Above view from Barrage, credits to Mickey Yeo, HCI.

Aww, isn't it beautiful?

If I were in my preaching "Save the World" mode

then I would say no, it is not beauty that we are seeing.

It is the bright fake lights of this

plastic, plastic world.

But then, I'd be lying. It is beautiful.

I went to Vietnam this holiday and I learnt many,

many things.

At Vietnam, we went to this small village.

Everyday, the men would leave the village

to the city

to try to find money.

The most they have in their pockets at any one time

is probably what,

10? 20 dollars?

Kids with no education whatsoever.

People with no food.

They have Nothing, absolutely, Nothing.

We stayed overnight at the village.

Eating nothing but fruits

because there is simply nothing more. We slept on a thin mat

in a forest, no shelter above us.

We bathed in the Mekong river.

I have nothing to say, really, about this poverty.

Just that,

I am going to go back to Vietnam.

Back to that village.

Back to the new friends I made.

Back to that simple, poor lifestyle.

And every holiday I'll keep going to the village until

One day,

I am never coming back.

Simplicity.

Living for today.

That's what Simplicity is about.

And I've fallen in love with that.