gnatweds

We have a VOIP line - and although used primarily by our parents, occasionally we get calls from friends back home, like just now, I *just* got off the phone with Ai-Lien, my good buddy and colleague.

My gosh, it is good to hear a friendly voice again, and boy, do I miss her and everyone in Sg.

Is this what you call being homesick?

Couple of new things to report:
We just joined a gym here - called the RAC (Rochester Athletic Club), they've got tonnes of classes which may keep me a little busier. Aerobics, step yada yada yada.
We've got a mini gym here at the apartment complex and its brand new, but its a bittty bit tiny. Good for when you need to do a quick hamster-run-on-treadmill thing, but not brilliant when you need more than yourself for motivation.
So, for the first time in keryonks, today me and gene went for a swim - a real lap type swim for 30 mins.

Yaaay. Even if the water is bloody cold. Now cursing that I didn't bring more than one bikini here - aiyah, who would have thought that I'd need more in this climate?

Am hoping that friends back home will want to experience the climate here and come over for a visit (NB: its 16 deg C right now and its ahem... the end of SUMMER, not even Fall proper or... gulps... Winter yet)

Tomorrow, we go up to the cities and see what we can fix on the Porsche - which has rapidly become Eugene's Preeeccccioooouuuus. Yes, exactly like Gollum in LOTR.

We're also trying to recapture bits of Sg with meals like Bak Kut Teh and Laksa (pre-packed mixes of course) and am experimenting with more Asian stuff as well, like from scratch. Found belachan in the Asian store. Stinks to high heaven but heavenly lah. There's also lemongrass and galangal... ooooo...

Oh! Gnatwedding also made it into a local Sg wedding mag - the writers know the photog who did our photos, so he suggested ours as a unique case eg. (yah lah, we had to do things the hard way what; so cookie-cutter it was, erh, not)

Heh, by the way (even if Eugene will kill me for blogging this for the world to see) Mr Gnat was actually in a mag back in 1997. He was featured as one of Singapore's 50 most eligible people in Female Mag. Heheheheheh. So maybe this is actually continuing a family tradition? *sniggers*

PS: that's Ai-lien (who I was speaking to on the ph just now) right in the middle of the page with me.

Oh, also on Singapore - see all these random thoughts running through my head as I blog? - this is kinda weird but funny.

Singapore's abbreviated history a la We Didn't Start The Fire. Great that we're finally able to start making fun of ourselves and govt leaders.