Happy Belated Vesak Day!
Singapore has a public holiday for each major religion represented here, so on Wednesday we had a day off to celebrate the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Budda (that […]
Singapore has a public holiday for each major religion represented here, so on Wednesday we had a day off to celebrate the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Budda (that […]
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 […]
Chinese New Year continues — for many, it’s a full two-week holiday — and yesterday was day eight. In China, eight is a lucky number related to fortune and prosperity, […]
Chinese New Year is an excellent holiday for many reasons, not the least of which is that we get two days off from school in its honor. So on Monday, Prescott […]
Quinn Salditch has arrived in Singapore! Quinn was one of my Mock Trial captains who graduated from The Park School of Baltimore in 2013, which now brings the number of Park Mock […]
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 […]
It will be 2017 in just over an hour, but J and I might not be able to stay awake until the ball drops (unless the thumping music next door […]
We all started Christmas Eve Day with a trip to Springleaf Prata, where we indulged in a variety of fried breads (egg prata, banana prata, sugar tissue prata, and a […]
You wouldn’t know it to look at people’s apartment windows, but Christmas is on its way, and Singapore is very much into it. Condo lobbies and big stores all have […]
Yesterday Prescott and I went to a small party hosted by the parents of one of my students (they also own a landscape architecture business, so I think Prescott wound […]