I had just moved to London three weeks ago, and who better to show me around than a fellow Singaporean?

Enter: Chen Xi.

The former Mediacorp actor and current arts and cultural management student met up with me on a cloudy afternoon at Covent Garden to have a chat and become my temporary tour guide, showing me around his university campus and other attractions in the area.

We convened at Wa Cafe, a Japanese patisserie at Ealing Broadway, and discussed how the past year has been since he left Singapore.

"It's been one of the longer periods of my life where I've been away from home, because my previous job had me filming for two to three months in Malaysia or a nearby country, but this time I'm all the way in the West," the 33-year-old said.

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