Shiva's and Metta's Mother's Sutra

The half day and half night time of the year - the equinox. I almost missed it too. That's because nothing changes in Singapore, a mere one degree above the equator. It's the same all year round. In the depths of Irish winter, I would think to myself, somewhere, there are whole swathes of people walking around in t shirts and short because that's how it is all year long. Anyway... yesterday it rained again - for several hours. I wonder if they cloud seeded without letting us know because my weather app basically said that this was not happening - rain. I really don't know what to expect here...  Here's my rant on FB today... When you see the zodiac, not as a ZOO, but as an enshrining of the goddess in the skies, it is impossible to miss the symbolism of what our ancestors had encoded for us. In Sumerian-Western astronomy, Virgo is the largest constellation in the zodiac. She is preceded by Leo, the lion, the animal which accompanies the Sumerian goddess Inanna. Leo ...

Well, I decided that on the days I don't run - which is every two days, I will garden instead. The sweatage is the same and it accomplishes gardening which is very important. I bought hedge cutters, a pruning saw and I will not buy some soil. We will start creating a little hibiscus garden for Ma just outside the kitchen to soften the white wall which gets so hot in the afternoon. The garden is going well. I am helping it back to where it used to be. Today I tied off the hibiscus so that it no longer draped half way across the pavement.  I went for my run and did 70 sit ups yesterday and stretched. It rained LOADS yesterday so I didn't go swimming. We went to Tangs instead. My phone was dead so I did not take any photos. As usual one of my friends on FB - the usual suspect actually - started arguing with me about Israel and who it is not at all fucked up. At all. She said 'shame!' to me. Which, I honestly cannot understand people who use humiliation and personal insults...

Drought in the West Well, I don't know what to say really. It is exactly a week since I arrived... it is now 334 days to go before August 20th which is when I could potentially go back to Ireland. I should not think so far ahead because I have no idea what is going to happen. So here's where I'm at now. I have, in the past 7 days, run and swim 5 times. I have definitely gains SOME weight, but it will all go when I keep this up. I am no longer obsessing over my exercising. As i said, I think that the whole last few months has been about me trying to have some control over life in general. It has been exactly 6 months since Pa passed away. Ma has good days and bad days. We have all pulled through this really difficult time. If i let myself think about it, I could cry. So I don't let myself think about it.  I have become fitter than I have been in decades really. I have also decided that I will run and swim two days on and one day off. I swim betwee...

The exhibition was by Filipina artist Maria Tanuguchi. It was actually pretty good. But most modern arty.  Then I went to shop for my new swimsuit... it found it!! On Friday, I hung out with Hui Theng. We met at MITA and we got up to all kinds of shenanigans together. We learnt how to scuba dive, we went on a film appreciation course, we organised conferences, we laughed till we nearly died.  Thirty years later we are still laughing... I hadn't seen her forever. So much of life has taken place between now and then and well - it was great, we just picked up where we left off. After the exhibition, we went to the Kallang Mall which was being renovated and we had lunch - well I had lunch. Then I went to shop for my swimsuit... walking to Decathalon. There were no arena suits there, so on the way home, I stopped by NEX - apparently NEX had a shop which sold suits. I did manage to buy, not one, but two suits.  I came home but the...

Chinese porridge I want to say that I appreciate EVERYTHING about being able to come to this pool every day and swim my 10 laps...  Queensway - old school shopping centre - with old school laksa, but at new school prices - $6.40!!! The heat at this time of the day - it is not normal. I don't know when the rains will be here, but there's nothing we can do about it. Imagine wondering when it will rain in Singapore. I guess this is when the government discovers that all the Nuwater in the world is not going to save you. I ran yesterday, did my sit ups, but not stretch because Jac arrived early and we had breakfast at the porridge place. Then we came back and I did some editing and writing. I also booked a concert and bought the Festival Pass to the Singapore Writers' Festival - and asked them if we could launch the Human Rights and Education package. I then spent far too much time on FB obsessing about the fall of Ed Sheeran - it...

It was busy yesterday. I worked on the short stories. I bought new hair dye. I treated Ma and Oisin to Fish and Co. I really must do the finance thing today or tomorrow. I also spent an inordinate amount of time on the Ed Sheeran Poop Fest where he ditched his friend for the billionaire boss. The entire floor of this tour then dropped out as the IRISH artists who supported him said, actually this is cak. We can't do this. Then this made all the artists also say, actually, yeah no, mate. And then the internet had a pile on. I'm gonna be honest, I do not know what's good about Ed Sheeran. His music was Irish adjacent and i despite having lived through when he was most popular, i still could not understand what was good about him. Anyway. He is now in the middle of an anti-Zionist shitstorm and if he thought that he could get out of it by saying, it's not me guv, then he truly is unable to read the room. I think t...

I didn't go for my run this morning - i'll go later.  I don't know what's happened to my sleep patterns/ schedule. It's a nightmare, that's all i know. Anyway.  I am also not obsessed with my weight any longer. I don't know why. Something definitely switched when I went back to Ireland. I am now - yeah, I'll run and I'll swim and I'll be happy. That's it. I think it's going to be hot today. It has been hottest since I've arrived. Although it said no rain for the next two weeks, it has rained on Monday and it rained yesterday. I looked at my short stories and Miriam and the Myna...and this is the plan going forward. As I was running yesterday, I thought that the first story would be called Prologue and the last story would be Epilogue.  Then it will be divided into parts...  Like: End Times (stories about the collapse of society), Her there be Monsters (women-animal hybrids),  Powerful Women?, In Another Life (alternative time lines), ...