Where I Live

It feels to me, Singapore is forever 'upgrading' its residential housing (the government-owned ones, that is). There has been ongoing works where I live for a while now. The project started nearly 2 years ago; and just as I thought most of the upgrading works have been completed, new ones sprout up.

Saw something interesting on my way to lunch with sis. I wonder what the Housing Development Board is up to this time round - scribbling the block number and whatnot all over the building! 

But from afar, it's a rather spectacular sight. Up in an apartment in this block lives a man who is mentally disadvantaged. He sits on the floor by the window, peers out through the small opening and shouts incoherently down the block at any person he sees. Sis told me he does this daily.

We had yummy kuay chap for lunch. Been a while since I had that, which is one of my favourite local delights. It was a little disappointing though - the uncle was too stingy with his serving of pig's intestines.

As we walked home after lunch, we passed by this lovely sight close to home. Beautiful, isn't it? Reminds me of spring.

Strangely, I have never noticed it. Not once in the past 20 odd years that I have lived here. Sis shook her head and said, "this just shows how long you've been away from home". There is some truth in her words. Either that, or I simply had not paid much attention to my surroundings.