Monthly Archives: September 2004

Driven to distraction

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Mamma Mia — ABBA — The Adven­tures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert For once, I read some­thing on other blogs about work and I liked the way some­thing was said. So and so was ‘dis­tracted by work’. I like that. I have been dis­tracted by work the past cou­ple of

Sure as a snake along the river

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Lov­ing a Hur­ri­cane — John Hiatt — Per­fectly Good Gui­tar Some days, life’s the pits. While I wouldn’t say today was one of those days, I still feel that some days, life’s the pits. Get my drift?

Mother of all headaches

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Lit­tle Head — John Hiatt — Lit­tle Head I have the mother of all headaches. Dis­torted vision. Cock-eyed. Oh Lordy help me

Crabby Sunday

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Porgy and Bess, opera: Orches­tral suite — George Gersh­win — Gersh­win: Rhap­sody; Porgy and Bess Land­lub­bers! It was a mis­er­ably grey Sun­day. By mis­er­able, I mean the Sin­ga­pore sort of mis­er­able. Over­cast, hot and still very humid from the morning’s thun­der­storm. I had intended to set out to Pasir Ris Park

Stealing time

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Uncom­mon Con­nec­tion — John Hiatt & The Goners — Beneath This Gruff Exte­rior Bonus Disc I was just sit­ting here wait­ing for things to pass and some­thing to blog about when a work related email came in and I had to get on it right away. Blog­gus Inter­rup­tus. Ear­lier in the

Quiet beers

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: But­ter­fly Lovers Vio­lin Con­certo — Takako Nishizaki — But­ter­fly Lovers Vio­lin Con­certo [UK] Last night my good friend the rab­bit owner came up with the best sug­ges­tion I’ve heard in yonks. She said ‘Let’s go to a cof­fee shop and have beer’. Rad­i­cal for a Fri­day night I reckon. So we

Ants in my Army pants too

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Things Have Changed — Bob Dylan — Won­der Boys [Sound­track] The chat­ter has begun. Me and my Reservist (I still use that term even though they’ve called us NSmen for the past ten years) pla­toon have a Yahoo! Group where we keep each other posted on rumours of what the

Whetting appetites

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Short Peo­ple — Randy New­man — The Best of Randy New­man Because we are Fresh Air Fiends, we were seated in the tiny out­door sec­tion of this restau­rant, located off the Club Street carpark. It was like our very own bal­cony. My head­hunter friend and my best friend had sum­moned

Sunny Day

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Days Like This — Van Mor­ri­son — Days Like This Did y’all see how blue the sky was today? Very. It was so sunny at 8.55 am this morn­ing, when the one true love called and woke me up, that I resolved to move very slowly, lest I broke into unnec­es­sary

Hupp, hupp, and (h)away

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Song to the Moon {from Rusalka} {from Dri­ving Miss Daisy} — Les­ley Gar­rett — Diva I have a friend whose sis­ter plays the Hupp, she says. She will be per­form­ing in a solo con­cert called ‘A Harp Affair’. The con­cert will show­case her immense tal­ent with the instru­ment, and show­cases ever­green