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Saturday, June 30, 2007
Singapore's Heritage:National Stadium
What does this place remind you of? NDP? SYF?Big Walk?Soccer?Track and Field?Sports? Whichever you pick,one thing is definite: This place is an icon of the nation where many people have left thier foot-prints. Today,30 June 2007, is the last day the Stadium will be in operation before it is slated for demolision ( Also the last day before GST hike XD ). So while we salute it's contrubutions to our nation, we revise our memories we spent at this place.2003
TK Freshies of 2003! Still young, still innocent..sad to say we have all graduated.
This was the first time I ever went to the Stadium for the New Paper Big Walk 2003. Back then, TK was very enthu about this Big Walk thing and that's why we had the East Entrance Swamped with TKsians..=)
2004, 2006
What else have I got to say? These 4 days have got to be the most memorable. The days of Cheer-leading duties for Council will be sorely missed..as well as the quirky behind-the-scenes "comedy"
The weather may be baking hot...but TK's still hotter than ever!
Chicken Rice Uncle!!!
Lenny gets himself locked up by Kachee...poor boy
And ofcourse! my "famous" picture that was uploaded on wikipedia by some unknown wikipedian. Thankyou to whoever you are...and to wikipedia who made this thingy so difficult to edit. I have not idea how to remove it..=)
Council Cheerleaders!
Most importantly: Nothing is better than watching your school clinch that prestigous title for the fifth time. Though TK is still nothing much than some neighbourhood school in some laksa smelling district called Katong, there're just too many things that makes one proud to be TKsain. (photo courtesy of MOE)
2007
Feel the Meridian Might!
This was the last time I ever set foot on the stadium. Probably the first and last time I witnessed true sportsmen spirit at the stadium. We lost 1-0 to Raffles. But the college still stood as one to cheer our soccer players. Though not as memorable as the TK days, this day was still worth mentioning. And by that day, the seats were starting to fill up with bird poop..(yeuch!) so most people had their pants and skirts "printed" with a god damned humungous black stain at the buttocks. (oops!)
One more thing I noticed that day: TK uniforms have an uncanny resemblence to Raffles. Though the material is different( TK uses translucent material..RJ uses fire-proof fibres) the two schools can still be confused if you don't look at the badges. especially so when the dark green colour of the (girls) RJ skirt starts to fade and become jade green.( RJ guys already look like TKsians cuz the uniform is of the same colour) That day, we saw Clarissa at the stadium( For obvious reasons..) and we thought there was an RJ intruder at our "Blue Mugger" camp. It was only until she turned in our direction that we noticed (to our surprise) that there was a TKsian in the crowd.
No matter what this place still holds some place in the hearts of each and every Singaporean. Though we can always look forward to future memories at our new "Sports Hub"...
Personally, I agree with mrbrown. The new Stadium looks like a humungous toilet bowl. The designers should really think about a re-design.
Garden City: Gone?
City rising out of the trees. Will we ever see this scene again? With the construction of casinos, luxury apartments and artificial gardens, will the name "Garden City" be removed from Singapore? More and more of Sinagpore's natural greenery is gone and Bikit Timah is probably the last place on mainland Singapore to have virgin tropical rainforest. As the pace of development accelerates and the government trying to inject another 3 million people to our polulation, we will be having problems with housing the people and industries. what other space will we have for our trees? Labels: garden city, National stadium, Singapore heritage, virgin forest
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