The Squeeze and The Great Divide
Society is a bit like a marsupial, whose warm pouches are welcoming to its own kin and a provider of treasured things such as affection and companionship. Of course, the social security construct works its best magic to bridge the gap between the well and the malnourished, so we are not talking about financial differences. And since we all survive day-to-day on our varying diets, we are also not concerned with intake of food. What precisely am I talking about, then?
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By wild winter end and springtime eve
The raw harvest would come to heave
The apprentice’s eyes and scholarly arms
Took the dry reed and dark dense mud
And tempered with pins and needles and a rhythmic thud
To make a solid mark high above soft sand and river tide
The jungle man, the jungle man
Took to himself the splintered tools and ambition
And sought a stronghold where the green vines grow
Like the southern sea yearns for mangrove trees
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My Singapore Sling: The Fool’s Journey Home
Nobody had to tell me that travelling was a difficult and testing experience: I began to realise the enormity of my deed the moment I boarded Singapore Airline’s new (jet) pet, the Airbus 380. My weightlessness to the larger scope of the world became apparent as the plane lifted its giant steel wings in challenge to traverse the sky on that clear Sydney morning. I said my vows to my family as I would not see them for some several weeks later - in our hearts we all knew, in one way or another, that this would be the most rewarding trip of all - my first overseas journey.
Before I knew it, the cargo rose to the sky and left me with little more than the assurance of years of research into the aircraft for my safety, as body and soul took to the glorious sea in search of Raffles’s treasure. The plane landed in a swift thud of wheel to concrete and a gentle nudge toward the docking station where I greeted the new land. Of course, that’s just the embellished version - if travelling were that simple, would it really be worth the harrowing fight to simply book the flight?
My final few days in Singapore are an uncertain time for me, caught in the crossfire of families each so welcoming and desirable, while the pull of time and duty presses forever anon. But through the rush of errands and against the tide of the suffocating climate, some truly great things have happened with little more than an open mind.
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