this is how much sun we are getting now!

Hey...so i wanted to post this earlier, but then the weather turned spectacularly chilly yesterday [well...sorta cold and sorta grey], so the appropriateness of this entry was a bit off...

but the sun is out again [and brings me back to the point that...] which means really really long days... case in point, make a wild guess what time the above the picture was taken...

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If you guessed 9:40pm, you'd be right!  [ok, for all the non-singaporeans reading this entry, you have to empathize that living on the equator gives the flawless-day-after-day sunrise at 6am and sunset at 7pm with not much variation, so an almost 10pm sunset is pretty special]

I've already noticed that the evenings seem to creep into the 9-10pm bracket, and amazingly, the sun rises at about 6am...so that means only about 7 hours of darkness...

ok, so this is probably a natural global phenomenon that I am experiencing for the first time...but its still damn cool lah!  [for all you faithful readers, there was my snow story not too long ago as well]

anyhoo, some food for thought...if it only gets dark so late in the night, then it must be super shiok to have post work drinks, dinner, post dinner chat and coffee while the sun is still up eh?  awesome stuff!

been a bit busy lah

so we were walking around in the idyllic town of Leuven when we suddenly came across this..

the short version of the story is that i got a pair of tickets for us to attend TW Classic in Werchter - about 20 mins from Leuven...and big big suprise, this is my first ever real-life festival experience...

and one of the big things that you can't get enough of at any festival (apparently) is the copious amounts of mud everywhere!

and the funniest thing was - it hadn't rained that day at all..so we deduced that it was the free-loving nature of people with beers in plastic cups to share some with the trodden ground to make some authentic soddy ground - as you can see here with our uber-muddy footwear

the experts all came armed with knee high rubber boots, inflatable chairs and mats to lie down on....all very sensible and we will definitely emulate this behaviour at our next festival outing because our feet were killing us from all the standing..

at this point, i have to make the statement that all the photos i tried to take of the Police and Iggy & the Stooges didn't turn out so well...so here are some from the belgian newspapers...yes, sting WAS sporting a monster-cool beard, and iggy pop was still prancing around without a shirt in spite of the 15 degree weather...

and this is the train out from leuven post gig.....so the organisers linked up with the rail network in order for the festival attendees to get home somehow...so we arrived at the train a little after midnight, but because it was a 50k capacity crowd, the train was only scheduled to leave at 130am...so we were fighting hard to stay awake ...