Saturday, July 06, 2013

One Room Flat

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What does One-Room flat lead you to think about?
Does the words "Studio", "SOHO" and "Bachelor's hideout" came into your mind?
How about not so stylish and luxurious?
One room flat is really no room no living room flat, plain, no sparkles...

Last night I stepped foot on the part of Singapore where I thought I'd never stepped on
Singapore's HDB one room flat, the one that you normally watch on TV, whereby some kind-hearted characters in the local drama do their visits to the old folks who live by themselves
The dark and uneventful corridor, with blue coloured wooden doors shut and thick dust built up on the electricity meter right in front of each household
For one moment, my mind stunned and wonder off, I felt my feet shaking as if I'm follow by a cameraman who furiously and attentively filming every single moment of this 'adventure'

"NO", I reminded myself.

Looking down to the bagful of ziplock bags with packet oats and sardines cans, I dragged myself back to work
Initiated by our lifegroup, we were out and about at Jln Besar, ready to make a change, without anyone that has done it before
Yeap, bunch of noobs, trying to bring rainbowSSS into every household in this very quiet corner of Singapore
But with guidance and courage from up above, we acted out as if we were pro and just to carry on the hard earned conversations that we fearlessly conducted and initiated by knocking hard on the wooden doors

It turned out, we didn't really do much talking, we did listening, though...

Most of the time, we stayed silent and listen, to the simple words that needed a company for so long, so long

And then, I walked into my comfy room at home
I slept very well last night, knowing the fact the I should be able to find comfort, very easily...

  © I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. (Michael Jordan)

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