14 Jan 2018

Today is a good day. Woke up earlier, at about 8. L woke up with cramps and fell asleep at the sofa outside. Lunch started the day at Garibaldi, with an impressive ala-carte buffet. It never fails to impress, italian style. Had 2 rounds of oysters, there was burrata as well, poached prawns, pasta of fusili with alio olio tossed with bacon and brocollini. very delicious. lunch was booked at 12 with S too, last pour was 2.30, by the time we took the taxi was 3. Went straight to zhongshan, did grocery shopping, and before we knew it,it was 5pm. i managed to squeese in a quick shut-eye before heading out at 6.30pm for the presentation on BB at orchard parade hotel. It was actually another committees NY dinner, but they had arranged for us to present. it was set for 15 persons, and there was a member of parliement there who gave a long speech. Even Tay Kheng Soon turned up, which was unusual, but by the time we got to presenting it was quite late that everyone was kinda hungry. so i couldnt tell if they had any thoughts actually. it was great however, to be part of something so current. In the evening, still full from lunch, i had my second miso-soup and we watched "LadyBird". About adolescence and struggling with parental love. Eventful day.

10-Jan-18 Family can mean what you want it to mean

woke up earlier today at 6am. had a quick cereal and took the bus. nice for a change to see the evening sky all dark, and only the blue light up halfway when i was on the bus. actually traffic in the morning is also quite pack. arrived at office at 7.30am. 1.5 hour to work on the minutes for last thurs meeting. only finished typing it by 9, had no idea why i took so long. went through with S, made the changes, and by the time i sent it out it was 11am. one of the things i left out was the meeting to schedule with the LEW with TC. License electrical worker. An interesting point was that when the roof is thicker, lightning strip may not be needed. worked a little on the hill park sequence of slides. changed the layout of the page to have a more fixed template. wanted to eat a quick lunch so as to have more time to work on the slides, but ended up somehow going w the colleagues to the newly opened hawker stall. One of the new upgrades they did was to charge an extra dollar for a tray, and then spit it back out when you return it. i had a fishball noodle soup that was good. progress on the slides were good, and by the time i went through the entire set with S, it was with good time then i made the changes by 6pm too. Now mood imagery and text is needed with people in the perspectives.
maybe it would be good to consider going earlier tomorrow as well? Lets see. Today was also oyster night, i wanted to treat, and ended up paying only for 1 tray. The total french oyster promotion was over, but now they had a mix. so we tried the french and canadian one. the french one won. queried S on the potential of working on a house project, and he explained patiently the considerations. whether it was self-stay, budget, etc.

09-Jan-18

Today woke up at 7.15am. Got to office at 9.15, will need to make the alarm at 7am. today was a little rush in the morning to arrange the sequence of the slides, and so just after it was done. A whatsapp msg came in to S to say that the client will be sending us a re-arranged set of slides. It does take some patience to extract only the good. It is best to let the designers work on presenting the slides.n that in the evening as i was the last to leave the office, i realise i forgot the key. so it was a bad rush to msg everyone to ask if they were near, and later arrange to meet T to get the key, but S called back. so i could come home. ate some noodles near home. watching winter paralympics now. very inspiring.

08-Jan-18

woke up at 6.30am, with partially my cough and partially the alarm. arrived at office at 9am. was a quick day as i had to put together the solution for the community garden which was to be very accessible but not too visible, as on the occasion that it needs to be fence up, it can be quite a massive structure. So a linear garden was proposed. i was inspired by the gardens in Rio, particularly the botanical garden there. somehow, so simple, yet so pleasureful. the S and S were rushing a thick set of tender out in the morning as well, so upon their multi-tasking and me presenting, we went ahead with the 4pm work-in progress showcase that went overall well. Just some re-organising of the content, and 2 more specific section cuts along the elevated boardwalk and widen footpath. A lesson i took away today was that "the best solution is not always the right answer to the question", in that what matters is the "best solution for the moment"- that point in time, also perhaps the clients concern. coughed all the way in the car to J-C. a flower boiled with black sugar was recommended, this i bought but will probably boil tomorrow at work. for now, i need to finish a jug of honey lemon water, dinner was a delicious broth of broccoli and cauliflower, Brazilian frozen beef, egg and tomato soup. yum yum very delicious! I quite like the geometry of how the overall plan is turning out. sometimes i think what i m doing is so simple, no proper m&e to be concerned of, no circulation, yet the answers sometimes takes longer to come.

06 Jan-18 First weekend of the year

The first week is going well. L comes back from her trip tomorrow morning . These few days have been quite calm in the evening as i caught a cough from S, a whopping continous cough, so basically i went easy on myself, even so today. The main thing i did was really to clean the house. started at 1.30 and finished at 4.50pm, this includes the 2 toilets and bedrooms that usually L would do, and also the washing n hanging of the clothes. Woke up early at 8am today, actually at 6 am to pee, and after that had the continuous cough so couldnt go back to bed. It is 9pm now. I was googling on all the possible natural cough suppresants. I ate a spoonful of honey, so sweet. ate a spoon of pipagao.