The Smurfette Principle was first raised in 1991 by Katha Pollitt in NY Times, speaking of the tendency of mass media to include only just one female character amongst their leads, citing The Smurfs as example. Interestingly this tendency is little but subdued in modern media today. The following video by Anita Sarkeesian takes us through more.  

Truth be told, I am ashamed I never noticed the trend so starkly until raised by the video. Now here's to urging us to open our eyes to more.

Utterly amazing.

The caveat of being a city dweller is the sparsity of our beautiful sky. As if not already sufficiently confined in our walled and ceilinged homes, the vast boundlessness of the sky is also obscured from us. The reason why we do not see so many stars in the sky is not because Singapore is placed in a star-less point of the Earth, how silly that notion would be. It is because we're too well-lit, too bright; so very bright that our stars pale into our dimly luminous sky. Not dark enough to reveal the true sky, our nightskies are rendered an engulfing dark sheet with little depth; the kind of depth that only stars can show.

The city lights steal our nightskies. But of course, there can only be light in darkness.