Sometimes, I really pity the younger generations of Singaporean. Since young, they will face all sorts of artificial things. The river is man-made, the gardens are man-made, even certain sceneries also man-made. What is natural and what is artificial, sometimes, I do not think these people really know about it.Personally, I have a joke to share. This was happened forty odd years ago. That time, Chai Chee was still a rural area. I said rural that means no electricity, no tap water and so on. One day, a group of us went there for hiking. One boy was born and stayed in the city area since young. That day, one the course of the hike, suddenly a Berkshire boar dashed out from the side of the road. The boy got scared out of his dear life. He scream and run as fast as he could. After the boar has disappeared into the village, and the boy calmed down. We asked him actually what was in his mind when he saw that creature. He told us that he thought that was a huge wild animal that could harm him. We laughed and laughed after that. As a city boy, he would not have seen a boar (A male pig) that is almost 300kg and 1.45m tall. In his mind, pig is always cute to hug and play with. That is all from the books. When we told him that was a pig, he could not believe it for awhile.
It was the same that in one of the trip travel towards Johor River mouth in a vessel, some Singaporean screamed that we had reached the open sea. The boatman laughed and said, that was only the river mouth of Johor River. How could we blame our countrymen with this type of behavior? Our Singapore River to others is only a drain!
When you have climbed the Kinabahru Mountain, you will not name Bukit Timah Hill as Hill. Right?
When a frog stand in front of a light, he would said he is almighty, as he sees his own shadow on the wall is huge. But is this the real fact?
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