23rd October '2011 (Sunday)

This late afternoon, I took that walk that was so frequent for me to take in the past few months.
To & fro Ave 8, to Ave 9 and back to Ave 8.

Haven't passed by that area for 4 weeks plus now.
Before the walk, I wondered how Hougang Point looks like now.
The last time I was there, left few shops still open for business before they completely close for upgrading works.
The place we used to do our weekly grocery shopping at.

I stroll there, did not take my usual pace and then I realised it was not long before I was near his place.
It is actually so near... so near...
Under the block, the place felt so unfamilar to me of a sudden to the extent I needed to ascertain that I was at the right block looking around the surroundings again.

Dropped his stuff like a postman and strolled back to Ave 8.
On the way back, Hougang Point was so quiet, so deserted like a dead town, totally another world I never knew.
So different until not much memories bombarded my mind at lightning speed like the usual, neither did I see much scenes of the 2 of us.
My mind only knew "yeah, thats' where we do our weekly grocery shopping at."

Everything felt so surreal.
The steps I took, the route I was on and all the things before my eyes.
It felt so near, yet so far...