I’ve taken many photos over the past few days, but almost all of them were taken at night and are terrible. I’m sure that my camera can take good long-exposure shots but I have to dig up the manual and figure out what I’m doing wrong.
I’ve spent the last week working, and looking for places to work. When I’m in Minneapolis I forget that the coffeehouse culture there is fairly unique — every corner in uptown has a cafe full of freelancers sitting in front of laptops, so no one looks twice at me if I park in a booth for hours on end.
In order to avoid going crazy in my tiny room at Novena, I’ve been looking for an out-of-the-house place to work here, with limited success. Today I was on my way to an expat bar that might fit the bill but it started pouring, so I ducked into the nearest building, which turned out be the public library.
Like all public space in Singapore, there’s a fair bit of propaganda to weed through. For instance, a moment ago there was a quite loud announcement over the public address system, encouraging parents to keep their children quiet. And, there are banners all over the place promoting ‘Kindness Week,’ whatever that is.
I’ve worked an exceptionally long week this week, in large part because there was a big breakthrough with our Japanese product (it hasn’t worked since the new Apple operating system came out.). The breakthrough happened while I was sitting in a gaming cafe, so I wound up pinned to a not-very-comfortable chair for 8 hours while we put a release together. Of course, no one thought sitting /there/ for eight hours was strange.
