With the jet lag getting more and more under control, I finally had a pretty full day of exploring about on my own– doing a fair bit of walking on yet another hot, humid day (I was told that yes, this was considered pretty hot). First had a really nice morning exploration of the Sungei [...]
I’m doing this short entry with my new family friend, the son of my cousin Y-K, as he’s looking over my typing hands. A good evening of food tonight– one of those classic places with a lot of tables outside the open restaurant, and food/drink brought out in different waves. Reminders of outdoor eating in [...]
Nice to have a homebase at the end of a full day, after an evening of some Singaporean food stall fare and then an evening drive through the fancy shops, restaurant/bars and neighborhoods (Chinatown, Little India) of downtown Singapore. In the comfort of relative’s home near the Admiralty MRT stop with some internet access, and [...]
I made a commitment to take it easy for the first full day, here– going off of five oddly placed hours of sleep the other night, and resigning myself to the fact that getting used to a 12 hour difference takes some time. Really liking the chance to get to know my cousin Y-K and [...]
Tuesday 7.16.09 11:35 AM Morning leg of travel, and have gotten into Washington Dulles pretty easily. Still, that sense of in-betweeness lethargy starts to weigh on you—or maybe it’s carrying around the small bag of essentials to the bathroom with you, between flight gates and in search of the best food to ferry along with [...]
Friends and family, I’m heading off shortly to the airport to begin that marathon chain of plane rides that should land me, in about 24 hours or so, in Singapore. The plan is to continue updating the website here as a travel blog of sorts, so visit often to catch up with me! If I [...]
Lunch is so much better when the weather is that early-summer-perfect– Partial shade and sun from a table umbrella canopy, a nearly empty back patio behind Village Sushi, a bulgogi lunch box special with a cold glass of water, and considering how to tackle the rest of the to-do list to get ready for the [...]
There’s something particular sweet—incidental sweetness, I think is the phrase—about sipping on a cherry icee (and munching on a soft prezel) during a comfortable wait in the airport. Just finished up a full weekend of intensive conference meetings and work on our nearly-finished NBPTS history and social studies standards. After turning the corner with re-conceptualizing [...]
Have to take the small opportunity to mention how nice the bathrooms are in this place I’m staying at this weekend for this NBPTS standards committee meeting. I’d take a couple photos if that didn’t seem particularly odd, though I’d probably get away with it (and heck, even probably be offered assistance by helpful hotel [...]
Time with young family
How about this for some great reactions this morning– Spending time with I., who is the nine year old son of my cousin Y-K with whom I’ve been staying in Singapore over the past few days. We had been doing some geography games with this eraser set he got from a friend, and then moved [...]