Lotte SATU (:

HEY! :D In this little space I shall attempt to pen down the experiences my group and I had on our BUKIT TIMAH HERITAGE TRAIL! :D

Once upon a time, Dr Ivy Lim called out for representatives from every little history group of… 5 I think, I forgot if there were any who had more or less than 5… to pick out a destination for their heritage trails!

AND…..I went up and fished out “Bukit Timah”. Honestly, I wasn’t that excited about it. UNTIL I saw the list of sites at Bukit Timah we had to check out. Dude… I always thought Bukit Timah was “the rich man place” but apparently, there was more to it than that. Duh huh. :P

30 Jan, Saturday morning… We met up Newton MRT station, supposedly at 11am. I WAS SO LATE! Thank God my group mates were nice and patient with me and they welcomed me into Amantha’s family’s car- THE silver Toyota Altis. :D Just a side note, we really appreciate Amantha for offering to drive us around the whole day, spending her energy driving and paying attention on the road each time we got back in the car, her money on petrol… (: YAY WE LOVE YOU AMANTHA AND PARENTS WHO ALLOWED HER TO TAKE THE CAR!

Sneak peek at our driver of the day :D All decked in pink. (i was surprised NISHA wasn't in pink!!! she's my other pink friend heeee)

Okay! Before the trip, we actually did some self-directed learning and collaborative learning (sorry man, I just had AED107 ICT on yesterday, the terms are fresh in my head) by taking up allocated parts of the list of sites at Bukit Timah and doing our individual research on them. Then, we sent each other the research and compiled into a longgggg Word Doc for everyone to refer to before and during the Heritage Trail.

At first, it seemed like mundane task but when I looked at the fruit of our research on Bukit Timah, it got me thinking about the history there. It got me more interested to know about what happened there at Bukit Timah Old Ford Factory, the Railway Station, Botanical Gardens, even King Albert’s Park! And more, of course :D Not only that, I wanted to look for myself if there were actually physical remnants of history left for us to pour over. Unfortunately, many of these sites, for example the Botanical Gardens, King Albert’s Park, Old Ford Factory, the Fire Station…got renovated and revamped for either recreational purposes, or into some modern-day history site. Though it’s said all this was done for the sake of the advancement of society, I feel a pinch of loss for the culture of early Singapore. Sad that I couldn’t really “revisit” history physically.

BUTTTT i had fun anyway (: with my funky group (: without them i think it'd have been abit more mundane, more colourless, more boring, more quiet, more..................................oh well i had them (:

MUAHAHA this was an overview! shall look into the memorable stops I had with my groupie next post :D

Love, CHARLOTTE:D