Everyday Superheroes

I’ve been involved in a community project for the past 2 weeks that’s had me stationed in a field in Bishan.
I’ve been totally humbled by the wonderful people around me. All volunteers, many of them were there from 8.30am until midnight every day, sometimes taking responsibility for fairly quiet and repetitive tasks. Nothing was ever [...]

Putting The Finishing Touches On Vesak

Construction is complete and now it’s all about decoration. Today there was some pretty elaborate trimming and hanging of coconut leaves.

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You Can Never Have Too Many Lanterns

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Building A Shrine For Vesak

Each year we take over a park and build a massive marquee for Vesak. It’s up for about two weeks (the actual event lasts 5 days) and then overnight it all comes back down again. The basic structure is up now, and last night we unloaded 2 shipping containers of stuff to fill it with.

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Buyers and Sellers

I was having a sunset drink on the balcony with my pup Yang last week and we were deep into a conversation. He’s in the real estate research business, and he’s fond of saying how it’s shifted from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market.
I’m in business for myself. Perhaps you are too. What was [...]

Life Dreaming ~ Deciding What’s Important In Your Life Right Now

It seems everyone I know had a bit of a swirly end to 2008 and through into the beginning of 2009. It just seems like there’s a tempest of external forces, from the economy to weird weather patterns, and everyone is feeling the barrage in one way or another.
Moving from safe, comfortable, steady ground isn’t [...]

Roll Your Own Reality

I’ve been letting the dust settle from the fireworks before I write about the new year and my fireworks have been going off since November, so there was a lot of dust to settle.
Terms like “mixed emotions” are so generic as to be almost useless, but actually that’s about where I’ve been at for the [...]

That’s A Wrap

So, how did Christmas go for everybody? Mine was a bit weird. Our home has been under some major renovation since the beginning of the month and it’s still not finished, so we’re staying with relatives who don’t do the tree/carols/gifts/turkey thing. Santa came through for me big-time though. I’ve got a great new hat, [...]

Too Cheap To Buy You A Card

Rare Sightings

My preferred photos of myself, if there is such a thing, usually include objects that at least partially obscure me from view. Fortunately, that always seems to be the case anyway, and I have about 100 pictures of myself with a camera stuck to my face.
These popped up on a disk last week of me [...]