post-scuba
the trip was excellent. the deep blue sea is a whole new world that deserves every bit of awe and respect you think it should. its magnificent. just as with everything wonderful, i wish we had more time, more dives and more time underwater. (curse you nitrogen!!)
its somehow ironic how the lack of lighting that we're so used to in singapore, from skyscrapers and common street lights that line every possible road we have, managed to light up the entire night sky for us. it was amazing to see all those stars just sitting there, as if waiting to be seen. i mean we know these stars are there but actually laying your eyes on them is a totally different story altogether. and to think that at this very moment, here in singapore, these stars are actually up there, right above my head, but there's absolutely nothing i can do to see them is slightly weird isnt it? isnt it worse to know that they're up there but we can see them at all? we managed to get so far here on our little island, but bit by bit, with every new bulb we fix up, we're slowly depriving ourselves of one of the most perfect views ever. we rarely even get to see shooting stars here, of which i saw four in tioman, in a span of about 15 minutes walking on the beach.
when i saw the first one, ankita told me to make a wish. now im not much of a believer in these things but i did it anyway. and then i thought about how unfortunate it is in singapore we dont see stuff like this, about how we have deprived ourselves of the simple joy of wish-making, about how they could be right over our heads, the ability to wish for whatever we want, our dreams and hopes, but we dont even know it. and then i thought about singaporeans, about how many are doing jobs they dont want to do, settling for things (home, car, life-partner) because stuff are either (more often than not) too expensive or people dont wanna wait too long. we have become a group of people who settle, and all this is nicely described as "adaptable".
all this ran through my head while i was making that one wish (its amazing, by the way, how instantaneous it seems to understand an idea when it comes to you, how it makes so much sense, but that it takes words and words and words to explain it) and at that moment i felt immense pity for singaporeans. the more we progress, the more obscure our dreams and hopes become it seems.
i dont want to be that person who settles.
the trip was excellent. the deep blue sea is a whole new world that deserves every bit of awe and respect you think it should. its magnificent. just as with everything wonderful, i wish we had more time, more dives and more time underwater. (curse you nitrogen!!)
its somehow ironic how the lack of lighting that we're so used to in singapore, from skyscrapers and common street lights that line every possible road we have, managed to light up the entire night sky for us. it was amazing to see all those stars just sitting there, as if waiting to be seen. i mean we know these stars are there but actually laying your eyes on them is a totally different story altogether. and to think that at this very moment, here in singapore, these stars are actually up there, right above my head, but there's absolutely nothing i can do to see them is slightly weird isnt it? isnt it worse to know that they're up there but we can see them at all? we managed to get so far here on our little island, but bit by bit, with every new bulb we fix up, we're slowly depriving ourselves of one of the most perfect views ever. we rarely even get to see shooting stars here, of which i saw four in tioman, in a span of about 15 minutes walking on the beach.
when i saw the first one, ankita told me to make a wish. now im not much of a believer in these things but i did it anyway. and then i thought about how unfortunate it is in singapore we dont see stuff like this, about how we have deprived ourselves of the simple joy of wish-making, about how they could be right over our heads, the ability to wish for whatever we want, our dreams and hopes, but we dont even know it. and then i thought about singaporeans, about how many are doing jobs they dont want to do, settling for things (home, car, life-partner) because stuff are either (more often than not) too expensive or people dont wanna wait too long. we have become a group of people who settle, and all this is nicely described as "adaptable".
all this ran through my head while i was making that one wish (its amazing, by the way, how instantaneous it seems to understand an idea when it comes to you, how it makes so much sense, but that it takes words and words and words to explain it) and at that moment i felt immense pity for singaporeans. the more we progress, the more obscure our dreams and hopes become it seems.
i dont want to be that person who settles.
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