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…
Pinking about Singapore’s National Day and Legally Blonde
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A Wedding in the Family
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…
Arrest & Hope
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…
Writing Craft from Ballet Chickens
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….
Popiah Lessons
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…
Ashtanga and Murder Mysteries: Finding Freedom Within Structure
I bunged up my shoulder a couple of months back, trying to jump back into chaturanga dandasana during an ashtanga mysore session…
My Time in Crime(fest)
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–
Departure Changi
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com. I'm in Changi airport waiting for my flight to...
It’s My Birthday Tomorrow–
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…
The Empty Tomb @ 38 Oxley Road
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…
It’s Ramadan here…
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…
A look at 5 Singapore Women (in our Women’s Hall of Fame)
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…
Happy Days in Coughing Hills
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…
Happy Valentine’s (& Covid Changes Reflection) Day!
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…
Birthday of the Rock (& starting my new mystery snail style)
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…
This week it’s Chaos Cocoons
Plus I’ve just got my author copies on the next book and I’m almost too distracted to be thrilled. Almost. I am thrilled. Just too tired to jump up and down!
Singapore goes ‘mask optional’ outdoors!
We're moving on to the next stage of living with Covid, starting today! And by complete coincidence it's our 35th...
Water and Madam Kwa Geok Choo at the Marina Barrage
We had a photoshoot for Kwa Geok Choo at the Marina Barrage this week. I'm really getting pretty excited about the...
Murder is Everywhere in Ukraine
It's easy to feel helpless right now. But there's a reason why Elon Musk activated...
Light A New Lantern
And I don’t really feel like celebrating because Xiao Huang (literally ‘little yellow’, my Honda Jazz), is fifteen years old today and though she still runs fine, she’s run out of time. This little yellow car saw me through my recovery and my shift from writing plays to writing books. It was thanks to Xiao Huang that I could volunteer at the SPCA and that I came to adopt Princess and Hermione… and drive them to dog runs and dog cafes all over the island!
Gong Xi Fa Cai from Singapore
Over at the Murder Is Everywhere blog, I thought it would be interesting to give a rough summary (and my best attempts...