When I first heard this, I felt a twinge that was hard to name: what do you call the feeling of building with your children a world of affection that you had only ever dreamt of? I would search for her in the bathrooms to check if she was hiding there,” she recalled, misty-eyed. “I lost my mother when I was barely one and a half years old. Mum never regaled us with stories from her own childhood in detail. My mother and me during our visit to Singapore in 2019. Instead of hugs, kisses, or ‘I love yous’, we wrapped ourselves in wellness regimens and bouts of TLC over and over again. Looking back, these motherly pampering and indulgences replaced other, more conventional expressions of affection. Afterwards, there would be a solid scrub down with powdered wheat husk and a hot bath that soaked her as much as it did us. I remember chilly days when she would smear us all over with good ol’ Figaro olive oil as we basked gleefully in the warm, mellow, winter sun. Every year, she would eagerly await our return, which would always lead to a deluge of pampering the likes of which we missed sorely while away.
Growing up, moments with Mum were painfully short-lived because we spent most of the year at our boarding school in Darjeeling, reuniting only during the holidays. “I never imagined I'd ever revisit Singapore, let alone with you,” she remarked. Now, fast-forward 30 years, she would be walking down nostalgia lane with her now grown-up child. Back then she was four months pregnant with me. There was another highlight to the trip for my mom-a return to the place where she spent her honeymoon in 1989. Perhaps the only thing that convinced her to overcome her fears was the fact that it would give us a much-needed chance to piece together our flailing bond, fraught by a galaxy of differences. My mum, whom I’ve always perceived as a fearless woman, would get strangely nervous on flights, overwhelmed by the long-winded onboarding procedures and endless travelling hours. In 2019, just before the pandemic broke out and all international travel came to a halt, my Singapore-based younger sister insisted my mother and I join her for the Christmas holidays. Monastery of the Sacred Rat | 53\/3N's PlaceĬlinton Hill Chantry | Helping Hands Homeless Outreach Center | Greenpoint | Greenwood Cemetery | Lorimer Street Station | Coop Village | Crown HeightsĬity Hall Station | Harlem | Uncommon Knowledge | Madame Anastasia's | Cosmo's | St.Impressions of the underwater creatures my sister (Mugdha Agrawal), my mother (my mother) and me coloured together. The Unsleeping City: Chapter II Locations Metropolitan Museum of Memories | Poseidon's Diner Spaghetti's Bakery | Monastery of the Midnight Sun Owen's Hospital | Times Square | Glamour | FAO Schwarz
However, in Chapter II its location appears to have been retconned to exactly correspond to the Met.Īrt Show Space | Clinton Hill Chantry | Greenpoint | Lorimer Street Station | Williamsburgīroadway | Central Park | Empire State Building | New York Public Library | Grand Central Terminal | Kingston's Home | New York Stock Exchange | St. In the first season of The Unsleeping City, the Metropolitan Museum of Memories is described as being located halfway between the waking world's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Natural History Museum, corresponding to the middle of Central Park.The battle at the museum in The Unsleeping City: Chapter II is the first episode of the season to showcase Roll20's dynamic lighting feature.Episode 8: Feasts & Families (mentioned).Episode 4: We Need to Talk About Cody (mentioned).Featured Episodes Episodes Featuring the Museum
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