Earlier this month, Singaporeans were taken aback by photos of Tampines HDB blocks painted floor-to-ceiling in bright red, like the set of a Dario Argento horror film.
Mercifully, only a gentle shade of mauve was ever inflicted on the walls of the HDB block I lived in.
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