May 1, 2012
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Weekend of Underworld and swim+run
We started watching Underworld series and seems like we would be completing the third instalment on this long weekend when we took Monday off and had Tuesday off as a Public Holiday. Ran at MacRitchie with wife and she is happy. I am taking far too long to read HBR magazines borrowed from office… half a magazine only and I have 2.5 more to go. And it’s been more than a week already. We finally made it to that Kallang Place for food after run; the muesli I had had good materials in it… unfortunately it meant that I enjoyed that far less than the usual Coffee Bean ones. Wife had egg benedict and we discussed about how to make egg benedict.
Had a good chat with the life guards when pool was stopped during the lightning warnings. Apparently Bedok pool was opened in 1981 and some of the guards have been there since then. A number have also left, to be swim instructors instead, and the young ones are contemplating leaving, mainly because Filipinos and China people are being hired (and apparently better paid than them, which makes no sense). The pool will be shifted to the field next to Blk 216… which is sad coz we bought our place due to vicinity to the pool. The new pool will not be that far away but it is further, and had we known when we bought this place, we might have made a different decision afterall. I think things like these make decisions in investments irrelevant – you could have the perfect view in front of you but then in a few years, there may be a taller building in front of you, making your perfect view that of your next door neighbour instead and devaluating what you’ve paid for.
Ah well. Maybe living next to the PIE isn’t so bad – at least they can’t build a building next to you.
