National Day 2013 Lil India...and Ten Mile Junction

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To celebrate National Day we took a walk along the Kranji disused railway line. We were a little late and so ended up trying to catch up. But later on we finally reached Ten Mile Junction. I am totally impressed with the wee ones who made it for 8 km!

Finally - airconditioning and lime juice

With Chew Keng Kiat from the BB group

Mila in Little India

Falling in love with fabric!


And there was so much of love


Goofy Ghin


What a star!

Chow time!

Paper thosai

Thali

The night life in Little India



I am really afraid of falling out of love with the places which I love in Singapore. Little India is one of these. The things which place a place special are the invisible web - the feeling. The years of story which have accrued, the character of the place. This only happens when people are allowed to seep into a place, to imbue it with their own uniqueness...not when everything becomes a soulless, monetary enterprise. Money is a means to an end. What is that end?

Serangoon Road is now too crowded - to busy - as people hurtle INTO you as they walk past. This is not a phenomena unique to Serangoon Road. It is also true of Chinatown and any part within the Central Buysiness District. Sentosa is lost forever. The things which I loved about Singapore, the small pretty places are slowly, matrix like being erased, disappearing. Only the materialistic exterior will be left, an empty carapace with a noisy, empty interior.

One day I will return to Singapore and know nothing of this place any longer, because there will be nothing left to know. I hope I am wrong, I want to be wrong.

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