Nothing Noteworthy

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Life is settling down now to such a routine, it seems mundane, almost boring, after the frenzy of the first weeks. There is nothing much to do here - suburbia America is pretty dull. There is next to no night life and you cannot just pick your family up and go to a kopi tiam to have a night cuppa. It is quite expensive to eat out and unless you like just wandering around the malls, evenings are mostly spent watching the telly or blogging like I am doing now. We even go to sleep earlier than we did in Singapore. And dinners are a simple single dish affair, not the usual four to five different things that make up a dinner back home. Yet they taste better than the maid's labor- and ingredient-intensive cooking.

I am thinking we may be ready, now that we have a home and everything to start wandering a bit further afield on Saturdays. Most Saturdays so far have been spent at ... you guessed it - WalMart! or Target! or Home Depot! or Costco! At boring big box shops picking up household essentials. Sigh. There were all kinds of things we needed to build up a new home.

Sundays are a bit tougher for going anywhere because of Ryan's Chinese class. Plus now that we have tennis kakis, it is probably a good idea to get our already severely limited exercises at the same time. I am becoming a prime candidate for osteoporosis and Ryan has lost all his swimming muscles. He is getting quite limp but happy as a toad that he doesn't have to swim anymore. Sigh. But he is quite diligent about practising on the piano - the motivation is there. The US school system has its pluses. But of course, with no piano teacher, he is not learning anything new. We are trying to see if we can get lessons here so he can continue where he left off in Singapore.

Maybe we should drive somewhere this Saturday - that is, if the better half is in a better mood than he has been of late.

The siblings are planning to come in mid-December. It will be such a break from just the 3 of us circling each other every day.