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Suddenly felt the urge to go to Tampines to catch the sunset at the bus interchange of my childhood. Not much time, so I decided to call a rideshare. Driver cancelled on me. Decided to take a bus. On the way I chanced upon on a taxi driver in a carpark on a smoke break… https://t.co/LEmUjS0FBw
delightfully chatty 64 year old man born before Singapore’s independence asking him about his life, his childhood, his children couldn’t have asked for a better Charon to ferry me to the site of my own childhood ordeal universe is really poetic sometimes https://t.co/fIrTHgh4t1
outside the other window is an ad for the tuition centre I used to distribute flyers for… 15 years ago can’t make this stuff up https://t.co/Wn6OOD6j85 https://t.co/mYpN92zF1r
alright this is it… I came here to sit and watch the sun go down. https://t.co/ljqfeMVCrb
thought I’d capture a bit of footage to look at next time. from ages 10 to 21, this was the bus interchange I used the most, and spent the most time at. it’s deeply intertwined with many of my memories. It features in my dreams sometimes. https://t.co/DsffjBvhzM
me: well, maybe I’ll step into a music shop. about time I bought a new guitar strap isn’t it universe: yo visa remember your childhood home had hibiscuses in it 🌺 me: no fucking way https://t.co/KlP0eH393x
now having a beer with the cheerful, jovial man who once flew into a terrifying rage because I was dating his daughter. This was NOT how I expected tonight to go, and yet it feels almost too on-the-nose in its narrative consonance https://t.co/65mTRf2QeP https://t.co/KnelCqJ8vV
@visakanv I feel the shape of your "no fucking way" in a muted echo'd way from all the way over here, in that when I saw this tweet I immediately thought of the sunset thing you were intending to do, though I hadn't see that tweet yet