Archive for August, 2010

My generous employer

I took unpaid leave to accompany our offspring on an extended summer vacation.  As required, I filled in the requisite application, got the requisite signatures on it, and received confirmation from HR that I would indeed be on unpaid leave. But they paid me anyway.  In fact, I think they paid me twice as much […]

Pigs Take Over Dorms

This morning I saw an infant wild pig meandering calmly around one of the students’ residence halls at NTU.  I was all excited, of course, and stopped a passing jogger to share the wonders of nature with her.  She seemed unimpressed: “There are many wild pigs here.”  After she ran off, I watched, and the […]

Youth Olympic Games, now on.

Now on, big yawn. So the young athletes are scattered all over campus, and the local kiddies can meet them and get little pins from them.  I did see a few athletes about 13 years old, but most of them look at least 16 to me – hard to see why they get their own […]

Hungry Ghosts in the Mall

I returned to Singapore yesterday, just in time for the Hungry Ghosts season, otherwise known as the Seventh Month festival.  (If you don’t mention the word “ghost” you won’t scare away customers.) I went to Jurong Point mall to stock up on food, and found myself in the midst of seasonal festivities. Well, it’s not […]