07:08


I made a visit to Pasir Ris Park earlier this morning with my parents after not having visited it for quite awhile. Since my parents are going for their pilgrimage in the coming week, they saw this as an opportunity to build up on their stamina for the hot desert regions of Saudi Arabia. I decided to tag along, & thus ww walked at a fast pace with the occasional jog from one end of the park to another & back again; a total of 7km. Despite not having slept at all the previous night, I fonally got out & into the outdoors for a tan. We could have left the house much earlier & just walked down from Pasir Ris Terrace to Carpark E of Pasir Ris Park, but were delayed because of my new maid, who is quite obtuse, sorry to say, & thus we started off at about 8:45 am -.- My mom was very naggy during some points of the long morning walk in the park, that my dad continued on ahead of us, leaving my mom & I far behind. I made a mistake walking with my mom twice, I guess =_= I should've concentrated on the walk & ignored my overly chatty mom who couldn't control her mouth that morning.She was in a bizarre-moodswing-kind-of mood, & I didn't like one bit of it. Ending our 7km walk, I bought 3 bottles of h-two-o for myself & my parents. I presume some people just don't know hygiene when they have a trio of cats sitting their asses on the counter where you purchase your drinks & snacks. I found the small shack where the drinks & snacks were sold rather disgusting; it was in a really bedraggled condition. The corpulent owner looked as though he hadn't had a bath in years. & so we had our isotonic cold drinks, gulping them down in record timing. Another thing I'd love to bring up about couples at the park; they just CAN'T KEEP THEIR HANDS TO THEMSELVES. Everytime I go there, there will be couples doing hanky panky here & there. Should I be complaining? Or enjoying the free show? That can be determined by whether the couple was an old one or a young one HAHAHAHA. Well thankfully most of em' are young couples, otherwise I wouldn't dare venture the park that often. =.=


It's a Footpath, & yet ...

There's a 15 km/h speed limit. =_=

It's just a shame the footpath sign had to be too far away from this sign 15 km/h speed limit sign facing the footpath to have been caught on camera. Believe it or not, the speed limit sign was for the footpath, it was facing the footpath. I believe the fastest human runner outran a horse, but even athletes in tip top condition find running a constant 15 km/h tough, I bet. If they wanted to put up signs, they should've put them up facing the correct paths. If this was set up for a bicycle path, that'd be very normal. Either they were crazy enough to even set up speed limit signs for people walking, or they were merely plain stupid.

Aside from that, I'm glad that the hordes of people who used to arrive at the beach in waves seem to have lessened by a significant amount; the beach seems to be alot cleaner compared to when it was reported unsafe to swim in due to the harmful intoxicated saltwater, caused by filth from the sewers & the mainland. I guess that the more people there are who invade the beach = increased pollution there will be on our poor old beach. Due to inconsiderate, irresponsible acts of littering & allowing our children & pets to freely excrete their faeces into the sea,we have ensured the doom of what used to be a majestic ecosystem of marine wildlife. I remember it in its old days; teeming with interesting marine life; porcupine fishes, seahorses, blue spotted stingrays, mud lobsters, etc. Most of that's perished now, & most likely won't return ever again, not with what the Singapore Government's planning now: land reclamation. It ravages the beach's natural environment, resulting in the massacre of rare species of marine flora & fauna in the process. why can't they just accept that Singapore is a tiny country & just deal with it? It's better to preserve the natural beauty which is clearly diminishing rapidly than continue with our destructive acts for more land.

Pardon how mawkish I am about the topic; I have loved the beach & the sea since I was a wee young boy, & seeing the horrid condition it's in now just breaks my heart.