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Travelling home

I landed at Kochi, Kerala, India at about 12:30 AM from Singapore. My parents picked me up and took me home. ‘Home’ was a town called Potta about thirty kilometres north of the airport. It seemed dead at 1:30 when we arrived. There are no lamp-posts from the main road to our house. We drove through the dark, narrow road through which two vehicles could not pass simultaneously. The house is a hideous, two-storey monstrosity with a covered terrace at the top. It is quite comfortable […]

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Arrival in Singapore

26 July 2015 As of today it is ten years since I arrived in Singapore for my university studies. I have now resided here for more than a third of my life. A number of memories from that day ten years ago surprisingly still remain with me. I boarded my first flight with my father […]