Letter eighty-nine Day one-hundred-and-sixty-three of your vacation

Dearest J,

Am going to a golf course resort in the morning, Clear Water Sanctuary Golf Resort in Perak.  It's a working trip.  Am listening now to its website's streaming of birds chirping sound..it has an instant calming effect on me, also help is the packet of Maggi mee in my stomach.

Was at Singapore over the weekend, had some most orgasmic moments eating delicious food there.  My recent trips there feature some wonderful time with friends and food, other than theatre.  Emily Of Emerald Hill was nice, an exhilarating experience sitting on my seat, watching the beautiful and clever set unfolds its beauty and functions on stage.  I met the director Glen after.  Brunch at the Botanical Garden was finger licking good.  We decided to go there despite the rain, Peter ordered four types of pizzas for everyone - good stuff!  We ate and watched a parade of dogs with owners running in the gardens after the rain stopped.  The night before we over-ordered a long table of Asian food at Kopitiam at the Raffles...err mall. The vegetarian fried rice was like the best kind I've ever had, mind boggling, Singapore?


Saw this at the Botanical Garden, name something like Ficus Variegatus

Only when you have the company of the wise locals.  Our host for the weekend were Yu Ping & Yu Jin, Malaysians working in Singapore.  Having lived there for over a decade, they make excellent guides for dining in Singapore.  On Friday night they took us to our first fantastic dinner near their house.  Saturday brunch was at a Shanghai cuisine restaurant near the China Town.  After the matinee we had the table-long order at Kopitiam, after which we went home and enjoyed Yu Ping's hot choc cakes with ice cream and more pot wine...and lots, lots of singing followed.

I could feel my body ballooned, almost literally.  I was 47kg yesterday morning.  Today 46kg.

My handicap of the ankle is eating me badly.  It has gotten worse after Singapore.  I will have to take it easy at the golf course the next three days.  Going to see an orthopedic this Friday at KL Sports Medicine Centre.  It's one month into the injury, I think I over waited the time to check in with a specialist.

Wilson likes my demo CD.  Almost everyone who's heard the CD tells me they really like Carmen.

Thursday is watching me from the top of my chair.  I better get to bed.  Waking up early for the road trip to Perak.

Love you lots,

B