Okay so here I am in Singapore and I am still a little bit jetlagged even though I ran 6 miles this morning for an hour as a way to start to recalibrate my sleep schedule. I am just doing a quick freewrite here to refocus myself because I've been able to get some new inspiration for our freight business.
Also my family spent a lot of today in the Marina Bay Sands shopping center and it looks quite mind numbingly like just a more opulent version of South Coast Plaza, but the same nonetheless, and the same demographics more or less. And that actually decreased my enthusiasm for Singapore because it felt less interesting or authentic, or like, more boring. That's just the nature of commercial malls I guess. And I am scoping out Singapore as a potential place to live long term. I'll be here another 16 days or so, so i have more time to make an impression of the place, but my friends (and friend who grew up here) say this is a very small place with not much to do, ultimately, and I hope that's not the case. But there's at least 1 point scored in that direction from the mall trip today. I do feel like I fit in a little less here, or that there's not enough breathing room to live here long term, potentially. What I mean is that yeah maybe it is a little bit vanilla. It feels a little bit like a tropical, Asian version of Boston. With a different culture, of course, but in fact with the same smallness and perhaps the same vanillaness. These impressions are still quite early though.
Anyway, still excited to be here! Just a little jetlagged I guess. There's still so much to see and do that we haven't done yet.
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