It was bound to happen- the show is basically in auto-pilot mode now, and we have been plodding onwards. There honestly hasn't been much to report! There have been a few hiccups along the way, including a weekend where I ended up creating acts to five different pieces of music due to a massive day of fallout between the cast and the production company. People were threatening to leave, quit, or just never work for them again and while it was all very exciting in a strange way, I prefer things now that they have settled down. In good news however, training time has become available and as a result Nikki and I are back on the ice, practicing a duo straps routine on skates.
Singapore still delights and confuses me. It really is a concrete jungle- Monday was my day off, so I headed over to Bukit Timah, which is a nature reserve (similar to a State Park) and saw wild monkeys(!), turtles, geckos and all sorts of clearly hazardous lizards and insects while hiking about. We had one of the local gentlemen working security for the show take us out and about, show us the nooks and crannies and the best restaurants away from Singapore's multitudinous shopping centres. I ate pork intestine, fish heads (with eyeball!), beef skin and delicious black pepper crab in the span of a day, all in small shacks or hastily built structures clearly run by families for at least a couple generations.
To think Singapore wasn't even independent until the late sixties baffles me. The sheer grandiosity of the city-state and the culture that exists here makes me think that a place like Singapore really is a glimpse into the future of the world, although perhaps with more relaxed laws. But as far as the chances of walking down the street and meeting Chinese, Singaporean, Indian, English, Russian, American, Australian, Canadian people go, you'd be hard pressed to find a place full of more diversity than here. Canada prides itself on being diverse, and we are very much so- But imagine all that diversity mashed into an island a fraction of the size of Nova Scotia- it makes for a place truly unlike any other.
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aquarius_galuxy and
frayedgray, I assume you both were born in this country, and I hope you're as proud of it as most people I've met here. When the temperature at home is forty seven degrees below freezing (yes, that's MINUS forty seven degrees) with the windchill, I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be than outside under a palm tree, sipping a delicious and refreshing mango bubble tea.
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