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Go green?! The music of melancholy playing through the gardens!!
Who: Niko, ???
Where: Kochi Jinja Park
What: A chance encounter
When: June 16, Afternoon
Kochi Jinja Park is set east in the city. It is, as far as places in the city goes, one of the few that offers some semblance of peace for those who go there. Oh, it's not that it's not loud and bustling: you can count on every gradeschooler, highschooler with free time (which is rare) and women with babies going there, because unlike other attractions in the city (even the popular Scarlet Road), Kochi Jinja park is free.
Because of this, there's a bit of corner-cutting in the park's maintenance, but only on small things. Some signs have grown rusty from rain, and a few benches are not suitable for even the most tolerant of bottoms, lest you want them to crack under you. But by and large, the rows of trees - planted neatly - grow to offer shade across the many, crisscrossing paved paths, most of which lead to the park's main attraction: the botanical gardens of the city.
They're an attraction because the municipality forgot about them about ten years ago, and thus brought forth many, many protest groups that demanded the funding to be returned to them. What began as repeated acts of civil discontent became the eventual occupants of the gardens, which rapidly became the place for most of anyone needing a stage for social commentary, or simply for a place to fetch attention, to count on an audience whose legs are too tired from park walking to wander off. And yet, most strangely, the plants growing there (if somewhat wildly) have managed to thrive.
Where: Kochi Jinja Park
What: A chance encounter
When: June 16, Afternoon
Kochi Jinja Park is set east in the city. It is, as far as places in the city goes, one of the few that offers some semblance of peace for those who go there. Oh, it's not that it's not loud and bustling: you can count on every gradeschooler, highschooler with free time (which is rare) and women with babies going there, because unlike other attractions in the city (even the popular Scarlet Road), Kochi Jinja park is free.
Because of this, there's a bit of corner-cutting in the park's maintenance, but only on small things. Some signs have grown rusty from rain, and a few benches are not suitable for even the most tolerant of bottoms, lest you want them to crack under you. But by and large, the rows of trees - planted neatly - grow to offer shade across the many, crisscrossing paved paths, most of which lead to the park's main attraction: the botanical gardens of the city.
They're an attraction because the municipality forgot about them about ten years ago, and thus brought forth many, many protest groups that demanded the funding to be returned to them. What began as repeated acts of civil discontent became the eventual occupants of the gardens, which rapidly became the place for most of anyone needing a stage for social commentary, or simply for a place to fetch attention, to count on an audience whose legs are too tired from park walking to wander off. And yet, most strangely, the plants growing there (if somewhat wildly) have managed to thrive.