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For all that I’m ploughing through yards of traditional Chinese, I’m feeling very happy right now.

I do love the interior of the National Library—I hate the way the building looks, all steel and glass, from the outside, and I really miss the old National Library, but inside—inside the NLB kinda rocks.

I love the high ceilings and big windows that give you the sense of being outside—whilst being inside. I love the view from the windows—I love the way this area looks. The mix of architectural ’styles’ is just the coolest. This is one of those views that I just do not have the skill to capture on camera—old HDB blocks, shophouse-y in style, with kids’ playgrounds a good four or five storeys above ground, plonked next to shiny ‘marble’-façaded Allson Hotel, behind that small ‘Renaissance’ style Catholic church with it’s tiny dome and steeple—the whole scene makes me feel as if it’s a picture made up of different picture postcards set together for a laugh.

It’s a good feeling, sitting here, looking out the window.