Inspiration - HDBs

I have been thinking about systems a lot. And someone asked me a good question - what is systems? I couldn't answer him entirely. But I had a pictorial image of what a system should be. Something organized. Something gridded. Very much like my life, or the way we are living right now. Everything has to be planned somehow as much as we don't want it to.
Here are two pictures of the same scenery from my window. Note how each home becomes part of a bigger whole, almost like the circuit of a microchip. And it really tells you how much we know about the people living around us right now - we hardly know our neighbours despite living in such a condensed environment. We go around with our daily lives, unaware of what other people are doing. But sometimes you really do wonder WHAT are these people doing... I've been hearing this distant electronic doorbell ringing from my window, and I do wonder which home has been irking me so much with this gentle sound, and who keeps coming and going from this flat.

But there are ways to look at the same surrounding. I kept my focus off in the second picture and the lights become hypnotic. They do not tell you anything at all. It becomes dreamlike And I think we often look through this lens. For instance when we daydream, or when we're thinking about our own thoughts (which happens all the time), we do not care about anything else. This describes a selfish situation, dazing off becomes an escape from reality.