Introduction
Hi! I’m currently a postgraduate research student at the Department of Geography in Durham University. In this blog post, I introduce myself, the reason why this blog was started, and why it is called ‘messy and happenstance’. Migrant & Geographer I was born in Hong Kong, but I migrated to Singapore when I was just three and became a Singapore citizen a couple of years ago. I’ve spent most of my life in Singapore, having grown up in the little red dot and graduated from the National University of Singapore with a major in Geography. I begin with this introduction to emphasise two aspects of my identity – as a migrant, and as a geographer. These two aspects greatly shape the way I see, experience and approach life. As such, emphasising these two aspects are important to you, my readers (if any), because they are the reasons why I began this personal blog. I want to write about various topics I’m interested in, and much of what informs my interests, writing and thinking, ...