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My throat is scratchy again; and I still have a cough. It's time to see the doctor.
I arrived in Hong Kong yesterday evening, around 11pm. I stayed up until 2am. I feel ok today; I'll go shopping later, mark some papers, and run; and then I'll head to church and afterwards, some CSP peeps and I will consume some vegetarian foodstuffs.
I enjoyed Singapore. It was nice to explore their culture as, again, seeing how other Asian people live helps me to properly frame my own experience as a foreigner living amongst Hong Kong people. I have begun to discard my animus towards the Hong Kong culture, to be replaced with a sense of amusement, and pity at how we, the people in Hong Kong, live.
The following is information that was recorded in my journal during my journey:
Some observations made during my first night in Singapore:
- the airport, opened in 1991, has a very 1980's, Miami-Vice, vibe
- Singapore is wired; free, sometimes wireless Internet is available everywhere, even in McDonald's!
- Singapore has much in common with the well-developed parts of Panama City: the weather is hot and humid; there are grassy sidewalks, and palm and banyan trees everywhere; there are many residential and commercial low-rises that actually shut off their lights at night
- I saw a homeless guy laying out on a sidewalk
- the older Chinese lady, who works at the gas station convenient store that I visited, spoke very comprehensible English; something must be working in Singapore's education system!
5/5/06 - I just showered and I'm going to sleep soon. It's been a very long day; I'm tired; and I reinjured my right foot while walking to the hotel this evening. I woke up this morning and watched the NETS game before Garlanda and I went downstairs for a nice, filling, buffet breakfast. We ate well and were happy, even though it was raining outside. After breakfast, we walked to the SMRT station and bought our E-Z cards and then we went to Sentosa Island, via cable car. Sentosa island is a well-landscaped, well-planned island that serves as a beautiful, tourist-destination day-trap, and the southernmost point of continental Asia! We checked out the southern tip of the island, and then we headed back into the city as it began raining. Back in the city, we checked out Little India. This place was part Hong Kong, and part colonial Indochina. Much of Little India is housed in this huge building complex that resembles what the HK government has dreamt up to house HK's wet markets and chicken markets. The other half of Little India is a sprawl of European-colonial architecture. It was enjoyable to tour through the area as there was much color, and aroma. We ate lunch at the Banana-Leaf cafe where we ordered much, delicious Indian food that was swiftly eaten on a Banana Leaf. It was quite the culinary experience. After lunch, we went to Chinatown to visit the oldest, and most amazing Hindu temple in Singapore. The temple is full of strange, mind-blowing images of various deities. I enjoy visiting temples of eastern religions and this was no exception. I get a big buzz from viewing icons that are beyond my frame of reference. Chinatown is a pleasant area. The main street, Pagoda street, is a long street (alley, perhaps?) lined with bric-a-brac hawkers and trinket shops. Like Little India, there is some beautiful, colorful architecture. We then visited St. Andrew's church, which is the oldest church in Singapore. Next, we visited the Raffles Hotel, home of the Singapore Sling. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to view the lobby as there is a strict dress code for men - no shorts - while women are free to come and go, naked, if they want, as they please. To top off our tour of the city hall area, we saw the world's largest, and underwhelming fountain. For our nightcap, we made the long journey over to the Singapore zoo, where we went on their "night safari" and had the wonderful opportunity to view creatures of the night! Part of the tour was conducted on a tram and the other part was on foot. The highlight of the trip was walking in a mangrove environment with huge bats hanging overhead. These bats were big, and we had to duck, and run, to avoid disturbing them; and again, they were huge, and tired; and we were frightened as we were in such close contact to them and had to walk around and underneath them! After viewing the creatures of the night show, which was lit-up with idiotic flash photography, we made the long trek back to Chinatown, where we then began, what seemed to be, and even longer walking trek back to the hotel. We took a different route as we couldn't figure out how to return to the hotel from the Outram SMRT station. Garlanda, the navigational wizard, was able to successfully guide us to the hotel, from the Chinatown SMRT station.
