Nice Aunties

I always worked in a team.

It was about fulfilling the client's brief and budget.

With AI, it's just me.

It's a breath of fresh air.

This lack of restraint has transported me to an imaginary world where my aunties can live freely as themselves, where anything fun can and does happen.

For instance, aunties in public places taking photos with sculptures in absurd ways, a typical holiday photo.

becomes aunties trying to kiss the moon but failing badly.

Over the course of a year, instead of designing buildings, I developed nice aunties into a world-building project, the Auntieverse.

Just like in any world, there are cities, citizens, their lives and their culture.

Antiverse is partly inspired by Singapore, where acronyms are used for everything.

A sentence would typically sound like, I'm going to take the MRT to the NTUC near my mom's HDB to avoid the ERP.

In the Antiverse, we have tofu-engineered sushi luxury otos, aka Tesla.

It's a transportation factory ...

where aunties assemble food and legs to create vehicles running on leg power.

It's very sustainable.

In Chinese dialect, legs have the same sound as cars.

So a common joke would be to say, let's get around on our own cars, meaning we can move around on our own legs, implying self-reliance.

So I imagine at Tesla, we have the usual car assembly, a car wash, and of course, a car junkyard.

But lakes don't just move cars around in the antiverse.

Buildings use them too, as do animals and vegetables.