pandan river - the eagle 'hunter'

internaional business park - jurong


jurong town hall


jtc hq


science centre


ayer rajah food centre


the eagle 'hunter'


pandan reservoir jogging track


some tree plantation


singapore mint


new condo


jln mas putih playground


pandan reservoir panoramic view

jurong, a town of the west, pioneering industry, manufacturing in the 60's. and now, still a lot of factories and offices. jtc, jurong town corporation is spearheading the effort of building infrastructures for this purpose. it also went overseas to duplicate the same in countries like china, india, vietnam...

he took a late lunch near the jurong east centre hawker centre; mee goreng and law mee. started his jog toward sceince centre road, passed by jurong country club, went up to jurong townhall, cross jalan ahmand inbrahim into teban crescent, that led to jln penjuru, where singapore mint located, tunred left into pandan road, went up to pandan reservoir. they re-did the banks with water creeping plants, and decorated the side of reservoir with floating plant-pads. he crossed the road, and jogged along the side of the pandan river where there was no road before. he was cornered into a tree-plantation sort of place, where rows of different types of trees were planted. he had to turned back. then he headed on along west coast rd, into west coast housing estate, then stopped over at ayer rajah food centre where he had ice kachang. afterwards, he headed toward the newly constructed, highest building around the area. he found himself in the jln mas putih, merah, kuning estate... though each was just a street of 2-storey terrace houses, each had a playground to itself....

when he was at pandan river, he met a photographer with his bulky professional canon camera and the powerful tele-zoom lens.

"are you taking pictures of the birds?"

"eagle."

"do they come here?"

"they won't stop here, but fly by.... i just try to capture it when it's soaring; in its flight. one just flew by."

"did you capture it?"

"no. too fast, i was not prepared."

"how long do you think to wait?"

"maybe the whole afternoon. taking picture, good ones, is like fishing, it's not up to you to setup your equipment and off snapping.... the subject has to present itself in the right angle, right time, right mood.... right lighting..."

"patience is everything, i guess."

"patience, not only that. you must cherish failures."

"how?"

"tell yourself, the more times you fail, the greater the challenge, the bigger the satisfaction when you got it done. i always go for hard-to-get goals."

"are you married?"

"not yet."

"so must be setting your goal too high?"

"last time yes, but now no lah. i'm already 40 something, my cock is old already..... cock-old-dodado, any hole will do."