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The Buildings’ show backroom shenanigans.

We spent a lot of our meals in the Old Airport Rd Hawker, the nearest one to where we stayed. Some of the things we ordered were fried wanton noodles, chicken rice, roasted chicken rice, chicken katsu curry, rendang, and a buncha other stuff. Hard to remember when everything’s so good.

Spent half of Day 3 in Singapore at Gillman Barracks - a cluster of contemporary art galleries. I ran out of film here.

Later that night we walked an hours-long distance to Tanjong beach where we met up with Raph and Bo and a bunch of their other friends. We drank wine and smoked and ate chicken out of a paper bag til 1am.

On our walk to Tanjong beach, we stopped in front of Universal Studios to take a photo (not posted here). I tweeted the said photo, which got 2.7k retweets. Hard to say why. Maybe you should see for yourself.

The Buildings’ set in Singapore. Pleasantly surprised to see Singaporeans singing along and moshing to all their songs! Quite surreal to be cheering for your friends in a different country!

Singapore will always be a happy memory!

Kean and I pre-show pre-gaming. I was drunk on Anchor and Tiger an hour before the show started.

The Buildings pre-show rehearsal.

Kean, Aly and Dom, on our way to Old Airport Hawker for breakfast at 11am. We woke up and slept late for all the five days we were there.

Aaliyah, Mariah, Emen and Aly outside a gig.

I can’t remember much from this night. I just remember being dead tired. And seeing the Singapore gig crowd for the first time.

Wax, who’s only 16, came with us to Singapore. Cool kid. He was a total sport and stayed sober for the most part. Here he was at Changi Airport, filling out forms.

The Buildings on their way to Singapore.

Our hotel room in Baguio.

Ourselves the Elves and Turncoats live in Baguio, June 2019.

Ourselves the Elves with Self Is Universe producer, aka my wonderful partner Kean, June 2019.

It’s Kean and me! This photo is hella out-of-focus, but there’s just something about it that I like. This was in Baguio, the night of the Elves’ gig. It was nice and cold out.

This is my niece, Julia. She turned 18 this year.

Our first Show & Tell Party, where we asked our drunk friends to talk about a topic they liked for 15 straight minutes. We served them cocktails and buttered mushrooms.

We had around 30 people that night. This was everybody. 

Pit stop scenes, SLEX, on our way back to Manila from Bicol.

Ches and Lesley at a pit stop along SLEX, on our way back from Bicol.