Here are some more observations:
- Singapore people let passengers alight from trains first, before barging into the train; the trains are quieter as there is less noise-spam from the SMRT, and people don't use their mobile phones as frequently, and extensively as their HK counterpart; the seats are also wider, and there is more room in the car as it seems like few people use the train
- Singapore girls are absolutely gorgeous because they aren't afraid to show some skin; Hong Kong girls should take a page out of the Singapore book!
- students, like those in Korea, can wear sneakers
- everyone speaks English; something is definitely going right for their education system
- people are much more relaxed; their is rarely any running up and down escalators
6/5/06 - I slept for about 10 hours last night, and it was good. However, we missed breakfast so we went to Clarke Quay where we ate lunch at the Brewerkz. I had a satisfying "New York" pizza, along with a pint of their Cherry microbrew - it wasn't too sweet. I don't recommend drinking a cold beer, on an empty stomach, in the hot sun, after doing some strenuous walking: it's a recipe for drunkeness and dehydration! Well, a fruit fly drowned in my beer and that was the end of that. I also read the I-S magazine during lunch and it certainly seems to lack the content of the plumper, HK magazine. Garlanda and I split up afterwards, and it is obvious that we have been on increasingly divergent paths; however, it was good to know that we at least started our journey, and ended it, on the same page. I went back to Chinatown and bought a nice, $11SGD "light" shirt; oh, and then I got lost trying to find my way back to the hotel! Eventually, after wandering around and fretting for awhile, I walked to the Outram station, inquired about the "Outram Prison" exit, and then navigated my way back to the hotel from there.
I recommend Singapore and the Singapore Airlines-sponsored, Singapore Stopover tourist package. It's a convenient, inexpensive way to view a most wonderful city. In case you missed it, here are the pictures.
i wanted to type out a scratchy, messy list i wrote a few days ago
and i was on flickr....so i thought, why not type it on here
i left out some of them and some of them may not make sense
but yeah...heres my hopes for the summer...
1- cover the entire road with chalk drawings and sketches with mamie
2- wear high waisted skirts
3- take lots of walks...night walks, day walks, morning walks
4- sleep on the porch
5- live up my last summer not being able to drive...make it fun being stranded together with friends for hours
6- cook dinner for the fam more often
7- morning bible studies with mamie
8- go to fiedo
9- go to vintage stores
10- go to school and wander around (ha i love doing that)
11- catch up with megan one day
12- get bubbles to blow
13- have mannnnnnny photoshoots with mamie
14- go to dinner with guy friends, NOT movies
15- draw graffitti on the bridge with mamie (ha)
16- watch juno over and over again
17- go to dragon park
18- walk EVERYWHERE. hey, might as well make the fact that i cant drive fun.
19- go to hillsboro village often
20- cook with and for friends
21- look at stars
22- paint
23- swingdance
24- take lots of candid photos of friends (no more posed shots ever! they suck!)
25- be sporadic
26- make art, be happy
27- be ridiculous
28- dance in parking lots
29- have many dgroup outings
30- FISHEYE*
31- work at the orphange, children's hospital, downtown, just SOMETHING
32- go to sunday school
33- dress up. (but mostly wear white vnecks and shorts and tussledy summer hair)
34- get refreshed
35- write
36- show up at mamies door. alot. like last summer.
37- run, jump, exercise
38- call grandma
39- keep up with pointe
40- two words: mamie + trampoline
41- read a good book
42- walk with taylor
43- go to church parking lot/playground
44- stay up way too late sometimes
45- make time for madelyn and grace
46- go to breakfast with mom every once and a while
47- hang out with daddy and visit him at work and go to dinner
48- go to great harvest
49- spend time with catherine grace
50- go to lunch with emily
51- dont like anyone (unless somethin just especially great comes along)
52- go rolling
53- lots of hollylizzygeorgannakatie time
54- wear converse
55- get with ellie and bea
56- eat ice cream way too much
57- swing
58- enjoy simplicity....outdoors, family, not being busy
59- buy a new ipod
60- enjoy no school,homework,teachers,late nights, projects, and just general crap
61- hammock
62- dont get on the internet barely at all....its just not worth the time (except flickr !!)
