12.7.24 - The chill factor

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After effects of sun...

Ghin 10


NEX - we spent five hours here!!!

Not out of choice... the upside down...

Club life...

We went to see this and I booked the wrong cinema...

As returned from Chinatown... the construction at Ang Mo Kio - Marymout, in full swing


Dim Sum in Chinatown

Yum Cha... Jac found a baby roach on the table

It did smell very roachy... sort of like the cinemas of old... may not have been aired for years.

Chinatown - Smith St



Chinatown Point... we spent awhile walking around

Yesterday was the first day I managed to get the sleep schedule sorted properly... that is EXACTLY one week since we arrived... well we arrived at 4.30 pm last Friday... and we have done so much but also nothing at all.

First we went to the Ang Mo Kio market to buy fruit, well actually we had breakfast at Srisun because I wanted to eat prata plaster. Then to Ang Mo Kio to buy fruits, then home. Then Jac and I went to Chinatown, while Ghin went to the gym and pool. After that I took the bus home and saw the massive construction in Ang Mo Kio - it's off the scale crazy. I joined Ghin at the pool and then we headed to NEX for the film. Although Ghin was by now very sunburnt. It was both sad and funny. He was icing his face with literal ice. To keep it cool. I had bought aloevera. This morning he felt much better and not sunburnt at all. 

Such are our days. 

I'm fasting today. In truth I do not feel hungry at all. I think I may just fast three times a week... we will see. Or at least stop eating so much. My heel is much much better... I'm just taking it easy. It feels great. Also I am very excited about Daoism. And the symbols of the four cardinal points in Chinese culture. OK... well, that's that for now... 

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