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  Poor man's top

  Growing up
  Nature could be a poor man's toy that is if there is nature around your neighbourhood. I grew up in the poor man's squatter of shop houses in the notorious Geylang in Singapore. It is a place known for prostitution, and still is until this date, and all six of us cramping into the same queen size bed. We do not have toys, but we had nature, the insects, they were our toys and our staple of live documentation program. We spend hours looking at the ants, tracking them from one corner to another corner, up the wall, out of the building, never stop wondering where is their nest and what are they doing crawling in long queue. We ponder and discuss about it day after day, figuring out their world in our little ways. We overturn rocks and dig into holes. We were learning about them and acquiring the skill to investigate the unknown world. We catch Grasshoppers and Katydids. We watch bees from afar, afraid of being stunk by them, as their stink is known to be poisonous. We learned about nature. Looking back, we felt live was great, though we were poor. We were also closer to nature, which the present generation is closer to gadget and synthetics, but of course, they had more luxuries goods and better access to information. Who needs our sympathy, the poor or the growing materialistic world? Simplicity of life, though sound so simple, is difficult to practise in reality.
  

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