Society in transition?

A girl in her early twenties, wearing this really short long-sleeved baby doll dress, boarded the bus with her boyfriend, and made to climb up to the upper deck. I wondered in a clinical sort of way if she would be able to cover her posterior if she was careful while climbing up, then wondered if the boyfriend would be able to cover her effectively since he let her go up first and followed behind.

I looked on idly and unexpectedly saw the boyfriend reach his hands up to her posterior to playfully do something (it happened so fast I didn't catch what he did). She turned around immediately and said "hey" with a laugh. In the process she was exposed so to speak, and I was surprised to have witnessed this intimate moment.

Later in the afternoon, I was on a bridge walking from Suntec to Marina Square and noticed this middle-aged man walking the same way with a cane and a weird gait. I felt sorry for him... till I saw his left hand seemingly clasped around something in the lower area and moving up and down.

My first thoughts were: "What is he doing? ... This cannot be. In broad daylight? Maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me." So I glanced sideways when I walked past him and it still looked like he was being lewd.

I was a coward... and probably conservative in a sense too. I couldn't bring myself to turn around and look at him directly to confirm this for a fact, and so, I simply walked on.

It was a little weird how I stumbled upon these two incidents within the day when normally, I hardly ever see such things happen, except in the papers. It's Singapore after all, or maybe because it is Singapore after all.

Flower biker's patriotism

Have been meaning to post this but kept procrastinating. Saw this during the NDP period. Residents at housing estates are putting up less flags, but the flower biker keeps at it and rather proudly too, going by the number of flags on his vehicle.