Every time I come to this blog, I’m kind of in shock at how time flies.
I’d *just* switched hosting sites and paid big bucks for like… 2 years of web hosting? And stay tuned because I have plans to actually add pages to this site, and share my swatches and urban sketching palettes all in a page.
But… It’s been over a month since I switched things over and I just haven’t gotten round to anything yet.
Between work, weekdaily urban sketching, medical appointments, and interns…
It’s madness, really.
I’ve got new interns to take care of too…. Sigh. Again.
And these two interns aren’t the brightest. Maybe the language barrier is an issue too. Sigh.
Anyway. I am on holiday in Malaysia… Road trip with my parents. Because I said fuck work and took two days off. Partly at the cost of earlier in the week though, having to slog it at work even after the medical appointments in the morning when I could actually have taken the day off. I had MC on Wednesday even but… I ended up having to rush work left and right from after lunch, till 7pm. Sigh.
Trip so far has been ok. Lots of happenings. First day and parents both got food poisoning. No idea what we ate… I was kinda bloated but spared. Then today dad’s credit card got hacked…. Nothing serious and the bank picked up the fraudulent transactions and blocked the card, but still, more drama than we needed on what was supposed to be a peaceful, relaxing, lunch at the cafe in the forest. The cafe is at the foot of a hill and is literally called Hill & Heal. What a place to be receiving an SMS about your credit card being blocked…
So… This trip dad was like “bring your art stuff to draw”. So I did. I also packed a sketchbook for him and mum. First day, it was really hot in the afternoon and all, and I didn’t bring my sketching stuff out. All afternoon dad was saying that I should have brought it along, this would look nice sketched, etc etc. Then in the evening came the food poisoning….
Thankfully they are both much better today. And I ended up doing FOUR! Sketches today! And dad joined in too. Heck. He grabbed a sketchbook, a pencil and a pen from me and carried it along in his little pouch. And he just whips it out and starts sketching before me. And at night at the night market he kept asking if I wanted to sketch too. But it was so ridiculously crowded… I said no. 4 sketches in a day is good enough for me. We are here till Sunday (probably just heading back to SG after breakfast), so there’s still tomorrow! Oh yeah. We were at Kluang yesterday till this afternoon, and now in Malacca… So yeah. All 4 sketches were done in Kluang… Getting all the Kluang action in. But tomorrow! I will be able to get some Malacca action in for sure!
Follow themessydeskxyz on Cara if you want to get in on the action. Though I’ve yet to post the sketches from this trip. There’s so many! And the internet here has been a little spotty. Some messages just refuse to go through on discord! This hotel WIFI is pretty decent though, thankfully. Alright. I guess I’ll this post here, and get ready to sleep. Night night!