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Aug. 31st, 2014 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaSo, we did neither tea nor fish spa, but jolantru and I did attempt to do some work in the Esplanade library, which didn't work out too great because we couldn't get Internet! What is wrong with Singapore! How can you look so chrome-buffed hi-tech but have so few places with Wifi?!
Anyway, we then betook ourselves out to Books Actually, where we met @monkeygod who had to wait for us over an hour because we got distracted by cake and drinks. I bought some books, met the bookstore, then demanded to go to the Hainanese cafe nearby for lunch.troiyaumes came with her hubbie and friends to join us! Then came @halleluyang. While we hung out, a HUGE funeral procession came parading through, a really old-fashioned affair with three or four or five trucks bedecked in flowers, little girls in pink hanfus and tiny pink umbrellas, a troops of men wearing green and Stetsons (why? I don't know) and the coffin was hand-carried (usually they're in the back of the hearse) while relatives followed. And it must have been a big-name person, a sort of clan leader, because the route they covered for this parade was preeeeeeetty long.
@monkeygod shared with us some WorldCon news about where the next years' WorldCons will be (Spokane? Really? Kansas City? Even more really? And Beijing put in a bid) and I may have stared at him with increasing levels of alarm everytime he opened his mouth with a new sentence. We agreed that a SEAsian WorldCon would be best done in the Philippines, esp in Manila, where they actually know their shit and understand literary SFF. Malaysia and Singapore just doesn't have the manpower, we're too expensive, and there's not enough local interest.
It was a good lunch, and I feel we might have committed one of the Geek Social Fallacies by having so many people from two different friendship circles at the one table? I still enjoyed hanging out though.
Then @halleluyang,jolantru and I hung out in a hipster cafe nearby for further drinks.
My right spectacle lens fell off, not for the first time over the weekend, but this time for the worse, because the screw also fell off. Fortunately @halleluyang had some plasters on her, andjolantru got me a rubber band from the staff. So yeah.
The bus was really late which made me really nervous! I had a chat with a woman waiting for her fiance who was on the bus coming into Singapore. (It was an interesting conversation; her second marriage to a guy she's only met twice, he's already married and she feels it's better to be a second wife so she doesn't have to make the husband a very high priority compared to her first marriage. She also showed me a picture of her four kids. She seemed a really neat person.)
The bus ride in was fine. The only other person on the bus was a teacher at one of the USJ schools. I slept a bit.
Then I forgot my bag on the bus when getting off. My overnight bag! Not my backpack. I've got to go get it back from the bus station office now.
jolantru and I did attempt to do some work in the Esplanade library, which didn't work out too great because we couldn't get Internet! What is wrong with Singapore! How can you look so chrome-buffed hi-tech but have so few places with Wifi?! Anyway, we then betook ourselves out to Books Actually, where we met @monkeygod who had to wait for us over an hour because we got distracted by cake and drinks. I bought some books, met the bookstore, then demanded to go to the Hainanese cafe nearby for lunch.
troiyaumes came with her hubbie and friends to join us! Then came @halleluyang. While we hung out, a HUGE funeral procession came parading through, a really old-fashioned affair with three or four or five trucks bedecked in flowers, little girls in pink hanfus and tiny pink umbrellas, a troops of men wearing green and Stetsons (why? I don't know) and the coffin was hand-carried (usually they're in the back of the hearse) while relatives followed. And it must have been a big-name person, a sort of clan leader, because the route they covered for this parade was preeeeeeetty long. @monkeygod shared with us some WorldCon news about where the next years' WorldCons will be (Spokane? Really? Kansas City? Even more really? And Beijing put in a bid) and I may have stared at him with increasing levels of alarm everytime he opened his mouth with a new sentence. We agreed that a SEAsian WorldCon would be best done in the Philippines, esp in Manila, where they actually know their shit and understand literary SFF. Malaysia and Singapore just doesn't have the manpower, we're too expensive, and there's not enough local interest.
It was a good lunch, and I feel we might have committed one of the Geek Social Fallacies by having so many people from two different friendship circles at the one table? I still enjoyed hanging out though.
Then @halleluyang,
jolantru and I hung out in a hipster cafe nearby for further drinks. My right spectacle lens fell off, not for the first time over the weekend, but this time for the worse, because the screw also fell off. Fortunately @halleluyang had some plasters on her, and
jolantru got me a rubber band from the staff. So yeah. The bus was really late which made me really nervous! I had a chat with a woman waiting for her fiance who was on the bus coming into Singapore. (It was an interesting conversation; her second marriage to a guy she's only met twice, he's already married and she feels it's better to be a second wife so she doesn't have to make the husband a very high priority compared to her first marriage. She also showed me a picture of her four kids. She seemed a really neat person.)
The bus ride in was fine. The only other person on the bus was a teacher at one of the USJ schools. I slept a bit.
Then I forgot my bag on the bus when getting off. My overnight bag! Not my backpack. I've got to go get it back from the bus station office now.
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Date: 2014-08-31 05:02 am (UTC)Sounds like an awesome time overall!
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Date: 2014-08-31 03:49 pm (UTC)I will admit I'm kind of bitter/annoyed about DC17, though. Now people have to split the vote between DC and Helsinki. That's going to suck. Thank goodness for run-off voting.
Actually, Kansas City's been bidding for 2016 forever. They have a good group and some SMOFs, and the fans are fantastic old-timers who are helpful and friendly. They're actually highly-regarded as knowing how to run cons. Considering the only other competition was Beijing (unproven concom), the vote couldn't have gone any other way.