well well well.

i’ve fallen into a role that seemingly takes up a lot of time. it’s like A JOB. but it’s not really WORK so, i guess i’m still on holiday.

i’ve also begun a ceramics course, and have made half a dozen ugly pots/flasks/things that i can’t wait to glaze. that’s the best part of the course, i think. the glazing. i like the ‘making pretty’ bits. the other technical bits i’m not so good at. but, practice makes perfect - or so they say.

i’m tired. it’s too hot.

it’s been hectic.

there have been days sitting in ‘meetings’ and visiting sites and wondering why i ever agreed to help. but there have also been other days of sitting around and reading and writing (although much fewer). and other evenings of catching up and chatting about all the inconsequential and yet all-important things. karaoke and drum n bass too.

i still sleep till noon, which doesn’t help the jetlag much, but i don’t really have to be up anyway. the food’s good, although some have been disappointments. the mythology of singaporean food probably grew into a over-sized totally delicious monster in my head, either that or my friends are failing in their duties to bring me to the best places.

photography’s fallen off the radar. it’s just too hot to be standing around in the day trying to take photos of the things i see. i really want to photograph it all, but the heat! the humidity! i can’t balance a bag in one hand, an umbrella in the other, a bottle of water as well as a camera. it’s all too complicated.

it’s been a week and a half of history and the future.