Hungriest Ghosties
There’s an icky burning smell in the air, and I’m pretty sure it’s not the return of the haze. Tonight is the last night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, and there […]
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Singing (and a lot of Christ)
I went to my first rehearsal of the Singapore Symphony Chorus last night. Alas, it may be my last rehearsal as well, because the chorus rehearses downtown — a good […]
Henna Day
Today’s adventure was centered on a trip to Little India with my new friend Megan to have our hands hennaed (not sure that’s a true verb, but I like it). […]
First Performance
Singapore’s letter to Indonesia must have worked, because the haze cleared up enough yesterday afternoon for us to go out without feeling like we would come home smelling like a […]
The HAZE, Day 2
Well, the haze is getting worse. It’s now bad enough that the Singapore government has written a letter to Indonesia saying, “knock it off — enough with the forest fires […]
The HAZE
I wish I could write “The HAZE” in the same f0nt as “The BLOB,” because the way people are talking today, something has arrived that is most definitely going to […]
My First Durian
I feel like the day would be incomplete if I failed to write about my first durian experience. Durians are a spiky, stinky fruit that get a really bad rap: […]
Night & Day
We went to Night Festival last night, which was an unexpected delight. Think Light City Baltimore meets ArtScape, and you’ll have some idea of what we experienced: different kinds of […]
The Only Roadside Attraction in Singapore
Imagine driving along Route 1 in Florida in the 1930s and stumbling on a giant park filled with random, elaborate, often life-size concrete sculptures of both man and beast. Put […]
Hungry Ghosties
It’s the month of the Hungry Ghost Festival, which means — if Chinese lore is to be believed — that the souls of the dead are out roaming the earth. And […]
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