Adventures in the Ordinary: Beginnings

I saw a guy the other day taking pictures of a sale in a mall, and I thought "Why are you taking a picture of that?" and mentally rolled my eyes at him.  Then I thought, well I suppose it's a pretty big sale, it's not too often you come across a football sized field of shoes for 50 - 70% off.

There's not a lot that goes on here that can be defined as exciting, it's mostly just... mildly entertaining.  But I have to remember that the things that have become normal to me may be fascinating to someone who doesn't live here.  So bear with me, I'm going to meander a bit for the next few weeks...

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I was looking at some old pictures, and found these.

Back in April 2008 (when I still thought Singapore was in China), a couple of Davids' Singaporean co-workers came to the US to visit.  They met Millie, we went to the Mall of America, they came over to watch American Idol (live!), and they enthusiastically invited David and I to come and visit them in Singapore.  "Of course, we'll try!" I replied, at the same time thinking, "If I had that much time and money to travel, why in the world would I go there?"

Less than six months later, David and I were in Singapore, and David was being offered a job.

Less than three months after that, we were living there.

I remember visiting the American neighborhood on that first visit to Singapore, and seeing this amazing house.

Turns out that's where my cooking classes were to be, and now I go there once a month and am friends with the girl who lives there.  One day you're sitting on the couch thinking that the furthest you're going to travel in the next year is probably St. Louis, and then *bam!*, you're sitting in Singapore trying to remember what is normal.

"feels like some kind of ride but it's turning out just to be life going absolutely perfectly" - brian andreas