It was a nice 5 days (or more like 4 days 4 nights heh) and at first we all once thought that it's such a long duration. In fact too long for a holiday in Singapore. But anyway at the end of everything we feel that time flew by too quickly and we wish it could be longer haha. But time is time and time needs to move on. I know I enjoyed myself there so yep.
Spent a few hours meeting with different people and it's really nice to see them again. In fact on Saturday I met 3 groups of people consecutively and also... I had actually 4 meals in the day haha. Met Tacy and Sharon (thanks for the impromptu meet-up!) in the afternoon over cakes at Fruits Paradise. Then dinner with Candy, Vithya and Kai at Fosters, our favourite place. Ended the day with steamboat supper with Jeslyn, Adeline, Meng Fung, Weiqi and Neal! And I also bumped with Kian Tat and Angela :)
Glad to see you all again!
Boy I was damn full.
On Sunday there was nothing much but I went to catch Phantom of The Opera! It's such a great performance! From playing the theme song in my Anklung and Kulintang Ensemble in primary school, to playing Music of The Night on a handbell ensemble (which was also the Anklung Ensemble), to Broadway Essentials with TSMB and lastly Johan De Mejj version with SPSB in year 1. I finally got the chance to catch the musical live!
Words cannot describe how I felt after watching the show. It was too phenomenal!
And I bumped into Syazwani and Carmen as well! Glad to see them once again :)
Hello hello!
And gotta do a special mention to Nivedha and Saeyeoh for sending me off to the airport! While the rest of my family went inside the departure hall the three of us chatted for a while in McDonald. And it's great to see them again because I thought we wouldn't be able to meet up once again before we parted ways to our own great places. All the best to you both ok! :)
Thanks for coming all the way!
Well when I arrived in Singapore last Friday... Things seem pretty normal to me. Not a tinge of hyper-excitement is felt inside me like when I went for holidays. I suppose because Singapore has become such a familiar ground to me that yup, coming to Singapore is just like coming home? Though I have become a tourist, Singapore is a familiar place to me.
Before watching Phantom I sat down by the Singapore River on the promenade near MBS. The sun was setting and the buildings of the CBD across me cast a silhouette against the sky. I was listening to my iPod and Home by Kit Chan was playing in my ears. A boat sailed past the orange highlighted river, due to the sun and the phrase was playing.
"I will always recall the city, know every street and shore. Sail down the river which brings us life, winding through my Singapore"
"I will always recall the city, know every street and
shore. Sail down the river which brings us life, winding through my
Singapore"
Was such a perfect scene to describe it!
I guess studying in Singapore has helped me to redefine my definition of home.
Home doesn't necessarily be a place, or a country in which you're born in. To me, well home is basically a place where you develop a sense of sentimental and emotional attachment to. People say school is our second home, because we share many memories of sentimental values in it. And many other places too. So to me Singapore is a second home. I mean spending 11 years there, how can I not develop such attachments to her right?
But of course Indonesia will always be my first home. Because I was born here and I want to die here, unless I really can't then too bad. And yeah just like Singapore, my hometown is a place that I develop a sense of emotional and sentimental values to it.
Basically,
A home is a place that you will one day miss.
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