Derek Ng Derek Ng

A Place Not Quite the Same

I loved my Blogger website: it felt homemade, familiar, and, most importantly, mine. The Squarespace rendition, on the other hand, feels just like the mall in South Horizons today: somewhat similar to what it used to be, but much more sanitary. A mere hollow of the old thing.

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Derek Ng Derek Ng

Notes on Interning

Something scares me about the nature of office life. It might be the permanence of all of it — the lack of a collective knowledge that this is all temporary, that this will all end some day, the way kids in high school count down the clock together to the inevitable goodbye.

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Rediscovery

in these snapshots you'll find some old friends and some new ones, a few places i know and a few more i discovered, and a (relatively incomplete?) collection of my better memories from this year.

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Italy ’19

everything about the trip just seemed so perfect, in a way that life doesn't usually lend itself to. maybe it's a summer thing.

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(A Tent On A Boat: 2)

It doesn't do well to dwell on shedded skins, on expired hollows of ourselves. We forget to live if we do that.

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2018

“This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.”

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Tanzania ’18

now, so much later—i close my eyes, take a deep breath, and there i am again.

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Letting Go

My father was raised in superstition — he is a man with peculiar beliefs, not all of which are derived from logic or legitimacy. But, this time, I think that he may have been onto something.

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Spain ’18

i regret none of it — not the rain, not my lack of preparation, not all the could'ves, the would'ves, the should'ves.

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