Week 0. Had a scare when I came down with dengue fever mid-July (ironically, after the World Cup). This means I'm now immune to the first viral stage for life - you can read about it here - but will also be susceptible to even worse infections if I get near that darn Aedes mosquito again. Unsurprisingly, my paranoia about being caught in an epidemic (be it dengue fever, bird flu, food poisioning, etc.) has grown exponentially since then. Delighted to be back in Singapore after wrapping up my Indonesia project early August.
Week 1. Hubby and I threw our belated housewarming dinner party - first with the in-laws. Everyone had a blast, survived my cooking, and left with a warm fuzzy feeling in their bellies. Our strategy of spiking dishes and serving liberal quantities of alcoholic beverages and desserts worked! The highlight of the evening was the unveiling of our new 40" flat screen LCD TV and portable DVD player.
Week 2. We bundled off for a relaxing (but wet) vacation in Borneo where we ate great food, played lots of bad golf, added to our cheap DVD collection, and provided free IT services to my parents in Brunei. Developed a fascination with bridge (thanks, mom!) which will be a nice addition to our scrabble, poker and boardgame nights at home ... as long as we don't pair up with each other! Most of our forays outside were deluged by a string of tropical storms that week - Saomai, Bilis, Prapiroon, Bopha, Maria. Random factoid: Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean are called cyclones in the Indian Ocean and typhoons around the South China Sea. There's also an A-Z primer on hurricane names.
Week 3. Back to my-so-called tai tai life in Singapore. Apart from visiting or having meals with the in-laws, I spent the week deliberating my future, surfed the web for football gossip, movie spoilers and new job prospects (albeit half heartedly), continued or started up multiple books and personal projects (which I'll probably never finish), created a geek blog for my science fiction, fantasy and tech alter-ego, contemplated Chinese and cooking classes, driving and golf lessons. Free time is cool!
Week 4. Present time. After last week's random idleness, my "J" personality is threatening to take over soon....
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