Price of Progess: A new dawn

I'm not a track and field athlete and neither am I a huge fan of the annual NDP. :p

So frankly, other than once during my Junior college first year , many years ago, where I headed there once with my swim team for a single pathetic gym session and another time when I ran a half marathon during my Army Daze which started and ended there, I 'm totally unfamiliar with the place.

Ok, so there was this time , of more recent memory which I was there for a Sports Seminar.

But all other 'outside' instances at the car parks or the MacDonald's nearby... don't count.

Ok, talkin 'bout our National Stadium.

But still, on the rare occasion(s) I was there, it's frankly, awe-inspiring. Getting old yes. Messy, yes (maybe because when I was there last, it was only days after the NDP last year (2006); which also happened to be the final time it was held there)

But I would imagine the moments others have spent there. The moments of joy and laughter at the parades, the impossible crowds, the pain and sorrows of competition and marathons, the illegal carpark drag races.... Decades of all that.

So long a while that we have taken it as a given ; for granted.

Until suddenly, the government says, its gone.

" We're making way for a new sports hub and
the whole area will be redeveloped."

We've lost another Icon of our times.

When you're reading this post, its either already gone or counting down to the final few days where the last pillar falls.

A new dawn has come.

Yester-years are but memories.

Yeah, I'll definitely be missin it. A lot. :(;;;