Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Back to reality


It’s good to be back in Singapore again. Not only am I finally back on a slightly more normal routine for both work and my free time, but it’s good to be back in a world where there are people I know around me, and I don’t have to spend every waking moment (quite literally thanks to our company’s enthusiasm for room sharing) meeting as many new people as I physically can.
            Yesterday morning I walked into my local coffee shop and the server immediately asked me if I had been anywhere nice on holiday. Then today when I wandered in I met with someone I know and we had a nice chat while my coffee was made up and handed over without me actually having to place an order.
            Last night was spent adjusting to the time difference, doing some laundry and then going for a long swim to try and make me tired enough to be sleepy at the right time. This panned out pretty well so far, but I am still having a massive enthusiasm dip this afternoon, so I think I need one more night of the same sort of pattern.
            As an extra little treat I met up with Nick for lunch today too. He’s having a bumper month at work, so to make the most of a slightly lull in the market today he made his way slightly closer to my office and we met for an amazing Vietnamese for lunch in a local café. Pho all round – healthy and massively filling!
            Tonight I will be heading out to Aqua Spin before heading home for a Skype session with Tanya and Eileen, who will pretend to be on a very important work call whilst we talk nonsense at each other. Fingers crossed that will be the final push to get me 100% back on track for this time zone. I’m impressed with how painless the change of time zone was, but even the slight afternoon haze is more than I want to have to deal with. 

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