Thursday, September 23, 2004

Life without a camera

Life without camera is hard for me. It might be something normal to most people since they don't care so much about it. They're probably so busy and stick on their daily packed schedule. I saw a lot people walking on streets, with different faces but similar numb phiz. You rarely found any expressions on their faces.

They look at the time to make sure they aren't late, sign boards for direction, building, traffic lights, cars, streets...
They listen to music from their mp3 players, car honks and engine roaring, ring tones...
They answer to strangers who were asking for direction, someone on the handphone, talkative colleague and salesman...
They whiff to the dangerous "2nd-hand" smokes and exhaust gases, promoted perfume, fart in an elevator...
They touch each another by shaking hands, fighting, molestation...
They think of vacation, being rich in near future, beautiful babes on their couch...

Life without camera in a vision city like KL is a nightmare. No one is that sensitive to their surroundings. They keep on viewing the world via papers, books, website, and imagination.

One would never know how Red is a repeating stop traffic light, how Golden Yellow is every highrise building under the early sun shine, how Blue is our sky above the cloud and smog, how Green is a huge old banyan tree at the corner, how White is the snaggletoothed smiling sweet to us?

Our vision is numb to all surroundings?
Another day past.
Our sight is nothing but deja vu of our own's memory?
Another life's samsara goes on, and on, and on....

Ah! I need a camera!

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