Netherlands, Amsterdam
i had to pause and think about the foreign familiarity of watching ‘demain tout commence’ with flo last night. where we are in Amsterdam, netflix only has the movie in french voiceover and dutch subtitles and we are predominantly an english/german/chinese speaking household. language seeps and language unites. i love being in these continuums.
House library - Laura Lacambra Shubert
American,b.1960s-
Mixed Media on canvas, 40 x 30 In
hoe langer ik in Nederlands woon hoe duidelijker het verschil met Singapore wordt
say what you mean, mean what you say
everyone’s opinion matters
your boss is (also) your friend
Flo and I just signed a lease for an apartment in Den Haag and the apartment is nicer and larger than any place I’ve lived in Singapore my whole life. I cannot believe it. We sent out something like fifty applications in total - basically every listing we saw on Funda because it is notoriously hard to find a place in the Netherlands that is reasonably priced, furnished, in a decent neighbourhood and close enough to the Centraal station for us to travel onward to Rotterdam and Amsterdam every morning. Everything about this apartment hunting experience was stressful but also surprisingly serendipitous as the only agent that got back to us was for this apartment which we quite frankly wanted the most.