Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Banjos, birthday and beach.

I have once again been most remiss in keeping this blog up to date so here's a bit of a recap on the last month or so.

Firstly, I turned thirty and it didn't hurt. Well, not much anyway...I did have to front up to Immigration at 8.45am the next day. Let's just say the photo on my ID card is not the prettiest picture of me I've seen. On the 11th we went out to dinner and were joined for drinks by a great handful of Lion King and Singapore friends where we had a lovely night in the lush surrounds of Hacienda in Dempsey Rd.



Birthday shopping for myself at Art Friend.
The 20's are a significant decade and a lot has happened in the last 10 years so I have had a little bit of existential reflection and philosophical fine tuning. One of the biggest things has been the calm and clarity I've achieved through medication to even out my brain's tendency towards anxiety. Looking back on parts of the last 10 years it makes me realise that A) it had been a problem for a lot longer than I thought and B) that mental health is important to look after and that's it's not something to be ashamed of or to hide away.

Life in Singapore ticks away like clockwork and it becomes clear in this profession that your down time, most especially the one day off (or "off day" in Singlish) is important not only to rest up but also to get out and do different things to break up the groundhog day-ness of this life.

The apartment is looking much more homely now thanks to the $15 wall decal from the Mustafa Centre and some awesome prints from London and super chaep Ikea frames.




Another awesome addition to the apartment has been the banjo Flic bought me for my birthday. It's a truly beautiful instrument and I'm having a blast picking up different tunes on it.



With the removal of the usual overheads like rent and bills I've finally bought myself a digital SLR so I'm enjoying playing with shutter speed and apeture again which I havn't done for a long time. Here's more of my Singapore life courtesy of my Nikon D3100.

Flic in Orchard Rd


View from the spare room west over Singapore. In the far distance is Marina Bay Sands.


 Little India


Our favourite late night eatery after the show near our house. Best Sweet and Sour Pork EVER!

East Coast Park, 3 blocks from our house. Great way to chill out on a Monday night with beer and food on the beach.

Gotta scoot off to work now.....apparently there's hundreds of people who want to hear a story about some lion......

cheerio.