culture clash
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008I hope all of you Americans had an excellent Thanksgiving and holiday weekend. We didn’t get to celebrate on the actual day since John had to work and it was just another Thursday for the rest of Singapore. We did however, get to go to some American friends’ house and celebrate on Saturday afternoon and […]
Santa Threw Up on Orchard Road
Sunday, November 16th, 2008That’s what it looks like at least. In Singapore, almost 50% of the population is Buddhist and the rest is a large mix of Muslims, Christians, Taoists and Hindus, among other things. No matter though, because we will have Christmas! They say Singapore is all about chilling, shopping, and eating, and I guess there’s no […]
Election Day Mania
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Living abroad during a historic U.S. election has been an interesting and enlightening experience when it comes to understanding the world’s perceptions of the United States. I’m only speaking for my experiences, which have been confined of course to Singapore and some of the other countries I’ve traveled in around Southeast Asia, but I do […]
Bali
Sunday, October 19th, 2008So…I went to Bali. Got back the week before last and I still haven’t written about it. Sue me. I’m writing abou tit now. My mom came to visit and we went to Bali and it was fantastic. Bali is pretty much everything you think it’s going to be. It’s a beautiful island in Indonesia. […]
Wait until I’m in my 30’s
Saturday, October 11th, 2008I got ding-dong-ditched today. It made me feel old. Really old. Mostly because of the way I responded. Picture this: It’s Sicily, 1944. Oh wait that’s the Golden Girls. Okay picture this: I’m home in my jammies, cozying up for a night in front of the TV since John is in Hong Kong and my […]
Siem Reap, Cambodia – Day 3
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Back to our regularly scheduled programming – Siem Reap Day 3. Let’s see, where were we? Oh yeah, we saw so many awesome things on the first two days, but there were so many more to see, and we were going back and forth and back and forth about where to go and when to […]
Siem Reap, Cambodia – Day 1
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008Waking up at 5:30 on Thursday morning to catch our flight to Siem Reap must have left us a little loopy, because John and I took this picture on the flight over and we thought it was absolutely hilarious. It made us laugh every time we were scrolling through the 400-something pictures we took while […]
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 […]
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 […]
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