Following a ridiculously excessive Wednesday night, and a client dinner
of Peking duck, deep-fried everything and buckets of wine on the side on
Thursday, Friday has been a little bit too much like handwork for me this week.
Whilst it’s been an
incredibly busy day, and loads of work has been finished up and polished off
(perfect timing ahead of our holiday that kick starts next week!), it’s also
been a pretty demanding day, and one that I couldn’t wait to get to the end of.
Having waited for the
rain to stop for long enough I popped out to meet Mike for a quick lunch to and
to pick up a pair of trousers that he borrowed from Nick when then came over
for dinner and then needed non-shorts to get into the bars that we headed out
to later in the evening. Then the
afternoon was crammed with finishing off work before heading out to meet Nick
at the Singapore Affordable Art Fair in the exhibition space that houses all
the Formula 1 Pit Lanes and teams for one weekend each year.
You would think that
the “Affordable Art Fair” would have been a little bit more reasonable, but
with ten minutes of walking into the five room exhibition, with each of
Singapore’s locals galleries displaying some of their top artists work, it
because clear that if the bulk of the art was affordable, we were most definitely
not the target audience.
Prices ranged from $100
for generic prints of fairly uninspiring pictures of Asian cities to $10,000
for giant coloured canvases with colour squiggles down the middle, or statues
of unicorns made out of mangled My Little Pony bodies.
We inevitably failed to
locate anything that we might be either able to afford or tempted to decorate
our flat with, which was slightly disappointing, but while our art hunt continued
we headed to the curry house just close to our flat for a Friday dinner with
Flash and Liv and a glass of wine or two. Following a busy and excessive week,
I couldn’t wait for Friday to ease to an end and for our relaxed weekend to get
started!
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