Taking a 2nd glance

So going away for a while and then coming back makes you look at everything with a new sense of wonder and suddenly everything is new and shiny again. And you're thiankful. For all the shiny clean new looking cars, the roads which are flat and pothole-less and have a high contrast between the road surface and the lines, for the way your EZlink card still has money in it after all this while (i must have had the foresight to fill it up before i left) and for being able, finally, to have a viable public transport alternative. And that i can get a nice meal over here for the same price of a bus ticket in Chicago. Isn't Singapore wonderful?