This photo is taken at about 9 am from my apartment. It is sunny and almost haze free. The wind is now blowing from north east and at least for the now, the sky is clear. PSI@ 3 pm was 56 which is in the "Moderate" range.
Grocery shopping & breakfast at Tampines Giant
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Free and cheap access to alcohol plus loneliness may have contributed to some pilots and stewards to be alcoholics. A very small percentage of around 1% to 2% of the crew population of 9,000 (pilots & cabin crew) were alcoholics. I am not talking about the occasional social drinkers.
Most alcoholics were male crew. The bad thing was that most of these people were smokers too.
A cabin crew could easily "off-load" liquor from the aircraft bar for free. Some would filled up the 1.5 litre mineral water bottle with a choice of their alcoholic drinks like whisky ( most popular), brandy, vodka etc and bring them to their hotels to keep them company during their night-stops.
You may ask me how did they get the liquor free of charge? The answer is simple. All the crew had to do was to write off the amount of alcohol as "consumed" by their passengers...no question asked by the airline.
One steward drank so much that he had to be literary carried down from his hotel room for his flight. Another who had his superior on the same dared not drink but later collapsed on arrival at their destination. He was diagnosed as suffering from ADE ( Alcohol Deprivation Effect). One senior steward was drunk to the extent he didn't realised his wig was worn the wrong way.
A pilot was sacked after another pilot from a foreign airline reported the former for being half drunk while checking out of his hotel for his flight.
Some pilots were nice to the senior stewards who were in charge of the bar so they could have their liquor "canisters" filled up free of charge.
There were crew who not only stole liquor for their consumption but sold them to outstation bars and restaurants for a small profit.
Just like a few girls who shoplifted to pass their time the guys drank like crazy.
Please note that the above happened during my time with the airline. I am not sure about the present day crew's activities during night-stops.
It has been a few months since I last went for my walk. The haze was the problem because one can't exercise with so much harmful gases and poisonous particles in the air. But today is different with the haze almost gone and the air quality has improved to "good".
Below are some pictures I took along the way. The pictures are mostly taken in the upper middle class area of houses that cost millions.
A few are pictures of the playground with children and adults from HBD areas.
