graffiti - freedom?

graffiti to singaporeans mean canes - but in spain and portugal, it's way to express oneself openly to the world, in brilliant colors and wacky type styles and cartoonic figures...

that's why they have picaso, we have goh chock tong, they have the flamenco, we have the lee hsiang loong.... they have the paella, we have the nathan...

we always look up to our gahmen as leaders, in all big and small things.... they express themselves confidently even in times of economic crisis....

or is it due to their harsh lives that they have to rely on graffiti ro release their steam?

in the bus - sleep not

if you are asleep in the bus, you would not have seen much in Spain, the countryside, the suburbs, the villages..... the rivers... since most of the daytime you are in the bus travelling from one place to another.

not much you can see when you get down from the bus.... whenever you reach a destination, it's at the end of the day, a couple of hours more for the sun to set, and night scene, though is another way of looking at things, you have missed out most of the day.

the scenery outside passes by so fast that within minutes you are outside the city in open-field countryside. then big plot of harvested empty lands change to ranches, then up the bus climbs to higher elevations, you can see the snow-capped mountains from afar, right before your eyes, then down you descend to the rural highway, stop for a bio-break and filling up the tummy.... off you go again..... and the graffiti, one by one streams through along the roadsides... you reach the next town/city....

another city, another nite....