nicthegeek

it’s been raining again for a few days, so our island has cooled down a bit.  of course, it’s not so cold that somebody has to wear a brown polar bear like jacket, and wrap himself around his pals hehe.  i like it when it’’s cool and cloudy in the mornings, and the sun doesn’t come out to burn away the slight mist that hangs over the island.  days like these, i wish i could slow down, take a day off work and go around singapore with a camera in the peaceful hours before the workday rush begins.  it brings to mind my primary school days in that old kampong school, where early morning PE lessons meant getting white school shoes grey, damp and cool with the dew on the grass, and you couldn’t see to the other end of the field because of the morning mist.

‘course, these days, they’d just tell you it was haze.

Read in the papers that Sentosa’s Musical Fountain is closing down to make way for the new IR. I’m not a huge fan of the fountain, having found it rather tacky back in my youth.  I haven’t visited it many times either, I think a total of 2 visits in my lifetime. 

But then, doing away with a tacky Singaporean memory and replacing it with an even tackier capatalist institution is worse.

methinks I might pay Sentosa a visit some time this week.

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I almost met Colin Cheong.  I even saw him in the flesh, less than 50m from where I stood lurked.  He is so cool.

I came across ads for the Asia Media Festival sometime early this week and saw the there was actually a bookclub in Singapore, and they were actually having a discussion on ‘The Stolen Child’ on Friday.  That being my favourite book by my favourite Singaporean author, I of course decided to go take a look.  Of course, being lazy, I decided not to read the book (since I have read it at least 5 times before) and I also decided not to find out where the Earshot Cafe was until the last minute. 

Yesterday, 3 hours before the meeting actually started, I find out that it’s located at The Arts House at the Old Parliament House.  So after a whole week of being jobless and thus decaying at home (I already said I’m lazy), I made my way to City Hall and to the unbelivably posh posh posh Arts House.  I then proceeded to gawk my way past all the valet parking guys, security guards and expensive restaurants, i found the Earshot only to lose my nerve when I saw Colin Cheong standing inside exchanging small talk, and it seemed that everybody knew everybody. 

Hanging around outside the place trying to build up my nerve to wlk in, I then proceeded to lose even more of it when I saw somebody who must have been Teo Chee Hean make his way with security and escorts into the place.  Several minutes later, I totally lost it when I saw a couple who looked dressed up for dinner at a $500-a-head dinner walk into the cafe and Colin Cheong enjoying a glass of wine, and so I strolled back to the MRT station, beating myself up mentally at the same time.

I am so chicken.  I almost met Colin Cheong.

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I discovered, late last month, that a jamming studio had opened up in … Boon Lay Shopping Centre, of all places. I dunno, it seems a bit too late to cash in on the Superband rage. And so far, most of the bengs I’ve seen here carry walkman phones rather than guitars, not many Lucify or Milo Bing (the cartoon figures are so adorable!) wannabes around Boon Lay, I guess.

They also prefer to blast their chinese songs (Jay, at the moment) on their tinny walkman phone speakers, and karaoke to it on the bus (while screaming cheebye at each other half a dozen times during a 10-minute bus ride), uncaring as to whether anybody around them actually enjoyed the performance. I doubt if a lot of them actually would want to cram into a tiny studio with loads of instruments, with nobody but themselves to ‘appreciate’ their talents.

kinda sorry i gave up playing the bass though, with a studio so nearby … I’m not advertisting for them, I don’t know their prices, and honestly, I have NEVER seen anybody inside the shop yet.

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listening to TKZC in the office as I put in some more charity hours. suddenly wanted to put these thoughts down, just in case i lose them later. I’m in the habit of losing thoughts recently.

I finally realise that I still love 相信 ,even though there was a lot of overkill on it a few years back. I love it coz it brings me back to a better time and place in my life. Not necessarily 2001, or any particular year/month/day, but just a better time or space, even before 2001.

written in 2001, a modern song, but with a nostalgic flavour that reminds me of slower days, days by the beach getting all hot, messy, sticky and sandy, hot summer days that we spent at our grandparents kampung house playing in the cool mornings, and slumbering in peace in the hot afternoons, lulled to sleep by the never-ending chirping of those bugs which I don’t know the name of, days that went by where I barely achieved anything except lots of fun, days where we played with the neighbour kids, shouting and screaming, and the quiet estate laying sleepily in the afternoon would resound with kiddy voices raised in fun and joy, dogs barking, a basketball thumping on the hard court, the players shouting in excitment. I think somewhere in dear old urbanized-to-the-max Singapore, some old estate lays dreaming of those lazy, sleepy, hot days, I believe there is.

我相信﹐就算沒有﹐也應該有回憶﹐還好我有相信。