Tag: writing

Setting up in Singers

On By dhanya8In Travel, Unexpected challenges, expat1 Comment

You’d think that by now, I would find the country switch process smooth-sailing, and considering the ease in which life is run in Singapore, that was certainly my presumption too. However, what I have learnt over all these years is that nothing is as it seems and the quirks and particulars of each country all take some getting used to…therefore this is a slight change to my usual posts where I wax lyrical about all the adventures life has brought me, and is more of an explanation of key things needed for living in Singapore…

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Getting back (to the tropics, to my self, to the blog)

On By dhanya8In beach, expat, Friends and Family, Travel4 Comments

Somehow five years has passed and not one blog made it past the draft stage and into actuality…

It’s as if time stood still. Which it very much didn’t.

Though admittedly, it did include a horrendous lockdown experience like no other, so I do often find myself thinking in linear terms as BCS and ACS – Before/After Covid Shanghai. However, that’s a series of stories that can wait to be told, whilst I continue shaking off those shackles and continue reigniting my light. My father also sadly passed away within the time gap of my last posting, and again that is something that will take time to find it’s way to my written word.

Instead, here I am, four locations later, since I left my beloved Lagos. And yet it still rings through my veins, drums against my heart, and sneaks into my dreams…

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