I resumed the podcast after a long hiatus. We are now in Season 7.
Season 7, Episode 1. In a new year, in a new home, in a new endemic phase of the pandemic. Sunday, 5th March 2023.
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Yes. I still have this tee. How many of you bought it back then and still have it?
I couldn’t fit into it for a long time but I can fit into it again.
Wow, 2006 felt like just yesterday.
#IYKYK
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Signs you are not in Japan on holiday anymore but back in Singapore, post-2020/2021 edition:
1. You can use dustbins everywhere instead of your pocket.
2. You aren’t spraying disinfectant on your hands every time you enter a store or restaurant.
3. You aren’t given a “Mask Envelope” to put your mask in, when you’re dining.
4. People talking loudly on trains.
5. A public bus doesn’t come once every hour in the rural areas. Addendum: There is no such thing as a rural area in Singapore either.
6. You get up the bus from the front door where the driver is, instead of the rear door.
7. You don’t check the weather before going out anymore.
8. A bottle of Shōchū costs five to ten times more.
9. There isn’t a vending machine at every corner.
10. The restaurant staff don’t shout their greetings and don’t shout their thanks when you go in to eat or go out after eating.
My journey to and from the US was long. So I watched a TON of movies. Some on the way to San Jose, some on the way back, some in the hotel.
Here is mrbrown’s Inflight Movie mini-reviews:
Blacklight: Liam Neeson should just stop making movies.
The Outfit: Slow burn but so satisfying. A cut above the rest.
Clean: Almost zero story and filled with caricatures, but Adrien Brody is great as an avenging garbage man. The violence is almost poetic.
The Lost City: A surprisingly not-lame rework of Romancing the Stone. Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum are hilarious together.
The Contractor: I’m a Chris Pine fan but the ending disappointed. Some nice action here and there though.
Everything Everywhere All at Once: Everything Dr Strange 2 tried to be. This is the real Multiverse movie this year. Mind-screwing sci-fi with heart. Michelle Yeoh shows you what a massive star she is.
mrbrown’s Inflight Movie mini-reviews, Japanese edition:
First Gentleman 総理の夫: Cute movie about a guy whose wife becomes the first female PM of Japan. Could have done more with the subject matter. But this is patriarchal Japan so don’t expect feminist ideas.
Time Trip App 幕末高校生: It had Satomi Ishihara in it. That’s it. Teacher and her students time travel to Edo-period Japan and try not to change history.
Masquerade Night: A somewhat convoluted murder mystery movie. Sequel to Masquerade Hotel. Takuya Kimura and Masami Nagasawa reprise their role as detective and concierge in yet another mystery in Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. The two actors are a pleasure to watch.
When it is your wife’s birthday, you take her on a staycation and tell her she can do whatever she wants.
She wanted to play badminton. So we played badminton for two solid hours after breakfast (I won one game, she won two).
Then we swam in the pool for an hour.
Then broke for lunch.
Then we went bowling. Bowled for more than hour, played 6 games each.
Then we walked 25 minutes to the hawker centre for dinner. And walked 25 minutes back.
I didn’t know the Birthday Staycation was going to become The Olympic Games.
But hey, whatever The Wife wants, The Wife gets.
I have a Sporty wife. So I better get with the Sporty Life.
Talk to you later. I am lying down in recovery mode now.
(Side note: I need to add this small detail. My wife, while not a #fitspo gym person, has a very high level of fitness. She does aerobics, and other forms of exercise, at least three times a week and crushes it. I, on the other hand, have just begun my slow and steady fitness journey. So you can imagine how much she runs rings around me. I’m just glad I could keep up with her, barely, during this staycation.)