One Million Trees
I haven't been blogging for over a year, although I have returned occasionally to read my entries from the past. Again, Life has thrown more curveballs for me to contend with, and these have contributed to the neglect of this blog. Nevertheless, here I am in February 2026, at the eve of the Lunar New Year, writing again. I have entitled this blog entry 'One Million Trees', as this will talk of effort expended towards an aspiration, and perhaps of optimism and hope. In the past year, I have both experienced joyful insights and enthusiasm of what I could do upon leaving my present job, and wallowed in despair when some of these plans were cut short, or appeared unworkable. The One Million Trees (OMT) programme is a citizen-initiated voluntary effort to plant trees as part of Singapore's greening, initiated among others by my former KE7 roommate, N Sivasothi, also known as Otterman. When I met Siva at the Festival of Biodiversity in 2025, I told him of my plans to particip...