This place is surprisingly near the university, within walking distance, in fact. There are sculptures made of pots at the entrance. I don’t know if they make these pots here, but they’re cool sculptures anyway. There are lots of trees and tree-houselike structures to climb around in, with views of more and more greenery and […]
Alas, Jack Yu has left the coffee distribution business and gone into currency exchange! So how to get my wonderful Vietnamese coffee? Once I’d started to run low, drastic steps were required. I went downtown, to the Liang Court Mall, on the river walk near Clark Quay (east side of the river). On the second […]
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 […]
Swine flu hasn’t been spotted here yet, but Singapore lost 11 people in the SARS epidemic of 2006 (I think), and they learned to take public health seriously. So now people getting off planes in Singapore get their temperatures taken (aurally, which is fast) as they disembark. Every school child has his or her temperature […]
It came to pass that Ellen, daughter of Emma, bade her child, “Employ the fabric softener when that thou dost laundry, for lo! thou air-driest thy wet loads, and the absence thereof will cause grievous stiffness even in the limbs of thy shirts.” And lo, the daughter did purchase the recommended unguent, and used it […]
Well, there’s no popular demand for this, but I found a new (to me) smoking warning today. Just thought you might like to see what the Singapore gov’t uses to scare away smokers. I don’t think they’re impressed, even by pictures of gangrenous feet. The pack that I found on the ground, needless to say, […]
A good thing about early morning walks is the bird life you can see around campus. There’s a surprising amount, considering the amount of early-morning gunfire from the adjacent military firing range, which you’d think would scare them off. This morning I saw a nice Oriental (crested) Honey Buzzard overhead – very big and impressive. […]
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 […]
Have I mentioned that Singapore has a bunch of Buddhist temples, as well as mosques, synagogues, churches and so forth? Well, it does, and they look great – lots of gold-plated Buddha statues and reliquaries, especially at the spanking new Buddha Tooth Relic Temple in Chinatown, which just opened in 2007 and is an amazing […]
Hah. Heat no longer holds any terrors for me. I like to go hiking or exercising early in the morning, before it heats up (anything over 82 degrees Fahrenheit, the nightly low lately, is heating up), but couldn’t get my spouse going until 9:30. So we hiked for 3.5 hours between 10 a.m. and 1:30 […]