Tag: Travel
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Your English also temporary out of service lah!
The Speak Good English Campaign may be working. But the Write English Just As Good one hasn’t been launched yet, which explains this sign at Changi Airport Terminal One: COMPUTER SYSTEM IS TEMPORARY OUT OF SERVICE. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCED CAUSED I’m not even going to ask why there’s a semi-permanent placard that announces computer…
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Nearly driving into the sea
South Stack, North Wales About ten years ago, I got lost trying to get to my cousins’ farmhouse in North Wales and nearly drove all the way into the sea. ‘It’s called Fferam Bailey, Benny, you can’t miss it’, said my uncle who was trying to give me directions as I drove northwest from London.…
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Clear as day
Los Angeles is awesome. And by that, I mean the more time you spend here, the less you think you’re overwhelmed by the size of everything here, and you just go, ‘Los Angeles, you are awesome’. It becomes clear as day one moment, when you least expect it, when you’re stuck in traffic, frazzled by…
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So far away
I am too far away from home. I really, really am. I’m really really homesick, and I really really miss my fiancée. I miss my cat too, especially when I hear him meow over the phone. I’m seldom ever homesick (except maybe during reservist in-camps), so being this way must mean I’m not meant to…
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Podcast: Los Angeles Day 4
Update: Los Angeles Day 4