Just when you think you can sit back and try to enjoy the peacefulness you desperately sought after, the world overwhelms you with its conflicts, hatred and despair of normal life...
And General Insanity creeps in Every day....
--> Another summer day has come and gone away..But I wanna go Home <--
Coincidence.. I spent my summers in both Paris AND Rome. Now on reflection, I don't know which home I was thinking about: Singapore? Or Bristol? England?
Sometimes, I feel a sense of displacement here. I want to be Singaporean but no matter how much I try, it's like as if a part of me remains in Britain. Despite the unchanged Singaporean accent, the little bit of Kiasu characteristic I've kept, the black hair, the love for Char Kway Teow and the yearning to preserve as much of my Asian culture, I cannot completely erase the new Western ideas brought about by my education. I have adopted some English attitude and independence. I end my sentence of, ' Uncle, please, one green tea, can?' with the English 'Cheers!' or 'Ta!' I cannot fight the British love for cheesy music or prevent myself from embracing their sweet teas and crumbly scones with butter.
And yet, I feel displaced... How does one define home? Where family is? Where one has experience 'life' as we know it? Independence? Memories??
Will England be my home? I can't imagine settling there, alone..amidst a million people I don't know. Whereas here, my family makes this place my comfort zone. Maybe there'll never be a place I can call truly 'home'. I love England and yet, I feel a pull towards and affinity with France: a conservative, lofty and romantic city struggling against and in a modern, cynical and less feeling world. And Singapore? What can I say? It was where I was born, where my family is, where I've found some of my closest friends... I can't get away from my roots or heritage but I can't immerse myself in it fully either.
Another aerorplane
Another sunny place
I'm lucky I know
But I wanna go home ..
If I ever know where 'home' is...
Chloe Andrina
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