When it was reported some time ago that Spore is looking to acheiving 6.5million population in the future, i was sceptical and dismayed by the target our leaders seemed to have set. Yes, the infrastructure could be developed further, but i am not one convinced by hard facts. I only have to take the train everyday, try to get a movie ticket or walk in town to feel the overbearing number of people around sharing the same, limited space with me. And then i wonder how things could get any better as the population (with a larger proportion of foreigners) grows. Do our leaders, national planners and the like take public transport and dine at places where ordinary folk could only afford?
Each time i go to Johore I could literally feel the immense difference. I know the pasture always seems greener on the other side - this i readily concede, for when i find myself having to endure incredibly stinky toilets in Msia, I would think of the clean toilets in Spore. That's double standard, to be sure. But it doesn't stop me from appreciating the greener pasture - literally - of which our neighbour has abundance. Such joy it is to see - and feel - only unobstructed verdant landscapes that seem to have no end! Yet it is not a sense of overflowing enthusiasm and vibrant joy that one feels but rather, it's a state of being unaffected by negative vibes of overcrowding.
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