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Travel Journal: Revisiting home in Hong Kong as a Singaporean third-culture kid

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The writer revisiting a harbour in Tsim Sha Tsui, a place she hung out during her teenage years.

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HONG KONG – When someone asks me about home, I instinctively think of Hong Kong, the place I spent my teenage years. Moving there in 2008 for my parents’ jobs as humanitarian workers, I grew up in a tiny flat with my younger sister in Shui Tau Tsuen, a residential village in the New Territories.

Having moved homes every year or two due to my parents’ work, that flat in Hong Kong remains the longest I have lived in one place.

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