Temple vs fitness

Date: 02 Sep 2012
Time: 0910 hrs
Place: between National Library and Bras Basah Complex

Here I was, jogging. Looking sweaty. Looking forward. To my right, I sensed a couple. A man wearing bermudas and t-shirt and his female companion, similarly dressed, eating from a pack of dried mango. He came up to me and asked me, in Mandarin, where the Kuan Im temple was. I was actually taken aback, so I paused, jogged on the spot, and wondered for a few seconds what would possess this man to ask someone directions in mid-jog. But I was kind and told him to just go down the street, turn left at junction (Middle Road) and walk down about 200 metres, and the temple is on the right. He thanked me and I jogged off.