I’m no longer in my usual sit spot, as the semester has ended, and I’m traveling in Taipei at the moment. The city is integrated with nature in a much different way than Singapore. I notice sacred spaces like temples having many more natural areas such as waterfalls or fish ponds, but the overall city […]
Author: jp106
Adaptation
Right now it’s late evening, but despite that, as always in Singapore, it is hot. Though it’s started to finally cool off a bit, cooling off only means it’s now 85 and humid instead of 95 and humid. I’ve gotten adjusted to it now, but it’s made me think of the way natural life has […]
Amidst the Mangroves
Sitting here, it’s hard to remove the human made sounds from the natural ones. Singapore is really just one huge city and though there are areas of rainforest, ocean, or even mangrove forests, it feels above all, as a place truly completely man made. Now, if I pause to listen I can hear the wind […]
Energy
The flight from SFO to SIN is one of the longest in the world, so I expected it to take a lot of carbon. However, 1.83 metric tons of CO2 was an amount way larger than I would have ever guessed initially. In terms of how I would offset that, it’s quite hard to say. […]
Raindrops and Bamboo
This week I’m on spring break and have been traveling in Japan. It’s been really nice to feel more like I’m in nature again in comparison to how it is back in Singapore. I’m in Osaka at the moment and have been to Tokyo and Kyoto earlier this week. Tokyo and Osaka both feel like […]
Skygarden
My sit spot this week is the skygarden in my dorm. My room is on the 13th floor of a 26 floor building, and everything around feels quite industrial. Though manmade, the skygarden is a nice piece of nature to liven up the space. The skygarden, unlike any of the rest of the building, is […]