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What I learned this weekend
Back from a weekend away, and in between assembling Destroyer’s new bed and going to sleep, I try to write down some of what happened today, and what I think I learned from this. Key learnings bolded: We should have stayed longer in Hong Kong. Worried about taking the 6:30 flight back to Singapore (and […]
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Spanish surprise in Singapore
I was taken aback at my Spanish class today, when a Frenchman expressed surprise that I was English and not Canadian, saying that I had no accent. After spending the last six years of my life being told that I had an accent and it was hard to understand, to find out now that I […]
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Swimming Lessons
Today we visited a friend of mine from university, up at her house near Seletar Airport. She lives in the far north of Singapore, where housing is cheap and big because nobody wants to live somewhere so remote that it can take half an hour to drive to the centre of town. Her house is […]
