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Month: October 2016

  • Getting out of Jakarta again

    I left the Grand Hyatt at five today, and passed out, exhausted, in the back of the car, waking up an hour later still not at the airport. Traffic in Jakarta really sucks.

  • Getting to Jakarta the high way

    Walking around Jakarta today, quite apart from being conscious of how unfeasibly white I am for a tropical environment (days inside office buildings, far from the sun, mean that my skin is pale enough that every vein is visible, like I’m some flayed man arranged for anatomical training), I was reminded of Italy. Not just […]

  • Go slow

    I got back late from the office today, after La Serpiente and Destroyer had eaten their dinner, so they got to gibber and prance around the living room while I ate pasta and tofurkey sausages. La Serpiente has a set of plastic scissors that she enjoys cutting up paper with, and she was waiting for […]

  • More power testing

    The children slept all through the night, which meant I woke feeling wonderful for the first time in weeks. I was filled with guilt though: two days ago I bought La Serpiente a bright pink, Hello Kitty themed miniature basketball, and then yesterday I left it in the back of a taxi by accident. So […]

  • Late brunch, early to bed

    We were meeting friends for brunch at 11 at Super Loco, and rushed over there after a slow start to the morning. Our friends ended up not arriving for an hour, by which time we’d fed the girls a bowl of noodles each, I’d inhaled a portion of elotes and was well on the way […]

  • Groggy and hot

    I had a dreadful night’s sleep; the people in the flat above us were doing woodwork until midnight, I had toothache and bunged up sinuses, and woke at random hours through the night. Surprisingly, when I was out of the flat and walking around with the kids, the cloud of ache and misery dissipated, and […]

  • Concert

    Today was the school concert and graduation ceremony for La Serpiente’s school. It was ten minutes’ walk from the office, so I nipped out just before lunchtime and went down to see my daughter perform.

  • A wedding in Singapore and thoughts on optimists

    Today friends of ours got married, so we went to witness them at the Registry of Marriages (ROM) – which is next to the Registry of Muslim Marriages (ROMM). It’s a little strange; you wait inside a building with lots of hearts on the walls, and every fifteen minutes or so a bell chimes and […]

  • Running with a Stryd and a Garmin 235

    Tonight I went for my first run in twelve days: ten minutes to run down the street for a kilometre and then back again. There were various aches and pains in my back (possibly working some kinks out there) but I was also reaping the results of a strict chocolate-coated biscuit diet over the past […]

  • Milk

    Long Hours. Poor Diet. Lack Of Exercise. Your Heart Doesn’t Need More Stress. These are the slogans, in big white text on a lime green background, that assail me every time I take a train to work from Tanjong Pagar. The solution the advertiser offers is to drink more milk. Drink more special, high sterol […]