  Spent the morning and lunch in a meeting with the architects of our Tower of Babel (my nickname for it) project in Peking, slated to be the world's tallest building, a golden spike some one kilometre tall.
Then spent the afternoon at Dominic's place - Teeheong has come back from 6 years in Melbourne, where he's been playing Bassoon and doing postgrad, and is very annoyed with the immigration laws about foreign talent - he's easily the best bassonist in Australia and he can't get a position because he doesn't have PR (and conversely he can't get PR unless he has a regular job). I've not seen him in 6 years, so it was lovely catching up again. Next, the National University of Singapore's decided to can the Piper's Guild - seems we're not making enough money. The same university that's annouced extra funding for the arts and built a spanking new Arts Centre that cost millions... cuts back on fledgling groups.
Brilliant. Never mind, we did fine for over a decade before we went under the University's wing, and we'll be fine without them - just without the thousands of dollars each term to spend on instruments and a room to call our own. Dom and I had dinner at Adam Road - briyani... yum. Rented Gattaca to watch - I'm surprised I hadn't watched it before. It's excellent - the soundtrack by Michael Nyman is to die for... and Ethan Hawke is adorably handsome in there ;) 
