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Adrianna Tan · 2w
i once met a young singaporean who had never lived abroad and she was living briefly in a suburb outside palo alto for a work thing she was deeply anxious about having to get into a car to procure an...
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i don't think people understand:

when i go home to my parents' home, i can go 'downstairs' (from the 40th floor) of their building, and there are 3 supermarkets, 2 wet markets, so groceries from 5am to 2am, and probably hundreds, not even exaggerating, of food stalls at all hours

so going from that to.. whatever it is other people do, is very very challenging
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Adrianna Tan · 2w
it's also extremely common to say, go out for a roti canai at 2am or a freshly made naan and nihari or nasi lemak or all of them at the same time like actually leaving your home at 2am to meet people to do it