what a day

- i've taken more taxi(s) today than i've ever taken on any other day in my life

- as usual the s'pore weather is screwed up, the sun is blazing skinscorchingly hot in the early afternoon, and 2 hours later a torrential downpour breaks loose

- on the way home i am made to endure 20 minutes of taxi-driver talk: complaints about the govt (as i tuck into my ta-paoed jap food), then bizarrely enough the conversation ends with a (one-sided) discussion of ghosts and the supernatural

- the first time ever, i had a decent 30-minute (or thereabouts) rugby-related conversation with a guy on msn