MISCHIEVOUS LITTLE BOYS (SQ232)
ON THE first day of third grade we went down to play on the the oval. Being 8-year olds, playing in the bushes on the hill at the side of the oval instantly captured our interest. We soon discovered that the bushes were filled with stinkbugs. There is something inspirationally mischievous about bad smelling bugs that drives the mind of a boy to innovation and collective activity.
Someone's bag of grapes was sacrificed to provide a container and between us we were able to gather 43 bugs. Buzzing around, emitting noxious fumes they fogged up the bag like a 121 filled with teenagers after a basketball game.
The poor individual left to carry the bag of contraband back into the classroom was cheered on heartily in a frenzy of boyish glee. I'll leave the outcome to your imagination.
This boyish glee has carried on in Singapore, not with insects, but with fruit. I had heard of the durian before arriving in Singapore but didn't know what they were about.
Clearly, the seven year old boys of Singapore had run rampant - long before I got there. In the same way we were banned from the bushes at the side of the oval, durians had been banned from buses and trains. What fun those boys must have had!
Clearly then, those boys grew up to be architects, engineers and builders and created a great monument to their rampage. It is true that even to this day Singaporeans refer to their Opera House as 'the big durian', for that is it's shape.
By comparison - Sydney Engineers decided that a stinkbug was too hard a shape, and instead modeled their monument on a different act of school yard mischief, based upon quarters of apple.
Someone's bag of grapes was sacrificed to provide a container and between us we were able to gather 43 bugs. Buzzing around, emitting noxious fumes they fogged up the bag like a 121 filled with teenagers after a basketball game.
The poor individual left to carry the bag of contraband back into the classroom was cheered on heartily in a frenzy of boyish glee. I'll leave the outcome to your imagination.
This boyish glee has carried on in Singapore, not with insects, but with fruit. I had heard of the durian before arriving in Singapore but didn't know what they were about.
Clearly, the seven year old boys of Singapore had run rampant - long before I got there. In the same way we were banned from the bushes at the side of the oval, durians had been banned from buses and trains. What fun those boys must have had!
Clearly then, those boys grew up to be architects, engineers and builders and created a great monument to their rampage. It is true that even to this day Singaporeans refer to their Opera House as 'the big durian', for that is it's shape.By comparison - Sydney Engineers decided that a stinkbug was too hard a shape, and instead modeled their monument on a different act of school yard mischief, based upon quarters of apple.
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