Chinatown. I have this curious connection to this place where I have been working close to three years now. After the exams four years ago, I worked in a travel agency in that area briefly before I moved on to somewhere else. Then fate brought me back to that area and I worked in a different environment. It's like I've come a full circle from where I started. It's been a part of my growing up, part of my life.

It's been four long years. Chinatown has changed a lot; the opening of the Food Street, the opening of the NE line, even People's Park Centre was given a new coat of paint last week. In the meantime, there have been various ups and downs. Friends have come and gone, close ones passed away; people coming into my life and going away for no reason. Yet, it feels the same somewhat. It's the permanence in impermanence that has not changed.