How does one construct a narrative - upside down? Part 2 of 3

It's also been one of those intense periods of work where you fail to get the stuff that you really need to get done, done, because you are doing all the stuff that has to be done, but doesn't really relate to what you are trying to achieve.  Like writing this exam - blissfully passed as I mentioned to you - and, dare I say, I actually learned a heap.  Here's a thumbs up outside the examination centre.

Then there was the drone of travel, with all it's beauty (like the skies over the Philippines) bizarreness (like the buildings in Singapore) and brutality (in the new town sense - Beijing architecture on the way in from the airport.