*jun on the landscape - 新加坡
Been told that this title sounds nothing like me. Perhaps.Ripped it off a very hilarious novel (it says so on the cover) - Blott On The Landscape - by Tom Sharpe.
Assuming I know you, feel free to rant, whisper sweet nothings or just say hi.
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Watched the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra at the National Grand Theatre. Last minute free ticket. So lucky. Otherwise, won’t be able to see its interiors. As I was with someone I actually managed to get pictures of myself. But she took them with her camera and has yet to send them to me. Oi.
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Another Sunday at 798 Art District. Since, I was there with Esther, who was there for the first time, I was prepared to cover many of the exhibits I had already seen. Amazingly, this did not happen. 3 hours of gallery-hopping and I barely saw anything that I had seen the week before.
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Right: Esther and Me doing the Great Glass Mystery
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Ceiling and walls covered in egg cartons.
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Hao, look, it’s a shark. I think.
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Done with my morning workout – i.e. taking the subway. I have to change train twice to get to my current workplace, and the platforms are like 800 metres from each other. So lots of meandering in the underground tunnels, going up stairs and down slopes. I think this is part of an attempt to prevent too many people from getting on the already full trains…if you can’t endure the 800 metres hike, sorry man, you just don’t want a train-ride bad enough. How do the old folks to it eh? When it is really crowded, which is most of the time, you can’t see the steps.
Since I have only been here for a short while, I still find the ridiculous distance between platforms quirky-charming. I usually start giggling after 400 metres cos it is just so absurd to have to walk so much.
Oh, and for the first time in my life, I have gripes about my height. Some fresh air in the subway would be nice. Also, I do not like being eye-level with pits. All those Gillette market penetration numbers we read in the papers, what poppycock.
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Saturday in a nutshell…
Nice: Went shopping and had dinner with Bryna and her family.
Not nice: Molested by middle-aged man in the train. Curses.
Unexpected upside: Observed Bryna’s mum position herself to bash the pervert with her hand-bag.
Not nice: Threw up in public from indigestion.
Good fortune: Bryna and her family were there to hold my bags and pass me tissues.
Unexpected upside: Experienced feeling ‘green’. Despite the dizziness and bloatedness could not help but be slightly thrilled by this. Have been fascinated by colour-emotion/sensation associations since I read in Time Magazine that Ayumi practices ‘expression’ by singing colours – i.e. vocalizing that which she identifies with red, then blue…
…or making it experience “social defeat,” by putting a mean mouse in its cage. The latter method is the best way to test antidepressants, because after such a negative social experience it takes a mouse three weeks of drug therapy to recover, an interval that neatly parallels the amount of time antidepressants take to reach their optimal effectiveness in humans.
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