Status Updates From Three

"I want to tell her that we shall create a huge trading centre here at Tumasik, its waters also protected by Bintan, that we shall be beholden neither to Cina nor to Majapahit, that this balance of one against the other shall be our way of ensuring independence from them both..."

reading this has caused my love for singapore grown tenfold.
(kit chan's home plays in the background)

"I, on the other hand, felt as I always have, like I were water seeping from a broken pot; I existed but had no form to hold me in place."

honestly was not expecting such gorgeous writing wtfffff