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• crossword puzzle volleys with mum
• three humans sharing three schedules and two keys - figuring out how to make sure no one gets locked out at any moment #rocketscience
• bringing four fingers drumsticks to granny's for dinner with everyone
• 9am show about a photographer family with mum, commenting about which local actors looked different and those who never age
• walking past parents having dinner before the tv and really wishing they would/could eat better food

M

• in the city! orchard is now an annex but wisma atria still smells like cookies. M wore a black shirt which reminded me of stolen afternoons in villa ikebana
• picking out the most expensive tvs T the electronic shop in ngee ann city
• took a cab so M could show me hawker chan for lunch (his favourite), his new workplace and we walked to a dentist nearby to buy wax, in the space of lunch hour. office buildings were vast and strangely cosmopolitan, for a suburb.
• skyscraper, where M was inspired to climb out of his seat when he had to go to the loo (instead of walk out the aisle like a normal, non-dwayne-johnson-wannabe)

bangkok

• old bangkok alleys are pungent and ripe. squatter homes lie open by dreamy tropical canals, single laned bridges. we cycled through it all at night and experienced immense heat headaches.
• the sweet joy of returning to our room at arte hotel
• taking our time with the chocolatines at hotel breakfasts
• acidic food corroding our tongues sandpaper raw