Its great to be back in Singapore. I got in Monday night and settled right into my new apartment with no fuss and hassle. Its a bit dusty, needs a good wipe down but I reckon Ill do that over the weekend.

Had my fitting for the finals yesterday and it was great to meet the members from the Female team. It was fantastic to finally meet Madeline, who had to deal with me constantly joking around.

As for the outfits I am wearing for the big night, I really like the first one but the second one was, well, not exactly to my liking (to put it mildly). We finally found one I liked and we decided to go with that. Thank my luck stars!

On a side note, the most engaging and interesting conversations I have had in the past couple of days has been with my 5 year old niece. She has developed  the ‘ray romano’ style of sarcasm mixed with a tinge of ‘richard pryor’ in your face humor. Example #1

We are at a restaurant, my parents celebrating me leaving!

Neice: Uncle Adrian, are you going to be gone for a long time? -shes under the table tugging on my jeans.

Me: Yes, maybe three months, are you going to miss me?

Neice: Um, yah sure. – I cant tell her minds somewhere else and she’s thinking of something conniving.

She get up from under the table and goes to sit on my Mums lap and whispers,

Niece: Opah (Grandma) since Uncle Adrian is going to be away for a long time, we can open the window in his room and let the cat runaway.

My mum bursts out laughing, and says ‘No, Uncle Adrian loves Havana – we cant do that’.

Niece: Its okay, we can tell him someone accidentally opened the window and she ran away.

Conniving little 5 year old! She hates my cat because she has sinusitis and my cat loves biting her little toes.

Another little story I wish to share about my Niece. I love winding her up, she can take, but she can also dish it.

Me: Hey I think your Mum is lazy, she doesn’t go to the gym like me

Niece: She not lazy! If she is lazy why is she working? Huh? Huh? She goes to work every morning and comes back at night! – She saying this with her hands on hip, which are swaying left to right, like african-american women would do when they are trying to make a point.

Me: Nah she’s lazy

Niece: She is not okay! You are lazy, you wake up at 1pm everyday and all you do is sleep sleep. You work only once a week, mummy told me what your doing is not really work!! Acting, hmph, hosting blah! – Waving and point her finger at me.

Niece 1 Uncle Adrian 0

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