It is another day.
A client calls me up, she has nice legs, tells me that she has a large apartment in the heart of Geylang but cant find tenants.
So I got dragged over there........
Upon arrival, I snapped this picture from my old phone and realized there was so much room for improvement to obtain a black and white image that portray heaven and hell.
How hard can it be?
Here we have a building in darkness with a hole in the sky giving a glimmer of hope for a hot humid day.
Nice Legs insisted I walked up to the 3rd storey. I said to my self "TOLONG, DONT DO THIS!"
How about we put and elevator in stair well? "Caaaaaaaaan" , I replied but it wont be approved by the fire department and by the way who pays for it because 1st and 2nd storey guys dont need the elevator?
As we entered the apartment built in the 1970's it was sizable for today's standard. Every space was edited into bedroom. The kitchen , the living and balconies all became bedroom for ethnic Chinese foreign labour.
OK so the bedroom is rather spacious.
You get greeted by yucky bathrooms and everyone's laundry as a main theme.
" I will let you into a private secret........" whispers Nice Legs.
Racing in my head "OH NO, oh yes, OH NO, oh yes", so confuse a person can be without aim or purpose during a dry economic period of a pandemic that refuses to conclude.
She calls over the anchor tenant Xiao Chang, "Hey show him the stairs..........."
Xiao Chang pulls a string from the kitchen ceiling and unfolds a contraption!
A stairway to heaven.
or rather a stairway to dusty heaven or heaven of dust.
This 53 year old body lacking in motor skill owing to inactivity cause by Covid lock down experience quivering muscle meltdown while trying to climb the ladder and bend double to avoid low headroom now becomes a major embarrassment especially with Nice Legs following behind.
Will I accidentally let off some gas in the process?
Here the master doom photographer suddenly realize his ability to capture images has been compromised and no long has talent whatsoever.
All that is scary is the dust !!! Dusty is a doom photographers kryptonite...and mandarin too.

DUST !!!! DUST = ALLERGY !
Nice Legs then brought me through an opening in the roof tiles.......
In-between Quivering muscle rattles, I began to take panoramas.
A voice in my head spoke "Thou didst delight my eyes", it was there I knew doom photography was back.
Bestowed with thy formidable Photoapp, I de-saturated the picture obtaining a residual likeness of deep seated darkness and prolific clouds. Forms diminished into pitchen blackness and all there is left are the underbelly of gaseous water vapours floating.
So how? Nice legs asked "what should I do with this apartment"
"ahhhh...aaahhh" I delayed the time lapsed mixed moment of comprehending nice legs, doom photos, embarrassing quivering muscle, dust allergy, obesity and belted out.... "rent the place........"
"ah...rebrand it as a co-share for angmos to stay", "throw in clothes dryer and wash machine, do a breakfast counter table at the open concept kitchen, make the bathroom more co-share, add more mirrors so it feels sexy being in the bathroom......and dont let anyone up the roof, they will jump."
"ok will let you know when the lease expires for the current tenants" said Nice Legs.
So I looked forward to snap angmo is deep doom contrast in the near future.
buy the can cooler