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?
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7 comments:

  1. Stacey24 July 2011 at 10:28

    Good to see you posting Noras. I'd be happy to introduce you to some more expat gals or just meet for coffee. Cheers!

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  2. noras24 July 2011 at 10:48

    Thanks for reading my posts Stacey! and I would love to meet up with you and other expat gals :)

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  3. Stacey31 July 2011 at 10:04

    For lack of a better way to send you my contact info I'm going to leave it as a comment. My email is coach[underscore]stacey[at]yahoo[dot]com

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  4. Sarah6 September 2011 at 23:49

    your routine sounds a lot like mine! have you found a great yoga place here?

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  5. noras7 September 2011 at 00:05

    Hi Sarah, thanks for reading my post.
    Yes I have found a very good yoga class it is called como shambhala they are based on 6th floor of Forum shopping mall. How do you get along with your routine?

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  6. Sarah8 September 2011 at 03:58

    I might check them out as I don't love the place I have been going to. Ok I guess, I kinda miss working which I never thought I would say!

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  7. noras8 September 2011 at 06:00

    I know I miss my work/social life too! let me know when you want to drop in, we can meet up for a coffee. my email is noraspas at gmail.com

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