Went to Haw Par Villa last Saturday with Nicole, Rinaz, chillycraps, DK, endoh, malique and his missus, mintea and arzhou.

It was a little worrying when I left home around 1115hrs because it was starting to rain at Jurong and the people I knew living along the AYE and the West Coast were reporting that it is overcast in their area – from Taman Jurong all the way to Alexandra.

I first met Endoh, chillycraps and nicole at Vivocity for a light bite, and then went to the supermart to pick up some drinks, food, and also some disposable plates and cups. It was already 1330hrs when we left Vivocity, in which Mintea has already arrived. We arrived at almost the same time as Rinaz, while the rest arrive at their own time later.

We had fun looking at the statues and making fun of them and we end up playing games – like Indian Poker – in which the punishment is to eat the food. I suspect Old Chang Kee won’t be selling chillycraps any curry puff for a long time as chillycraps is probably suffering from curry-puff phobia from having too much of them and Mintea’s mother’s curry puffs are really good!

Anyway, it is a little sad looking at the place… there are few visitors, and some of the statues appear to be in need of a new paint job. There’s even cracks on some of the monuments. I certainly hope it won’t go the way of that place beside Jurong Lake, called Tang Dynasty City or whatever. [Personally, they should just give that place to me for free and grant me a third license to turn it into an Chinese-theme IR complete with ‘dens’ for Mahjong and Chinese Dominos.]

My only regret is that we didn’t go to look at the Halls of Hell. The sentiment was that we don’t want to ‘pay and go to hell’ , though I personally didn’t accept that but I can’t have everyone wait for me while I am looking at the displays there.

Here are some of the photos I have taken. Pardon me for not having too much people in it… but you can find more photos of us when you check out the links to the blogs of the rest.

Keep the place alive! Save one of our common heritage! Visit Haw Par Villa!!