My parents left yesterday morning. We had a great time and ate way too much great food! Patricia is looking forward to eating a bunch of western food this week, since I think with my folks we had only one western meal. Their favorite meal was Peranakan but they liked everything.

Went to a bunch of museums over the weekend and headed to Pulau Ubin, ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is a public holiday for Diwali as there is a large Tamil Indian population in Singapore. Going to East Coast Park with my parents where they'll see Singapore's third nicest man-made beach, and probably have lunch out there. Patricia gets back from a business trip in the afternoon and we'll all head down to Little India for the celebration ( Read more... )

Enjoying time with my parents so far. They love the food, and the first three meals they wanted to go to hawker centres. It's neat that they're eating local and enjoying it ( Read more... )

My parents are here! Met them at the airport at around midnight and dropped them off at their hotel. They look very sleepy and tired from the 24+ hours of traveling (they flew Anchorage to Seattle to SF to Tokyo to Singapore). Got to use airline miles for one of the tickets which is why they flew the convoluted route.

Self portrait of a crested black macaque, taken in Indonesia after the monkey stole a wildlife photographer's camera:


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I feel used.

( Mamma Mia spoilers, if anyone cares. )

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My new ATM card arrived today so I cut the old one into small pieces, and threw the pieces in three different trash cans in three different locations in the city (my office, at the bus stop, and outside a restaurant ( Read more... )

There's this old Chinese auntie in my building (you call older women here auntie out of respect). She sits outside her first floor apartment so sometimes I walk by her in the morning or evening. Every time she sees me she gets this big smile and I say "Hi, Auntie!" and wave and she talks to me. I don't really understand as it's mostly Chinese with ( Read more... )

Here is a sophisticated and scary Malaysian cyberkrime story, involving banking kiosk security holes and fraudulently obtained mobile phone SIM cards. RM250,000 is about USD80,000. MyKad is the Malaysian national ID card. Yikes ( Read more... )