Marina City Park...

With the development of the Integrated Resort(IR) and a slated 3-parks linkage, the serenity at Marina City park will be gone in a couple of years...

It was about 10 years ago that FS,KJ and I went on a little adventure to find the 8 Chinese statues of Confucius, Hua Mu Lan, Guan Yu, Zheng He, Yue Fei, Qu Yuan and another two... It was for a higher chinese group project... We could have have done a simple project on some chinese festivals but curious as we were, we decided to embark on this adventure to find these 8 statues... We got lost and almost gave up; gave Zhang Lao Shi a call and she said she has not been there before, but it was mentioned in the papers... Haz...Best... So it was akin to a treasure hunt for us...

The park was freaking big, there was a huge playground there, with monkey nets, flying fox (at least 30 metres between the 2 ends), swings... As we walk through the pathways and past the lakes, we are still unsure we are in the right direction... But we know the 8 statues were somewhere in the park... But there was no maps to guide us... So we walk and walk... Till we spotted a grey figurine at one end of the park, we knew we have found it... It was a feeling of euphoria... We were tired but still we have to copy the transcriptions of the statues (digital cameras were not popular then...)onto our note books... That was my first encounter with this park...

Throughout my JC, National Service, Uni days, I will still drop by this park occasionally to seek that serenity, usually alone but sometime with a friend... If I remember correctly, we had a 4s1 class outing there before... The last time I was last year before I left for Australia for my exchange... Managed to dig out one photo with me inside for the trip last yr... I need to go back soon... I am so emotionally attached to it... Soon, it will be brimming with life and people... Serenity dispelled forever...