Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Timezone Hopelessness
With a change in timezone as drastic as Toronto to Singapore (A full 12 hour difference) it’s pretty difficult to try adjusting sleeping hours to accommodate the change. So we’re not really bothering. We’re going to bed a little bit later, to try and ease the pain of the early morning departure, but that’s about [...]
There Will Be Preparations
And they have to be made fairly soon. Next week The Wife and I return to Southeast Asia for 10 days.
Yep. We’re visiting Singapore for five days, with another five in Hong Kong.
This should be interesting.
Dull Canadian Moment #3784
Aside from writing a comic script and watching Wife play more Persona 3 (she is mighty now. All tremble in her presence) GUM was purchased! And it was legal and everything! And we won’t get charged or fined for having it on our person! I was slightly amazed [...]
A Talented Brunch
Yes, I know that’s a horrible, horrible pun, but it’s also an apt description of this afternoon.
The Wife went off to meet with the group of artists in Toronto I’ve mentioned before, the Sketch Motel, and so we wandered slightly further past our usual haunts to another stretch of Annex populated by neat [...]
Weekends Feel Like Weekends Again
Another Saturday rolls by and I’m reminded of the fact that here, in Toronto, a weekend feels like a weekend again. People who have never been to Singapore probably don’t know this, but when it comes to places like offices, many Singapore companies have a 5 1/2 day work week, [...]
Real Peasant Food Versus Fake Peasant Food
Despite the fact that I have now been back in Canada for a few months, I still occasionally get those “Wow, I’m home,” moments that sneak up on me and smack me on the back of the head like a sadist in a pillow fight convention. Today was [...]
Steeped In SIN
I finally got my Social Insurance card reissued to me today, so I can start racking up those unemployment cheques! GO ME!
Also, I only just realized today that when I get on the internet in Canada, I can actually go to www.playboy.com and NOT receive a “FORBIDDEN ACCESS” message as those poor [...]
The Ordeal
Cigarettes have been smoked, coffee has been consumed and a long sigh of relief is released as the Wife and I nurse the scratches on our hands.
We have our cats back, and it was nowhere near as straightforward as we were hoping. This was one of those moments were we truly felt the [...]
Crime Has More Color
One of the interesting contrasts between Singapore and Toronto is how they handle crime. For example, in Singapore, we lived in a “colorful” part of town. That’s not to say it was a particularly bad part, but there’s more potential for conflict of the illegal kind in our area. [...]
Sayanora Singapore
And, after over ten years on the Island That Common Sense Forgot, I now bid contradictory government policies, shameless elitism and a fear of failure so pathological it has its own reality distortion field, goodbye. That’s all you get out of me, Singapore.
I’ll dearly miss the people I’ve met and befriended here.
But [...]