A Big Business Milestone and The Art Scene

Last weekend was a BIG milestone for John. His hard work over these last several months at locating and fitting out their new office came to fruition with the big move! The new place (here) is located on a lovely street of former shophouses. These literally used to be shops on the ground floor and the proprietor's home above where the family resided. Most of these are now renovated into businesses but retain their colonial character on the exterior. The new Veson office's make use of the third and fourth floor which will not only greatly expand the space available for the current group of colleagues but provide room for more employees in the future. There will even be dedicated space for client training, meetings and conferences. It's not ideal - yet! The current set-up provides only temporary desks and they are still a bit cramped in the upstairs loft until the final design and fitting out  on the main floor can be completed within the next six to eight weeks. You can get a better idea of the interior here. Still it's a great relief to be in this new space and for John to be able to begin to turn his efforts towards other pressing business needs. Big congrats to John!!

After all of that by the end of this week, John was more than ready for a break from work-related issues and we managed to do that by going to a concert on Friday evening. The performer was Stacey Kent, a jazz singer whom we first learned about from Peg and Vince. We have since grown to really love her and so were very excited to learn she was going to do a live concert here! Not only that but the concert hall here in Singapore was truly beautiful and had some of the best acoustics of any we've been to. In general, we think the art scene here is proving to be top notch. We look forward to more interesting plays and artists in our future time here.

Esplanade Concert Hall

Concert Hall Interior