On an early Sunday morning, I had been given the responsibility to fetch Qi to her Buddhist entrance examination near Pasir Panjang. I dropped her off at about 9am and had more than an hour and a half to spend before she finished her examination. After parking my car, I decided to roam to the nearby historical place of interest, the Haw Par Villa.
Throughout these few decades, Haw Par Villa was mostly free on admission except for a few exceptional years where some 'jokers' ventured into a failed project to add 'flowery' features to the park, like roller-coaster!!? From my childhood photos, Haw Par Villa was a place where nice photographs could be taken with numerous beautiful statues. Since young, I had visited this place several times but its layout seemed to be always different except for the few residence statues.
The last visit could easily be a decade ago, but this brief one still brought back some nice memories. As I walked, I could not help but admire the generosity of the Haw Par brothers who contributed and shared their wealth with the general public. On top of that, I also realized the strong humanistic value which the park conveyed and its objective and hope for people to bring back some to contribute to the society or just to be a good and nice person.
I jsut hope this place could be kept for more generations to come.
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| Statues then |
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| Statues now |
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| Another old photo |
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