Posts Tagged ‘work life balance’
Singapura
Singapore’s UNESCO World Heritage listed Botanic Gardens. Image taken on a Fuji X70. All images: LHL
Initially, I was joyful to see the sunny dispositions
of Singaporeans
and their warm, unwavering, spotless streets.
It looked prosperous, clean, multicultural, industrious.
Excellent infrastructure, a well regarded greening policy, a much admired economy.
It took me a little while — a process of slow but inevitable discovery —
to see the unsunny side.
The darker, more complex reality.
Here follows a WhatsApp text conversation, over a period of a couple of weeks, between me and a Singaporean woman of similar age to me, whom I met while I stayed in Singapore. She is Chinese Singaporean, speaks Chinese and English, and works in a bank:
