I embraced Singapore today on this first day of the hols.
Chucking academia aside, my entire morning and afternoon was consumed at Depot road with my ns medical. I won't spoil it for anyone here, but if anything just hope that they find your vein the first time. Hahaha.
But seriously I felt that much more like an eighteen year old upon taking the compulsory photograph in the recruit uniform, as lame as that sounds, declaring that no I don't smoke or have a tattoo, that my highest qualification is PSLE and yes sir I did go to secondary school, receiving my NS recruit's guide, learning the acronyms, learning what PES really means amongst other things, seeing other 18 year olds from all walks of life (and er arthur,nigel,yuen gi and hans) going through the same things for those five hours, and well, eating my first meal at the canteen. Condemn. But seriously, x2, I'm gonna embrace the rest of my sheltered life centered on studying and achieving paper goals because once that is done, I have to start being a man.
So I went home trying to psyche myself up for focus camp tmr, but all I have been doing (and I admit rather readily) is watching youtube videos on Singapore. It's a pretty intriguing mix. And it all started from watching hokkien bond for the 13136361719th time. That led me to 'Chinese uncle and malay boy fight in singapore bus', 'Singapore bus incident 1', 'singapore bus incident 2' etc etc. Till I came to 'Singapore Rebel', a short about Chee Soon Juan that was never showed commercially in Singapore due to it's 'political' nature. nnnoooo sshhiittt.
And then I came to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc8C0oKXbWk
Royston Tan's 15. Yeah the whole thing's on youtube, sadly enough. I wanted to buy it the other time, but I was underaged then...ah never mind. Anyway this section (Part 4) is particularly poignant, and I don't know, I'd like to say that it stirs up mixed feelings within about role reversals, and my identity as a chaoangmohkia, but well, it doesn't do the movie justice to critique it like a chaoangmohkia. And I'd post the actual clip, but nah. wait till other chaoangmohkias don't like. (:
Anyway just a heads up la it's a little violent and vulgar, but we're all mature enough I hope, and it's pretty chastising.. Actually, I feel pretty inept, and pretentious writing here. It's a real no other city moment, if you know what I mean..deep singaporean poetry that don't tackle the heart of the matter. Sigh. the whole don't know who's right feeling. mmm.