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So now LTA has a big new project, to construct the North-South Expressway (NSE). Apart from more construction sites for the island, it means that Singapore’s landscape is going to go through yet another major change, and more people will have to be uprooted due to land acquisition. So say bye to Rochor Centre (pictured above), because the iconic flats will be gone soon. 

I get extremely upset whenever they decide to flatten an old place (and old in Singapore’s terms means anything more than 30 years), and build a shiny new condo or shopping mall in place of it. I mean I do welcome changes and improvements and upgrading, but at a sensible speed. The government needs to take a chill pill and just let things run as it is for a while. I’m sick of all the rapid changes in Singapore, and every time they bulldoze something out of the way, another part of the Singaporean in me dies. I don’t even dare image how this country would look like in 10 or 20 years. I think it might just collapse on itself. 

Because I grew up in a place where nothing stays the same, I yearn to move to a country where they give more respect to the environment. Where they let people die in the house they were born it, and where buildings and places can age gracefully.