the wandering fool: a blog about walking.
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Beauty World, Toh Yi, Eng Kong, Cheng Soon, and environs
I’ll be honest: 2023 wasn’t a great year for walking for me. I’m not entirely sure why. I just didn’t go for anywhere near as many walks as I did previous years. New hobbies, new priorities, that take up time on the weekend, perhaps. Which is not to say I didn’t go walking at all.…
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Shunfu, Jalan Pemimpin & Bishan North
So back in August I decided to go for a quick walk one Sunday afternoon, somewhere not too far from where I lived: Shunfu, Jalan Pemimpin, perhaps as far as Bishan. The year so far hasn’t been a great one for walks. I’ve gone for walks far less frequently, and the walks I’ve been on…
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Clementi Old and New: Casa Clementi, West Coast Court, Clementi Shine, and Pei Tong Primary
I have a sort of fondness for Clementi that comes from the fact that I spent a lot of time there in my 20s, a period of exploration in anybody’s life, mine no less so. I was pushing the boundaries of who I was, what I believed in, who I wanted to be. Clementi formed…
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Geocaching in Tampines
Something I enjoy doing other than going for long walks is geocaching. I’ve mentioned it at least twice, in a couple of other posts. Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity played the world over, in which some participants hide containers, or “geocaches”, in publicly accessible places, and other participants look for them, with the help…
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Bugis to Novena
The walks I go on are seldom very rigorously planned to begin with. Sometimes they happen more or less spontaneously. This particular Saturday in March this year, I found myself in Bugis with a couple of hours to spare, and decided I’d make a detour on the way home, walking to Novena and catching the…
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Bukit Merah to Orchard
Towards the end of April, I went on a walk from Bukit Merah to Orchard. I’d been on a few walks around Bukit Merah before, and found I quite liked the area, and would like to revisit it. At the same time, I was feeling like a bit of variety, and decided I’d spice the…
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Serangoon Garden
So I’d had my eye on a walk in Serangoon Garden for some time now. The landed housing estate wasn’t too far from where I lived, so it mades for a convenient walk. That and, after my walk in Braddell Heights earlier in February, I found I wasn’t quite done with Serangoon. I decided it…
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Woodleigh Park, Carmichael Road, and Braddell Heights
After months of endless wet weather, things finally started to look drier this February. Turns out, I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up too high. February ended up being a pretty rainy month still. All the same, I did manage to go for a couple of walks, including one centred around Woodleigh Park. I’d had…
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University Road Estate
After three consecutive blog posts about walks from my backlog, finally, here’s one that I did this year. On 23 Feb 2023, I went for a walk around what I’m going to call “University Road Estate”. I have no idea if this is its official name. I wasn’t able to find one, even though I’m…
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North East Line from Farrer Park to Sengkang
The weather in January was pretty unpredictable, and so once again I must pull from my backlog. In December last year, I went for a walk along the North East Line (NEL), from Farrer Park to Sengkang. To be honest. I wasn’t sure I wanted to write about this walk, for two reasons: I didn’t…
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