One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along wit — Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
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One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.

— Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5
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