The pianist is gone. And so is the piano...

I had a favorite corner at Raffles City SC. From there I could listen to the mesmerizing pianist performing downstairs at the hotel lobby. It was a quiet spot too. Peace and serenity. In a shopping centre.

Now that I'm at SMU, I always thought that since it is so close, I can drop by very conveniently, anytime I wish. But I was pre-occupied most of the time, and it was not until today that I visited this special place again.

When I saw no pianist in sight, I thought that maybe it was not the performance time yet. But as I look around the lobby, I realised that there is no longer any piano anywhere. I'm too late. Since some time ago, piano performance must have been canceled. *ouch*

I wonder why. Don't the hotel clients enjoy the piano serenade while they wait at the lobby? How could the hotel bear to terminate it? If only I had visited this place earlier. Never mind that Mano Cafe opened and took up a sizeable amount of space. There's still a little corner left for me. But now the entire setup is gone... It's a pity. I do not have many "special" places in mind. So it's now one less place to remember.


A few sites have that special allure that makes me classify them as "favorites" - places I'd love to go, chill, relax and just laze around, hopefully with a significant Other. Many sites are near sch. Perhaps I should take the effort to visit these places, even if alone, just to make sure no more has been closed to make way for re-development or whatever other purposes. I don't know when Destiny planned for me to bring a significant Other along. Surely I can't be waiting forever for that to happen, and meanwhile these places disappear one after another.

Hope I can spare some time one of these days to visit some of them. It's a bonus then if I get to bring anyone else along (and lottery if that person is kk? *slapz*).

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Thinking of you...