I came up with something during my night of baking a chocolate cake but unfortunately, I've forgotten it.
My life is sometimes just so random. Yet all the same, it's quite boring.
Said chocolate cake gave me a sore throat which hasn't recovered since Thursday morning (it's Sunday night now). I suppose it was my mistake to eat a spoonful of chocolate ganache (i.e. mostly melted chocolate and some other sinful thing) in a bid to waste lesser money. Heh. Then I cooked steak, and tonight was pork chop and rice. Rice was too hard though. Oops. Baking and cooking is fun, but its toll on my pocket is not so fun. I'm relatively broke as of now. And you get to realise how sinful most western foods are. Western, because I've not cooked anything else for now. Shall attempt Chinese or some other Asian thing soon.
Anyway, while cycling with friends one day, I realised that if Singapore would have lesser people staying in it in the future (regardless of the Government's current plan to increase population size - mine is long term), it's because we have diverted too much from nature. Imagine, a city where most nature is manufactured and simply aartificial. Then compare it to another place - it could be anywhere in the world - but the parks run mostly free; the sand is natural; the trees aren't imported; the river isn't fake or made into a sad little canal. I'd choose the latter any time. Sometimes, in the race towards extra greenery or anything else to tout being cosmopolitan, or trying to increase the population and neglecting every other side effect, we Singaporeans inadvertently shoot ourselves in the foot. This replacing of natural grassland and woods with buildings and concrete can be said to have happened for most cities around the world, in fact. And it can be compared to a human progressively getting new metal parts and turning into a cyborg. While the overarching idea is ostensibly for progress while preserving culture, we may, in retrospect, suddenly find that we are not who we once were. So where's the culture that we speak so proudly of? Or has it silently vanished into the background while we were focused on developing everything else? Was it really there in the first place?
My life is sometimes just so random. Yet all the same, it's quite boring.
Said chocolate cake gave me a sore throat which hasn't recovered since Thursday morning (it's Sunday night now). I suppose it was my mistake to eat a spoonful of chocolate ganache (i.e. mostly melted chocolate and some other sinful thing) in a bid to waste lesser money. Heh. Then I cooked steak, and tonight was pork chop and rice. Rice was too hard though. Oops. Baking and cooking is fun, but its toll on my pocket is not so fun. I'm relatively broke as of now. And you get to realise how sinful most western foods are. Western, because I've not cooked anything else for now. Shall attempt Chinese or some other Asian thing soon.
Anyway, while cycling with friends one day, I realised that if Singapore would have lesser people staying in it in the future (regardless of the Government's current plan to increase population size - mine is long term), it's because we have diverted too much from nature. Imagine, a city where most nature is manufactured and simply aartificial. Then compare it to another place - it could be anywhere in the world - but the parks run mostly free; the sand is natural; the trees aren't imported; the river isn't fake or made into a sad little canal. I'd choose the latter any time. Sometimes, in the race towards extra greenery or anything else to tout being cosmopolitan, or trying to increase the population and neglecting every other side effect, we Singaporeans inadvertently shoot ourselves in the foot. This replacing of natural grassland and woods with buildings and concrete can be said to have happened for most cities around the world, in fact. And it can be compared to a human progressively getting new metal parts and turning into a cyborg. While the overarching idea is ostensibly for progress while preserving culture, we may, in retrospect, suddenly find that we are not who we once were. So where's the culture that we speak so proudly of? Or has it silently vanished into the background while we were focused on developing everything else? Was it really there in the first place?
