Return to Work

After all the celebrating and catching up back in Australia is was a bit of a let down to return to Singapore on a flight that left the Gold Coast and hour and a half late, causing us to miss our connection in KL. By the time we got back to Rio Vista Helen and I were both exhausted.
It was straight back in to work on Wednesday before catching up with Libby over lunch on Thursday. It was exciting to hear of their trip to Ireland especially having visited some of the places they traveled to.
On Friday morning I joined Libby and June for a walk around Bidadari and Woodleigh Park, an area of lovely black and white houses in a leafy environment.

As we were walking back to the MRT at Serangoon we found the area beside NEX set up for a performance, another activity celebrating SG50. There were a number of sculptures created from cutlery and some very interesting plant holders!
It was lovely to come home on Friday night to a big hug from Duncan, who was just with us overnight on his way to Jogjakarta. He was headed there to complete his final course for his Masters degree and will stay a bit longer on his return next week.

Eric had brought some Turkish Delight back from his holiday and brought some of it in to share on Saturday morning. Unfortunately I rather like turkish delight but it is verry sticky and the first piece removed my tooth! I had been hoping it would last until my appointment on Monday but it was not to be...so I once again I spent a couple of days feeling like a hillbilly truck driver.
Kathy, June and I decided to go back to the theatre space after work on Saturday night for a wander around. We didn't stay long as the performance involved the audience interrupting and making suggestions about what çould happen next'! Not really our scene so we had dinner at NEX, an experience that made me very grateful that our MAE weekend occurs on a Monday and Tuesday! 
Week 1 ended with drinks at Joe's where we caught up with Steve who was replacing an absent colleague at Kovan and a friend of the Smith's, Sandy from Darwin, who was visiting for a couple of days.