Wednesday, 26 February 2014

A rare quiet night


Whilst my life in Singapore is no where near as hectic as my London life, I have found myself with things to keep me entertained and occupied pretty much every night since I arrived in Singapore. Dinners, cinema trips, house shopping and trying out new places can be quite a time consuming game, so I’m actually quite happy to have a my weekly AquaSpin classes now booked in as standard.
Whilst it can be annoying to be obliged to be at a class every week without fail, it does force me into good behaviour for at least one night of the week.  Every little helps I suppose, and I’ve got to start somewhere…
            Very irritatingly, it wasn’t until way too late that I realised I had left my sensible swimming costume at the spin pool after last weeks session, so this week saw me trying to keep it together in a fairly inappropriate bikini – I suppose it was half funny, once I got past the struggles of trying to keep everything together and give the work out my best effort too. It was an all girl class, which helped, but the female instructor clearly noticed my difficulties at the start of the session and insisted on laughing along with me the whole way through. She’s a nice girl!
            Once the class was done and I made my way home and tried to aid my recovery with a healthy (lazy – sometimes scrambled eggs is all I have the energy for) dinner it was time to Skype with Tanya and Eileen – two of my old work buddies! From the corner of the coffee shop where they were having their lunch we spent some time catching up on what’s been happening for the past few weeks, how things are developing and what the new boy is like (yuck!).
With family internet issues and a distinct lack of Skype connections amongst my other friends this was actually my first Skype home since I’ve been here – it’s weird to think it’s been a full month, and yet only a month since I was last back there. I kept asking the girls is there was anyone new there, if anyone had left and what other gossip there was, completely ignoring the fact that a month is no time at all and it takes well over a month to either recruit new staff, or for old staff to work their notice periods. Time really does fly! I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like to speak to family and the uni girls, but hopefully we’ll get time to chat soon!
March is already set to pass in the blink of an eye (with two weeks booked out with a San Francisco trip) and a couple of weekends with mini-adventures lined up, so it’s going to be summer and time for a week back at home before I know it. 

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