Miss Brown is in this picture.
Blouse tucked neatly into a pair of trousers, shoulder length hair blowing in the wind, she is exceptionally womanly, exceptionally beautiful.
Yet it wasn't just her pose that first caught my eye.
But the blocks of flats at the back of the field in which she stood.
We cannot tell for sure when this picture was taken.
But let's assume that her outfit was contemporary, let's assume that those blocks of flats on her left were newly built, and we can roughly place the time frame of this picture in either the late 70s or the early 80s.
What's charming about this picture is that the blocks of flats that border the reclaimed shoreline of Marine Parade are still there.
It's been forty years.
A generation.
The presence of these flats may not mean much to visitors who come to East Coast Park, especially if they're new, but they certainly mean much to those who have made their home of (waterfront living) over there.
Doesn't mean that new visitors won't see these flats though.
Anyone who has ever traversed the park connector on skates, rollerblades, skateboards, scooters or bicycles will recognize these flats that lie on the land side of the park across the ECP highway.
And anyone who has ever entered East Coast Park from the Parkway Parade side will know how these flats are.
You can't get to the underpass without walking under the void deck of one of these flats.
Neither can you avoid them if you're coming to the park from anywhere along the stretch of Marine Parade Road starting from the Central area all the way to near Bedok South Avenue 1.
It's public housing high rise or condominium high rise, either one of the other.
I don't know if plans for condominium high rise had been on the cards when Miss Brown posed for this picture back in the day.
Would she have known that one day the entire stretch of East Coast Park would be filled with shelters and tents and barbecue pits?
Would she have known that one day this 12km stretch of park along the coast would extend from the reclaimed area of Marina Bay and Marina Barrage all the way to Changi International Airport on the edge of the island?
She hasn't done the ECP to Changi Airport Jurassic Mile route.
But she's done a couple of picnics at East Coast Park.
And she's also ridden a bike all the way from the Parkway Parade side to the Tanah Merah Canal side.
Forty years is a long time.
Much has changed.
Much of Singapore has changed.
We don't know what it will be in the next forty years.
Or how the landscape will change further.
Maybe there'll be a new island reclaimed beyond the shores of what is East Coast Park today.
Maybe we'll have an extended coastline altogether.
It's our turn to not know.
It's our turn to not yet know.