Singing for the Gods
On our way to the wet market at Beauty World last week, Prescott and I stumbled upon yet another mysterious giant tent in the middle of a field. My querying […]
Tag Archives: Music
Light to Night
Singapore continues its love affair with projecting art onto the side of its public buildings. They call these projections “light skins,” and the latest bunch are coming to us courtesy […]
Evenings Out
Not surprisingly for a densely-packed island with well over five million people, there’s a lot to do at night in Singapore. Unless Prescott is out at improv practice, our weeknights […]
From Palestrina to Hula
Yesterday I got up at 6:00 (on a Saturday), walked through the absolutely pouring rain to the MRT, and went to the Esplanade Theaters to see a group of six […]
(En)countering Colonial Legacies
The title of this post isn’t mine — I’ve borrowed it from the exhibit I went to see yesterday, “Artist and Empire,” at the National Gallery of Singapore. It’s an […]
Running Errands
I know, I know — everyone wants to read about people running errands. It’s almost as fun as running the errands themselves. But today’s chores had to happen sometime, and we […]
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). […]
Happy 51st Birthday, Singapore!
Singapore is 51 years old today, which is remarkably young for a country. To put things in perspective, that makes it younger than Israel. It’s wild to think that I […]
