Unemployed: Day 18

Left to right, top to bottom: Canopy walk at Kent Ridge Park, map of Kent Ridge Park, Memories at Old Ford Factory (the squiggles depict the calligraphic strokes of the Chinese word for "peace" or "和平"), Reflections at Bukit Chandu

I don't know whose idea it was to go on this nature and history hunt last Saturday, but I just tagged along, and it was surprisingly enjoyable. I even had to hold back tears, particularly at the Old Ford Factory. We also had a lot of fun talking to the gardeners at Kent Ridge Park, and they had their own little corner where they grew their corn, chilli padi (purple little things before turning red when ripe), bananas, dragon fruit, among other things. We were also told that visitors frequently stole their crop!

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Nothing much on the job front, although I do have a couple of promotional events to help out with, for the parents' business, but I'm so used to that that it doesn't really feel like work anymore.

The past week or two, I've had something else -- something exciting -- to keep me busy, and it looks like it's all going to work out. :) Some of you may already know about it, but I'll post an official announcement, probably over the weekend.

(No, it's not a marriage announcement, don't get ahead of yourself. I'm nowhere close -- although some people have been trying to set up blind dates for me, and not being very subtle at that.)

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They're using "I Believe in You" in the American Idol trailers! Very cool. I didn't talk much about the concert here, but it was the best concert I'd been to by a long way. I started crying from the third song onwards and never stopped. Yep, three hours of crying.

Anyway, Chapman wrote "I Believe in You" for his daughter, Emily, and sang it at her graduation. Also, Emily's boyfriend came along as his drummer on this tour! How cool is that? After singing "Fingerprints of God," he glared in mock menace at Emily's boyfriend (I think his name is Josh) and said: "That'd better be the only fingerprints I find on my daughter!"

That was wonderful. I just kept laughing and crying throughout. There is nothing that beats watching SCC "live"; everyone should do it.

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Gardener (leading us into a little corner of the garden): "Be careful where you step."

Me: "Why? Are the tiles slippery?" (It had just rained.)

Gardener (unperturbed): "No, but be careful of the snakes."

Me: "!!!"

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