Magica but Add Some Gloom and Doom

That time I went out looking for an upbeat amusement park, to reflect the joy of my work and more, during the summer, on a sunny day, but ended up getting a rather somber experience of it. I’ll take it. This is a Mood.

That Was Nice but This Is Nicer

As you may know, I left the main city, finding it too dense for my taste. Now I live somewhere more in the countryside. My biggest issues living on this island had been: The heat, the crowds, the noise, and being continually asked to look more cheerful and less scary. But it turns out that all of those can be fixed by where exactly I choose to be, around whom, and what my lifestyle is like. (Also, thank GOODNESS for Air Conditioning.)

I might always miss ice skating, though - a profound yearning I always had for some reason. An art I remain, to this day, in awe of. But maybe in another life. In this one, I get to enjoy lushness and rain instead. (Still the most ‘Me’ picture of me in existence, though.)

Brutalism Within a Tropical Paradise

I’m due to share another side of my place of birth that I oddly enjoy capturing. I thought I was just emo, but maybe there’s a lot more to it. And yes, it’s messed up that I find these somehow “comforting”, despite the fact that I’m all for nature and such.

Of course, I love colors and blue skies, palm tree beaches as well as romantic architecture, but this “brutalism”, or however it can be called, speaks to me in a puzzling manner that I never quite deciphered. It makes me feel less like a tourist or an ‘alien’, which I’ve always felt.

I never want to leave this tropical paradise, though. I resented being born here at first, because I aspired to be closer to cutting-edge technology in developed countries. And I used to ask God why the heck he put me here (we are not without our troubles). But nowadays I’m fine with all of it, given the room for improvement. Prefer it, even.