went to stadium by circle line. it rained. hang around in the shopping mall next to kallang theatre until the rain stopped. started jogging, across the bridge to tanjung rhu, into the garden by the bay. it was a few minutes past 7, the gate to the barrage was closed(at 7). returned by a different route(across the garden, instead of along the marina bay). the kallang river laid quite, with roars of the traffic from the city. hadn't been doing nite jog for don't-know-how-long....
and tonite, it's sentimental all over again.
humming out oldies, taking in the loneliness, and the going back to the days when he was walking alone in places like the bund in shanghai, the pearl-riverwalk in guangdong, the danube in europe, the love river in kaohsiung, the tamsui river in tamsui, the creek in dubai, the cruise along the nile.... and recently along the banks of the rivers in kuantan and kuala trengganu.....
instead of ending the jog where he started, he decided to push on, into geylang river. as he moved along, the traffic roars dimmed.... and when he was at dakota, it's was just as quiet as you could get. there were individual foreign workers from the construction site next to the condo, dakota, coming out, sitting by the river(by now, it's a bog longkang)munching food, drinking, meditating... or doing nothing, to savor the end of their long day.
he crossed into geylang... and the river was hemmed in both banks by corrugated zinc sheets. it was closed for ABC project, would be open in 2013, 2nd qtr.
the river took a left turn in guillermard road, going along paya lebar road.... then it was already 9pm, too tired to go on.... took the circle line to complete the circle....
above, the moon hang fully round.... at least his emotions did go somewhere....
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