Happy Place, Happy Space
Loving Husband is on Spring Break these two weeks, which means extra run expeditions! We had an occasion to make an evening run and I had a mind to run in the Civic District – but I couldn’t quite put my finger on why.
After extended rumination, memory still didn’t serve, so we decided to make a just-because run around the Marina Bay area.
We came around to Fullerton Waterfront and spotted this red beauty; suddenly I remembered why I wanted to run here: the Ar-mazing Tigers.
“Life is not a circus”, Mauro Peruchetti (Italy)
WWF-Singapore’s AR-mazing Tiger Trail is raising awareness and funding to address the unrelenting decline in tiger populations across Southeast Asia. At the start of the 20th century, 100,000 wild tigers wandered the Earth; today, only around 3,900 wild tigers remain and Southeast Asia is where the big cats face the most urgent crisis tigers …
Discover over 30 tiger sculptures and tiger-inspired art pieces designed by international and local artists (at various locations around Singapore). Each sculpture has a unique concept behind it.
World Wildlife Fund, Singapore
We found two more that evening.
In early February, while celebrating Chinese New Year, these tigers were gathered in Chinatown before they were scattered across the island. We managed to catch some of them.
Post-script: still thinking about these tigers, we made a run to Gardens by the Bay this morning (Monday, Apr 4) to visit more of them.
Reading your Joyful Posts brings me to my happy place. I hope having them in one place makes it easier for you to find when you need a bit of happy therapy, too.
If you would like to join in Happy Place, Happy Space, ping back to this post and I will include you next week
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- Laurie at Notes from the Hinterland‘s Friday Favorites: The Consolation of Nature: feels comforted by signs of Spring
- Markus + Micah‘s My first snow fall in Germany: watches the snow
- Nancy Loderick‘s It’s Peep time: celebrates the return of Peeps
- Natalie at Little Pieces of Me‘s Grateful Fridays: photographs a fundraiser for local equine rescue
- Natalie the Explorer‘s How I Enjoyed March 2022: delights in a month of good health, joyful moments and fun experiences
- Thistles and Kiwis’ This Week’s Small Pleasures: enjoys the pleasures of Autumn
- Trent’s World‘s The Weekly Smile: experiences a spring snow-fall, and smiles at endeavours with music, art & writing
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This post is my contribution to
- Weekend Coffee Share hosted by Natalie the Explorer
- Weekend Sky hosted by Hammad Rais
- Photographing Public Art (PPAC) hosted by Marsha at Always Write
Touring My Backyard 
A great initiative to highlight the plight of the tigers. Under 4000 means it will be hard to preserve genetic diversity amongst them. So very sad. These creatures are incredible.
On the plus side, a run around Marina Bay is even something I would contemplate. Although it would be a gentle jog….
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That’s mostly what we do, Amanda – gentle jogging (I love the way you phrase it!) When you next visit …
Yes, you are absolutely right about the tigers. It is so very sad.
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I love this. In Bangkok, there was a similar exhibition, but with elephants – painted in different ways.
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Ah! the elephants are beloved in Thailand, yes?
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Yes indeed. In Surin, in NE Thailand, they have an elephant festival and an elephant breakfast on one of the days where they get to wander up the street and eat food that people have laid out for them 🙂
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Those sculptures are so gorgeously vibrant! Though the reason for them being there is sad, I’m thankful that they are bringing awareness to real tigers dying.
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Appreciate your support in this conversation. Awareness is a good first step.
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These tigers are soooo cool. Great way to bring awareness to this issue…makes me sooo sad.
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I echo your sadness Pam. Have been conversing with several people about the plight we are in (given that it’s Earth Month), and hopefully these are steps which will help us with living responsibly.
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The situation with the tigers has been bad for quite a while I’ve heard. But the statues are wonderful and I enjoyed them. We have cougars near us and some are really angry about how they are not being kept from our neighborhoods. If I knew there were such animals near where my children played – I too would have some means of putting the cat down if it got too close but it would cause huge problems so I don’t know the answer.
Thanks for bringing this display to us and for all the great points to think about.
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It is such a challenge to live alongside the natural world. We humans are very insistent in claiming our spaces, as you & I both well understand. And yet, as you say, it is never clear cut nor easy who we consider in our actions.
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The black tiger with the gold stars look so majestic. It reminds me of this painted Elephant exhibit at my local zoo. They come out so nice!
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It’s so fun when different artists interpret a basic “canvas”.
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What a lovely way to bring attention to such a sad state of affairs. Thank you for sharing this with us here.
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So glad to have you pop in for a visit!
And yes, it is a rather creative way to bring some attention to a much neglected cause.
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So sorry about the tiger situation. That makes me sad, especially since I love big cats. So glad you inadvertently got your brain to do what it deep down knew you wanted to do! Those sculptures are terrific! 🙂
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The power of the subconscious! seems to work better than intentional memory these days!
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Ha! Well, whatever works!
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Marvellous!
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Ooh, they are wonderful! We had lions in London a few months ago, I’d love to have these tigers too 😀
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Lions … what fun! I remember decorated Paddingtons all over the city some years back in London too!
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What fun, and for such an admirable cause. Here in Washington, DC, one finds ornamented donkeys and elephants scattered about, to represent the the two major U.S. political parties….
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I love themed art in public spaces …. the scavenger hunt aspect really appeals to me!
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Wow, how serendipitous, Ju-Lyn. Plus you also get to take a breather when you stop for a photo.
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Exactly, Tracy! you get me!
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Love those tigers and I can see why you wanted to go and look! Thanks for the mention too.
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It’s just like a scavenger hunt – very appealing!
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Shame on me but I did not see any tiger so far! they are so nice! I should go visiting around 😉
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Oh my goodness! I didn’t realise till now that you are located in Singapore!!!! What fun!
Yes yes! the tigers are around up til this weekend (9 Apr)
https://tigertrail.wwf.sg/
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What a fun collection of tigers & a great way to raise awareness 😃
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So glad to have you delight in them with me!
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That Tiger Trail is such an awesome idea! Thank you for sharing it with us.
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So glad to have you delight in them with me!
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Wow!
Wonderful to see these amazing tigers. Such an amazing work done by WWF to raise the awareness.
Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful captures with my challenge, Ju-Lyn 🙂
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Thank you for hosting us, Hammad. It is amazing what the WWF do for awareness.
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Beautiful tigers, Ju-Lyn. Thank you for the mention and for linking up with #weekendcoffeeshare.
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Thank you for coming by for a cup of coffee, Natalie – appreciate your hosting the party!
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Wonderful Tigers Ju-Lyn 🙂 🙂
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Hi Ju-Lyn. I love the tigers. The blue and red ones were especially gorgeous. What a staggering statistic to be down in number from 100,000 to 3,900! That’s not even enough to recoup! How devastating. Thanks for linking to PPAC.
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It is a creative and frightful look at the state of these majestic animals …
Thank you for hosting us and giving us the space to share public art, Marsha.
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You are so welcome, Ju-Lyn. I feel the same about your challenge! I love challenges!
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Thank you for delighting in them with me, Brian!
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P.S. As always, thanks for the mention.
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So happy to share space with you, Laurie!
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Beautiful, beautiful! But what a sad story of the decline of a species.
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Indeed sobering and a reminder that we do much to hurt our world.
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Sigh.
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