What will become of Us?

A Way of life will soon come to an end as the Developers are already getting ready to move in and start their construction  of more condominiums and Ocean View high end lodgings. It happens everywhere and there is not much that can be done to stop it from happening. What will become of the people? Who knows and who really cares in this day and age?

The fishermen who will be relocated to elsewhere, wherever that may be, will be compensated for their loss of livlihood and not to mention a place where they can call their own. But who gives a damn, they had their days and now their days are numbered that is all there is to it.

If this had been a Chinese community it might be a little tougher to just wipe it off the face of the water's edge and simply  remove the denizens like buy them off. No this is primarily a Malay fishing village and like most Malay villages all over the Island it is earmarked for change and development.

Perhaps it is for the best as far as the environment is concern, perhaps there will be less pollution as less garbage will be floating in and around the area. The Malays are not too keen on how to keep the environment free of garbage, to them the sea is the garbage dump, just like the one that sits next to this place the City's  Dump Site. If the City has no problem  throwing its garbage into the sea, why should it bother the rest of the people.

It wont be long now when one will have no excess to this part of the water front as some major company through the Government of the day claims the whole real estate for itself and give it a fancy name and stick up a prohibiting sign all over the shoreline. Or worse yet, it might turn into a huge parking lot to cater to all the increasing number of vehicles on the island.

Will the Mlay fishermen keep on building their shacks further out into the sea when these present ones are being torn down? After all the sea actually belongs to no one, or does it?

Even the sea is no more a refuge for those who have no place to call home.

The legacy of impermanence as nothing ever last forever.

It all happened in my lifetime! Change is inevitable and sometimes like a steam roller it pulverize everything in its way regardless of the damage done.

And we worry about the shattered society, the shattered hopes and the loss of faith in man. What do we hold on to when it all comes apart right before our eyes and we have no where to turn to but the very hounds that is chasing us to begin with?

And the Flag was still there...