Over Dinner

Typically, dinner meets with friends can go either of two ways: Run of the mill, or mind blowing. There are those that you have, and forget. And then, there are the others. The others you remember for a long time to come, and with hindsight, remember them as a turning point that led to significant events in the future.
Four of us met up at a Pizza place along Bukit Timah today. It was HT, KK, JM and myself. HT and KK met and became good friends at Church. KK went off to Australia to train to become a commercial pilot. He's back from his vacation. Over dinner, he shared his life story as a young Christian. That triggered a series of discussions that led us to conclude we'd stumbled upon something big. Time to get busy. Very busy.

Rendezvous

Theme of the day - "HEAT". First morning during breakfast, then at noon on court, then at the grill. The rains did help chill things a bit by the time evening arrived.





But the real star for the day was this Mynah spotted at one of our lunch haunts:

One-legged, scruffy but still soldiering on despite the disability. That spirit is admirable to say the least.

Granny's 90th

Today we celebrated Granny's 90th Birthday. A rare opportunity to get everyone back together again, especially since most of us have been out of town quite a bit, myself included. It didn't seem too long ago where we played with bottle caps and clambered for choice cuts at a certain restaurant in Chinatown during family gatherings. Back then, we'd gouge out the rubber washers beneath them bottlecaps to see if we'd won a prize or not. And there were those strange stage performance sets (percussion, keyboards, mics etc.) with them uncles in bell bottoms and oversized shades, tux and all in retro style playing the hits of yesteryear...and we'd run circles around them.

Friday Torrential

We [JackRabbit, his wifey, Doc' and me] were supposed to chalk up some flight time over the Singapore River. We got a load full of tropical rainfall instead. Turned out we sought shelter in a Cafe nearby, chilled out with Doc' who was in the area, cracked ourselves up with jokes about monkey business, and I come home to see the Synapseman online, just having posted his handy work here. It's amazing. He just keeps getting better.

Weekend Rising

Never thought I'd be counting down to the weekend. As a conscript, you'd count down to the number of days and a wake up before the weekend came because that drove you during the course of the week through training. As a student, you took it for granted. As a working professional now, you spend it all resting and perhaps an occasional night out with old friends and the likes... but this weekend's packed. And it's a good thing. I'm looking forward to it. Met up with EO and JT today at a Cafe/Bistro round 6th Avenue, unplanned. But it works out best like this most of the time. The day wrapped up pretty well. I'm grateful.

Fantasia

Plastic Ambition

Just messing around....really.

Sunday Meltdown

I love Sundays. Rest. It's rest, rest and more rest. Strange that within the past 3 years or so, this pattern of activity that I've adopted now is a far cry from what it used to be...parking at one end of the city and then trekking all the way to the other, shop, then trek back all over again. Nowadays, it's the "park smack in the middle of the city - shop - chill - coffee - chill - home - sleep" drill, interspersed with old school car spots, motorbike oddities and interesting interior designs you fantasise about having in your own home in the future. Feeling a tad bit older already...

Frenetic Redux

I'd planned to slow things down a little over the weekend. Turns out things went totally the other way...

Sunday On The Streets

The 7th day of the week in a handful of pixels...

After The Rain

The humidity has been punishing of late. The air is so heavy laden you feel you're wading in gel...but the rains finally came. All of sudden you begin to feel like an agricultural community depending on water from the sky for your micro-economy. The garden springs to life however, even after a drizzle...

Bayfront Smorgasbord

The weekend in not so many words...

Hiatus Interruptus

Been a while since the last update. Such is the scheme of things in the city. I need to get out a little more often, out of the Island.

Down Tempo, Not Quite

It's past 1 am on a Monday morning...and I've come to realise that the weekend was over before me knowing it had started...so much for down tempo modus, it was anything but. Reckon the next week will be about the same. It's going to take a while to get used to this pace.

Weekend: Down Tempo

Starting off the weekend with a trip to the barber, and then coffee at me' former school (a little but of nostalgia) with Dr. Penguin. We both got a gruelling week ahead, so thought it'd be good to take the down tempo path for the weekend, just sit, sip and chill (with some plastic model building thrown in...)
Dinner was an austerity drive (not a bad thing) topped off with some gelato type cold dessert. A little icing on the cake. It's photo shoot duty tomorrow...time to do a gear check then hit the sack.