Warning: I’m still on antibiotics, painkillers and self-injected blood thinners so I’m just going to write a happy post today. (I thought of warning you this post might not make too much sense–but that would suggest…
May the lights of Deepavali dispel all darkness in your life! We went to visit the Deepavali Festival Village over the weekend, thinking it wouldn’t yet be as crowded as it’s going to be next week. But a great many people seemed to have the same idea!…
The skies are peaceful here in Singapore right now, but we’re well aware that’s far from the case elsewhere in the world…
Have you signed up for NaNoWriMo? I just did! What–writing 50,000 words in 30 days doesn’t sound like fun to you? It is…
See the green shoots? This is the transition I’m happiest about right now–those little green spikes are signs there may be a transition from death to life for my bonsai citrus!
I’m still settling back into daily life and writing, and looking longingly at Nero Wolfe’s routine: Breakfast, Orchids (9am to 11am), Work (11am till Lunch, then till 4pm), Orchids (4pm to 6pm)…
Happy 58th Birthday, Singapore! I was going to write about how, in order to plough through the current draft of the current book, I missed all this year’s…
We celebrated a wedding in the family last weekend–my brother’s sweet, smart, beautiful daughter is off to start married life in Edinburgh. This was my first time visiting the Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church, which is one of Singapore’s oldest Presbyterian churches…
I was going to write about the Tour de France and Yoga (I’m nowhere near where I would like to be, but at least I’m back on the mat), trying to finish a rough draft of the next book before Bouchercon…
The Tour de France is on right now–on in real life (1st to 23 July) and on the TV now as I’m writing this. That’s only relevant because here we’re playing ‘Tour de Park Natura’ at our place over the next 3 weeks….
We had popiah for lunch at Coronation Plaza; the first time in a long time for both Coronation Plaza and popiah. Coronation Plaza used to be a regular haunt when I was growing up…
I bunged up my shoulder a couple of months back, trying to jump back into chaturanga dandasana during an ashtanga mysore session…
Given the 14 1/2 hour flight and 7 hour time difference between the UK and Singapore and because I haven’t yet come down from the high of traveling again, this is going to be all about Crimefest and my time in the UK–
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It’s my birthday tomorrow–that’s my excuse for using this space to take a look at where I am in my life now, and how I hope to go into the next year of my life…
I was thinking about the coming together of Easter, Passover and Ramadan this year–but other people have written and will write about that better than I ever could. I’d like to talk about something else…
I was all hyped up to write about TikTok’s Singaporean CEO Chew Shou Zi getting grilled in Washington–but I realise there’s no point writing when my only source of information is the media…
Always a bit behind the times, I came down with Covid just as the rest of the world is moving on! I’m glad to say that after two unpleasant weeks it’s over now and…
I live on the Western side of Singapore, in Bukit (hill) Batok (cough) so literally, ‘Coughing Hills’. And yes, it was a very good district to spend the Covid shut down! In the old days…
We don’t really celebrate Valentine’s Day here–like if you eat crepes every day, eating them on February 2nd for Candlemas becomes less of a big deal. But there’s no such thing as too much love or…
Yes, it’s still Chinese New Year. The whole festival lasts 15 days and today (Jan 31st) is the 10th day or the Birthday of the Rock. That probably came about because the Chinese words for ’10’ and…