Category Archives: Hundred Day Diary

Day 10 of 100, Singapore I’m calling this my day of rest. I did intend to write about something this evening, but once we bought our plane tickets in the afternoon, shit started happening faster than you can say “hullabaloo” and here I am at midnight, still working, goldfish brain being, well, goldfish-like. Oh, but…More

Day 9 of 100, Singapore No, a camera post doesn’t count. The last line of yesterday’s post now makes sense (I think). Late nights are conducive to many creative endeavors, but writing structurally sound sentences doesn’t appear to be one of them. Nonetheless, better eventually corrected than never. It’s ridiculously late now too, so this…More

Day 8 of 100, Singapore An early one today because I ended up going to bed at 5 am last night. I’m going to bed later and later these days, pre-empting jet lag in Europe – that’s the fun story, anyway. I crave the potent, enveloping silence of a sleeping world. In the course of…More

Day 7 of 100, Singapore Still here. And this is not a gear review. Picked up a GFX 50S (two, really) from Fujifilm Asia Pacific today, which is headquartered here in Singapore. Favian Loo, divisional marketing manager, offered to loan Flemming and I one with three lenses for a week – to which we were…More

Day 6 of 100, Singapore In my milk-teeth memories, the months around Christmas and the new year were when the monsoon shifted its wet, northeastern weight over the region, bringing weeks of moisture that ranged from light drizzle to torrential deluge. It is the season of respite from the bite of the equatorial warmth. Singapore…More

Day 5 of 100, Singapore Greg’s comment in day 3’s post about keeping on, made me think of a snippet of a poem that a friend shared with me the other day. What we need most, we learn from the menial tasks: the novice raking sand in Buddhist texts, or sweeping leaves, his hands chilled…More

Day 4 of 100, Singapore And then, the crash. You recluses out there know what I’m talking about don’t you? The abrasion of so many eyes (whether intended or not). The blow by blow 300% enlarged, curling tighter and tighter inwards, against the risk of shatter. We might be weird, but we’re imaginative. We’ve tuned…More

Day 3 of 100, Singapore Flemming and I attended the local Fujifilm launch of their three new cameras this evening. Still smarting from the whole debacle with the airline for Sunday’s flight, we’ve decided to add some vodka to that lemon of a situation, and make the best of our additional time here. I’ve genuinely…More

Day 2 of 100, Singapore I started this Hundred Day Diary thing as an encouragement to write. About anything, no matter how silly, or mundane. I began blogging in 1998, enjoying the revelation of getting something I made out in public. Along with that have come the lessons of getting work in public (which I…More

Day 1 of 100, Singapore Well, that went well. Once in a while, flying has goes utterly pear shaped. Sunday night’s flight to Copenhagen didn’t happen after all, because junior airline staff, whose only jobs are to check passengers and baggage in compliantly, tried to play customs officers. As a result, I couldn’t get on…More