SPOTTED: All these colourful blocks seem to have one thing in common – clothes hanging out to dry on bamboo poles (known in Malay as ‘galah‘).
Pictured and painted by many Singaporeans, the clothes flying in the breeze have become iconic of public housing here. When you spot a block without any clothes hanging from the balconies, you’ll immediately think ‘Hey, there’s no one living there!’
It actually takes quite a lot of strength to carry a bamboo stick laden with semi-dry clothes. Once out the kitchen window, you must have a strong hold on the bamboo or the clothes (and the bamboo, probably) will fall to the ground floor! It happened to me before and I had to go racing down to pick up the soggy clothes. (Ugh)
Luckily new flats will have redesigned service balconies to ‘hide’ our laundry from sight. Billowing clothes in the wind can be a pretty sight but we don’t really want to know what’s in your wash…
This blogpost is part of the SPOTTED! series.
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Disclaimer: Vee is not for Vendetta and does not have anything to do with the movie. 
isay – a sight taken for granted – “clothes hanging out to dry on bamboo poles” – something we can’t do without – what usay
yes definitely.. a block without clothes hanging out to dry looks weird!