This is such a beautiful tune. Good minimal tunes are just so perfect!

What another beautiful weekend, although it was a little sad that a friend of mine had packed and left Holiday to go back to his kampong for a rather long period of time leaving his newly wed wife and 8 month year old daughter. Yeah unfortunately it economic reasons was the cause of it and I suppose he had done the right reason in order to push start his carrier a bit. Hopefully his wife will join him back in his Kampong. It is lovely out there after all?

I am guessing a lot of young families from different cross cultures must face similar issues. I know my father went to Australia when I was 10 where my mother and I stayed back in Singapore, again for economic financial reasons why he had to move from S'pore. I guessing this is to be quite acceptable these days??

Stories such as these makes me want to listen to bands such as Postbox from Singapore. I must say, This is pretty decent production and music that is coming out of the island. Still Moderates, Still & 4-Sides will always be my choice of bands from SINgapore.



All of a sudden I just wanted to write some Woody Allen Flic

Weekend was just as beautiful if not lazy. I did manage to have a decent skate around Southbank on the saturday and wished for another skate again today but i ended up chilling around Stoke Newington with some mates of mine as well as hang out at some park near by. One of the friends hanging out is currently working for Reuters(Singapore) who did a swap with another English colleague of his based in London for 3-4 weeks who went to S'pore. Yeah a rather interesting conversation struck with regards to Malaysian & Singaporean girls who happen to be dating or are either in a steady relationship with English/French Guys (Europeans/ang mohs..... whatever makes u happy) where they met them on Holidays. Either way the story goes like this where some S'porean/M'sian girl would on holiday to Europe or some English lad would go on vacation to S'pore/M'sia for a month except this won't be the extreme drama rama of a Woody Allen flic such as Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Although I do find if rather tempting to write some chessy cliche script on this subject. In fact I am wondering if this Reuters guy form London working in S'pore for 3-4 weeks have hooked up with a local girl out there?? Anyway its all good!
I think its such a beautiful experience to fall in love on vacation! ha ha.



Chavin' up Parks in London during Spring.

Canal Saint Martin Vibes

Amazed to find myself walking around this warehouse area near Old Street where I ended up at someone's warehouse studio party right along the canal. Ad to this bizarre location was the fact that 90% of the people were French speakers mostly of that Parisian accent. I was pleased that I could still converse in French as I hardly practice speaking french unless it is with my mother. Strange that someone said that I have a bit of French Belgium accent to which I don't mind as French Belgium does make more sense to me. Its spoken at the right pace at least and not as though in that 120bpm Drum n Bass version. Anyway it was really chilled out a laid back BBQ party. I am really glad I got my ass out of the house. The whole place does have that Canal Saint Martin vibe in the eastern part of Paris. Strange how it feels so dissociated from London. I am sure i have read an extract of disassociated locations in cities somewhere in S.M.L.XL by Rem Koolhas?

Yeah one night I was lying in bed sick as a dog due to some virus I probably caught on the London Central Line when I received a call from a friend I had not heard for maybe 2-3 years? Yes a familiar voice which did not quite registered as first though clicked after recalling about 12-15 years I have known this person through a very close group of friends I knew in a far distant land I once lived. She called me wanting some advice over something terrible that had occurred over some scandal that occurred over some website about some photos of her. At first it was hard to fully comprehend the full scale of a her situation until it was later reveled. I wont actually go into the full scale of the story but what occurred was a couple of private photos probably taken by a ex partner that somehow got into the wrong hand of the media and someone has taken the opportunity to write some slanderous comments of her. I really could not really give good advice but just to remind cool headed, delete any photos on facebook, tweeter, etc and bring this matter with a lawyer to see if such material can be taken off.

In summary I was a little shock that this shit went on. I mean there are really some opportunist lurking around the net looking to start a scandal out of nothing. I mean fuck, whats some nude photos gonna do, but to write and publish material which is out to discredit someone's good name?? Its slanderous.

Anyway this whole week I have been feeling rather sick. I was glad it was friday where I ended up chilling with some of my old mates around at the Dutch pub near China Town. Yeah it was good just standing outside chatting and joking amount. We were planning on going to a £4 trashcore gig somewhere (ala DRI) but i knew that was starting really late and I was not feeling too well so I gladly retired home! On the good news I was speaking to my dearest Amus in HK where we plan on going to a few cities around Europe, mainly to visit a friend in Paris who is getting married! I am really excited! Don't you love planning on holidays!? However let me get through my CIMA exams first! Ja!

Bless Up & never trust a Tory!

Engrenages

I have just finished watching the first series of Engrenages(Spiral) which is a French police drama set in Paris. Yeah quite an edgy version as compared to NYPD blue and CSI with the head the police been a woman. I did also find this drama to be quite thought provoking with the different levels of conspiracies & cover ups between the criminals, solicitors and the police. Mind you there was the one cliche street wise coke angry police officer as a character.

Today was such a beautiful spring day. I woke up a little late as usual where I had a late breakfast and continued with my studies. I was pleased to speak to my mum for a little while over Skype then back to my studies where I then Skyped again with my girl in Hong Kong. Yeah I was pleased she went out to see some old college friends of hers after a hard week she had at work! Hopefully she did some good catching up.

I did ended up at Southbank with the pre-warning from another Southbank skater earlier in the day that it would have been full of tourist around. Yeah it was the case thought I just ignored the fact that there were all these eyes looking inside Southbank. I should have gone to London Bridge! Nevertheless it was a nice short skate!

Happy Easter!
Yes quite a pleasant Easter weekend I have had last weekend. Although I did intended to have a productive weekend studying for my CIMA exam which did not go down too well. I will have to somehow catch up this week. As usual I managed to have a really nice skateboard session around London on the Saturday and just hanging out later with the usual crowd. It was such a nice day which turned dark for some reason. The following day after waking up late & having a well missed Skepe session with my dearest girl friend in Hong Kong I met up with some old Singaporean faces at the most chilliest deep liquid drum n bass night around Shoreditch. Yeah the sounds of A.I roller liquid tunes was just too blissful. Reminded me of the early days when this sort of sound was big around 2003/04. It’s just gotten better. As for Easter Monday, I ended up at my sisters place where I ended up playing touch rugby & cricket with my nephews. Nothing like the sound of a cricket ball been hit with an English willow in early Spring! Lucky for them they will be going to New York in a week’s time! Nice! If they were only a little older & skateboarded I would have definitely taken them to Brooklyn Banks( which sadly is closed temporally). Spending time around Buckinghamshire is always a pleasant.

Anyway I was talking to my mate of mine I use to skate back in the memorial/raffles place in S’pore now living in UK engaged to this Finnish girl. He used to live in HK as an expat & he asked me about what would be my prospect of me living in Hong Kong. Somehow, I would be prepared to move out there as a more qualified accountant( give it 5 -6 exams) working for an established MNC such as Swire group or the Jardine Matheson Group. It is quite a fun & exciting city but we shall see. I am really thinking about my girlfriend.