A green campus

Today, I visited my alma mater, the National University of Singapore, for lunch with a long-time friend. As I walked through the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, I was pleased to see that the expansive greenery that I had fallen in love with when I was a student from 2005 to 2009 is mostly still around.

These trees must be decades old!

Walking down Kent Ridge Drive.

I lived on campus for four years, and weekends during the school holidays were my favourite time - the campus would be largely deserted, and I could go for long walks in peace.

A classified mystery

Spotted this advertisement in the Classified section of The Straits Times in 1979:

So many questions.

1. What was the “urgent matter”?

2. What happened between them, which led to the subject being uncontactable by phone or a visit?

42 years have passed. We’ll never know!

Half an expressway

A semi-expressway is being built in the northern part of Punggol town, north of Punggol Waterway, connecting Seletar North Link in the west to the road named Punggol East in the east.

Punggol town. The semi-expressway is marked pink. Base picture credit: Streetdirectory.com.

Compared to an expressway, a semi-expressway has lower speed limits. Examples include West Coast Highway and Nicoll Highway with speed limits of 70km/h.

Here’s a shot of Punggol’s semi-expressway under construction, taken from the West Loop of the Punggol LRT Line.

The semi-expressway lies on a slope overlooking Punggol Waterway, which had been excavated out of the natural landscape.