Happy Chinese New Year ( Read more... )

Arrived back in Singapore early this morning, after some loooooooooooooong flights. 14 hours Houston to Tokyo, 8 hours Tokyo to Singapore. On the plus side my boss let me come in late today, so I could sleep in a bit.

Did get to watch a bunch of movies on the various flights to/from US:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (interesting that the apes ( Read more... )

Today at lunch a guy drops off an expensive DSLR to hold a table while he orders. Singaporeans, more than any other group I've ever encountered, love holding tables. With bags, backpacks, children, aunties, even packs of tissue (the three for a dollar kind). The DSLR was a new one. Even though Singapore is supposedly safe (But low crime doesn't ( Read more... )

So a couple weeks ago we went to Batam, Indonesia for a little trip over a long weekend, where we stayed in a nice hotel, went swimming a bunch, ate some good Indonesian food, got a massage, and did some shopping as it's much cheaper than Singapore. And Patricia got her hair cut. Takes about 40 minutes by ferry to get to Batam ( Read more... )

My parents left yesterday morning. We had a great time and ate way too much great food! Patricia is looking forward to eating a bunch of western food this week, since I think with my folks we had only one western meal. Their favorite meal was Peranakan but they liked everything.

Went to a bunch of museums over the weekend and headed to Pulau Ubin, ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is a public holiday for Diwali as there is a large Tamil Indian population in Singapore. Going to East Coast Park with my parents where they'll see Singapore's third nicest man-made beach, and probably have lunch out there. Patricia gets back from a business trip in the afternoon and we'll all head down to Little India for the celebration ( Read more... )

Enjoying time with my parents so far. They love the food, and the first three meals they wanted to go to hawker centres. It's neat that they're eating local and enjoying it ( Read more... )

There's this old Chinese auntie in my building (you call older women here auntie out of respect). She sits outside her first floor apartment so sometimes I walk by her in the morning or evening. Every time she sees me she gets this big smile and I say "Hi, Auntie!" and wave and she talks to me. I don't really understand as it's mostly Chinese with ( Read more... )

means no longer caring about the weather.

I was chatting with shygryf earlier and she asked about the weather. I said it was the same as it always was (hot, but not crazy hot, humid, and chance of rain). It's really, really constant here. Daily high of 31C (87F), overnight low 24C (75), and a little less than 50% chance of some rain year round. The ( Read more... )

A benefit to living in Singapore:


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