Sentosa....

Went to Sentosa with Kat yesterday.... It was, on the whole, incredibly tacky... if Disney made an island it would look something like this. Here are a couple of Flickr sets to try and explain this....

First the trip there.... (not on the whole bad)

Then the tackyness of the the nature walk....

Finally Underwater World, which I actually really liked. Took lots of pictures here of strange creatures. Particularly liked the Sea Dragons (Like Sea horse, but cooler) I also really liked the Sea Angels, which I didn't manage to take pictures of, but were really beautiful... (and fluoresce)

Secret Ninja Training....

Kat and my Dad dropped into the end of my Arnis class on Sunday and had a good laugh at me. (This was also the day I decided to forget everything and hit myself in the head with my stick).... Here's the evidence

Kat found this in Melbourne....

Some grooming required....

Haven't shaved since I was 29.... just thought I'd share that...

Quote of the day....

I'm reading (almost finished) Atomised by Michel Houellebecq, I like it all in all, a story about two disfuctional guys living two disfunctional lives. Just read this part....

"People often say that the English are very cold fish, very reserved, that they have away of looking at things - even tragedy - with a sense of irony. There's some truth in it; it's pretty stupid, though. Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn't matter how brave you are, or how reserved, or how much you've developed a sense of humour, you still end up with your heart broken. That's when you stop laughing. After that, there's just the cold, the silence and the loneliness. You might say, after that, there's only death."

hmmm..........

Bollywood gone so so wrong...

double the pain....

Just done the intermediate and beginner's Arnis class, two and a half hours of stick swinging fun... Plus two runs, two sets of warm up exercises... Feel very virtuous now, going to ache like hell tomorrow..... :o)

Photo update...

I've uploaded a few more photo's from Hsin's camera from Bintan. Some taken by Hsin, some (mainly the strange portrait ones) taken by me.

Yellow melon

My food discovery of the week is yellow watermelon. Nachen brought one into work yesterday. I didn't even know they existed.... the also taste different to regular red melons, a bit sweeter I guess. (here's our melon being cut up by Li Heng (Nachen's man)

Taxi strangeness

Now that is a smart taxi driver....