the view was breath-taking. the first thing i ever remembered doing when i first stepped onto the well kept grass, i was mesmerised, by the beauty, by the peace that i found only in this particular place. it was amazing how in awe i was when i just stood there, facing tens of thousands of grey plates, buried into the soil beneath. standing upright with words of praise and remembrance imprinted and specially carved onto for tt particular person. i never saw anything more beautiful then this place. it was what captured my soul. it was just an ordinary graveyard tt people visit as a tourist attraction. to me, this was where i found serenity. here in this beautiful kranji war memorial.

i walked carefully across the grasslands, there was some sort of forbidding in this place, where people come here, and automatically fall quiet, admiring the beauty within. the grass was short, so well kept that every strand of grass was sharp and pointy. the flowers next to the graves were so wellkept it seemed like no one has ever touched it before. n this beauty was not one made by men, but one that gives me the feeling, that only God could have done it.

i looked up. there was a big cross stationed at the top of the hill. it stood over the many graves magnificiently. i made my way slowly to the top of the hill, names of the warriors craved into the walls, thousands, ten thousands of them, fighting for Singapore. but it was not what the warriors did, it was not how bravely they fought and died for us that captured my heart, it was indescripable feeling. it was just the place and the beauty it held.

when we were given our free time, i walked around, at first with tiff,huiyi and huixin, but soon i drifted away from them. i didn't know why, but it was just the right place for solitude. just the right place where i feel that God is really there, it is just the place where i could get lost in. i placed my yellow carnation at the foot of the cross that overlooked everything. i started praying. this cross, overlooked everything, it must have been this cross that made me feel the peace and the beauty the place held.

the field beside it was wonderfully kept too. the grass was exactly the same, and when one sit on it, it will prick your bottoms and poke your legs. i loved that feeling. it was a clean type of feeling, like the grass was not just ordinary grass, but some sort of special grass that does not contain any form of dirt and mud. we sat there in a circle in silence. just enjoying being part of this painted picture. the wind blew strongly against our faces and our hair along with it, the feeling was sensational. we took photos, but even photos can never replace the beauty that the place had.

it was as huixin mentioned in her blog: "it just seem the place to hug someone special and never let go."