I realise this post might be slightly delayed, but who cares, at least I did it.

Okay, so change is very wonderful and all that. We visited an organic farm where an old lady talked to us for half an hour on how we are killing off the Earth with chemicals and pollutants, how she uses only eco-friendly materials on her farm and all, before leasding us on a tour around the far, where we got lots of free food samples. Very noble, but how is she going to make money like that? In this age of technology and science, we cannot simply let old and traditional ways hinder our progress into the new world. And if life is going to be wiped out in a 100 years or so, I say we speed up the process so future generations don't have to suffer.

So here are some pics from the farm:


This is the entrance to the farm, where we are all milling about unsure of what to do or where to go.


This is the lady explaining the myriad uses of the loofah during the tour. Kindly ignore the fat lump of blubber holding a camera in the background.


This is some tree with a lot of medicinal uses. I can't remember the name, go look it up yourself.


Some weird purplish vine growing on a tree. See what happens when you use eco-friendly materials?


The lady standing beside a row of her precious plants.

So after all that, we made a trip to the hydroponics farm, where some punk was coerced into leading our tour, so he had this bueh song look on his face throughout the entire tour. At least he showed us some REAL technology, like the hydroponic greenhouses where they actually had air-con for the plants. Now that's progress and change for you. What's that? They only use hydroponics for less than 20% of their income? That's irrelevant, you philistinic tree-hugger. And we got free veggies after the tour! We probably paid more for the veggies than the tour though.

And the pics:


Outside the farm. The best place to view it from, I say.


The storehouse where they mix all the non-eco-friendly chemicals together to feed to the plants.


Cotton comes from a cotton plant! Amazing isn't it? And some bugger thought it came from sheep.


Random assorted plants.


Ah, wonderful methamphetamine, better known as Ice, grown straight from the farm. No, seriously, they're peppermint crystals.

Okay, then the next day was a visit to the Singapore History museum to see two galleries: 1st was the Greek Louvre Gallery, where they brought in statues and artifacts from the Louvre to display. Very fascinating and all, Greek history, but I'm quite sure they wouldn't have brought in the real artifacts to display here. What, you expect one whole gallery of the Louvre to go missing and end up being showcased in Singpore without maximum security and proper defenses to stop idiots like Chang Rui from touching the artifacts? I doubt it. Anyway, any civilisation who had a fetish with portraying naked people definitely makes me glad we've changed a LONG way since then.

Some pics:


Swinging chandeliers. Totally unrelated, I know, but too cool to pass up.


3 busts of persons we'll never meet and would never care to anyway.


Statue of Athena. Arms missing, if found please contact Louvre to laugh at their incompetence in excavating ancient artifacts.


Supposedly "One of the most intimate portrayals of love in Greek sculpting." Well, i can't see anything when it's all scratched and blurry.


Statues of Nike, goddess of victory. NOT mascot of Nike, sportswear and equipment manafacturer. I wonder if the Greeks could sue for copyright infringement?


Statue of Aphrodite, goddess of love. She doesn't look very appealing to me.

After the Greek Gallery, we went to the biggest gallery in the museum, aka the Founding of Singpaore Gallery or something like that. It showcases the change and progress Singapore has made(for better or for worse) since Stamford Raffles stumbled onto the shores in 1819. Man, that is one BIG gallery. Me and Gerard couldn't even finish the gallery in time and had to run all the way back to the meeting place so we wouldn't get left behind. So much for time management. But through all the bumps and mishaps along the way(or at least, those we saw), Singapore has still managed to pull through and become a thriving city of world-class standard. And nurturing politically correct students so as to prevent an uprising against the wonderufl government. Blah.

The pics:


A piece of the Singpore Stone, written in Sanskrit. If no one can read it, how cna they tell it pertains to Singapore's history? It might be a sign to the bathroom for all we know.


Broken pieces of pottery which are very valuable because they were made a long time ago and could not possibly be used again for a sane reason.


Stamford Raffles, our dear founder. This was probably painted after hours of primping in front of a mirror.


Pages of a treaty which was signed a long time ago and is invalid against all reason today.


Ancient squiggly glowing unreadable writing. Now THIS is something worth looking at.

So, all in all, change has occured in numerous and drastuc occasions throughout the past and has moulded our society to become what it is today. But if we let change spiral out of control, the potential consequences would be disastrous. What if someone came up with a way to harness air for energy? Not a good idea, as it would mean we'd have to put up with each other for longer and as with all such inventions, it would probably start a war. Thus we should control change and use it for our own selfish, human benefit, ignoring any other things which get in the way. Not that anyone cares.

By Brandon Yeo of 2J. If you haven't figured that out yet, I feel so sorry for you.

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