Well, the holidays have been mostly quite uneventful. I've mostly been reading Ranma comics and playing guitar. But I have taken some time off to get out of the house. Here are some of the interesting (or not) that happened over the past week.

Fiona and I went to VivoCity to watch The Sky Crawlers, which is Mamoru Oshii's latest anime film. It had much of the Mamoru Oshii flavour I feel. You wonder, "What the heck is going on exactly?" but yet, there's something about it that is still very gripping. We then took a picture of the huge Christmas Tree at Vivo.

Fiona, Hugh and I went to the Science Centre to have a look at the observatory. The telescope was larger than I thought, and was pretty impressive.

Unfortunately, the sky was cloudy and it started to drizzle slightly so the trip to the science centre was quite a wasted trip. 

Went with Fiona to the Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Festival at Fort Canning Green, which was quite dumb i thought because the queue for ice cream was Singaporeanly long. PLUS it was raining. There was a band playing there which I thought was not bad but the female singer was oversinging and sounded horrible at parts. 

I think it's strange to hold such a "party" at Fort Canning Green. The venue used to be a graveyard which was unearthed except for a few graves at the far end of the green. Some of the tombstones were then set into the walls of the green. The gay and colourful Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream fest stands in such stark contrast to the venue in terms of mood. Even though I wasn't enjoying myself, for some reason, I felt a certain peace when I saw the gravestones and I was compelled to take a few pictures.

The first is a shot of a portion of wall, the first stone being in memory of a Jew. The second is that of a certain woman, the third is that of a fifteen year old, while the last is that of a 12 month old child. 

My Jazz band met up to jam. The songs we practiced were The Waltz, Sunday Morning and Don't Bother None. I think the songs are fine but not powerful enough and needs a little more fine tuning to make it perfect. Because there's no performance anytime soon, there's no pressure to make it perfect either, so much time was spent randomly jamming as well.

Along the way back to hall, Fiona, Jason and I encountered a dead Pangolin, which is quite a sight to see considering there are only 50 or so (now less one) pangolins in Singapore. I couldn't take good pictures with my phone though, as it was way too dark.

Poor pangolin......