Nerd on an island
A photo-a-day in Singapore.
30 July A last look at my hometown, which should be somewhere underneath those clouds
#'s-hertogenbosch
31 July Small-town-boy in a very big, humid city: My view for most of the night while I was trying to fall asleep.
#singapore
1 August Kent Ridge park jungle
#looking for monkeys
2 August Wandering (stalking?) through Chinatown
3 August Clementi hawker centre: kopio, sugar cane juice, rojak, and chwee kueh!
4 August My day was spend trying to get a visa, and being taught some Tamil and Singlish–unfortunately there was no time for a picture. Instead, here’s is a picture from two days ago (:
#cheat
5 August (too) quick shot outside of Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple.
#no depth of field #wrong composition #wrong angle #wrong saturation
6 August Wandering through Chinatown (at Pagoda Street)
7 August Vegan heaven 🍌 🍉 🍈
#until the fruit juices began leaking out of my bag in the bus
8 August I finally saw monkeys today, they’re quite scary! But luckily they live in a beautiful place
#pulau ubin #also not a big fan of the enormous wasps #love the trees though
9 August Happy B’day Singapore 🇸🇬
10 August Yayoi Kusama combing a Venus de Milo statue with her signature polka dots to explore self-obliteration.
#national gallery
11 August Lian Shan Shuang monastery (莲山双林寺) feat. endless rain & some HDB flats
12 August Singapore has poffertjes! And Nijntje! And an Amsterdam bar! And a Holland Village!
#orange pride #basically at home
13 August Excited to call this home for the next five-odd months
#shitty picture parade #sublte university marketing
14 August The honeymoon is over.
#some guy already fell asleep #first non-blurry phone picture
15 August Science student lost in the Arts and Social Sciences faculty.
#this actually turned out to be my lecture hall
16 August People falling from the sky: Throwback to last Wednesday
#cheat #national day
17 August Home n.2 for the next five months.
#still lost most of the time #s12-0403 life
18 August Got a new housemate (:
#Wikipedia told me that these cats are actually not waving but beckoning #today i learned
#should have studied instead of wikipedia-ing
19 August This was definitely the wrong bus, and my phone definitely recorded the wrong colours, but it was a nice ride through the Singaporean night, contemplating my stay here so far.
#three weeks of singapore #one week of classes #shitty phone parade
20 August After not-knowing what to do with myself today, I dove into Singapore’s rush to attend a (very good) poetry event.
#Transit 2
21 August Monday mornings in the library
#NERDonanisland #this place is freezing
22 August Yay for plants
#not red pink but green dot
23 August One monkey disturbing another monkey’s lunch
24 August Library days are a lot less bad if this is the view.
#three guesses which tower is home
25 August booksbooksbooks
26 August Celebrating four weeks of Singapore!
#the club-smell and durian-smell did not go well together
27 August Campus L I F E am I rite
28 August Enjoying the view on my way home.
29 August Take that AUC canteen
#arts canteen trumps science canteen
30 August Got distracted by the sky during a video call.
31 August Campus colours
1 September First impression of Kuala Lumpur: the food game is strong here.
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2 September The entrance fee at this temple turned out to be carrying a brick up some stairs.
🇲🇾 #batu caves
3 September Thanks for having us Kuala Lumpur, see you again soon.
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4 September Newest members of the family
#starting a forest
5 September The title of my memoir: Coffee in the Jungle
#second volume: Caffeine High in a Lecture Hall
6 September The moon rising over Bukit Timah
7 September After taking this shot, I dropped and almost broke my camera so now I’m posting this picture just to make sure it wasn’t for nothing.
