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Landaus in Singapore: February 2009
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009. It's great having a car again. Playdate drop offs and pick ups are easier and quicker, those runs to tennis lessons, dance classes and bringing the groceries home in the boot instead of dragging them in a trolley - it's all wonderfully liberating. Most cars today have signalling devices but in broad daylight, hand signalling is more readily seen and understood. I'm not sure we learnt a large amount from this, but it did provide some entertainment. A: Speed up,. You also need ...
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Landaus in Singapore: December 2008
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Saturday, 6 December 2008. An early Christmas Present. I can't deny that public transport in Singapore is good and efficient and that the taxis are cheap, but after 8 months of towing my groceries home from the supermarket in a trolley, collecting children from playdates in out of they way locations by taxi and waiting at bus stops, the novelty finally wore off. Ah no, that's the depreciation of from the COE to the PARF, what you loose depends on the market next year." Eh? The downside of all this is tha...
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Landaus in Singapore: May 2009
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009. Something nasty in the washing machine! I've referred, in other posts, to many of the pleasures of living in the tropics - the beaches, hot weather, great holiday destinations, the cultural experiences etc., but I haven't mentioned one of the more dubious pleasures - the creepy crawlies. However, image my horror when I returned from the hairdressers this morning, having left a load washing, to find a large dead one lying upside down inside the washing machine at the bottom of the ...
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Landaus in Singapore: Kissing Elephants
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Thursday, 3 September 2009. After our whirlwind tour of the UK, we arrived back and battled another bout of jetlag. Personally, I always find it much harder coming this way as I'm not a morning person at the best of times, but when the body clock is adrift 7 hours in the wrong direction, doing anything before lunch is a major challenge. Early in the stay we had some very unsettled weather and rain - well it was the monsoon season. This is Adam and David on the beach in the wind. As you can see, t...For m...
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Landaus in Singapore: November 2008
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008. Grandma Comes To Town. Just after we returned from Thailand, Grandma (David's mum) came to visit us. She came via a few days in deepest, darkest Borneo and arrived in Singapore having got over the inevitable jetlag. Having been here once before but many years ago and remembering little about it, Singapore came as a very pleasant surprise as she found it more modern, clean and green than she had expected. Yes, that was why we wanted to go! The assembly was a very colourful event...
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Landaus in Singapore: November 2009
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009. A Chinese Wedding in Singapore. Some months ago, David bought home an envelope addressed to the family. I opened it and found a card that seemed to say HoHo HoHo on it. I asked what that was and he told me to turn it round. Ah, of course, now all was clear. It was something in Chinese writing. But what? It turned out to be an invitation to us all to the wedding of one of David's staff, Wyne, and his girlfriend Jan. On arrival, he offered a large and decorated red envelope (an...
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Landaus in Singapore: "I went somewhere really unusual today......"
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Thursday, 24 September 2009. I went somewhere really unusual today.". At the end of August, whilst we were out shopping for all the new uniform and stationery bits that the children needed for school, we also had a shopping list of dance shoes and items from Hannah's new dance school where she does a ballet, jazz and tap class. So we headed off for a shopping centre called Golden Landmark, which was on my list of suggested places from the dance school. Well, the children are well into their first term of...
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Landaus in Singapore: Made in Taiwan
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Wednesday, 4 November 2009. I think the title of of this entry is how most of us think about Taiwan. However, when I asked David if he had any overdue business trips that we could do in the October half term, he said Taiwan was top of his list. It slowly downgraded itself to a tropical deperssion but didn't move much, so off we went. We also found, at a night market, a selection of cheaper pants and socks to add to Hannah's collection, although she hated the style of the pants has stated quite categorica...
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Landaus in Singapore: March 2009
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009. The Barretts Come to Town. I've been very slow in getting another entry done as things have just been so hectic lately. Here they are, admiring the views from the top of Mount Faber. And here we are, sitting on the terrace and all looking (and feeling) pretty stuffed after 3 gluttonous hours. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Lucy (at Channel 4 Homes). The Barretts Come to Town.
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