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Art After Dark

25 January, 201927 January, 2019 James ForemanSingapore

This evening I went to ‘Art After Dark’, an outdoor event at the hipster enclave of Gilman Barracks, where there were lots of art exhibits, some live music, and a lot of pop-up restaurants.

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Life is a beach, whether you like it or not

22 August, 201823 August, 2018 James ForemanSingapore

Let’s get this out of the way: I can’t stand beaches. I don’t know if that’s because I grew up in England, where we don’t have beaches, redolent of golden sand and happiness. We have[…]

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Flying kites

18 August, 2018 James ForemanSingapore

We bought a jellyfish shaped kite the first time we went to Margaret River, and today, after it had languished on a shelf for more than a year, we took it down to the Marina[…]

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A tug of the forelock

23 May, 2018 James ForemanSingapore

Today I went to MOM, the maternally-named Ministry Of Manpower, because my old Employment Pass was due to expire and I needed to get a new one. I’ve had the same photograph on my EP[…]

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Distractions at Chinese New Year

16 February, 201826 February, 2018 James ForemanSingapore

Today was the first day of the Year Of The Dog, so we got the day off. But most of everything was shut, so there wasn’t so much to do. At least Starbucks, having no[…]

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Becoming a hipster and hammertime

27 January, 2018 James ForemanSingapore

This afternoon I went to Toa Payoh and bought a scooter, for myself. Not an electric scooter. Not a Vespa. An honest-to-goodness overgrown child’s scooter, for me. This was a premeditated act of hipsterness. See[…]

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Goodbye, barefoot running shoes

7 January, 20189 January, 2018 James ForemanRunning

Two and a half years after the Singapore climate claimed a perfectly good pair of shoes, I have another victim: my Merrell Roadgloves, an incredibly comfortable pair of shoes from the height of the barefoot[…]

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Househunting

4 January, 20186 January, 2018 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

Our current lease ends in February and the landlord is selling the unit, so we’re moving out. So today we started looking at flats. In Singapore there are two property listing websites, PropertyGuru and 99.co.[…]

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Deepavali 2017

18 October, 201722 October, 2017 James ForemanSingapore

Deepavali means Wednesday was a holiday in Singapore, so we went with the girls to the Botanic Gardens and they whizzed around on their scooters for a while with some friends, and then got tetchy,[…]

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It doesn’t smell like victory

3 October, 2017 James ForemanSingapore

I don’t know how, but we got La Serpiente out of the house fairly quickly this morning and bustled downstairs, intent on visiting the Tiong Bahru Bakery for another pain au chocolat. Stepping out of[…]

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