I've been feeling ridiculously tired these days. Have I been doing too much? Maybe.

I returned from J.B. on Saturday morning. Causeway jammed up at 10 plus in the morning, despite Mimosa's assertion that she goes to Singapore on Saturday mornings and finds the traffic fine. Was one heck of a ride, especially because I had to walk long distances and squeeze onto buses and trains, all the while carrying my cello and luggage bag. It felt like route march all over again, only worse because the weight wasn't quite so evenly distributed.

Upon reaching Singapore, I didn't go home - instead, I went to the Delfi branch of the music school, where I taught four sessions of Holistic Music Learning. Which really means I taught for six hours, back to back.

It was almost 7 when I had finished, and that was when I discovered that I had only $5 in my wallet and that I had left my ATM card at home, which meant lugging my cello and luggage home by train and bus instead of cab. Also, an attempt at a meal for $5 and under, which is no easy feat given the skyrocketing food prices these days. I knew there was no chance of pulling this off at Orchard (damn place has nothing resembling cheap, tasty food), so I walked around the neighbourhood before I finally stopped at Bukit Timah Market...

...and couldn't find a seat.

Now I really felt like howling in frustration at this point, because I hadn't eaten anything since breakfast - hotel buffet, but I didn't stuff my face because I was afraid of gastrointestinal trouble. Stomachache on bus = not fun. Well, eventually, I shared a table with a nice elderly couple. Tom Yum soup with two servings of rice for $4.60. Bukit Timah Market has the best tom yum soup I've ever tasted, by the way. The rice was a bit lumpy though.

I watched Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney on YouTube at night, which probably means I went to sleep late. In any case, I almost couldn't wake up yesterday morning because of the cool, comfortable weather. As it turns out, my student was late because she couldn't get up as well.

As I stopped by Beauty World for lunch, I realized that I had not brought my ATM card, which was still in my desk drawer. And I had no money left. Literally not a cent. I said the F-word out loud. A nice old ang-moh guy, who happened to be sitting nearby, came up to me and said, 'You're upset, aren't you?' That was interesting. I reached the Novena branch early, whereupon Mdm Ang lent me money for lunch.

I reached home very tired. Slept in today since I had nothing in the morning... finally! Today's programme was just the composition seminar by Dr Goh, but still I felt, and am feeling, ridiculously tired.

What's wrong with me? My take is that it's a combination of overwork plus lack of food. The past two days, I haven't been eating well, not at all. The same holds true for Holistic Learning days. The back-to-back lessons just leave me with no time to grab a bite. And I've been working my ass off for the Malaysia performing trip. Speaking of the Malaysia trip, it went well: we played 4 arrangements by me, two of which were Christmas pieces. YK gave an excellently entertaining performance of the famous Czardas by Vittorio Monti, arranged for violin solo and strings by yours truly. The audience loved him. The performers loved my arrangement.

Pause. Getting myself a bowl of Kellogg's All-Bran, my second bowl today... Looks like little twigs, and tastes a bit like little twigs too. So why am I eating it? Because it provides a whopping 12 grams of fibre per serving, compared to 4 grams for most cereals. Some of the 'healthy' cereals out there don't even have 4 grams of fibre. (Your recommended daily intake of fibre is between 30-45 grams.) Getting your RDA of fibre is a perpetual problem for everyone, especially if you eat out all the time, so I sniff out fibre-rich cereals when making a purchase. Yum yum. Little twigs.

Feh. Internet's still acting up, so I'm sleeping. Recording session tomorrow, followed by cello lesson. Though I have been practising diligently all this while, I haven't been practising for the last few days. We'll see how it goes.