Wandering Adventure Party

Notes from the underground

#Transit #London

‘See it, say it, sorted’

#Transit #London

Now she’s telling him about how I once made her walk 10 km to get pancakes

Walking down a street in London with my mom, I get a bunch of random free food and my mom tells her friend, ‘this happens all the time’

@tempusfelix thank you! It’s been lovely

@tempusfelix ha, yes I have been hearing see it, say it; sort it.

@jnfrd they exported them to the colonies Singapore and HK and Mumbai have them

90% of public transit I’ve taken in my life (in duration and frequency) have been double decker buses exactly like these (I took them to school every day in Singapore since I was 7)

#Transit #London

@bluestocking hehe they were the only buses I knew so when I got to SF I was very surprised

When I last spent any regular time in London (late 00s / early 10s)

I lived somewhere where the Tube was the primary way of getting around

This time I’m somewhere taking the commuter trains more frequently and

It’s pretty nice? They’re larger, less packed and pretty good

#Transit #London

@sarahijackson thank you!!

15. So many different types of trains!

I don’t really understand all the many different trains and operators yet but I think these are different commuter rail systems that go to different places

#Trains #Transit #London

14. Made it to London!

Thameslink train from Gatwick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thameslink

#Trains #Transit #London

Iceland Air is running a search for the worst photographers in the world so they can fly them to Iceland to take photos of Iceland.

https://reallybadphotographer.com

I wrote something about how I had been the target of an anti-gay thing on a Singaporean subreddit. In September last year a bunch of people (led by a Singaporean school teacher) told everyone to search my social media posts to report anything anti-Republican to ICE

My piece is less about the specifics about that incident but more about how I feel, as a person who has been out online for the last 22 years, that the climate has changed (the homophobia never really went away but was just less public, briefly)

And also about increasing homophobia, transphobia around the world.

Not sure where I’ll publish it. Will welcome ideas for any online or other publication.

@wgwz great service! We need more jobs like that.

13. Inside of the Long Island Railroad (best way to get to JFK airport)

$5.25 from Atlantic Terminal to Jamaica, then $8 from Jamaica to JFK (on the AirTrain)

“With an average weekday ridership of 336,300 passengers in 2025, it is the busiest commuter railroad in North America. It is also one of the world's few commuter systems that run 24/7 year-round.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Rail_Road

#Trains #Transit #NewYorkCity

I used to be fascinated by my grandma talking to her friend in Teochew

And her friend would respond in Tamil

I find the obsession with language fluency and testing hilarious coz it’s just so much more fun like this

#Languages #Chinese

I’ve always been fascinated by language choice and pairs when the people involved speak a range.

I almost feel like we adopt a main language with a specific person or context and rarely change, even if they speak another to someone else.

Example: my parents mostly speak to me in Mandarin, to each other in Hokkien, I speak English only to my brother, I speak Teochew to some relatives but Mandarin to others, and I’m so curious about why and how we ‘decide’ one is the main language.

Some of it is age / context. At the Vietnamese Chinese noodle shop in SF I frequent, I speak Teochew to the grandparents, English / Teochew to the people my age. But other times it feels random.
#Languages #Chinese

@jnfrd it is mutually unintelligible but many Cantonese speakers do Mandarin lessons now due to language imperialism and also economic activity. Mandarin speakers mostly don’t understand Cantonese at all unless they study it somehow