8 September Sun’s up so I’m up
#🌞
9 September First falafel in almost two months ❤
10 September Library days
11 September Throwback to last weekend, missing Kuala Lumpur already
#🇲🇾 #cheat
12 September Ran into a lil’ bird
13 September Light show at the Gardens by the Bay.
#still prefer old-fashioned trees
14 September Gorgeous Singaporean flowers pt. 3
15 September Singaporean flowers pt. 4: Express way edition
#cheat
16 September The rain was so loud that it woke me up ): Never complaining about Amsterdam rain again.
17 September Thinking about sunnier days
18 September …but at least it leads to beautiful sights when the clouds roll away.
19 September More highway flowers from last week
#cheat
20 September Late nights, early mornings.
21 September Why have breakfast with orangoutangs when you can have lunch with pigeons?
22 September Another flight, another noimnotarichtransnationaldrugstraffickercarryinginfectiousdeseaseintoyourcountry-form
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23 September Hello Indonesia! Some beautiful flowers at the palace of the Sultan of Deli
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24 September Cute lill’ flags to remind you of which country you’re in
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25 September Orangoutangs! Mina and her baby stole our lunch left-overs but I don’t think we were really going to eat the watermelon skins anyway.
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26 September Chillin’
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27 September Real-life rice fields! Pisang goreng! Sun burn!
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28 September Watch out for the doggo
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29 September We arrived in the dark, it was a bit strange to wake up seeing a smoking volcano from the hotel
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30 September Singapura! My room is to the right of the big white cloud, chocolate for the one who can find it (:
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1 October Choosing to forget about being back in Singapore for just a little longer
#cheat# 🇮🇩
2 October Grey days
3 October Early morning sights
4 October After looking at a computer screen for a while, this wonky tree is a welcome distraction
5 October The horror machines that are going to give me pneumonia one of these days
6 October Library sights: You can see the freedom but not quite feel it.
# ❌ ❌ ❌
7 October Making occasional trips to the higher floors of my building to catch some of the sunset rays
8 October Lazy Sundays
9 October More higher-floor evening rays, with some nice framing by the building itself
10 October Still a bit jealous that they can walk on walls
#don't get me started on walking on ceilings
11 October I remember that when I first saw this one, I thought it was an art object not to be played. Nowadays I know that they can be played, they are just horribly out of tune
12 October Finally finished the book I was going to read on my the flight to Singapore
13 October Lazy almost-weekend mornings
#ft soft sunrise lighting
14 October Little India, pre-Deepavali
#escaped campus for the first time in two weeks
15 October Some liquid motivation, which I then used to ruin my laptop
#rip #8 years
16 October Late-night stretches
#while looking towards the comfort of my bed
17 October You can’t see it, but I was really hungry when I took this photo
18 October More campus flowers!
#I hope these aren't poisonous
19 October Late night studying session, studying outside because it’s too cold inside.
20 October More sunsets, great way to end the week.
21 October Singapuraa at Clementi
22 October A beach-day followed by another beautiful sunset
#lazy days
23 October …and back to studying
24 October Thinking about sunny Kuala Lumpur
#🇲🇾 #cheat
25 October And thinking about stress-free Sumatra
#🇮🇩 #cheat
26 October Shitty music & crappy lighting ft many exchangers
27 October Postcards from far away, pt. II
28 October Autumn? Nah
#🌞
29 October Coffee days
#Managed to not spill it on my laptop
30 October Autumn leaves?
#whisful thinking
31 October I forgot that October has 31 days, so here is a burning sky from ten days ago
#cheat
1 November This one is called A First Attempt at GIMP
or I Messed Up When Taking a Picture of the Moon, so I Tried to Fix it with Powerful Computer Technology
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2 November I ventured into strange lands, chasing rumours of the best of meals, and stumbled upon the most wondrous of trees
# i.e. i walked to engineering and saw a cool tree
3 November Friday evenings; waiting for busses to take us far away from lecture halls
4 November Two months later, I’m back at the place where I celebrated (among other things) four weeks in Singapore
#cheat #taken twenty six minutes (and a full night’s rest) too early
5 November Early Sunday mornings. I’m still a bit unsure about having noodles for breakfast, but alas the dining hall was closed.
