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Punggol Settlement Run

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Run baby run. Occasionally, I'll take a drive to take a run. I like driving through the old Punggol road that leads to Punggol End that is now called Punggol Settlement. The dense foliage of old allowed only intermittent sunlight to pass through but not it is little balding with age. Was happy to get a car park and a tortoise greeted us. It was hot and humid and it makes us want to get into the water. But the tortoises were getting out of it. Is it warmer in there? An outdoor run is always better. Saw a Wan Hai Lines container vessel that was steaming pass. As you run the landscape is changing. The sun, the skyline and ... ...the sea. You can focus on the things nearby. Or let the mind wander further in the distance. Or of fallen trees and fallen dreams. Or peek into a lone man fishing with just a brolly and a rod. I don't know about you but wherever I go, my senses always work overtime. Like feeler...

Punggol End - Part 2

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Continued from Part 1..... http://gforce-guru.blogspot.sg/2013/03/punggol-end-part-1.html Well, we were here on something that looked like Baby's Breath. All babies' breath smells good until they burped after milk. As people grew  up, their mouth stinks for food and other abuses of the orifice or the words they use frequently and of course babies have purity and innocence. I came across a fallen tree. I feel its branches and roots looking at me. Was it struck by lightning or has weak roots? It is a huge tree but its roots are not deeply rooted. Your values, principles and relationships are like tree roots. They can be easily uprooted at the slightest provocation when the roots are shallow. We caught a good sign! It isn't that building right behind but a little farther down. This is the Cowboy Mart shown on the previous sign. An uncle runs the place. I spoke to  him and he is doing fairly well selling drinks, biscuits, etc. He had a little...