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Haw Par Villa

Haw Par Villa¹ is a place in Singapore which was filled with tourists and visitors a decade ago. But now, it’s just a deserted place; lifeless and forgotten. My parents brought me there when I was 5. My memories of the place was fuzzy and I couldn’t recall much but we did took some photographs there. The place was huge and there was lots of activities going on. Everyone was walking around taking photographs and the kids were given balloons. That was how the place was like 16 years ago. I brought mum there yesterday as it has been a really long time since she last went there. The entire place was empty and we were the only ones there. This was not how I remembered it to be.

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1. Haw Par Villa is a Chinese mythological theme park in Singapore which contains over 1,000 statues and 150 giant dioramas depicting scenes from Chinese folklore, legends, history and illustrating various aspects of Confucianism. [«]

Yesterday was our scholar’s¹ 21st birthday! Happy birthday my friend. As your official photographer of the day, here’s a photo collage for you. =p I would have given you a tiara as a special gift to wear on your birthday had I found one. I should have borrowed Terry’s². That would be so exciting.

Happy Birthday, my friend

1. Jen Yi’s our top student so I named him “the scholar”. [«]
2. Terry had a tiara on his 21st birthday as well. [«]

As promised, this is part II of my photos from the Hong Kong & Macau trip last month. Looking at these photographs a month later, I have to say I miss going on holidays. Living in a small city for such a long time can be boring.

Coast of Macau

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