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30/09/2008: A NEW GUITAR FOR A NEW BEGINNING !

One month is a very long time without playing guitar. Of course, I have been more than busy since we arrived in Singapore a few weeks ago, amongst other things with finding a permanent place to stay (hopefully this is now sorted - fingers crossed). But the truth is that I'd play much more ... if I had a guitar !

Now, I was quite surprised to receive an email from Singapore Airlines following my previous post  ... especially since I hadn't contacted them yet (which shows that at least one person there follows LE BLOG DU BARON: one point for them). They apparently contacted Frankfurt and could not find any indication that my guitar got damaged during the flight. Well, thanks for checking but it was fine when I left Paris and unusable once I arrived in Singapore so it does not leave many other options (I'm afraid I"ll have to deduct 5 points here).

I'm stil waiting to see if I will get any decent compensation (there was mention of flight voucher but no idea how much) but in the meantime, I will have to buy a new electro-acoustic guitar since repairing the Takamine is probaby going to cost more.

After looking around, I'm seriously considering getting mysef an Ovation, I always loved their looks and I've been told they sound great plugged in (although probably nowhere close to te Takamine unplugged).

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. In the meantime, I'm planning to go down to City Music over the week-end (the offcial representative of Ovation here in Singapore) to strum a few chords. At last a chance to play !!!

05/09/2008: TOUGH START IN SINGAPORE, ESPECIALLY FOR MY GUITAR

It's been close to 2 weeks since we have arrived in SINGAPORE, and while the beginning was pretty tough   things are gradually getting better. I have moved from being without passport, without phone, without laptop, without internet access to legal immigrant status and access to the world wide web as this post shows.

The bad news is that, courtesy of Singapore Airlines, I am now without guitar since my Takamine was severed from the neck during the plane trip ... 

No idea how such a tragedy happened as it was in a solid case but it is damaged beyond repairs. And I'm not sure if there is much chance to get money back to buy a new one. At least I hope that the SG will safely arrive on the boat.

PS: no complaint about Singapore, the city is great and even if the weather has been disappointingly rainy, the friendliness of people more than compensate for this. And I'm starting to get into the local/Asian music scene so you might expect some new flavours to the ZEROCAST mix.

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