Riding the 117: Punggol to Sembawang
I’m used to riding the bus in Singapore to get from point A to point B, but on Saturday, some friends and I hopped on the 117 to take a […]
Tag Archives: Hawker Stalls
The Murals of Chinatown
There’s a lot to see in Singapore’s Chinatown, from temples to tea shops to Michelin-starred hawker stalls — it’s one of few neighborhoods in Singapore that can easily cause sensory […]
Singapore by MRT: The Downtown Line, Expo to Fort Canning
The plan: Continue my adventure of visiting every MRT (subway) stop in Singapore, seeing how the country changes as you travel beneath the land and then pop up every few […]
A Taste of Tiong Bahru
I thought that Singapore started providing housing for its citizens when the new government came to power after World War II, but it turns out that I was mistaken. No, […]
The Former Ford Factory
Everett, Anna, Prescott and I paid a visit to the Former Ford Factory on Sunday. Had we thought more carefully about what were were likely to find inside, we might not […]
Toa Payoh
Yesterday afternoon I went to Toa Payoh, a very local neighborhood in Singapore that is absolutely cluttered with HDBs (Housing and Development Board buildings). They look kind of fun when […]
Get Ready for the Rooster!
Chinese New Year is almost here, and Chinatown is all dolled up and ready for the party. Red-themed stores appear to have sprung up overnight: They sell everything from wall hangings […]
Pasir Ris
We’ve started a Mock Trial Team at Singapore American School, and now we need competition — so I spent my morning at the Overseas Family School (OFS) training ten kids […]
Reminders of Home
I started my morning with a Skype call to Baltimore. My original understanding was that one of my old Mock Trial Students, Zach Stern, was going to interview me for […]
New Arrival
Everett has moved to Singapore! For anyone who might not know, Everett Rosenfeld is a Park School graduate, one of my old advisees and Mock Trial captains. He has somehow landed […]
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