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Month: July 2014

  • Secondhand beds

    Tonight I had to head over to a friend’s place far down the East Coast Parkway. He left Singapore a few months ago, suddenly, which meant there was a lot of surplus furniture in his apartment that he needed to dispose of. Because he had a swimming pool and we don’t, he’d given me the […]

  • Another hard track session

    Apart from porridge in the morning, I think the healthiest thing I’ve eaten in a week has been the taco I had last night, and though I brushed my teeth before I went to bed, I woke up still tasting the taco, no longer a joyful Mexican snack but instead a doleful reminder of past […]

  • Where’d You Go, Bernadette

    Tonight after Spanish, I decided not to eat my customary burger, but to get something more healthy. After an hour walking through the brightly lit food desert that is the Bugis+ mall, I admitted defeat, and settled for a bag of crisps and some cookies from Subway. This was not a meal that brought me […]

  • Slowed down by truffles

    Again today I started very slowly; perhaps it was staying up too late reading Where’d You Go, Bernadette, or perhaps,it was not having had any coffee since Friday. It took until 2pm before I left the house and got down to the PS Cafe on Ann Siang Hill for brunch, which was a late hour […]

  • Rush rush rush

    Today, another slow start. I really shouldn’t have stayed up so late watching Blade II, but I was shocked to discover that as well as Luke Goss from Bros, Danny John-Jules from Red Dwarf was also an evil action-vampire. And whatshisname from Beauty and the Beast, that unlamented 80s TV show. This morning I coughed […]

  • Blade II and closets

    After last night’s boozing (4 pints of beer, two gin and tonics and a couple of shots of Jagermeister) I felt unsurprisingly horrid. I didn’t get out of bed until 2, which was even worse than after last week’s home brew misadventure. I sat on the sofa and watched The Celluloid Closet, a documentary from […]

  • Drunk

    A friend is leaving Singapore this Tuesday, so we took him out drinking. This was probably a bad idea; after a whole day without sleep (awake until 2am) and a hard day at the office (twelve hours with paltry amounts of water) I was in no mood for fun. I wanted to go home, not […]

  • Singing a song and fitness tests

    I hope the door of our flat provides adequate sound proofing. As well as my almost constant swearing and playing of NWA’s greatest hits, today I started singing, in a Weimar cabaret style, Money money money, is stuff I like to spend If you have someone else’s money, you do not need friends Spending spending […]

  • More track work

    This evening, still a bit addled by the day, I went out to the track for another threshold session. Tonight’s brutality was 20 minutes, followed by a 4 minute rest, then 5 more minutes, a 1 minute rest and 5 more minutes.

  • Not enough

    One goal that I was given while La Serpiente Negra is living it up in Canada was to work on my novel; another was to run more, and a third was to get more sleep. Although I’ve been keeping to at least a thousand words a week and putting in two hard sessions at the […]