Last Singapore Post

photo by Maung Maung : Close to work

Hi all...

So much time has gone by since I last posted. As time went by, things got really busy in Singapore. What happened since I last posted ? Sooo much. Let me start.... We got engaged, Pino and Dri had a baby (little Joaquim my nephew), Gal and Edgar(in laws) came to visit, Mila started kiting for real, we are moving away from Singapore, I got the Lead FX title at work, cloneWars will start on Cartoon Network with one of our episodes on October 3rd on the US, I got to meet George Lucas... that's the short for all that happened.

Mila and I will be getting married in Salvador in 2009. We are super happy about it. We are planning to tie the knot in january 11. We got engaged a few months ago on our 3 year aniversary dinner. We had dinner on a golf Course in Sentosa and went for a walk after it with the full moon in a golf course with a sea view. I got in my knees and did the right thing. =)

We both quit our current jobs as we decided it was time to move on from Singapore. I am thinking I want to freelance for a bit before taking another full time gig. Singapore experience was SOOOO NICE. We saw so many cool places, met with new cultures and some amazing people along the way. It was a big lesson about life really. About everything from history, to work, to politics and to parnership and love. I enjoyed it so much and do not regret for a second having been here. We are planning for a trip to Europe for a couple months before going to our next stop. We shall see where the wind blows us.

A few things made us take the step to move on. Life has become very expensive here. We have seen a cost of living increase by at least double to what it was when we got here. We have been here for 2.5 years and it was past our due date for what we came here for. It's too far from home and I have been away for 10 years now. We worked a LOT here, sometimes more than what we wanted and we were both getting burnt out and needed a break bigger than what we could take while working for someone.

Lately we have been super busy as I am finishing the season for clone Wars and preparing the move (packing a LOT of boxes) and seeing a lot of details for the wedding.

photo by Maung Maung : West Coast

Now it's time to say good bye for now or see you later, somewhere else, some other time. Hopefully I have some free time now to implement a blog on my website (www.sandrodisegni.com).

Sorry for my delays posting. It was not meant to be that way. Sorry for any posts that offended anyone. At last sorry to a lot of great people that we could not commit more time to spend with you. In retrospective I see that, during the time we spent here, we grew from being 2 people to being a real couple and for that we spent a lot of time on our own. It's not you... it's me. =D

At last I would like to THANK YOU ALL that made this experience in Singapore SO BIG and SO GREAT. Thanks for the lessons, the trips, the talks, the tips and the parties. I hope we keep in touch. We will really miss you all (friends, sailors, kiters and colleagues). There are even too many names to mention here. I actually started to make a list to thank but it got too big =).

Please keep in touch through skype, im, email, facebook, etc.

Cheers and see you hopefully soon.

Trikora on Chinese New Years...

Photo by Joana Garrido ... one of our friends that went to Trikora with us. This is another pic of our weekend getaway. It was a blast to have our friends there and discover a bit more of the island with them. We went with Daniel (Russian Colombian), Gisa (spanish), Mario and Jo (Portugal) and the 2 of us.


Mila on her kiting gear... =D
She is up and going on the board already and this coming weekend is promissing... we are going again on friday to not miss any good winds early saturday morning.

Some news and Foxy Lady IV

Hi all,
I cannot believe how busy we have been... from last time I posted, we went to Brazil for new year... We spent a week in Bahia with Mi's family, had a chance to go to morro de Sao Paulo, an AMAZING place there and spend some time with her family. Then we went to Ilhabela in Sao Paulo for a week with my family and Mila came back. I spent another week there in Sao Paulo and had an eye surgery, the lasik one so not wearing glasses anymore ... UHUUU... spent some great time with the family and Maite. I will post pics of our holiday very soon ... takes a while to organize them.

Pino (my brother) and Dri are expecting... I CANNOT WAIT to have another niece/nephew... makes me really consider going back home.

GREAT NEWS is that Mila's parents are going to come visit us in May. So we started planning some trips and already requested some holidays. We will be returning to Phuket, Phi Phi and Krabi in Thailand and to Cambodia as the first time for all of them. It will be great to see them and to travel to all these great places again.

This is the new boat I have been racing on, Foxy IV. It's a first generation TP52. Not as fast as the 4th gen ones but still a BLAST to sail on. Enjoy the PICS