Have been out on the streets for photography quite a number of times recently.
So here are some candids of people!
Met these group of tourist who are from New Zealand! The guy on the far left told me he saw my shirt's design, which had a Kiwi on it, and asked me whether or not I have been to New Zealand. We chatted for awhile and continued walking in separate directions.
Yesterday was a day spent walking around the streets of Singapore, with Ryan, aimlessly! We just walked around anywhere that deemed fit and would only check the map if we were lost. Surprisingly the more we walked, we realized that we were walking in circles, or rather coming back to a familiar junction that we once crossed. No wonder people gets lost inside jungles easily.
Then we went to the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple in Chinatown to take a look. It's more of a tourist attraction rather than a temple for people to pray, although people could do that too. Just that it's more open to photography and people strolling in and out.
There's a little room at the roof where there are thousands of these little buddha statues, and with numberings on them too. Serial numbers?
And moving on, we left the temple and went to the streets of Chinatown where the older generation roamed the place and hanged out with their friends.
Must be reading his manual on how to operate whatever he's going to.
Many of these street cobblers are not doing such business anymore. They're becoming less common to spot nowadays.
And then we came across another temple, a lot smaller than the Buddha Tooth Relic temple. As expected, I got stopped by a woman when going beyond the courtyard area. The place was rather empty, only the 2 of us plus another man.
Continued our aimless walking.
Saw these little figurines of wrestlers on display at a shop selling lots of collectibles.
At Raffles Place there's this miniature Smurf soccer display! Not sure why Smurf but they were the attraction in the middle of the all the tall office buildings.
National flag of Singapore hanging outside of every unit! So we went for dinner soon after, and back home after a much walking!
The railway that runs from Malaysia to Singapore, has discontinued it's service in the Singapore leg. Served well for decades, it has finally closed. However, the tracks are opened to the public for a week after the discontinuation of the train services. Thousands of people roam about the tracks. The younger generation are there either out of curiosity or for the fun of it, while the older ones reminisce the old times. Grandparents telling stories to their grandchildren.
I have never been onto the train before, neither have I went to any of the stations before. I was there, curious of how the decades-old station and tracks look like
Cars parked along the dirt road leading to the entrance of the track.
Families taking photos that can be passed on for generations, and in the future, showing what it's like in the past (present).
And old couple, strolling along the tracks, possibly revisiting their dating hangout many years ago.
People having fun balancing on the single rail.
Some were even there for their graduation shoot!
Some of the abandoned items that were left over for who-knows-how-long.
An overview of a part of the railway track. The small hut there is the station.
The good old days
were sometimes bad,
however for us
they were all that we had,
so we choose to remember them
in an unreal way
as if life was beautiful
every day.
We look for the bad
and ignore the good
and live in the past
far more than we should.
- Ethel Smith
