yours truly here is damn bored today. he decided to pull out his favourite camelbak, put on his running kit and explore his neighbourhood. its a long time since i last jogged because of my injury. although i’m still not recovered yet, but i still decide to go for a jog, to sweat it out.due to my unconditioned physical (aching hip and knees in the midst of my jog), i could not finished the whole distance. i walked 30% of the distance instead. to break it down, i jogged from my home to mount faber safra to henderson wave to faber point to telok blangah hill to alexandra road and ended at queensway shopping centre. although google earth clocks the distance to be only 5.73km, but i believe i had travelled more than that distance because there were alot of twists and turns and u-turns which was not accounted for in the google earth. during my jog, i did a few 自拍 (please, not those edison chen kind).this is my 1st stop, the newly build henderson wave. its actually a bridge which links mount faber to telok blangah hill and they named it henderson wave probably because its not the conventional horizontal bridge, it looks wavy from the side.this is the trail which leads to henderson waves. seems eerie even in the day. since the bridge is 60+ metres above sea level, theres a log way for me to go…after climbing counless steps, i finally reach the top. it looks majestic and beautiful. however i did not cross the bridge, instead i jogged towards the other direction towards faber point, the highest point in singapore (not counting infrastructures such as the westin hotel and UOB building). its been so long since the last time i came to mount faber. i remembered during my secondary school days, i jogged up mount faber every other day to train for my school annual cross country race as i promised i will give her a trophy as a gift. On the cross country day, i got 18th position and was awarded a trophy. I gave her my trophy as i promised and she gave me hers which was 3rd position, a much bigger trophy than mine. well the relationship didn turned out well and thats a story to be told for another day. on faber point, the summit of mount faber, is suppose to be the highest point of singapore, it is possible to see half the singapore. however, due to the overgrown trees, most of the vision is blocked by the damn trees. but fortunately, i’m still able to see my home from there.after visiting the faber point, i decide to return to the henderson waves to go to the other side of the bridge, the telok blangah hill, a place which i have not been in my lifetime to even though i stayed around that area for 24 years. haha, ironic right? yes life is just as ironic. we dont tend to treasure things around us, because we think that it will always be there. however, once its gone, we regret and blame ourselves for not spending much attention on it. heres a picture of the henderson waves. it doesnt looks wavy on the inside as we thought to be. it does look beautiful.. isnt it?

and yes, this is my second 自拍 of the day. i’m in the middle of the “not so wavy” henderson waves, 67+ metres above sea level.

this is the part of my neighbourhood which i have not been to even though i stayed 20+ years in this area. it is the hilltop garden on telok blangah hill. i felt damn “paiseh” when i have to tell people i have not been to telok blangah hill. and its even more “paiseh” when people says “huh!! u stayed so near for 20 over years and you dont know where was it?? it’s only a few kilometres from your house…”. but its better late than never, i’m proud to say i have visited telok blangah hill. :pthese metal bridges is called the “forest walk” ( i would call it a maze). it is situated at the other end of telok blangah hill and it leads to alexandra road and kent ridge park. the first look of it reminds me of nano wires on top of silicon chips :x. pardon for my wierd imagination because those might me my “tan chiak” in future. i decide to terminate my journey at alexandra road so that i can have a drink at queenstown shopping centre wich was about 3 km away. and at the exit at alexandra road, i saw this nice structure called the “alexandra arch”. it looks white now, but it is said that it illuminates in the night and we can see it in purple or red. and yup, that marks the end of my run today. it always feel “shiok” after a run, especially visiting these “new” places…