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page 9 . . . Haw Par Villa grounds


When it was still drizzling a bit, Lyndia went to look at the other side of the grounds across the big apes and koalas. She took all the pics on this page. We all walked by the whole stretch of scenes but they didn't interest me enough to take my own pictures of them.

What looked like more fighting.

I believe this is a scene from Saiyuki (or Journey to the West as most people know the legend by).

Some more anthropomorphic animals. (Yeah, I'm finally getting used to spelling the word. Using the dictionary to copy and paste has always been the easy method, but to have to do it twice in a short time tells me I should just start learning how to spell the darn word.)

These portray scenes in modern life. I think it's a display of human follies and caprices.

I do remember there was one particular scene I had looked at for a while, cos Lyndia's brother had read out the info about it and had translated. I don't have a pic of it, but it was about a useless father who spends his days gambling while his wife tends the store. Now, it was dinner time, and the good woman sends her young son to tell his father to come home. The son gets knocked down by a car on the way and dies. The story ends with the father in grief, knowing it's his fault his son had died. If he'd been at home in the tending the store, his son would never had gone out to look for him. Well, the story ends with _everyone_ being unhappy over one person's selfishness. Yes, it's a lesson. ^_^ All these modern-life scenes depict a lesson.

Buddha starving himself and giving up all worldy considerations for the path of enlightenment. (At least I think that's how they tend to say it.)

Lookie, fish folk in thongs. *_* Or well, loinwrappings?

Erm...I forgot the story behind this. But if I try to recall... This one is actually part of the story which goes like this: there is a boy up in the trees with a pack of wolves below him (or maybe he's cornered). He spots his friend nearby. He shouts for his friend to come (I think he wanted to use his friend as a ruse and run away). His friend gets mauled to death by the wolves. And the scene continues with him getting mauled himself. What is the scene trying to depict? I'm sure you can think of something. ^_^

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