Category: Places
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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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Well done mates
Picture: New Zealand Herald Sometime in August 1991, my kayaking partner and I tried to keep a watch out on the horizon for any sign of landfall as we sought to reach Tioman Island in Pahang State by kayak. It was the twelfth day of our trip, and we’d just endured what we felt was…
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The lengths some go to get their ang pow
Photo by @Dmateur Chinese New Year must be near if “Boy falls while performing lion dance on poles“. I laughed out loud, and kept laughing until I stopped. OK, I know it’s bad to laugh at the misfortune of others, but a headline like that is funny in so many ways. Not least, because it’s…
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A Bird Park of biblical promotions
I was walking Mac this afternoon on the pavement outside our apartment blocks, and at the bus stop I saw a poster for the Jurong Bird Park with a verse from Isaiah – “They will soar on wings like eagles”, and I thought it slightly disturbing that in a secular and multi-racial city state, there’d…