Another specimen from Sungeh Buloh Wetlands. This is a series of three pictures, and the last one has the best quality. But I’ve inserted them in the order taken, to show you the progress of the snake’s lunch: Quite a handsome green snake, and a nice yellow-bellied lizard. These leggy lizards are the ones I […]
Another reptile at Sungeh Buloh. The focus isn’t that great, but you get the idea. This was snapped during a series of school outings, a week during which the class kept going to the nature reserve four days in a row. This snake (or one closely resembling it) was spotted in the same shelter three […]
This particularly plump water monitor was resting on a walkway at Sungeh Buloh Wetlands Nature Reserve. There are actually water monitors all over Singapore – one even showed up in the girls’ bathroom at a school off Orchard Road – but it’s rare to have a camera handy when one is close by. This one […]
Here are some pictures my spouse took at the student-run event with his new camera. Better than last year’s! This is an over view from the top of the steps that lead to Yunnan Garden. The marquee to the left is where you could pick up your free little lantern. The stage is to the […]
It’s the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, and you know what that means – Moon Cakes! Buy them for your friends and family! Spend $50 in a single receipt and get this free Mooncake Thumb Drive! Or at least that was the come-on at our local mall. We’re only 2 weeks into mooncake season, and alas, […]
It’s a strange thing, but the longer I live in Singapore the less interest I have in Chinese food. Or Indian food. Or Malaysian, Thai or Vietnamese food. Maybe it’s advanced homesickness (certainly possible) or maybe it’s that there’s so much of this food all over the place – availability breeds contempt? Anyway, by chance […]
Look what’s outside our window these days! I’ve seen both male and female of this species. This is not my own picture: our local male has a darker yellow on his casque. The female has a smaller casque and her bill/casque ensemble is whiter. But both are LARGE birds; I only notice them when they […]
Over the weekend we explored the upper levels of ION, a new shopping center on Orchard Road. Almost all the stores there are designer boutiques. But there’s an art gallery called Opera that we went into, to see what’s available. Most of what is available is really BIG, designed to fill up that 2×3 metre […]
This is the seventh lunar month, according to the Chinese calendar. It’s the time of year when the ghosts are out of hell on furlough. If you’re a Buddhist, this month is devoted to filial piety; you honor your parents and ancestors, pray that they are in a better reincarnation, if they didn’t manage […]
A Singaporean friend of mine has to travel to Pakistan and Bangladesh a lot for business. It’s dangerous these days, what with suicide bombers and fundamentalist Islam in the ascendant. Karachi is especially perilous, apparently. So here’s his strategy in dialogue form, as he reports it, featuring that most Singaporean obsession, food: “Hi. I’m your […]