Workweek
This is going to be a short blog post; this past week has been filled with work
On Wednesday, I had a meeting in which some expectation mismatches were cleared and we decided on the project I would be doing. I am happy to say that it’s an interesting project that makes good use of some of my existing skills but also allows me to get some experience in things I have not done before. To get it off the ground, and in preparation for next week, I spent Saturday working as well (which was fairly relaxing).
Other than work, I went to the Sushi Tei in Holland village on Wednesday with David; one restaurant I will return to. Friday after work, Martin showed me The Star Vista, a mall near Buona Vista owned by a megachurch (found on the top floor).
In it, I found a truly beautiful shop: a bakery shop named Redman, where they had cacao and other important things to make hot chocolate. I forgot to make a picture, but though I bought the cheapest cacao for now, I see a good alternative for coffee in my near future. Then Saturday after work, I went to get some more kitchen stuff to facilitate my future hot chocolate brewing.
Today I took it easy, before going to A Few Dollars More in the evening with Martin, Zhao Huan (a colleague) and Bernice. I think the best thing about these movies is seeing how basically everything about the three movies is better than the last movie. The music in this one was especially good.
On the side, I spent some time thinking about the time in Singapore so far and what I will do beyond it; I think I have started to tackle the question of what doing research means to me, as well as a few practical side-questions.
Next week is going to be mostly work as well, as Tuesday and Wednesday are partly spent in the staff introduction, which is a bit inconvenient for the project timeline, so I will probably try to work some evenings. Let’s see what next week brings; I shall bring it chocolate.
Tom out.
Though my world revolved around work this week, I still got recommended the excellent small game Wanderburg by Mark, which I now recommend to you. In the game, you drive around your medieval Mortal Engines style siege engine and eat towns and other siege engines. Delightfully silly.
