Cousin Michael’s going back to KL today and we were at Harbourfront Centre sending him off. Time really flies. Can’t believe he’s going back so soon. Well, we’ll always have the chance to meet again soon

While waiting for the bus to leave, something interesting pasted in the bus caught my eye. This notice.

So the washroom on board the posh bus is only for light usage. Heavy usage passengers will have to find an alternative place to release.

Light or heavy. Who is to determine each polar opposite? Because what is light to you can be heavy to me.

In life, many a times, we put a label to things. Fat or skinny, handsome or ugly, big or small, dark or light, hardworking or lazy, black or white…the list goes on. But exactly whose perspective are we looking at things from?

It is our own perspective. We take ourselves as the benchmark. From there, we start to label the people and things around us. If we are hardworking, then the colleague around us who does less work than us is branded lazy. Similarly, if someone’s productivity is twice ours, then he is more hardworking. If we are big in ‘L’ or ‘XL’ size terms, then someone wearing a ‘S’ or ‘M’ is small in relative terms.

Well, if only things were as simple as this.

How we put labels on people and things boil down to our conditioning. And our conditioning is moulded by our parents, teachers, friends, society and all those experiences that we have encountered – the good and the bad. We have learnt while growing up what constitutes ‘good’ or ‘bad’. But ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are relative as something or someone has to be bad in order to bring out the goodness in you. If everyone chooses to be the angel, who is going to play the devil’s role?

If I have to use the toilet on board the posh bus, I’ll use it regardless of whether it is for a light release or heavy bombing. Period.

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