#197 - End of week 1

Kampung house inspired architecture of the Geylang Market

Having my coffee at 5 am. I spent a very VERY lazy day yesterday. It seemed fitting the week since we have arrived in Singapore. We finally went to Gaylang and then we got home and I helped Oisin with his website. I feel very sleepy - still do and I spend a lot of my time sleeping. The business plan is being written - it feels really good. So far I have done all the right things - and now it is about getting the numbers together. AND a teeny tiny victory - I am caught up now with the days of the year - I have written one entry for each day of the year.

It feels different this time in Singapore - I can't tell why. It is very odd. I feel as if I am much happier here, happier than I have ever been since I left but also very distant - as if everything has passed me by here. I think I feel like an outsider, a bystander. I suppose that would be fair. Yesterday I was talking to my sister who was saying that it was 'aspirational' to own a house (landed property) and car in Singapore. And I said that would not be my aspiration if I was Singaporean. I'd take public transport and live in a HDB flat - although truth be told, it is so expensive to do both as well that I might just decide to take my chances in another country. 

Everything is so expensive in Singapore, it's nuts.

I also ODed on MARVEL Agents. After a very proper start - one episode a day I just binged the first series. I am a wee bit bored now and so I will just do the things I said I would do. 

I have managed to meet loads of friends. Admittedly the friends I still have here are not your typical Singaporeans. I mean, why would they be? They are people who have done different things with their lives. People who aren't dictated to by life. They have pushed the envelop in their own way. 

But even in Singapore, everything is changing. The entire island is always moving so quickly. The other thing I see as well is more old people. When I say old people, I mean people my age. Many of them wear this expression of being slightly broken, maybe a bit defeated. That is definitely not a path I am intending on taking.

I have run for four days out of the seven we have been here. I have also done two long walks - one in Gardens and another one in Macritchie. I am trying to be sensible with the eating. But there are too many snacks in the house!!! I must find something to do when I feel snacky. It is the snacks that will get me in the end.

The boys are just hanging out. Ghin is reading and taking photos - I am going to set up a blog for him to upload his photos on. He will need a laptop when he goes back - maybe I'll get him a laptop for Christmas. His own laptop.

I have not had any alcohol since I arrived and I am not interested in drinking - I have also had no cheese. Lots of everything else but no alcohol and no cheese. I am hoping that this is the beginning of abstinence. It does help that I am hanging out with people who aren't interested in drinking.

So writing. Back to some fiction writing again. And so the wheel turns.