Peter Hoflich

I haven’t written for a few weeks, time to catch up.

Last weekend I had a blast attending the Rockin’ The Region event, I saw Damn Dirty Apes from Malaysia (instrumental post-rock from Malaysia), they were so-so, but Sigmun from Indonesia, Jogjakarta, were stellar, with their spacey Sabbath-influenced sound. I also bought the cool retro Pop Yeh-Yeh collection of psychedelic pop from 1960s Malaysia and Singapore.

The week was a blur, and then the next weekend came! Went to another installment of Faisal Yahu D-curated Rockin’ The Region free concerts in the Esplanade bandshell, which was damn cool – saw ((AUMAN)) from Indonesia Sumatra and the local doom supergroup Satan, then headed over to the Artistry cafe in Bugis to check out my friend Farid Long’s solo performance of Beatles songs. To my surprise, my friends in the Pinholes were there too, and they also had a great set of Beatles songs too, including a rousing chorus of “Obla-di, Obla-da”, great!! Farid’s set was intense, as you can see from the photo, the Pinholes were slightly shambolic, as they tried our various things, but in the end got the drunken, distracted crowd boppin’ nonetheless. Awesome!

After four hours sleep, we rose early and headed out to East Coast Park for a company activity – beach clean-up and garbage picking! There were 50 of us, staff and families, from two parts of my company, and we had a very nice time tidying up the beach from 8:30 to 9:30, learning about the type of garbage people toss aside (50% cigarette butts, 50% random weird crap with no pattern at all). After 9:30 we hung out, blowing bubbles, talking, Zen and I played catch ball and pitching, then everybody went off. We stayed behind and walked to the Carl’s Jr at the far end of East Coast Park. It was far!! Got there, had our burgers and fries and cola, then took a cab back home. Naoko and I slept for 90 minutes, Zen did homework (!!!!). In the evening we headed out to the National Library to see a stage play, Pursuant. It’s about a future Singapore police state where dreams/dreaming is an illegal activity as it’s counter to the national good, and where compulsive dreamers are put in a “concentration camp”, where they learn… to concentrate. Lots of dangerous allegations in this one, I hope no one who’s important to the government gets a look at this… wow!! Practically subterfuge, actually. One of the reasons we wanted to go is because Zen is applying to both the music and the theatre streams of School Of The Arts, with theatre being possibly the easier one to get into (it also leads to film studies in later years, which is interesting for Zen), but Zen has little experience seeing stage plays. Now he’s seen a modern stage play, in addition to the traditional dance performance of Ramayana in Indonesia in March, I think he’s equipped with a good understanding of what he’s getting himself into.

Today we slept in past 9:00 AM, which we hardly ever do. It was a very tiring day yesterday, so it was well-deserved and overdue. Great. But we still found time to play guitar, to throw the ball around, and to have fun.

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