How is it that if you were to be plucked from where you were and placed somewhere in Singapore, you would instantly know if you were in the city or in the heartlands?
Is it because of the people, the buildings, or the roads?
What makes the city so instantly distinguishable from the suburban heartlands?
Is it the people who are more often dressed in smart collars and shoes? Is it the fast walking pace down the busy streets?
Or maybe it is the buildings that are taller than your eyes can see? Or the glass and steel that make every building shine through the skies?
Could it be the roads that wind into every conceivable space? Or the cars that flow through in an endless stream?
But, do not the people rushing in the city first come from the heartlands? Are not the buildings all climbing higher and higher? Do not the roads grow even thinner, longer and denser as we stretch out into the heartlands?
How could it be that we can immediately identify?
How is it that we just know?
Maybe, it's not any of those.
Maybe, it's us.
Maybe, because we are home.
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