A few weeks ago I was riding in a minibus headed east along Brickdam. The light was red at the corner of Avenue of Republic and Brickdam and I decided it was a great time to take a quiet moment as this bus was not playing music. But it wasn’t to be.

The silence was pierced by a most disturbing sound. However, while disturbing to me, it also was quite unique for we were in the middle of the city. It was the sound of a chainsaw cutting down a tree. This is where things began to get tricky. For some strange reason, I began wondering if we had accidentally entered into someone’s logging concession in the middle of Georgetown. Read the rest of this entry »