Modestly Singapore
I am now sitting along Singapore River. Near the parliament house to be exact.
Anyone who's sitting here would know it's a beautiful place.
Stretching along the (maybe) 400m panorama, you'd see the static and yet time-traveling expository of history.
Fort Canning hill on the right, 1800s shop and warehouses (now turned into restaurants etc.) to 1970s aspiration to modernity (seen in IM Pei's iconic OCBC Building) to modest skyscrapers. I said modest cos' you'd would think so too if you have been to Dubai.
All these happened over the span of decades.
Past, present, and future in a single place. It is modestly romantic, modestly proud, nothing big and fanciful. Just right, comfortable. It is just, nice to be sitting here.
Anyone who's sitting here would know it's a beautiful place.
Stretching along the (maybe) 400m panorama, you'd see the static and yet time-traveling expository of history.
Fort Canning hill on the right, 1800s shop and warehouses (now turned into restaurants etc.) to 1970s aspiration to modernity (seen in IM Pei's iconic OCBC Building) to modest skyscrapers. I said modest cos' you'd would think so too if you have been to Dubai.
All these happened over the span of decades.
Past, present, and future in a single place. It is modestly romantic, modestly proud, nothing big and fanciful. Just right, comfortable. It is just, nice to be sitting here.