Archive for August, 2008
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008We’re off bright and early tomorrow morning. John is mad because I’ve foiled his plan to only wear one outfit the entire time we’re there, but other than that packing is going swimmingly. We’ll have a full report when we get back. Hope all of you Americans have a great Labor Day Weekend.
Little India
Monday, August 25th, 2008Fun times in Little India this weekend, despite what seemed like a neverending amount of rain. We took the train down – it’s just a short jaunt from our current casa – and ended up wandering around most of the day. We started out just walking the streets. Saturday of course is a big shopping […]
Friday Thoughts
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Okay people, bullet point style because I’m too lazy/annoyed to make a really coherent post. Got my hair cut and highlighted today. Ladies, you know that beautiful, bouncy, swingy happy feeling you get when you first leave the salon and your hair is beautiful and you know you’ll never get it to look that way […]
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Fountain of Wealth
Monday, August 18th, 2008Hello everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We did. We spent lots of time shopping for our upcoming trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia. Yayayay Cambodia! We are leaving on August 28 to stay for four days and explore the temples and try to avoid getting malaria. (Just kidding about the malaria mom and […]
Olympic Commentary
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Can I just tell you all how much I love the Olympics? I love them so much. Enough to spend my days sitting on the couch watching TV instead of getting outside and actually doing some activity. I’m sure you can see lots and lots of articles about how sad it is that so many […]
Going Postal
Monday, August 11th, 2008Umm really Singapore post office? I have to bring my own tape? Really? Luckily a Singaporean teenager was nice enough to loan me her tape. Otherwise, I guess I would have had to staple my package together. And maybe someone’s face. It’s moments like these that make me terrified of doing those mundane tasks here […]
Happy Birthday Singapore!
Sunday, August 10th, 2008Well yesterday, 9 August, was Singapore’s 43rd birthday. Kind of like July 4th is a big deal back home, National Day is huge here in Singapore. I mean huge. There is a parade that is nationally televised and the fireworks show is allegedly one of the best in Asia. Of course we didn’t see it […]
Food of the Week – Dragonfruit
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Raaaaaaawwwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Dragon style. Dragonfruit style that is. Dragonfruit is also known as pitaya. And I tried it this afternoon at my German friend’s apartment. Yes, I have a German friend! Anyway, dragonfruit looks like this. I have no clue how to tell if it’s ripe or a good one or not, but it seemed good […]
Bintan
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Bintan is for lovers. Non-American lovers. Heheh. No really, there were a ton of honeymooners in Bintan. German ones and Japanese ones and Korean ones. Not many Americans, I don’t know why. I mean I guess the obvious answer is that it’s about one million miles to Bintan from the U.S., and if you’re going […]
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