Spiritual Living

Just came back from a quick hop to a place I spent some part of my tender age. A place where a clear example of truly urban way of living with an overdeveloped Westernised society is to be seen. A place so thoroughly modern, litter-free, shiny and new. A place with endless number of high-rise buildings and shopping malls filled with the latest gadgets and goodies. But this place makes many outsiders having strong opinion that all these amazing organisation and systems make the place dull. For amidst all this modernity and sparkling clean (or to be exact chewing gum free), there is nothing unique in its culture, history and people when compare to all the other Asean countries.

When I lived there before I recalled even the citizens need to be reminded to 'smile' through constant campaigns. Everyones are too busy and neglect their own unique individuality and desire for expressions. It is as if this is as a modern-day version of communism - everyone sacrifices for the greater good of the general society.

Amidst all these though, I found the lush greenery and the tall trees within the city make things less lifeless. And in the middle of the city just a stone throw away from Orchard Road is a place of salvation, where one's spiritual belief and responsibility can still be uphold. The Mesjid, humbly located underneath a storey car park building, provides a place of respite for the devotees amidst the hustle and bustle and temptation of modern living in what some people described as probably one of the most sterile place around in every sense of the word.