We had visitors last month and took them around the city. The moon was full, and we managed to get a few interesting shots of it, using my lovely FujiFilm Finepix25. Click on a picture to enlarge it. This is at the main gate to Chinese Gardens. This one is with the Singapore […]
This guy was posing for us in Chinese Gardens a few weeks back. There were lots of them near and in the lake just at dusk. Major water-monitor time! Click on these pictures to enlarge this bad boy…..
OK, so we know that Singapore is not America. There are advantages to this; believe me, I can see them. On the other hand, yesterday’s Straits Times newspaper featured a half-page article, the upshot of which is that if a Singaporean uses an English name it’s a sign of insecurity – a symptom of post-colonial […]
NIE, Singapore’s National Institute of Education, will host the Youth Olympic Games arts and cultural events in the evenings during the games. So for the two weeks of the Games proper, plus a week on either end – in fact, the whole of August – NIE will be non-functional. But that doesn’t mean its employees […]
This August, the world’s first-ever Youth Olympic Games (YOG) will be held in Singapore. Moreover, they will be held at the university campus where I live and work. First, inquiring minds want to know, what do they mean by Youth Olympics? When regular Olympic women gymnasts are routinely 14 years old, will Singapore be hosting […]
Dear Gentle Readers, Just for fun I googled “sex blog Singapore,” since so many of my blog hits are from people who did just that. And my blog turns up as the tenth search result – just popular enough to get onto the first page of search results, although just barely. And despite the fact […]
The Xmas decor is up, and the main shopping districts are having their annual contest to see which one wins the prize. We live nowhere near Orchard Road or the Esplanade, where the main shopping action is, but our local mall has expanded and become one of the biggest in Singapore, and is amazingly full […]
The Singapore newspaper is well written, but extremely predictable, and hence so dull it’s hardly worth opening. Things you will inevitably find in this paper: Praise to various Singaporeans for being polite; stories about high real estate values; stories about how little guys are priced out of the housing market; reviews of hawker stall fare; […]
I see from the GoStats information that someone was referred to my blog by typing in the question: “I found a snakeskin in my house; what is the astrological significance of this?” (Almost all other referrals were for “Singapore sex blog,” so the search for sex in Singapore evidently continues….) I’d say the most important […]
A wee warning: This is a post containing pictures of a largely decomposed bat I found on my morning walk. You may wish to skip it. On the other hand, it’s nearly Halloween, so a highly appropriate post for the season. And I found it interesting to look at, obviously. And no, it didn’t smell. […]