12:42 PM
21th Feb 2007: A trip to the old RP Campus at Phoenix Park and Kay Siang RdOkay.. On this day, me, together with some of my Photo.Republic IG people, embarked on a journey to RP's old campus at its current UNSWASIA (University of New South Wales, Asia) campus and its abandoned Phoenix Park..
Will post the photo at a later date as i have something else on later in the afternoon today (22th Feb, to went after the Service 42 12m buses, as the shortie Darts went missing for several days/weeks.)
Went to UNSWASIA one for some photo shooting before we headed to the one at Phoenix Park one.. Me and Gui Xiang headed all the way in Kay Siang Rd there until the point when we saw a dog at 1 of the private estate housings and i managed to attract the dog's attention by pointing middle finger to ask the dog to "come come"!! Lolx... In the end the dog really bark bark and ran towards the gate. Then i was like "oh shit!" and Gui Xiang stopped walking immediately and ask me not to run.. Lolx.. Lucky the owner of the dog asked the dog to come back and we managed to walk back to the main road safely. After which we reached the gate of the Phoenix Park and i made the first move by climbing in through the main rotten gate inside. Gui Xiang and Wan Ning went in after that and the 2 malay gals (I forgot their names le..) went off after that. Leaving the 3 of us, we went to explore around and took photos everywhere we went. At the end of the journey, lucky we never kena caught by the security guards, and we learned a lesson, which is to only enter it during big day like the CNY whereby the security guard taking off day.. :-p Along the way Gui Xiang told us a lot of his stories during the times when they studied in the old RP campus at Phoenix Park. After that we waited for 111 to Peninsula Plaza at the bus stop after Phoenix Park. As we were waiting, i saw a B9 (SBS7392Z) on 132, just past by my bus stop and no one boarding it.. I was like wanting to take out the DSLR to board and shoot it but i think forget it la.. So i continued to wait for 111 with them until it came.
Reaching Peninsula Plaza, we went to look for tripods and realized that many of the shops are still closing for this CNY break, and we went to Funan IT Mall after that to look around. Down there, most of the stores their tripods are pretty expensive, and after that Gui Xiang brought us down to 1 of the nice place to eat. In the end, reached there le only to see the shop closing and we walked back to Funan IT Mall and have our dinner at KFC. After dinner we passed our cameras around to see one another's photos and critique on one another's photos.
After which we took 190 from Hill St back home and end of story.. :-p
Hope to go back to Phoenix Park again if you guys have time!
Victor Lim