A few carefree hours before class

Sitting in one corner of Leng Kee CC, couple of hours before the start of the class.

The flat that envelopes the whole "window" of the stairwell.

Part of the length of the flat.

Neighbourhood children playing street soccer.


Was very much early for class, so explored the CC and came to this quiet little corner of the building.

Looks like a cosy little corner, that's the first impression. Then you see the flat just covering the whole "window" of the stairwell, which gives it a very down to earth, neighbourhood kind of feel. And this is exactly the kind of feeling that these older flats give me... everytime. It's a good feeling! A home kind of feel.

Looking over the wall of the stairwell, you see shops on the ground floor of the flat... Some are in business, some are closed, for rest or forever, that I will never know. But infront of these shops, just beyond the covered corridor, there is a cemented area where there are round marble tables. These are the old school tables with a round stump of a stool on the "North, South, East and West" side of the table. And either a chinese or english chess "maps" engraved onto the surface.

An elderly man was seated on one of the two table reading newspaper.

On the right end of the flat was a court for street soccer. It's the school holidays now, so some of the neighbourhood boys are playing in the court. Some were just talking along the side of the court, some were kicking the ball around.

Reminds me of a time when my cousins and I will gather at the playground during school holidays and play traditional games of catching or hide-and-seek, or think up new games to play. Thinking of these post war estates, they were really made for residency. Buildings are well spaced and grass patches in abundance. These are really luxuries in current day Singapore.

After enough of looking around, settled onto the steps and began reading my book on Osteoporosis. Loads of new information( or rather, already existing) poured into the brain... but the brain is too cluttered to absorb all of them...

De-Cluttering is in order!!

These few hours in that little corner feels so relaxed, and out of a world filled with materialistic worries. Would like to have alot more of these carefree days, but that would probably make me a bankrupt. Balance... is still key to staying sane.