Give The Man The Slip, Give The Girl A Hat

Last Saturday, before my brother left the house for an errand, he told me that the post office will be sending over his overseas parcel that day. He also told me to pass the white delivery slip that was dropped at our house the day before, when no one was there to receive the parcel. I made a mental note of it.

The parcel came. And after receiving it, I messaged my brother.

"Your parcel is here."

I guessed he was real excited about the delivery (apparently he ordered Ultraman figurines from Japan), and messaged back:

"Ok just give the man the slip."

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Read an article on Sunday times yesterday. One of the writers, Alloysius Tan (I think that is his name) wrote about a comment a Tokyo friend made on Orchard Road. The friend said that he finds Orchard Road is abit... dark. At night. In essence, the article was about how the trees along Orchard Road made this shopping belt look dark, and does not justify the vibrance of the shopping environment there, especially with the brightly lit new facades such as Wisma Atria..

After reading the article, I do agree. Somehow, instantly, I have imageries of the walkway outside the Orchard road station, leading to Wheelock place. That path, even though is wide, is rather dark at night. I do agree that walking along there doesn't give me an excitement that I am in the most exciting shopping area in Singapore. It's just another walkway.

But imagine Orchard Road without trees... HOT! Would there be people walking along the road? Will there be youngsters touting sure win scratch-and-win cards to you outside Ngee Ann City, telling you that you have won a prize to travel around the world?

I loathe the heat. I perspire easily. Orchard Road without trees.. I will still go, but it will be very unpleasant. But who knows, maybe it will create the popularise the wearing of caps and hats in our country. Or maybe we could have a series of our very own Singapura umbrella souvenir?

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Come to think of it, our country is rather hot and humid. But we do not have the habit of wearing caps or hats. Somehow, people in this country do not see it a necessity. I think basically we are not that interested to wear a hat to make a fashion statement. But we have all the reasons to wear it, right? How come we are not wearing them, leh?

Possible reason is because the media here do not "educate" our general public to wear hats. Actually, if the local authorities step in, it could possibly work. You know, get the local celebrities to wear hats. Make it cool to wear hats or caps. Just like in Australia, where they make it very important to wear something to protect themselves from the sun. We ought to too. The sun over our skies is getting too hot to handle.

Actually, I think we do have not enough fashion tv to teach our people how to dress properly. We have far too much food programmes on tv. There is at leasts one food programme on tv every month. No wonder we are all getting fat, instead of looking more fashionable.

Can someone tell the Mediacorp to help us to become more fashionable people? My sister told me after her trip to Taiwan that whatever we see the celebrities wear on taiwanese tv is what the normal people wear on the streets. She was in awe of the fashion taste of the locals there. Compared to our plain and bland dressing..

I also want to be fashionable leh...

Maybe I will go Taka and get a nice hat and start wearing it...