One of my goals for 2021 is to visit as many parks and playgrounds in Singapore as possible. Not that I have any particular obsession with parks and playgrounds, but aside from geocaching, it's just another excuse to go walking in Singapore, giving a bit of structure to my meanderings. While I'm at it, may as well hide some caches as well! At least at those playgrounds convenient enough for me to do maintenance on, since I don't drive.
Decided that for the first cache in this casual "series", I may as well pop by the playground at Taman Permata estate, since this is relatively close to where I live. I used to pass by this place many times as a kid, but to be honest it wasn't the playground I remember most, but Lake View Shopping Centre instead. My family used to visit the hawker centre here every weekend for a delicious breakfast, and to stock up on the week's groceries at the wet market. This was also where I got my hair cut, and where I went to see the doctor when I fell sick. When the place was torn down sometime in the 1990s a huge chunk of my childhood disappeared with it. Even now, decades later, I find I miss the place, and wish I had more pictures to remember it by.
