Lost memories

Saw on TV the other day, that there's going to be an exhibition of photographs on the old Queenstown area. Thought it would be good to revisit the memories of the place where I grew up in. Anyway, service today would be by a guest speaker - Dennis Burke. Think I will just give service a miss this week.


The exhibition is supposedly to be held at the Queenstown CC. But, oh no! Didn't realise that even the CC had moved. Wonder where it is now. Although the neighbourhood isn't really that unfamiliar, but things have changed so much. The block of HDB flat where I spent time as a child is no longer there. Just a simple field now. I remembered how during those childhood days, the field is sloping and at the far end, the area tend to get flooded during the rainy seasons. I used to watch other children played in the flood water, which occasionally, is deep enough even for them to swim in it.


Also, how warm and close the street feels on that sunny morning, years ago, when I returned after a 3 mths trip away in Canada. That familiar road that runs down towards the hawker centre and polyclinic is still there, though somewhat forlorn, quiet, and forgotten.

I suppose, given the pace of development and constructions in Singapore, many of us would be losing out on all our memories. What we grew up with, would likely be, no longer there for us in the years to come.