back from Singapore

During the course of my life as a photographer, I forget that I've had lots of good weather as well as some bad ones. When I saw the cloud and thundershower icon listed everyday for the weekly weather report in Singapore, I was expecting the worse as I have always encountered in Macau.

But what do I know, it turned out sunny everyday to the point where I got so tanned that I started to look like a local. The worse part was having to adjust back to Tokyo's winter weather at 5C (41F)when I just spent a week of summer at 31C(87.8F) .

Singapore was enjoyable especially in the warm weather although I'm not so crazy about how every city around the world is starting to look the same with tall glass facade buildings, The Body Shops, Burger Kings, and American size shopping malls where you find the sameshops as you do everywhere else. So, the Raffles Hotel was an escape where I got to enjoy a little of that British colonial era feel, sipping a Singapore Sling at the courtyard bar.

Off to Singapore now

Happy New Year, although I don't know what's so happy about this year with the down turn in economy. Anyways, I'm off in a few minutes to Singapore on an assignment till the 19th. I should be checking my e-mail regularly, so for those of you who need to contact me about dates beyond the 20th, please do e-mail me.

As for Singapore, it'll be nice to go someplace warmer than Tokyo but the weather forecast shows thundershowers everyday during my stay when I have to shoot some architecture outdoors. Figures, that's life for a photographer... Anyways, I'll be excited to see Singapore for the first time.

I saw this beautiful sunset at Narita just prior to boarding my flight to Singapore.