Noi and I enjoyed an aimless late morning at Jurong Lake Gardens, just wandering. The place is so well-designed by the Parks people - I think they call themselves the National Parks Board, NParks for short (definitely my favourite branch of government) - that you can't go wrong wherever you are. Always something good and green (and yellow and purple and red and orange and all sorts of shades and shapes, not to say sizes) to look at.
Quite a few areas have been given over to displays related to the Lantern Festival. Cheerfully silly stuff. I'm sure it all looks suitably colourful, if not a little magical, in the evening. But we enjoyed the simpler magic of everyday trees & flowers by sunlight.
Noi pointed out that some folks, I'm thinking wealthy developers and so was she, would be very keen to bung a condominium or two onto the grounds we were traversing. Nice to think that the concept of protecting the commons still has leeway in the world's saner cities. Hope it lasts.
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