homes and parks and swings in the playgrounds, but come the time when these disappear, and as you grow older you forget how important they used to mean to you. i think that's sad.