Monday, December 01, 2003

Hyde Park

The sun was shining brightly today and so I went to one of the places I have always wanted to visit - Hyde Park. It's the largest open space in central London with an area of about 145 hectares. Speaker's Corner made its debut there more than a century ago and from then on, people with a soapbox or ladder or anything else to stand on will gather here every Sunday, and just maunder and ramble on anything they can think of. Today almost every speaker was talking about God and Jesus and Christanity and other religious stuff that are bound to be deemed as highly sensitive topics in Singapore. It was rather entertaining oratory, though they didn't make sense most of all the time and the audience would just rebut spontaneously and sparked off intriguing debates... And they just kept on haranguing and couldn't be bothered with the many cameras aiming at them. And I'm one of them.

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