63- dont get bored- make something out of it
64- visit grandma and clark in atlanta with mamie
65- eat fresh and light and healthy
66- WALK around green hills....its so much fun that way...donut den, the mall, anthro, great harvest, ten thousand villages, that chinese restruant....
67- see those movies youve been wanting to see for a long time
68- go to jacksons
69- make a photography portfolio
70- s.a.t.c.o.
71- talk and dream and wish about africa and india
72- keep up with husband journal
73- camp with mamie
74- find big fields
75- paint pottery...ahhh yes
76- explore wildwood with mamie
77- go to dwntwn/hv area with friends and walk around lots...pangea, parking lot, jacksons, provence, dragon park, satco, firefench, fido, others
78- go to red caboose park and centinnal park
79- st louis!
80- make family beach trip fun....pictures, dance parties, card games, laying out on the beach, filming, listening to music, reading, sketching, playing around
81- learn to play the piano
82- shadow that wedding photographer with mamie
83- sing
84- get summer reading done
85- mess around/ rearrange/ create my room
86- sing while grace plays guitar (oh so fun)
87- dont get too busy with activities...relax, enjoy, savor
88- JACKSON!! (and other trips)
89- eat chicklets
90- carry my camera any and everywhere
91- write mamie LOTS at camp : (
92- hang out and be fun with madelyn and graces friends
93- dont sleep in tooo late
94- tap
95- eat breakfast
96- get a job maybe....and babysit
97- CREATE
98- write letters
99- think of sweet things to do for my friends
100- draw close to God and his love
101- wear flowers in my hair
102- play tennis
103- go to ww allllllllot
104- go to the beach with mrs.terri and sarah
105- game club with holly (haha hard to explain)
106- pull some all-nighters
107- meet at starbucks/tevana and talk and talk and talk
108- have fondue night
109- lay out- get a healthy yummy summer glow
110- wear jellies
111- make up night
112- dance parties
113- finish unfinished books
114- get together with the gang
115- keep up with "sos" sisters
116- call marc again in spain
117- hang out with hayden one last time before he moves
118- read "the perks of being a wallflower"
scratchy vintage Mohair
transformed into
a colorful Mexican-style
fun coat
straighlty knitted rectangles
assembled with
crochetet trimmings
enhanced repost
of the original 2010 catwalk
Toys Invasion - Scratchy from The Simpsons by LEGO.
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I love green tea and I have found my perfect green tea. It's Tazo green team with ginger. Just love it and if you like green tea, I'd suggest you to try it. The tea pot is a Christmas gift from a friend of ours and I was so happy to receive it. I think it is just perfect! :)
Texture by Kim Klassen and thank you, Laura for the inspiration.
A long thin sketch of the view across the beck...again, apologies for the iphone shots...still no scanner!
Two of DB's class 218 diesel locomotives arrive at Westerland on the infamous Sylt island on the North Sea with their IC train. It was quite a surprise for me to find out that the station was equipped with old mechanical signals.
In the background, the blue car transport train loads up vehicles to start its trip to Niebüll via the Hindenburg Dam.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
scratchy vintage Mohair
transformed into
a colorful Mexican-style
fun coat
straighlty knitted rectangles
assembled with
crochetet trimmings
enhanced repost
of the original 2010 catwalk
scratchy vintage Mohair
transformed into
a colorful Mexican-style
fun coat
straighlty knitted rectangles
assembled with
crochetet trimmings
enhanced repost
of the original 2010 catwalk
This was taken on the campsite in the Forest of Dean last weekend. This cow must have had a bad itch but it was so funny to watch.