Finished two botany pictures yesterday, one of which was hilarious ( Read more... )

Not a lot of online time the past 3 days; Thursday and Friday in fact felt like one loooong day with only a short fitful nap in between, the bulk of it was being bussed around Singapore WWII sites (which is practically the whole island, really) climbing to tops of hills and down into underground bunkers. Went to Labrador Park for the first time, ( Read more... )

Went down to a local cluster of copy shops yesterday, did not expect to come out with an armload of beautiful full-color prints the same day, but I did. Did not expect the guy at the shop to painstakingly ask me if the print colors were OK, but he did. Did not expect him to make adjustments to the digital files in order to get the results I wanted ( Read more... )

The day before Singapore's National Day (her Independence Day), Jason collected his Singapore Permanent Resident Identity Card. It is blue. (Mine, for a Singapore citizen, is a pink card. It also happens to work out as far as our color tastes and genders, I suppose...) Meanwhile, while he was out getting his card and doing bank stuff with IC in ( Read more... )

I know, I know. We hates spam. But the inbox is remarkably quiet now that I put a image verification script (read: human confirmation) on my site's contact form - and now it feels like nobody likes me or wants to recommend their new Cialis or Viagra supplier ( Read more... )

Not Dead Yet from Spamalot playing in my head as I can post here after my surgery and say that: It went really well! (Aside from the nausea and starvation I had coming out of anaesthesia because I couldn't hold down my food for several hours after.) So many things (about the care, speed of treatment, ease of getting necessary drugs and diagnosis, ( Read more... )

jlundberg has made the announcement on his LJ that we are moving to Singapore (back to Singapore for me) in a year. I could write a long post about this, but jlundberg already put the long post on his LJ, plus I'm tired and my arms are cramping from painting and cutting mats the past 2 days. (Two cons on consecutive weekends? What was I thinking ( Read more... )

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