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Echo Nest

A small nest for the things I would otherwise forget.

12 Nov 2025
28 Jul 2026
14 Jun 2026
03 May 2026

I keep this desk for ordinary evenings — kopitiam steam, canal paths after rain, the lamp I switch on before writing. Echo Nest is not a publication or a programme; it is one person's shelf of notes from Blk 712 Yishun Street 71, where the window faces the park connector and the kettle always reaches a second boil.

If you are new here, start with any log below — they share the same plain card shape on purpose. The Chin Swee note sits first because it lives at the root URL, not because it outranks the others. I write in Singapore English, mostly about Yishun and Khatib, sometimes about routes that carry me south toward town. Nothing here is for sale; nothing asks you to subscribe. Read slowly if you can.

Yishun window light across a desk
Late afternoon through the kitchen window — the hour when logs begin.

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Chin Swee towers at distance
12 Nov 2025

From My End of Kampong Bahru

An evening walk with oranges and distant sirens — what I saw without knowing.

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Kopitiam steam
28 Jul 2026

The Second Boil

Morning teh si kosong and the kopitiam kettle.

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Canal after rain
14 Jun 2026

Canal Path, After the Rain

Walking off a knotted sentence toward Khatib.

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Bus stop wait
03 May 2026

A Folded Corner at the Stop

Bus 965 and a timetable with a folded page.

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Desk lamp glow
19 Apr 2026

The Lamp I Leave On

Evening ritual before the laptop opens.

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"Some notes are ballast — weight you choose so the day does not drift entirely."
Kitchen kettle on hob

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Rough neighbourhood pin — Yishun, Singapore