A View From Home #2

Today I decided to view more social activities in order to understand the neighbourhood around me better. After all, having lived here for 21 years, it is my duty to be duly informed.

 

Fig 1: Social activities of children take place many storeys below. I remember part-taking in some of my own, but this particular playground was much less safe and had a swell amount of sand in it. I remember playing on the slide in self-entertaining ways that was to pave the future of the type of fun I’d have had in later years. Then I remember there was a sand-digging mechanism that allowed you to place move sand like how a crane does. I obsessed on that mechanism for hours at a time, and looking back, that must have saved my folks a lot of trouble and money.

 

 

Fig 2: Social activities of adults take on a less physical approach and always seems to involve food. This was many blocks away and I felt like a secret spy taking spy-like photos so it gave me a tinge of excitement!

Fig 3: When I turned to my right, I zoomed into the school field which seemed in quite a mess. I was a bit upset at looking at it but I was curious to know what was happening.

Fig 4: It was then that I realized this was tar. Why does a school yard need tar? I googled it and now I feel silly because this is not tar. It is asphalt.*

Fig 5: A better-composed mound of asphalt.

 

Fig 6: I got distracted with the scenery of the mysterious off-limits lake.

Fig 7: Singapore has only 2 seasons – Hot and Wet. Today was Wet.

*Optional reading: The word asphalt is derived from the late Middle English : from French asphalte, based on late Latin asphalton, asphaltum, from the Greek ásphalton, ásphaltos (άσφαλτος), "flawless".

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