Thursday 21 July 2011

Life of an Expat Wife!

Last week we were in Paris. It was great to be back, to see our friends and families, drink good wine and eat plenty of smelly cheese.
During one of these wine sipping moments with couple of friends, a good friend of mine asked me with her most enthusiastic voice:
So tell me how is life in Singapore what you do every day in exotic Far East ? 
Well, I do yoga every other day, I swim every day and I play tennis once a week. Oh I get massages time to time... do a bit of cooking and cleaning... at this point a giant exclamation mark start to appear on her face so I added well you know I am a freelance now and I work from home... ( phew! exclamation mark start to evaporate)
Oh good ( a moment of awkward silence!). So now that you are relaxed it is a good time to get pregnant. ( Boom!)
Why not! May be .... a false laughter and we changed the subject.

Does she think that I am board? Well I am NOT!  but this short conversation scared a hell out of me as I noticed that I haven't done much for the past three months but somehow I was busy! So on our long flight back I listed the following activities that I would like to do when I am here in Singapore.


I want to learn
  1. a new language. Chinese for example!
  2. to take photos (Any good workshop around?)
  3. to dive.
  4. to play piano
  5. to play tennis ( already started)
  6. to swim butterfly
  7. to draw 
  8. to cook SE Asian food
  9. to make jewelry to reproduce ancient tribal jewelry. ( I am a big fan! that's the only reason why I go to museums)
  10. to study something new online ( I haven't figured out what!?)
that was my top 10 to learn things. I wonder what other girls are doing in Singapore?