A modern design from the past.

You can say Singapore is in a kind of 3rd or 4th remaking. I am here for some 18 years only, so I have watched one major redesign.

Very obvious was the remaking of the busstops. Today we can see the red-white busstops and cream-coloured seats very rarely. Sometimes they are used for temporary busstops at construction sides along the road in order not to waste the newly designed benches and bus-stop shelters.

In general there was a hardly noticed change of benches in Singapores public parks as well. I mean who is so much into park benches that one would notice such kind of changes.

I have passed this little park along Clementi Road so many times, but only recently I had a pit stop there while on my Sunday cycling trip. 

This park was a lonely affair. Despite having a 10000 people estate nearby, nobody was hanging out here. To my pleasure, despite stretching along a fairly big road it was a nice windy place to have a rest before cycling the last 2 km to my home.

In deed compared to the other more popular parks like the Botanic Garden, the benches in this little hideout were of a design which millenials would not want to sit. But do millenials at all want to sit on real park benches? May be only in their virtual games in front of the screen of empty life. Never mind even to me the benches looked as if designed by a generation back in time. 

The view from those benches is definitely not comparable to sitting on a bench on the Lago Majore with a grand view of the alps. But hey we are in Singapore and on Sundays the traffic is reasonable so that even I can bear to have a seat on the benches of Singapore’s past.