Some strange and interesting experiences in sg

So free at night?

Last week or the previous, when Quetzal drove me back and stopped at Macs for some drink and chat, we walked along the West Coast Park and noticed a bright lantern and some lights in the night skies. We decided to walk closer to see what is the source.

It turns out there are people flying kites at night, it was already near 1am by then. The kites were visible as there were led lights attached to it. So the lights blink and shine and one can see where exactly the kite was at and control it. Hmm good idea, kite-flying at night is cooling, very little people to fight for space and definitely a different experience but maybe not so good on the sleep-debt.

Then the lanterns turned out to be 孔民灯, which is a lantern invented by Zhuge Liang. It is a paper lantern without a hole on the top. A small candle/light is placed at the bottom of the lantern (imagine the old chinese style ones) and when enough hot hair fills it, it floats upwards. In China, they have a practice of releasing this during special occasion (dont know which occasion though) but have seen on news before.
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Crowded gyms and pool during weekdays

Dunno why the public gym is quite full of guys working out at 5.40pm? Are there so many jobs that end so early that they can crowd the gym? Another secret of the working word. I remember going at 2pm and still a large number of users. So many bums around?

The same can be said of the public swimming pool. I reach around 9.45am and the lanes of the deep pool seem to always be full. Even by 11am, the lanes are never empty for long. Yes there's the retiree and housewives but still see abunch of people sun-tanning. They are not that young and seem to be working age.
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Crowded buses on way home

Think this has something to do with working adults clocking in more and more hours at work. Its a common sight to see quite a number of people still heading home around 9.30-10++ Some I understand are from retail and service and their hours are actually longer. Some work from 10am - 10pm type of hours, lunch and dinner hours added inside. Think the working class are generally working longer hours than before.

If not, those people are hanging out after work and then heading home later. Either way, its becoming a common sight to experience a bit of squeeze (depending on how many deckers the bus comes in) at evening times.

Then there seems to be a rather large bunch of young adults hanging around while others like the working are heading home. It leads me to ask the question, dont they have school? Mind ya, its not exactly during school holidays. Its during a normal working weekday. They 'seem to' be having a good time, enjoying their youth. What was I doing during my youth? Signz.

Just some peculiar sights from the point of view of a bum over this period of time.