never been good with changes
a few nights ago i looked out of my window and for the first time in forever, there were a good number of stars in the sky. i'm not a big fan of stars because they freak me out, but i used to look up at them quite often when i was younger.
seeing so many stars that night made me realise that they don't appear as frequently or as brightly as they did before, probably due to the greater light pollution caused by more urbanisation in singapore.
this led me to think about all such changes around me that have occurred in the years gone by, taking long enough that i'd almost not notice it, but not quite long enough to be overlooked.
butterflies - when i run, i do it at the canal beside my house. there's a lot of greenery and flowers and shit, but one day it came to me that there were almost no butterflies! where the hell did they go to? it wasn't a seasonal thing because i go there throughout the year and i don't see them, maybe only one or two fluttering by.
i noticed this because when i was in primary 1-3, my school bus pick up point had this weird rock feature on a slope, so while waiting we would climb on the rocks and catch butterflies. it was only a small area with some flowering bushes, but there were lots of small butterflies. why aren't there any in this huge place with so many plants and flowers?
monsoon season - this used to come very regularly, i remember this because it used to rain like a fucker during the june and year-end holidays, and sometimes i would build a fort with mattresses and blankets while the rain was lashing down outside.
in recent years the rain would come and go, and it was only during november and december of last year did it finally really rain hard.
football - alex ferguson's retirement prompted me to watch a whole lot of old manchester united videos, because you know, nostalgia and shit. i saw some highlights from 2002-2003 (was that really 10 years ago?!) and it was clearly evident that everything about football has changed. the attire, pitch quality, playing style, rules, advertising boards, balls, they're all so drastically different.
the only constant throughout the years was ferguson. now he's gone too, and so have most of the stars that i grew up watching. the footballing world is a different place now and it's sad to say but i find my interest slowly fading away too.
MRT - i've never been a fan of taking the train, and so it took me quite a while to feel what so many people have been complaining about - the trains are fecking crowded. it was a few years back though, before this whole shitstorm started, when i first realised, hey, it's been a long time since i've actually sat on a train.
not that i haven't been on the MRT, but rather i haven't been able to actually sit down because there was always so many people on it, and it was not even during peak hours. it didn't occur to me then that this was due to the population increase, i just found it weird that so many people were taking the train all the damn time.
it was only when everyone started talking about this overcrowding island that i finally understood why.
seeing so many stars that night made me realise that they don't appear as frequently or as brightly as they did before, probably due to the greater light pollution caused by more urbanisation in singapore.
this led me to think about all such changes around me that have occurred in the years gone by, taking long enough that i'd almost not notice it, but not quite long enough to be overlooked.
butterflies - when i run, i do it at the canal beside my house. there's a lot of greenery and flowers and shit, but one day it came to me that there were almost no butterflies! where the hell did they go to? it wasn't a seasonal thing because i go there throughout the year and i don't see them, maybe only one or two fluttering by.
i noticed this because when i was in primary 1-3, my school bus pick up point had this weird rock feature on a slope, so while waiting we would climb on the rocks and catch butterflies. it was only a small area with some flowering bushes, but there were lots of small butterflies. why aren't there any in this huge place with so many plants and flowers?
monsoon season - this used to come very regularly, i remember this because it used to rain like a fucker during the june and year-end holidays, and sometimes i would build a fort with mattresses and blankets while the rain was lashing down outside.
in recent years the rain would come and go, and it was only during november and december of last year did it finally really rain hard.
football - alex ferguson's retirement prompted me to watch a whole lot of old manchester united videos, because you know, nostalgia and shit. i saw some highlights from 2002-2003 (was that really 10 years ago?!) and it was clearly evident that everything about football has changed. the attire, pitch quality, playing style, rules, advertising boards, balls, they're all so drastically different.
the only constant throughout the years was ferguson. now he's gone too, and so have most of the stars that i grew up watching. the footballing world is a different place now and it's sad to say but i find my interest slowly fading away too.
MRT - i've never been a fan of taking the train, and so it took me quite a while to feel what so many people have been complaining about - the trains are fecking crowded. it was a few years back though, before this whole shitstorm started, when i first realised, hey, it's been a long time since i've actually sat on a train.
not that i haven't been on the MRT, but rather i haven't been able to actually sit down because there was always so many people on it, and it was not even during peak hours. it didn't occur to me then that this was due to the population increase, i just found it weird that so many people were taking the train all the damn time.
it was only when everyone started talking about this overcrowding island that i finally understood why.
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