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‘Monday Blues’ is such a real thing as I see my friends Tweet and Facebook on sunday nights on how short the weekend was and also how they dread the fact that monday is just a few hours away. Being a working adult I can totally relate to their sentiments. So come monday morning when I commute, I do the normal stuff many people do, pull out my mobile and start checking my Instagram, Path, Facebook and Twitter. (an now even Yammer for office people)

There is a subtle trend that people are posting really negative feelings of how they are dragging their feet to work and how they are already looking forward to the weekend. Just reading stuff like that makes me feel kinda the same too.

So It struck me. How about we share about positive things on monday morning and kill this whole monday blues thing using social media. The week should start AWESOME. The week should start will amazing possibilities. The week should be about our next adventure!

So the one person that stood out for me that is posting really positive stuf is my friend Lucian. He does not rush to work, he takes his time and enjoys Singapore for what it is and takes beautiful pictures on his way to work. You can see his Flickr album here. Really beautiful stuff. His photos are really nice and it really makes me realise that Singapore is indeed an amazingly beautiful and unique place.

So inspired by his photos, I started taking some photos when I bring my kids to school everyday. I leave house when its dark and return when the sun is up, it just so happens that this daily duty I have happens at the magical 30mins window called dawn.

Here are some photos I took. Some during traffic lights. Some I just stop by the side of the road.

So if you agree with me that ‘Monday Blues’ is really a thing that should not be encouraged, join me to eradicate it. Join me to post positive AWESOME stuff on mondays and let’s encourage one another.

I’ve created this social initiative on itsmyturn.sg, do check it out and click ‘Participate’ if you want to join me. Let’s Kill Monday Blues Online together. If you tweet use “#kmbo“. Let’s go make Singapore Awesome!

ps: you can also create your own Social Initiatives on itsmyturn.sg/participate if there is something you believe in that will drive positive change in Singapore.

Was really looking forward to see Cooling Off Day by W!IL RICE. From the photo above, you will figure out that we manage to get really up close and personal with the cast. My wife said Sistic suggested row “C” and it sounded not too close. Anyway… watched it #likeaboss.

I really did not know what to expect at first. I thought its funny all the way as its by Wild Rice, but it is after all about politics and especially with the recent general elections in 2011, I think there should be some “thoughts” to take home.

It was definitely funny as the cast portrayed very typical Singaporeans that we all can relate to. The mannerisms, the singlish, the typical characters like ah beng (chinese gangster), macik (malay women), chia kantang (with heavy western slang) and more.

I would have to say that most of the performance was kinda serious. There were parts where the cast almost broke into tears. You could see it in their eyes that some of the issues they were acting out was as if it was really affecting them off stage as well. Because some of these issues are so close to our hearts, its hard not to get emotionally engaged. I would say its really really good with a very well balanced view of our political landscape.

It felt that just by knowing more and hearing more views, we all can become more informed and come to our own conclusions. We should not be lead by the media or even the trend on social media to decide for us what is the whole picture. I think its not easy to run a country and its definitely impossible to run it flawlessly.

So, politics. Never thought of politics as an interesting topic, but its hard to not be interested when it affects all of us, it affects the way of life in the place we call home. I’m grateful that the GE2011 brought about much political awareness amongst the general population and I’m eager to find out what happens in our next election. Let’s hope for more constructive comments rather than unconstructive sensationalising online bashings.

We only have one home, where ever it may be. So since we are gonna stick around, why not lets do something for our home. Something, anything.

I’m gonna create a few “social initiatives” on itsmyturn.sg and hope you will support some of these initiatives. I’ll blog about it in my next post.