Well, the Olympics are over, and so is this weekend! Weird – for a while everybody was getting excited about figure-skating and skiing, then I went off to Japan and forgot all about it. Cool – don’t have to think about nationalistic honour-duels for the next two years at least.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday were relatively uneventful days, with lots of writing – I wrote about 5000 words at work last week, which was nice. Started reading Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason, it is very funny. Wednesday and Thursday night I stayed up until 1:30 AM writing blog, so I was tired at work… Discovered that Subway is making toasted sandwiches now, and if you get your sandwiches toasted they throw in a free drink and two cookies. Hey, that’s a deal!! Saturday I went downtown with Zen and bought a Mont Blanc watch called Summit. It will be fun wearing it at our event in Bangkok, which is also called “the Summit.” I wonder if anyone will notice. Of course, I’m going to tell everybody I meet all about it… It’s the most expensive thing I’ve ever indulged on, with the exception my computer which is functional and there are no cheap alternatives to an iMac and all of the great software that comes with it. I also got a key chain, d’oh! Here’s a pic of the Summit:
Isn’t it swell-looking? Ate lunch at Clementi train station, went home, let Zen sleep, hung out, listened to Bukowski spoken word, Xavier came over and Zen was so happy playing train track with him that he didn’t want to go see the Malaysia train. Huh?!?! Didn’t stay up too late, so tired… Sunday woke up, had breakfast, took Zen to Bukit Batok by bus, then off to the LRT train loop for a run around that. The LRT is a driverless mini-loop that goes off of the main MRT line out here, there are a few around Singapore. It’s a surreal trip, because it goes through the heavily developed dormitory districts of Singapore Inc. with the canyons of low-cost housing that houses 80 percent of Singaporeans. It’s low-cost, but high-quality, well-maintained, good upkeep. Got back, went to West Mall to the library, I got another Graham Greene book, Travels With My Aunt, although I did look at some heavyy Proust, Updike, and P.D. Wodehouse books so that nobody can accuse me of reading nothing but Graham Greene. Tried to go home, but Zen begged me to make with him one of those cheezy rubber art things that they have in West Mall. I was a bit impatient about it, since I’d never done it before, but we had a nice time, and now we have a third rubber thingy to put on Zen’s bathroom mirror, ha ha ha!!! Zen slept, I listened to Deerhoof and Destroyer, hung out, read Bridget Jones, Zen woke up and again didn’t want to go to see the Malaysia train (huh?!?!?), and preferred to go swimming. Well, OK, whatever, so we had a fun time at the pool instead. And here I am wondering what to do, putting off proofreading my novel…