Tag / weekends

by Eileen 配仪

Piano repair found and lack of productivity this weekend.

So yay there is someone in the big wide world of Singapore who could fix the piano and he promised it would be good as new. I am rather looking forward to the good as new. I never actually experienced it good as new. I had sticky keys from day one and there was no one who could repair. Not even Kawai. The best was a few months ago when someone named AutumnWoods on carousell managed to fix some but not all of the problems. That was a significant improvement.

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I was rather unproductive this weekend. I was writing at home with cafe noises and classic FM on the radio. I was distracted by the need to make lunch, wash things in the sink and other chores. I managed about 450 words before kids returned home and I stopped.  I started only after they left in the morning for classes. I felt more productive in a room full of strangers and I completed 500 words a lot quicker.  What I didn’t really like was thinking that I was downing sugar (Hot Chocolate) or caffeine (can’t sleep with caffeine) at close to $8 a cup at a rather warm cafe. Perhaps it was the coffee or chocolate that drove the word count, not the room full of strangers

by Eileen 配仪

Muse

This bag is not the dream. This bag is about having dreams and working towards dreams.

I have always seen this bag being used as a work bag, fitting laptops, ipads and documents; a plane bag with space enough for shawl, a book and neck pillow; or, a carry all for errands – place to stuff letters, a half eaten croissant, a raincoat and a hat. This bag is more than that. It is a bag of creative possibilities. It can be  a dance bag, a bag for art materials, bag for writers or for actors and singers with their bottles of throat saving concoctions, not thrown in haphazardly which of course that possibility is available but tidily organized for the hustling art person and always space for a thought provoking book and an old battered handphone/electronic diary/handwritten appointment book.  This bag fits the fantasy highlight reel of the rock musical Rent. 

This bag weighs a ton. Oh, the burdens we bear for art.