fort canning - beauty and the bore

fort canning park


the map


relief at the entrance


a restaurant


the path


giant fig ....................................................giant madras thorn


wood carving class


gothic gate


fort canning centre


archaeological dig


picnic terrace

went to slr revo, checking out on the pentax k7, and k-x. the last piece of k-x dual-lens(18-55, 50-200) was sold out to an indonesian and his gal fren. he was considering the k7 also. with almost 90% of k-x that's matching the k-7 in spec, the k7 cost twice as much, for its weather-sealed body, and its 14.5mp vs the 12.5mp for the k-x. but the k-x performs better in high iso shooting, ranging 1600 and higher. he needed to consider seriously if he wanted the k7. he could wait for the k-x which the salesman said the stock would probably be arriving next week.

anyway, he took to fort canning park, juts opposite funan centre to do his thinking.....

the park is always a refreshing treat for any one to drop by. it's populated with big and ancient trees, the madras thorns that proudly showed off its aged-old trunks, the giant rain trees that extended their branches endlessly into the blue skies., the fig trees with their multitude drop-down roots... it's indeed a very heritaged site, by nature. there's a newly opened spice garden, which has different types of herbs. he also went by the archaeological site dug up some years ago in this area. at one point he was moving behind a couple, the man in his seventies, and the lady in her 20's...... he wouldn't want to venture into what relationship they were in.... they walked closely together, conversed in a relaxed and leisure manner, and they stopped everynow and then so he could take pictures of her at the scenic points....

it's nothing unusual about an old man being attracted by younger ladies..... but for an old man to get one, in real life is quite rare.... unless you're someone like yang chen-ning, a scientist whose mind is ever so young and to him to re-marry is to enter into another research project .... only this time, his topic is human happiness and the observer effect is many times amplified .... when he probes deeper, his probe will definitely affect the state of happiness of his subject..... like they said, hap-PINESS is not in the mind, but in the probe!

as for marathon man, happiness was coming to a conclusion for the k-x.



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