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Plot twist: it all works out.

(lifestyle, travel, singapore, changi, city breaks, wanderlust, exploring, quotes, life quotes, inspirational quotes, meaningful quotes, thoughts, personal reflections) by @iamvaanib

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11 days ago

I think Singapore may have perfected the art of making very ordinary food feel disproportionately good.

Case in point: two slices of bread, an obscene amount of butter, eaten standing on a pavement after a full day of walking/working. by @iamvaanib

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12 days ago

Give me good proportions and a ridiculous amount of detail over another glass box any day. by @iamvaanib

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18 days ago

Shots from a morning walk at Chinatown in @kualalumpurcity started with a gorgeous little post office on a very quiet road.

Apparently the internet says it’s haunted. So obviously, what better way to start the morning? 😂

The old post office is now @kafeidian_petalingstreet A bustling little kopitiam filled with locals.

The funny thing was, the bones of the building were exactly what I’d walked in expecting. Same old structure, same character just a completely different life happening inside.

I ordered buttered toast and kopi.

Little did I know I was about to consume my weekly quota of butter in one bite and feel absolutely no guilt about it.

Maybe that’s the magic of good adaptive reuse: keep the bones, change the life.

Old building. New crowd. Great breakfast.

Honestly, I’ll take that over knocking it down and starting again any day. by @iamvaanib

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18 days ago

🤍 by @iamvaanib

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18 days ago

Things are getting a little rug-ular around here. by @iamvaanib

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a month ago

Muslin was not sheer by accident.

The Mughals graded it as woven air, evening dew, running water. Rome was scandalised by it. We inherited a story about extravagance, about cloth made to be seen through.

But muslin came from the Bengal delta, where heat wraps around the body and the real problem is air against skin. The sheerness was the function. The cotton grew on one stretch of the Meghna. The thread was spun at dawn because it needed the river's humidity to hold together. The climate the cloth served was the climate that made it.

Every technical fabric today chases the specification a delta already perfected.

Full essay on the journal. Link in bio. by @iamvaanib

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2 months ago

I grew up in Chandigarh and I had no idea.

I did not know that perfect roads were not a given. That parks every few minutes were not something every city just had. That a government school being as good as a private one was not the standard everywhere. I thought this was simply how cities worked.

Everything was in its right place. Markets at the corner of every sector. No industries inside the city. No tall buildings interrupting a skyline that belongs to the hills. The roads were the same whether you lived in a government quarter or a larger house a few sectors over.

It never tried to be everything. Sukhna for a walk, the Rock Garden for a visitor, the gedi route for an evening when nothing needed to happen. That was enough, and enough done right is more than most cities manage with everything.

Full essay on iamvaanib. Link in bio. by @iamvaanib

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2 months ago

I moved to Calcutta a few years ago and the city completely undid me.

The buildings, the ghats, the light on the Hooghly at dusk. Every lane holding a story that nobody is telling loudly enough.

This piece is about what Calcutta already has, what it could become, and why the most interesting version of its future is not built from scratch.

It is already here. Waiting.

Read the full essay on my Substack. Link in bio. by @iamvaanib

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4 months ago

You can't sip with us @celavisingapore by @iamvaanib

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4 months ago

by @iamvaanib

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4 months ago

🌚 by @iamvaanib

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5 months ago