3.4.2025 Thursday - long game early night

I feel like the laziest person in the world, going to bed before 9pm right after finishing dinner. An hour prior, Ah Tuck stopped to chat with me at the squash courts - he noticed that I have been playing squash since 515pm. It was almost 7pm then, he thinks I am very fit. I think I am overdoing it - and tell Sam that I shall stop after a reasonable number of games, and stretch, and rest, and go home. 

I'll start that tomorrow. 

2.4.2025 Wednesday - Mola says hi

 There's a milestone today, we meet with the school client to confirm our appointment and to go through the schedule of accommodation. He suggests meeting at the school which is in town. We decide to coincide this with a lunch with Mola whom we have not seen for years. And since today is also Jenny's 2-year anniversary, we have an extravagant seafood lunch. 

Although he thinks we simply text him our revised fee - 'no need to meet la' - we spend a good hour confirming layouts and discussing the way forward. He says something which we agreed strongly with - that we must work with integrity. 

If all goes well, by May we will be working for the Pope. 

1.4.2025 Tuesday - dependable people

From RIBA Journal - Herron and Associates

Imagination Building

I get dropped off after a coffee at home, I work on the safari masterplan, happy to get it moving along. No run this morning, my ankles are still sore. 

Melvin says that he will come in today, to complete the school SOA and diagrammatic layouts. We see the client tomorrow. As I walk to the office, I think about how fortunate I am to have dependable people in the office. Folks that you can leave stuff with and know it will be completed. No need to worry, no need for super clever people who might let you down.

Nice lunch with Don and Da, at Rume where we met Chin Nam and Jenk Kee

 
Core exercises, no run, no sports.

31.3.2025 Monday - Selamat Hari Raya

 Just before lunch Yin Lian drops by with her parent and brother, I chat with her parents about studying architecture; how long the course is, how they wanted her to be a teacher but she wants to study architecture. I suggest to them that it is unlikely that she would follow their advice. - I noticed something interesting; that she sat next to me facing to her parents across the table.

Good tennis, hitting the ball on the rise, flatter and more consistently.

30.3.2024 Sunday - a free day

a dance by Trisha Brown and a photograph by Babette Mangolte

Reading through old magazines to see if I can learn new things, I can't bear to throw them away. This image caught my eye, it was from a dance/installation in New York from 1970/1 - an age ago.

My tennis this morning was not very enjoyable, I might not go and hit with Richard anymore especially if the teenage son is hitting as well.
 

29.3.2025 Saturday - good day at work

 

28.3.2025 Friday - questions and answers