Full Disclosure

Quite an eventful day. This morning the school held its cross country at Turf City. For those, like me, with light duties it was a lot more relaxing than teaching, but hotter. After that I went back into school for a meeting with the Drama Exco. Fairly long, but productive. It's important we hit the ground running after the production. In many ways we're still feeling our way into how the club (I'm referring here to the senior Anglo-Chinese School Independent Stage) might function across the two years for which a student will be a member. Then it was off to Arab Street with Noi to see her tailor in preparation for her Hari Raya finery, and a quick cup of tea there. She's just gone off to Sengkang as someone in the extended family passed away yesterday and she needs to pay her respects. I'm here through simple tiredness and there're a few jobs left to be done. Tomorrow we'll be heading to KL after the National Day celebration at Queenstown Stadium in the morning.

It seems that (my ex-student) Sheela was trying to post something here but couldn't get through. A pity: it would have been From A Far Place's first comment. I've got a feeling you need to be signed up to Blogger.com to get something down in black and white. Anyway, she asked me to cut and paste her offering from an e-mail she sent, so in the interests of full disclosure and a diversity of voices (all very post-modern) I'll comply:

I think Annisa was the Tree in Ming Lee right? (Sort of - she was the Property Man and wound up holding a branch.)

We had quite an outing on Friday - dinner at a Bugis coffeeshop that left us (ok, me at least) largely unsatisfied; then Chinese dessert at this Hongkong-style place on Liang Seah street; then walked over to Arab Street for tea/tahu goreng. That was the worst stop of the night cos we (ok, I!) was terrorized by this GINORMOUS cockroach on the floor, much to the glee of all the Mat Moto-s around us. Plus also, the shop was tuned in to this Malay radio station that was having a singing competition for its listeners, and after 15 mins of torturous female warbling, the DJ would exclaim: "SE-DAAAAAP sei!" You should have been there! If not to reminisce, then to save us from the lipas/bad singing.

Update on everyone:Annisa is back from Theatre Studies at Warwick, she was looking v polished in her pants and heels, fresh from her first job interview here at EPSN.She and Priya were talking about their yoga class and some hot yoga instructor (yogi?) that Priya is quite taken with. Dali is leaving for a short trip to KL, she's just back from the UAE where she's been based for the past few years. And I am starting my second year of Masters in Sociology at NUS in a week's time and am now savouring the last week of hols.

But we would all love to meet up again, this time with you!So squeeze some time out of your busy schedule, or we will be FORCED to hunt you down at your school and embarass you in front of all your students.

That's a wicked threat, but I remain unembarrassable.