Today's Nice Thing: Just being able to be back here
 |
Moss Burger - if there was ONE thing that the boys talked about incessantly it was
MOS Burger
|
 |
| Dig in |
 |
| Satisfaction guaranteed |
 |
| The face of happiness |
 |
| Blissing out |
 |
| HDB Centre |
 |
Oisin described it like being in an episode of Black Mirror
I am beginning to increasingly think that you can either have order
and tyranny or disorder and freedom...
of course education is the key to the solution |
 |
| Models of HDB flats |
 |
| Home sweet home sweet home sweet home |
 |
| Finally the HDB is getting on the green agenda |
 |
| Here is one area that Singapore can really make a difference |
 |
Of course if you ARE destroying the original habitats
to create these Green Hubs, I think that is a bit ironic |
 |
Nonetheless this is where the future lies
Best practise high density housing with economies of scale OR
low density housing where everyone does their own work |
 |
| A throw back to the past |
 |
| More pretty blurb about living a Green Life |
 |
| Dunno about you but I am wondering where all that wood comes from... |
It is such a gas being back in Singapore. Everything is the same. It doesn't seem like such a long time ago we were away - and in fact it feels like we are in constant contact with each other now. I am certain that people who travel to and from places feel like this as well - the smallness of the world.
I also feel like there is a pulling away of people from experiences in the world. We have the struggling middle class of which I am barely a part of. We were the ones who were doing well about twenty years ago. Very comfortable and our experience of the world was pretty much a unique one, apart from the few extremely rich and even then, they are nothing compared to the extremely rich today. In the past only countries could have private jets - countries, drug barons, and arms dealers. They were the only people who owned or hired private jets. Now this is a relatively common phenomenon now. People hire private planes for parties, whole floors of hotels, they buy designer goods all the time - this was the preserve of the few and now this has become common place. If you are middle class you are expected to keep up with this bizarre game. Incessant travelling, and obscene consumption. You need to look or at least appear to try to look around 25 all the time if you are a woman, regardless of your age - you could be 14 or 65 and you need to look 25, and if you are a man, you are allowed to age, but now you also have to be really fit and have a boat or large car. It seems this is a must. I don't know how anyone who takes any of this seriously copes.
Because unless you have a serious amount of cash the entire enterprise is a nightmare. Of course the best thing to do is to just say, fuck it to the entire thing and just go your own way. Honestly, this is probably the overwhelming reason I left Singapore because I needn't have lived up to any expectations and just been free to blob around until I found what I wanted to do.
Having been away from Singapore for 22 years now, I can safely say I have lived everywhere else for longer than I have lived in Singapore. I was here till I was 18. Then from 18 to 23 I lived in England and Norway, and then from 27 to now 48, Ireland. Ireland has always been my home - it has become my home - Singapore is still home, but it is now the place I go to visit in my holidays and I love doing that. It breaks me heart what has happened to so many places, but Asia, is generally fucked - because of the corruption and stupidity. Why is it that corrupt people are generally stupid? When I mean stupid I mean that they allow themselves to be bought for stupid things like destroying the planet, killing people, instituting massive inequality. There are evil people - who are not stupid. But in general, if you are corrupt you are stupid.
If you are evil you tend to be unethical.
I think that is the definition of evil - being purposely unethical. Seeking it out actually. And you can be poor and evil. Or rich and evil. But if you are corrupt you are usually stupid. And guess what, the evil people who buy you off also think you are stupid - they do not have any respect for you because your integrity, if you ever had it - can be bought. And say what you like, evil people far prefer people who are worthy adversaries than idiots. Goons. They don't respect them. All the stereotypes are sadly true.
After HDB, we came home and I fell asleep and the boys soon fell asleep. After that we headed to Bukit Timah Plaza to get Alex. Alex is so cute, honestly. He has become a repository for jokes. He tells the best jokes which are also very funny and clever. And he has this deadpan delivery which makes them even funnier. The told this joke about socks and golfers which made Pa laugh and laugh.
Speaking about evil - it is good to be here, where being in the presence of a gaslighting lying self-interested hypocrite is very trying. Here I am able to be with my family and just find myself once more. I went running this morning. It was quite funny. I did not pack my running shorts and only have these super tight cycling shorts. I managed to run in them, but they are my goal now. Having been forced to confront my weight, this is a good indication of where I need to be and I know I can be there in seven weeks. It is totally possible. I have done it before and I will do it again. By the end of 7 weeks I am going to be fit, back in shape both literally and metaphorically.
Right, time for planning. We will probably get up later around 3 am and head to RK. I love Singaporean nights. Love them. We are so lucky to live here and now - during this incredibly exciting time, where literally, anything is possible.
Comments