Coming out.

We went to a Trivia Night at the Australian International School. Our table finished 'middle-of-the-pack', but won the best themed table thanks to the pink-champagne with which we plied the judges. The AIS has machine-gun wielding guards at the gates to stop gate-crashers.

Shopping malls - the new pleasure domes

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."

Majulah Singapura!

Happy Singapore National Day (for last thursday). I started the day with a cycle around the island. The rally-stripes on my head are road grime thrown up by the rider in front (I was in the middle of a pack of riders - peleton in the vernacular)! We did 150 km - the furthest I've cycled since last December. The evening was spent hosting a National Day BBQ for like-minded patriots. This photo is to prove that I can make a fire (eventually).

Still not as painful as it looks

I've been keeping up my cardiac-rehab exercises. I get very little chest discomfort now, so I think the sternum is nearly healed. Ice-cream helps......

Priorities

My priority has been work and so I've been a bit lax keeping this blog up-to-date. I also haven't taken any good photo's lately. We've been here 3 weeks now and the photographer snapped me unpacking my most cherished possession, one of the many storms that sweep over kent Vale and (most remarkably) dawn!