Hi all! 🏠
We’re looking for someone to takeover the lease of a common bedroom. Single occupancy, with own common bathroom. You will share a bright and cozy living & dining area with one female occupant (Ana). Cooking & visitors are allowed! 🤠🍳
This unit is somewhere around the Hougang/Kovan vicinity. For a more accurate address, or interest in viewings please reach out to the current occupants @aditineti or @anaslara__ 👋🏻
I haven’t sketched or drawn in a long time. This wasn’t the case in 2018: back then, my most prized possession was my Prismacolor pencil set of 72. (If there was ever a fire in my Bangalore home, I would have probably ditched my passport, but taken the pencils.) Of course, since then, though I’ve embraced a career in the creative industry, I find myself with no time to sketch anymore, jumping headfirst into design softwares and code instead.
@anaslara__ and I moved into our current place a year ago. We call it ‘notboathouse’, because it is not a boathouse, and also not in the apartment Boathouse Residences on Upper Serangoon View.
We spent a lot of time and effort thrifting furniture on Carousel (and not-thrifting at IKEA) to make a very colourful living room. A lot of our time is spent here: eating, working, entertaining, procrastinating. When my dad visited, he repeated multiple times: “You have turned this HOUSE into a HOME!”
Anyways, this place tingled the sensors in my brain and made me crave sketching with my Prismacolors again. Around February I gave myself about 20-30min a day to just attempt to preserve this safe haven, albeit rough and scribbly and imperfect, in my sketchbook.
I won’t be in this place forever, but this place will forever be in my heart!! And most importantly, special credit to Ana who adds even more color to the scenery.
HAPPY ONE YEAR IN NOTBOATHOUSE!
Gosh, 2023 was the year of change. This is a mishmash of unevenly distributed photos, but I find it so hard to pick out just 10 that encapsulate what 2023 was about for me. So many aspects of my life- from the professional to the personal - changed drastically in some manner or form. I’ll do my best to briefly summarise, non-chronologically:
I turned 21! I wrote a fully fledged dissertation and finished up my final year project (not without suffering through uncountable all-nighters). I bid adieu to my beautiful studio space. I got my bachelor’s degree and graduated alongside my immensely talented friends. Put my final year project in three exhibitions. Started my first big girl job in the field of creative technology. (I’m only 21 years old, isn’t this child labour?) I said goodbye to the most important person in my life mid-year. Nupur and Dada finally visited SG! Moved to a new apartment. Travelled to 3 new countries. Attended my first concert. Listened to Escapism by Raye 83 times. Got my first tattoo and a new pair of ear piercings. Learnt how to tie a saree. Went karaoke singing, clubbing, trampolining, tavern-hopping, strawberry-picking, boating, cycling and so much more.
They say growth comes with change, yada yada yada, but after the whirlwind that was 2023, I can feel my prefrontal cortex actually beginning to develop. Watch out, 2024.
December was awesome: I had 8 million cups of chai and 500 plates of dosa. I met friends I haven’t seen in 2.5 years and road-tripped with the fam. Life was peeeaceful.
