When Instagram was first starting out, everyone was trying their best to get these really cool artistic photos. It was all these really high saturation, high contrast, tonnes of grain type of photos. Then the whole tilt shift lens thing came in and everyone wanted their places to look mini and small.
It was at that time, that I decided I would attempt to overthrow the photography overlords, and post a bunch of night scenes. The only thing is, no one can see what on earth is going on in a night scene. It just looks dark and some spots of light just shining out. What does that even mean for someone looking?
In any case, here’s a recent night scene that I’ve been enjoying, as part of my memories of living here.
It’s been a good three years since moving into this neighbourhood. We used to walk back from Outram park station, thinking to ourselves that we would be moving away from the area by the time the North East Line comes up. Eventually, COVID hit, and we realised that maybe we would be here longer than we expected. Then another year passed, and we’re still in the middle of it. And now, the North East Line is opening up soon, and we’re still here.
The building in construction isn’t part of the Outram Park station at all. It’s actually a condominium that’s being built slowly, and has been around since. It’s just fun to have this picture on, as one of the things that we would always walk by when we’re on our way back home from the MRT station.
One of the key things I need to highlight for the sake of the international audience that might be watching/reading this post after watching my YouTube Videos:
- Constant construction is a large part of Singaporean life. Living in one of the most expensive cities in the world, if not the most, comes with a constant change to improve and to build better, sleeker looking buildings. These condominiums are the size of two or three bedrooms put together, and will ring you up for a few million Singapore Dollars (current conversion rate’s about 1.34USD per 1SGD).
- We do have people driving, but cars are another huge cost, so a lot of us rely on public transport to get around. These systems are called MRT – Mass Rapid Transit. They’re trains that are sometimes driven and sometimes automatic. There’s a location stop every 2-4km in Singapore, so the nation is pretty well covered. The closest station to my house is called Outram Park station (Here’s the wiki page)
- Everyone is quite very tech savvy in Singapore, and most if not all our elderly have to deal with tech one way or another. Currently all public mall access requires vaccinations and digital identification via our government based identification systems (maybe I should write a scifi post about this just for the fun of it).
All these are fun things to know, if you’re a fellow keyboard enthusiast, and interested to find out more things about other keyboard people around the world. There’s quite a few of us in Singapore, and it’s better that you know now that we’re not a part of China at all. Hopefully this helps to educate, and shed light into learning some new things.
If you’re a personal friend of mine and reading this, please bear with me. It says on my stats that a lot of people who visit my site aren’t from Singapore, so this is just to help them understand our Sunny Singapore better.