6 November The view from the washing machine, in real-life it is a lot more mundane.
##which may or may not be due to the fact that you’re doing laundry
7 November The Computer/Business canteen, which means I’ve know eaten at all faculty canteens
#dora the explorer
8 November Study break—I have been trying to take this picture for quite a while, glad it finally seems to have worked out (:
9 November Fun drinking game: Take a shot of espresso every time you fail an exam
#more espresso less depresso
10 November Twilight in Singapore, on my way to the dining hall.
#cheat
11 November A lilll' lizard (gecko?) finding its way around UTown, I hope it find its way.
12 November Starring at my comfy bed all the way from the Science
#cheat
13 November Endless sunshine ft. a small bird
14 November No time to take a picture today, so here’s a shot of the Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple during Deepavali last month
#cheat
15 November A crash course in Singaporean city planning: White tower blocks and an abundance of trees (just missing the eight-lane semi-highways).
16 November A variation on the picture of 8 November: Sunrise edition.
#I hadn’t slept yet so it’s still the sixteenth
17 November Secret advertisement for a dozen South East Asian banks.
18 November Looking up from my phone for a little bit.
19 November I forgot the name and artist of this work, but my favourite title in the gallery was Melodies from the Pines and Spring Water
or Fishing in Solitude in the Empty River
; if I ever write a song I’ll let an ink artist name it.
20 November The—surprisingly friendly— campus cat who looks a lot like my old cat
#missing my cats
21 November Took a study break to get some fresh air on the 21st floor
22 November Had a dinner party at one of the nicest apartments I’ve seen in a while
#also plants #plants #(and amazing food)
23 November Rainy days diaries, day 1: If you take flash photos of heavy rain, you can pretend it’s snow to winter vibes.
24 November Rainy days diaries, day 2: still dripping
25 November Singaporean winter is confusing with its mix of tropical weather and Western-influenced depictions of winter; also Christmas balls are meant for Christmas trees.
26 November Rainy days diaries, day 3: When the sky finally clears, the views are stunning.
27 November Today I ran out of new ideas to photograph the rainy skies or my hallway, so here’s an action picture of my heroic quest to pass my courses.
28 November Singaporean things I’ll miss #1: $0.50 watermelon slices for lunch.
#cheat
29 November A study in balance, aided by boredom and procrastination
30 November Even after four months, there is still so much left to explore on this tiny island
1 December I’ve been in Singapore for four months now and it seems that my main occupation has been staring at these clouds (and CAPT)
2 December A last look at the sunset from the Central Library—the air pollution makes it a lot more beautiful
3 December Last tourist visit: Orchid road, to have a goodbye lunch with some of my favourite Singapore people.
4 December Last exam! Also, these examination halls are huge
#also messed up this exam #but freedom will come soon
5 December Bye bye #04-101, my precious little prison cell
#also SINTERKLAAS #and mom
6 December Our hotel in Kuala Lumpur—this is by far the nicest place I have ever stayed in
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7 December Back at the Batu caves, they’re still beautiful the second time around
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8 December We though we saw a crocodile in this lake, but it turned out to just be a big lizard ):
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9 December Green is back to being my favourite colour
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10 December Jungle lighting
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11 December Sir, follow that boat!
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12 December Teateateateastrawberriesteateatea
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13 December When I took this picture, I was quite certain that one of the buildings was on fire, and still my first response was to get my camera.
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14 December Super-duper cool mini trees (bonsais?) in a peranakan house.
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15 December This was completely unintentional, but I really like how thick the sea looks—almost like syrup.
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16 December zonzeestrand
#🇲🇾 #the sun left just before I took this picture ):
17 December bird.jpeg
#🇲🇾 #voor de kenners: whitebelliedfisheagle.jpg
18 December Over four months later and still no one has been able to tell me what the characters on the building mean
19 December Byebye country of orchards and limited freedom of expression
20 December 🇳🇱 🇶🇦 🇸🇬 🇲🇾 🇸🇬 🇮🇩 🇸🇬 🇲🇾 🇸🇬 🇩🇪 🇳🇱