Tripping Out Alone

This is just tripping out..so I went to Singapore, confident that all the instructions I had left, the money I had paid and the reliability of all those I had engaged would combine to ensure I returned to a straightforward move tomorrow. How could I have known that my assistant had been held captive in his temple for the last three days following a fall, that the rain had prevented the workers at the new house from painting but allowed them time to smash all the floor tiles in preparation for the new floor which cannot be made now because of the rain. How could I know that on waking this morning all these disasters lay ahead ..because none of them thought to sms me, leave me a note or any other form of communication..so here I am in a house that is half packed with my assistant negotiating a release form the priests and the rain falling down. Should I have recognized the signs like the oh so rude taxi driver from the airport, the crazy traffic and the general malaise that has people l

What a great week I spent here, super productive, up at dawn and the results were I passed both mid semester exams, and had time to meet with wonderful people and eat a diverse selection of food. Tara and I ate a piquant Moroccan chicken dish last night that I prepared from her recipe, I ate Turkish food with Sun Nan in Arab Street, she works in a building straight out of Stan Lee's creative imagining, darkly gothic and very iconic. Malika and I ate Chinese wontons and BBQ followed by Japanese desserts, Aurora asked me to meet her at a wonderful French Tea House and Lydia and I ate at European soups in Bugis Junction...Tara and I also ate Thai before the movies, went to Dempsey to a place that served amazing bistro food including truffle oil fries...and ate kulfi in Little India..

MMmmmm, I am loving Singapore for a number of reasons.. 1 I have managed to catch up on so much work that was hanging over my head just by not being at home amongst the moving boxes and my daily life and instead incubated in a lovely third floor apartment in a leafy suburb. 2 I am staying with Tara who works harder than I do and is great company be it silently working, eating at lovely cafes or browsing the shops in Little India for fabric. 3 Functionality and diversity, Singapore works but also has the ambient nature of a multicultural city , yesterdays taxi driver was Chinese and a polyglot who taught us some Indian words. 4 Singapore is welcoming - people are friendly..Tara and I joined a table of people at a Quiz Night and they were so nice, they were mostly from New Zealand and while it helped that Tara and knew a lot of answers and thus aided the win although I don't think that affected their friendly manner. My highlight moment of glory was: In which story did two countri