How much can we capture before it all goes away?

An anonymous tipoff. A while back I mentioned needing to hunt down old playgrounds and in response, this link to a Flickr pool was dropped in my lap.

You get excited about progress. Then resigned. Then numb. Sometimes you see pictures and you remember things and places that were pieces of you as you were growing up. I suppose you never thought they would become haunting reminders that you have grown up, and grown old enough to reminisce about stuff that's no longer around or almost gone.

Since then I've found three old playgrounds. But there are quite a few spots I want to visit and revisit after going through the pool.

Singapore, we grew up here...

here & here

here & here

here & here

here & here

The last two are of Dynasty Hotel in 1982, the year I was born. We know it as Marriott now. I stand at that junction almost on a weekly basis.

My school was within walking distance to Far East Plaza. My friends and I hung out in Orchard so much, weekdays and weekends, that even after we left school and even now, we still go town a lot.

People always comment they don't understand how we can stand the crowds during weekends. But like we always kid, town is our backyard and you'd never stop going to your own backyard.