New Again

I love to use on of my old bags again. It got very dirtied on my trip to Taman Negara which forced me to wash it. If not for that trip, it would not have occurred to me to really wash that bag and now it looks really really clean and shiny.

My urban planning project requires us to analyze an area in Singapore. The assigned area for me is the Boat Quay conservation area. The guest lecturer we had this morning didn't like how it's facade was made clean and shiny but its original use was not preserved.

Our actual lecturer loves using the term "tabula rasa" which means blank slate. It is so much easier to start with a blank slate rather than to build on someone else's work but still getting known for it. One's work will always be compared to that you're doing it on.

Sometimes, it just takes something to get so dirty before we could appreciate its original value and get them back to their original state. Relationships which have had cracks for a long time sometimes just need to be broken in order for it to be lovingly restored to its former glory.