Getting Monday fixed

Here’s a lit­tle recipe I want to share with youse all, which works well when you’re in a sorta deep blue funk about things.

When you’re in a sorta deep blue funk, focus on other things you nor­mally don’t pay atten­tion to. Some peo­ple call it escapism, but that’s too big a word for me. I call it focussing on things you don’t nor­mally pay atten­tion to.

And so, I made sure I had my cam­era handy (as opposed to hav­ing it in my bag, because I’d still be too lazy to actu­ally take it out of the bag), and when I had a break in work, I looked around me and took pic­tures of the most strik­ing things among the mun­dane things around me.

Here are the things I saw on Monday:

The impor­tance of using the cor­rect tense: Hook on Steam­boat, you can attach it to your pants so you can walk around the beach on East Coast Park with din­ner for the fam­ily fol­low­ing you.

When you grow taller, you can reach for the mug

Flame of the for­est HDB estate: You can see the red 10 foot­ball fields away.

Elixir of the gods: Iced cof­fee shop cof­fee in a Tiger mug

I heart rubbish

Why the cof­fee shop cat is fat, and what hap­pens to the chicken from the chicken rice stall when they can’t sell enough: Two press­ing ques­tions answered.

Beer lights up my day (and night)