Music Monday: Back to the Cold

Monday has caught me off-guard, it was completely unexpected. As was last Monday (hence the lack of MM post), likely because of the whole holiday-on-a-Sunday thing. That, and I moved for the second time in as many weeks.

This time I went from Victoria to Kelowna, which, despite the significantly shorter distance and travel time, was much harder than Singapore to Victoria. I was only five months in Singapore, and the overseas travel really limited what I could take. No such luck with Kelowna, I'm not even sure when I'm moving back to Victoria. So a lot of stuff had to make the move.

As such, I'm pretty much choosing a song at random to feature today. Well, not completely at random, there was some method to its choosing. It's a track by the Delgados, a now defunct Scottish band that was one of my faves back in high school. I still like them now, but I don't listen to their music often. The song? "Coming in From the Cold," which I'll be doing a lot of now that I'm in the Okanagan. As usual, there's a video below. Enjoy, and happy New Year! Oh, and P.S., the album the song is off of is called Hate, I'm not angsty, hah.

a Photoblog: Tropical Pilipinas and the Kingdom of Cambodia

all photos by me, more on Flickr

Merry Christmas, etc

Music Monday: Home at last, right?

After a hectic week and a confusing travel day (arriving before I leave? Sure, I guess that's cool) I'm finally back in Victoria. I'm home. Or at least that's what it's supposed to feel like.

Yesterday night I caught myself referring to Singapore as home, as if my time in Vic is just a quick vacation before I head back to my dorm in the tropics. And it is just a quick vacation; in two weeks I'll be packed up and ready to move to Kelowna. Really, I'm not sure where "home" is right now. Part of the confusion of being in a in-between period, I guess.

There are plenty of other Kings of Convenience songs that I would feature before this one, but "Homesick" resonates with me at the moment. Listening to the Kings has been a part of my efforts to acquaint myself with autumn before arriving home. It didn't work. The fall weather, the short days, the Christmas saturation... it was all very overwhelming. But oh well.

I don't really have the time, or the frame of mind, to say much more, so here's a video of the boys performing live. It's a funny coincidence that the performance is from Singapore, eh? Anyway, enjoy! I promise to have some travel photos up before Christmas.

Travel Hiatus

I'm going travelling for the next few weeks, and then making the long journey back to Canada on the 17th. So, suffice to say I won't be blogging at all while I'm gone: not even a single scheduled Music Monday. Oh well.

So, until I return, here's a completely unrelated photo of two empty stools and a table in Turkey. Enjoy.

For slightly more relevant photos, I've been busy uploading some new ones the past few days. Gardens by the Bay, Orchard Road at Christmas, Jurong Bird Park, and some randoms, too. They're on my Flickr, as usual.

Signing off from Singapore for the last time!

photo by me, more on Flickr