Category: Living
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And China will rise some more
Never in my thirty something years of being Chinese have I experienced such a surge in everything Chinese. On the 2nd day of the New Year, Naomi and I went and visited her Mum, as is decreed by the Keepers of Chinese Custom (on the First Day, you visit with the husband’s family, on the…
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A Chinese accented town
We took a trip to Chinatown to see what the fuss about going to Chinatown in the days leading to Chinese New Year was about. There were hordes of people picking up bargains like ethnic costumes for to scare your family / in-laws with: Or garments a little more conservative, although I think they ran…
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Beyond Words
Spain should be the country with the tourist board tagline we wear so proudly. OK, not so proudly, but with a befuddled expression and lips mouthing a “har?” (Only joking, don’t take my link off your page) As I was saying, Spain. She doesn’t have words to her national anthem. How bizarre. Imagine if we…
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Twinkle, twinkle little star, turn on the lights of your car
Naomi and I are pleased to announce that it works! The signal works. Earlier tonight, an MPV driver was barrelling down the ECP, along with his MPV of course, but without the MPV’s headlights on. Fortuitously, I was barrelling down the ECP on the outside lane close enough to him to pull alongside safely and…
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“Espire” already, are you sure can use?
Unfortunate name for a condom, given the local variation in pronouncing certain words: Technorati Tags: condom, name, engrish, singlish, singapore, 7-11, it’s a store and more, branding