I’ve been away for 2 months, drying out my skin and escaping the worst of Singapore’s summer weather. I guess it’s not all that bad, compared to Taiwan, South India and Iraq – temperatures max out at 96, for instance – but still I needed some long stretches of cooler weather. My spouse found this […]
This is something we did over the weekend. Late one afternoon we got off the MRT at Raffles Place and headed towards the river. From there you can look across at the Asian Civilizations Museum (yellow building on the right), the Stamford Raffles Landing Place (white statue) and some other stuff. We didn’t cross over, […]
Now anyone who goes in the main entrance of a university building, or a school, is greeted by an official in a filtration mask, who takes your temperature aurally, writes down the date and temp on a sticker, and hands the sticker to you. You’re supposed to take your temp twice a day. You have […]
As I scroll through the list of Google search terms that have led readers to my blog, I see that leading “Green Java Peacock” by quite a few hits is “Singapore Sex Blog.” I am getting a lot of hits for the posting I did a few weeks ago, which makes my blog ever so […]
My avid fans (both of you) will recall that a few months ago I mentioned a pair of nudists who strolled through the expat enclave of Holland Village. Well, despite their lack of identifying clothing they have been fingered and taken to court (fully dressed). A Swedish guy and Singaporean girl, they were charged with […]
OK, so this wasn’t a full-fledged orchestral orgy, but it was a Suzuki graduation concert in the Jubilee Hall, a concert venue in the Raffles Hotel, so very upscale. All audience members had paid $15 to get in the door, which is kind of a lot to pay to see a bunch of kids playing […]
This picture doesn’t do it justice, but there’s at least one of these very elegant birds living quite happily nearby, in the trees and bushes between the hotel and the restaurant. It’s an elongated jet-black bird, mostly starling-shaped but with a longer beak and very slender black legs, and the only white on its body […]
There are some of these living near us, and there’s nothing quite like seeing this big bird’s silhouette during an early morning walk. They tend to sit quite still for a while, which keeps you from noticing them. When they do move, you can’t avoid seeing them; they’re so big that the branches bounce if […]
Pretty bright, eh? These are indigenous to Singapore, and a few pairs of them live on the NTU campus. They like the palms in front of our apartment block – the ones with fruit on them – but also seem to enjoy zipping around the higher trees nearby. My neighbor and badminton partner Mary says […]
I was observing to a friend that people seem to get referred to this blog mostly from their searches for information on Chinese New Year or different birds. So we thought we’d try an experiment. You guessed it – this posting has nothing whatever to do with the charming Mr. Chow, but is actually a […]