Date: Monday, May 03, 2010 Time: 12:12 PM
ITS CLEAR YOU CAN SEE THE CHANGES AROUND YOU WHEN YOU COMPARE SAY, HDB FLATS EVERYWHERE TO THE CONDOS OF ALL WEIRD NAMES AND SIZES SPRINGING OUT OF NOWHERE. THEN WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN THERE FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS OF YOUR LIFE BUT NEVER APPRECIATED IT BECOME A NEW CONDO? THATS WHEN GLOBALISATION/ MODERNISATION HITS YOU. IT MAKES YOU WONDER HOW MUCH OF YOUR CHILDHOOD LANDMARKS YOU WILL STILL POSSES ONCE YOU GROW UP. I MEAN YOU DONT SEE PASAR MALAMS EVERYWHERE NOW DO YOU? EVEN COFFEESHOPS ARE GETTING REVAMPED INTO FOOD COURTS AND NO ONE HAS BULKY COMPUTER SCREENS WITH THE HEAVY CPUS WITH DISKETTE DRIVES ANYMORE. HECK, WE DONT EVEN USE DISKETTES ANYMORE. JUST MAKES YOU WONDER DOESNT IT? LOSING YOUR CHILDHOOD PLAYTHINGS TO GLOBALISATION. TO CHANGE. THEN WHATS THE USE OF NOSTALGIA, OF SENTIMENTALITY IF THERE IS NOTHING AROUND YOU THAT CAN PROVOKE SUCH FEELINGS. THE WORLD SHOULD JUST SLOW DOWN. OR WE SHOULD JUST ALL MIGRATE TO RIVA WHERE THEY CAN AFFORD TO HAVE 2 HOUR NAPS AFTER LUNCH. YES ITS BEEN SLIGHTLY OVER A MONTH AFTER RIVA BUT I THINK EVERYONE WHO WENT LEFT A LITTLE PART OF THEMSELVES THERE AND NOW THAT WE ARE BACK, WE FEEL AS THOUGH A PART OF US IS MISSING. WHAT WE WOULD GIVE TO GO BACK OR EVEN STAY THERE. WHAT WE WOULD GIVE TO PERFORM AT THE GIUSEPPE AGAIN AND AGAIN... WHAT WE WOULD GIVE TO WAKE UP AND SEE EACH OTHER AT BREAKFAST, WHAT WE WOULD GIVE TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN. WHAT WOULD WE GIVE... GROWING UP IS A PAINFUL PROCESS. NO ONE ELSE CAN DO IT FOR YOU. YOU JUST GET A LITTLE OLDER, A LITTLE WISER AS THE DAYS GO BY. SOON , YOU REALISE WHO YOU WANT TO BE AND WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IN LIFE. ALONG THE WAY, YOU MAKE FRIENDS, LOSE SOME. YOU FALL DOWN BUT PICK YOURSELF UP AGAIN. YOU WANT TO GIVE UP, BUT THERES' NO TURNING BACK. AFTERALL, LIFE IS ONE HECK OF A RIDE. Labels: GROWING UP. |