Not too much interesting this week – just lots of work, including puttting an issue to bed and also rushing through two last-minute pieces that turned out really well. Lots of emails. Monday night I went to a party – one bank gave away a Lamborghini, so they had drinks and canapes at a local boutique hotel, which was pretty nice actually. Thursday was another party – I got an invite to see INXS play live. Although I’m not that keen on the band or its new singer (although “New Sensation” is a world-class tune), they put on a good show, and the hospitality was fanatastic and I met some cool people. Unfortuantely, Fort Canning Park, where the event was held, is a lot of trouble to get to and to get away from as well. I had a lot of beer in me when I went home (early, to beat the crowds), and stumbled because of the construction happening, but eventually got on the bus. Nice.
Today was a pretty good day. After a pretty busy and tough week, I enjoyed a nice day with Zen. We started the day off with Naoko and breakfast, we went off on the bus to Bukit Batok, then the MRT to Chua Chu Kang to check out the moview – the Ant Bully. Got there early, the first ones buying tickets for the day and two of four people watching the movie – the theatre was ours!!! The movie was enjoyable, but of course thoroughly predictable, especially if you’d seen the trailer. Zen enjoyed it, afterwards we went to buy presents for the birthday party Zen is going to tomorrow – Zen fell in love with a cheap F-16 model plane that makes sounds and has flashing lights, I bought one for him and one for tomorrow’s birthday boy. Zen needs a baseball cap – he doesn’t have anything for the sun – so I bought him a cap… and one for tomorrow’s birthday boy as well, just for good measure. So they’re close in age and getting the same gifts. Funny way to do it, but what the heck. Let Zen ride in the Batman ride once, then off home by train and bus, had lunch, Zen napped, then Ikea delivered our chair and bookshelf. I put the chair together, very comfortable, and the bookshelf got started when Zen woke up and I could start putting the bookshelf together, then we went swimming. Zen did really well, in fact he did his first real solo swimming in the deep water of the pool today, so I was very proud of him. After that we went to see the Malaysia train. When we got back, ate dinner and I helped Zen work on writing the numbers from 1 to 50. He has a problem of writing numbers backwards (9 looks like “e”), or in reverse order (twenty-one becomes “12″), or both (19 becomes “el”). But he’s starting to get the hang of it and recognize when something’s not right. We read “Lili’s Breakfast” when he went to sleep, that was fun too. It was a great day, and hopefully tomorrow will be as well.
Here’s a trailer for the Ant Bully:
And here’s something extra:
Here’s an interesting live video from Blonde Redhead “Misery is a Butterfly.” Odd, unique, and strangely captivating.