Found & Lost

My room feels new because the bulb from the old table lamp blew and now everything looks different in white light instead of the previous orange light.

In other news, I’ve gotten myself excited coming up with a list of haute places to visit:

i) SAM- TransportAsian exhibit
ii) Polymath and Crust- To purchase Wena Poon’s “Lion in Winter” and Suchen Christine Lim’s “The Lies that build a Marriage” or just to soak in the atmosphere.
iii) Sinema Old School- White Days
iv) Tom’s Palette/ Island Creamery/ Dempsey’s Ben & Jerry’s- Ice Cream is the world's best creation!
v) Heirloom and Caramel
vi) Mac Café opposite Parkway Parade on a week night
vii) Pacific Coffee at Vivo City
viii) Chinatown- The whole Club Street, Ann Siang Hill area is quite a treasure I recently discovered.
ix) The tree houses in VJ and running to Bedok Jetty
x) Mr Teh Tarik at Far East Square
(to be continued…)
Drawing up this list made me realize how places are so intricately linked to people. Every place belongs to someone who was there with you and who made enough impact to be the first person you think of when that place comes to mind.







I love this quote I found on Wena Poon’s site:

“So, to all of you, writers and dreamers out there, whether published or unpublished, whether employed or not: remember Kafka was an insurance salesman. The odds may be stacked against you and you may have to run away from your gift in order to survive. Your friends, parents, society may define success as having a career as a lawyer, a banker, an engineer, a doctor. But take heart. Because in the end, you don’t choose Art. Art chooses you. And Instinct always wins, in the end.”