go st michael's church. church is small but very active, alot of filipinoes, and also locals and chinese brothers and sisters. very nice grotoes. the whole building is compact but cozy.
the surrounding streets are bit congested but nice, with landed houses in jalan manis, jln taman, st francis rd, jln semerbak and not so few new projects of condos in the area.
kallang river lies beside. jog along kallang river all the way to boon keng road, nicely surprised to see the abc water project completed in kolam ayer - turns out to be very good - kallang river has become a river again, at least for this section; the river banks are no longer concrete retainers, grass grows on the sloped banks, and water plants sprouting out from the plastic rectangular pots in the river, taller-than-human-height plants line the path next to the river.... people fishing, and sitting on chairs along the river banks, chatting, kids running about. meet an old man, not friendly. ask him what fish he caught, he says - see for yourself. meet a malay boy - 6 years old, ask him got fish or not, he says - got. big ones? yes..... where? there - they are small lohans.
river vista is near finish, a good hdb project.
and now, the gahmen is doing up the bishan park - turning the lokang into another river which would be part of the kallang river upgrading project.
all these water and park projects are good for singapore.
we can discount the gahmen for all its mediocracy in other projects and endeavors, and its unfairness in dishing out justice..... one thing marathon cannot deny is gahmen's role in gardenizing this little red hot, making it greener and wetter and more marathonable.
now we know : a gardener is worth more than 1 mm, 1pm, 2 sm's, 93 mp's.... 1000 grass-root leaders and 5 million scratching-a-living creatures!
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