And no writing either. But I picked up a second swim tank for the turtle boys & bricks to lead them from one to the other… & visited the largest cold room in Singapore at Joan Road–where the boys bought the flowers for KK Seet’s party.
They were right, it was incredible in there. Masses [...]
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Yes, the more I’m trying to meet deadlines (even/especially self-imposed) the more I find time to do stuff like log on 2 posts a day…
But Yes!
This week (starting on Tuesday when I signed on) I’ve put in 5040 words to Deleted Lives…
Of course this is still the first ‘vomit draft’ that’s why I can do [...]
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Alison Bechdel posted this farewell mini-documentary. As part of my procrastination process I watched them (parts 1 & 2) through twice. Didn’t think I would miss a cartoon strip so much–withdrawal symptoms showing up…
Did a ‘paced’ practice today–staying with the breathing I didn’t attempt any of the chakrasanas which generally take me an hour or [...]
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Got in 600+ words & took a 90 minute break to do an ‘easy’ practice (skipped a couple of jump backs between different sides). It was great because I was in the big front room with the rain just starting to come down outside; only the modesty curtains were drawn and every now and then [...]
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Intended to spend the whole day blissfully immersed in typing in notes I spent most of last night scribbling out… even cancelled luncheon with sweet Yish so as not to have to break off halfway…
Instead for the last 2+ hours I’ve been on the phone (speaker) transcribing interview notes for the Eusoff book…
But no regrets. [...]
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You don’t have to live in Singapore/employ a domestic worker to be concerned about the conditions many of them are working under here… getting one day off a week once a week or once a month won’t cover everything but it’s a start!
While I don’t employ a foreign domestic worker myself, living on this planet [...]
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1264 words today.
I finally found ‘Fess Up Friday on the Literate Kitten’s site, where I had to go back to 04 May archive to understand why so many people seem to be posting about writing (more than I have) on Fridays.
Sounds like a great idea & I’ll try anything to get me out of this [...]
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This mornings ST Forum page had a Ms Aileen Koh writing in to say that Mum-Housewives are underrated at $23K/ month because the HR people who calculated their job worth didn’t consider they don’t bet Saturdays & Sundays off.
Who takes over looking after the kids and household chores on these two days? The reality [...]
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Decided to deactivate my Facebook account because once they made it impossible to shrink the ‘mini feed’ (showing you your activities) it became impossible to deny how much time I’ve been spending online!
And no, not doing research or keeping up with events/friends but playing scrabulous (okay… even that might be construed as keeping Alzheimer’s at [...]
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Just bought my first Desmond Sim!
Well, apart from the fact that the exhibition is still on & I haven’t paid for it yet…
But at least my new ‘precious’ has an orange dot on it, signifying it’s coming home to me once the show is over!
I’ve got a place for it too–in my study, which is [...]
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