homesickness
Thursday, 24 November 2011 14:54![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
extemporallyoh my gosh you guys I'm reading this blog and being hit in the chest by this tsunami wave of love and nostalgia
(Especially this. Tiong Bahru isn't where I was born - before I turned fourteen, my family moved houses three or four times, and another seven times before I was born - and I don't even live in the neighbourhood proper, just kind of near it, so I don't know it very well and still get lost on the walk from the train station there to my house. But in some mysterious, unknown way, they remind me of my childhood, still. Maybe it's the way the flats look like building blocks. "The buildings at Tiong Bahru, mostly not more than five storeys high, are designed with a mixture of Nanyang style and Art Moderne, a popular architectural design of the 1930s that emphasises on long horizontal lines with rounded ends. Thus, most blocks in this area are light in colour, and equipped with spiral staircases, flat rooftops and underground shelters." ♥♥♥ oh my gosh!)
Today I completely forgot about this class I had at 9.30 am, which was... embarrassing, and then I spent the rest of the day getting increasingly freaked out about internship applications, which is always fun. Mrrrrh, eight days and two essays left to the end of term. I won't be leaving immediately for Singapore, though, I'll be staying on at uni for a week to apply for jobs/write papers/use the library, then I'm buggering off to The Hague! to visit![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
goshemily ♥♥♥
Mostly, though, what I'm trying to say is, there is no clear end in sight. It doesn't feel like Christmas yet.
(Especially this. Tiong Bahru isn't where I was born - before I turned fourteen, my family moved houses three or four times, and another seven times before I was born - and I don't even live in the neighbourhood proper, just kind of near it, so I don't know it very well and still get lost on the walk from the train station there to my house. But in some mysterious, unknown way, they remind me of my childhood, still. Maybe it's the way the flats look like building blocks. "The buildings at Tiong Bahru, mostly not more than five storeys high, are designed with a mixture of Nanyang style and Art Moderne, a popular architectural design of the 1930s that emphasises on long horizontal lines with rounded ends. Thus, most blocks in this area are light in colour, and equipped with spiral staircases, flat rooftops and underground shelters." ♥♥♥ oh my gosh!)
Today I completely forgot about this class I had at 9.30 am, which was... embarrassing, and then I spent the rest of the day getting increasingly freaked out about internship applications, which is always fun. Mrrrrh, eight days and two essays left to the end of term. I won't be leaving immediately for Singapore, though, I'll be staying on at uni for a week to apply for jobs/write papers/use the library, then I'm buggering off to The Hague! to visit
goshemily ♥♥♥ Mostly, though, what I'm trying to say is, there is no clear end in sight. It doesn't feel like Christmas yet.
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Date: Monday, 28 November 2011 02:30 (UTC)I understand what you mean about homesickness. I'm from New York City so seeing the Occupy Wall Street stuff by the places where I used to bum about and do stupid teenage shit with my friends has filled me with all sorts of home feelings. skyscrapers, man. they don't really have them in the UK, do they?
email me: marleysmithjones at gmail dot com -- if you want to. say extemporally in the email so i'm not a doofus about it. ♥
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Date: Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:35 (UTC)