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airports
are emotion filled spaces. a look around the airport will capture a huge spectrum of human feelings. from feelings of happiness to that of sadness, to that of anticipation, to that of pride; the airport is a canvas that captures human emotion so brilliantly.
sending a friend off as she embarks on her exchange journey felt .... i can't quite put a finger to that feeling. it feels like just yesterday that i was the one who was leaving on a jetplane and yet i've already had my turn to explore a different part of the world, and i've come back with a heart full of memories, gratitude and a change of priorities. at the same time, my perspective of being a Singaporean has changed.
yes i'm still a bratty little miss who complains of the humidity and the heat, and i cringe at the jarring sounds of hokkien profanities that pepper conversations on the streets, but i am thankful to be Singaporean. Singlish, with its smattering of English, Mandarin and Hokkien is uniquely us - it's a language on it's own. When I was abroad, a few of my exchange friends wouldn't be able to catch what we Singaporeans were talking about even though we were speaking 'English', and that made us able to communicate in a 'secret' language. At the same time, these Hokkien expressions that we freely insert into our conversations are apt and convey so much in a word. 'Paiseh' doesn't exactly mean being embarrassed or sorry, or a combination of both; it means different things under different contexts. 'Sian' is a term that encompasses feelings of mundaneness, a tinge of disappointment (sometimes), feelings of boredom, and so much more.
i admit there are times when we get misunderstood abroad, but whatever la. who carezzz as long as we can understand each other :)
“some people feel like they don't deserve love. they walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
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